Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond

On this episode of Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond a conversation with Astra Joynt, a privately praticing midwife in NSW, Australia. We discuss the work that is midwifery and the endevours of midwives in becoming autonomous practitioners in their field. It is also World Breastfeeding Week and we touch on this in our news segment at the end. Produced & Presented by Annalee Atia Guest: Astra Joynt Get i...

Gillian Triggs speaking with Sally about her experiences in pregnancy in the early '80s and perspectives about women today and what she sees as a lack of confidence in challenging the status quo. Recorded at the Byron Writers' Festival 5 August 2018.

Family Constellation therapy is world renowned- in Europe and in Brazil in particular. It mitigates healing in a way that often talk therapy often cannot. In this episode Kimberley speaks with Jen Henderson to find out more. www.family-constellations.org www.constellationflow.com www.mariadolenc.com.au +++++ This episode is proudly sponsored by WELEDA Australia. FOR A LIMITED TIME Australian audie...

A dog can be a wonderful addition to a family - a child can hold extremely deep feelings for for their dog that they’ll always remember. And with 4.8 million pet dogs in Australia, there's a lot of opportunities for that to happen. Yet many dogs are in fact anxious and don't like much human interaction, and many of us don't understand the basics of dog behaviour, putting us, in particular our kids...

This is an extract from our live broadcast interview with Rhea Dempsey on BayFM on Monday 16 July 2018. This segment of the interview did not make it to our official podcast at: https://spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/reaching-into-pain-and-finding-control-w Copyright: PBB Media and Sally Cusack 2018 www.pbbmedia.org www.birthingwisdom.com.au

Rhea Dempsey is one Australia’s best known childbirth educators and author of "Birth with Confidence, Savvy choices for normal birth". Now writing her second book, she is also a speaker, counselor and birth attendant at more than 1000 births in her 40 year career. She is also mother to three adult daughters, and a grandmother. Rhea is an independent and straight talking voice who speaks plainly to...

Jane Hanckel is a mother, author and co-founder of Inspired Education about how we as parents can foster our children's development to meet the immense challenges of our times. Jane quotes the World Economic Forum's (2016) findings that the qualities we need to nurture in our children are creativity, collaboration and emotional intelligence and that the current education system does not do that. I...

Today we are discussing the vital support continuity with a known birth worker can afford women during pregnancy, childbirth and especially postnatally. We have beautiful guest Nathalie Solis with us, Nathalie, recently returned from Germany is a birth doula and cultural anthropologist with a German-Guatemalan background. She has worked in Berlin, for the past 5 years accompanying women at a varie...

When you become a parent there is a shift in identity that occurs, pre-birth expectations drop away as reality kicks in. Life that perhaps was once goal orientated or career focus shifts as life with a baby forces a new daily rhythm, a slowing down, surrendering and letting go for a new way of being in the world. My guest Kari Azuma, leadership development coach and mother, from Santa Barbara, Cal...

Dr Oscar Serralach speaks about the little recognised phase of life called "Matrescence". This period is the stage of becoming a mother and like adolescence the person undergoing it cannot go back to their former life. Also like adolescence, it needs support, but as it lacks even a widely known name, few women get the support they need to take up the full opportunities this transition brings. Osca...

Gareth Vanderhope, two times British Academy Award winner in Sound Design, Author, Health Educator and Dad speaks on the importance of nature, reading and sound for children's wellbeing. It has been well researched that children need nature for their senses; for learning and creativity, for empathy and resilience. This natural world is enhanced through the use of sound and stories in our lives, wh...

Becoming a grandmother is its own rite of passage from motherhood to grandmotherhood, yet this transition is seldom discussed and not always smooth. It can bring up unresolved aspects of a woman's relationship with her adult children, and herself. However as Raine Sharpe, grandmother for 20 years says, it also presents an enormous opportunity for personal growth that can be brought into the new re...

Are you a healthcare services consumer? Specifically - have you accessed any form of maternity healthcare services in the last few years? On Friday May 25th 2018, Sally Cusack & I spent the day up at Tweed Heads, attending a Consultation workshop as part of the governments plans to develop a National Strategic Approach to Maternity Services. The consultation was hosted by the Australian Health Min...

In this part Bec Jenkinson looks at how often clinicians' meet the legal standard for informed consent. In a Queensland study* of the 3500+ women surveyed, only 48% of women who had had a planned caesarean section said they were fully informed and had consented to have their procedure. Seventy percent of women had were fully informed and consented to their epidural anaesthesia and 26% had been inf...

PBB Talks: A Close Look at Informed Consent - for women and clinicians Dr Bec Jenkinson speaking before a live audience at Gold Coast University Hospital, Australia on 21 April 2018 on informed decision making in maternity care. A mother, Cindy, also shares her experience of negotiating within the maternity care system to get the care she wanted. == Sign up to our newsletter at www.pbbmedia.org fo...

Bec addresses here the underlying medico-legal and cultural concerns of clinicians (ie their individual "lines in the sand"), and gives tips for women on how to assess recommendations of care. == Sign up to our newsletter at www.pbbmedia.org for more updates and request to join our private Facebook group to continue the conversation and get support in giving/receiving respectful maternity care by...

In this part, Bec Jenkinson hands over to Helen, a mother seeking a VBAC who "wanted to make sure everything was OK for me and my baby... I just wanted to be heard". A story of two very different responses to her wishes from two different hospitals... Closing remarks given by Griffith University Professor Jennifer Fenwick and Sally Cusack from PBB Media. == Sign up to our newsletter at www.pbbmedi...

Liz Ellis is arguably Australia’s most well-loved netball athlete. She played for Australia 122 times and captained the national netball team for four years; she won two world championships and two commonwealth games. But for Liz, having children came with five years of fertility challenges. She has written a guide to shine the light for others, "If at First you don't Conceive". Listen to our inte...

Eat whole foods, fruit and vegetables, get rest and get in touch with your body. Not what you’d expect from a naturopath? Well Kim Piper, aka Kim the Naturopath has a lot to say about well being and about hormones and this is a vital part. Hormones - we all have them, and fertility, pregnancy and post natal/partum are key times for learning to manage them for optimum health. Check out some of her...

The difficult plebiscite process for same sex marriage in 2017 highlighted the enormous discrimination and ignorance faced by same sex couples.  These challenges are often accentuated for same sex couples when they decide to start a family.   In this program, we’ll explore the landscape of same sex parenting with renowned local psychotherapist and educator, Monique Rutherford.  From starting a fam...

Mothers in Business - the first years is the topic of our show today, we are excited to have two gorgeous mothers from our local community here in the Northern Rivers of NSW, Meggie Danielson & Alona Rosenberg of WeMove studio in Mullumbimby and many more adventures! We are looking into the life of mothers over a series of 6 shows in the coming year and this episode here is our first. We wanted to...