The Oxytocin Hour

Guest - Katelyn Pankhurst In this beautiful episode, Katelyn shares briefly her experience birthing her first baby in hospital through the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital Birth Center with care from the Young Parents Program. Katelyn touches on some negative aspects of her experience including mistreatment from staff. She then shares her journey, deciding to have a home birth and navigat...

On this episode, Dayna introduces you to your new Dear Dayna and X co-host who we know you'll love because the chemistry and conversations are fun, entertaining, spicy and above all HONEST. We answer the burning question of "what is the easiest childs age?!" and also, "what is the hardest childs age?" We waffle on a bit, but it's great. D x

Guest - Kate In today's episode, Kate shares her experience becoming a chinese medicine practitioner, what she'd learnt and her experience in China and her journey becoming a midwife afterwards and how that impacted on her two birth experiences. This conversation is so informative and eye opening with topics ranging from conception, study, acupuncture, menstrual cycles, fertility and priva...

In this last episode of a solo Dear Dayna (before the new co-host joins us next week!) a listener writes in to ask a few questions about what she's been seeing on social media lately. That is, more birth workers speaking up about their opinions on women having a plethora of information about (more specifically but not limited to) birth positions. Can't wait for you to have a listen to this...

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In this solo episode Dayna talks about a theme showing up in the inbox, a hot topic at the moment, and that's having another baby and what that dynamic is like emotionally. 'How could I possibly love another child as much as I love THIS one?!" A question on many mothers minds, far more common than we realise.. Dayna gives her 2 cents. What does she think? Well, you'll just have to...

Guest - Sarah Giannetta Join Sarah and Dayna as they explore a wide range of potent topics such as preconception work, rites of passages, midwifery in and out of the system and more. Sarah is an ex-registered midwife, wife and mum of 3 living in Melbourne, Australia. Otherwise known as "the midwife mummy" from her popular instagram account, Sarah has proven to be a wealth of knowledge on...

Dayna reflects about personal development and how such simple questions have impacted her and have changed the way she sees herself for the better. Offering a few, bite sized tips, this episode might just give you a little inspiration to finding more balance in your life, as a mother.

*Warning* this whirlwind episode has it all! Dayna retells her experience birthing her third, but her husbands' first, baby. She firstly gives a background and insight into what was happening in their lives at that point in time, including fleeing a DV situation, studying midwifery, meeting Beau, a flooded house, surgery, sleeping in a car, a proposal and so much more. This episode contains to...

This episode, Dayna chats about her experience that day of attending a rally at Parliament House steps in Meanjin, Brisbane with dozens of other midwives, midwifery students, mums, associates and supporters to prompt the health minister to consider where budget funding for the maternity care system in QLD will go. Regardless of where you're from, this episode is a great little insight to curre...

Guest Emma. Listening in to the beautiful retelling of Emma's conscious conception journey through to her pregnancy labour and birth. Emma is a first nations mother with a background in health and fitness, she was determined to soak up all the knowledge on all things birth when taking the step to motherhood. Join Dayna and Emma as they chat about birth choices, water birth, preconception healt...

This quick lil' ep is great to hear a recommendation for deciding between these two careers and taking other things into consideration. Somethings are discussed that Dayna and a lot of other people aren't aware of until after studying the degree!

Guest Bianca Dayna and Bianca connect to chat about Bianca's pregnancy, labour and birth experience of her first born. Bianca, a lawyer and Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner shares her journey through preconception and discovering she had PCOS, through to a GDM (insulin dependant Gestational Diabetes) diagnosis, seeking independent birth education and a looming induction push. This beautifu...

A great introduction to the word, "Matrescence" and exploring other rites of passage that women go through in their lives, this episode gives a nice, brief run down of the aforementioned and helps to expand ones mind to consider the importance of each of these transitions. A longer form episode with an expert on Matrescence will be released at a later date. For now, enjoy this little sni...

*this episode speaks heavily about trauma, sexual abuse and obstetric violence - if you have experienced any or all of these it's important to know that listening to this episode may resurface trauma. please listen at your own discretion and keep your body, mind and spirit safe.* Guest - Michelle Palasia. "I want justice and accountability and fucking heads to roll". - Michelle. Prep...

Enough is enough. A burning desire to speak PASSIONATELY about this topic for a while sparked the release of this episode. If you're a human being, you are planning to have a baby, you are pregnant, you will come into contact with someone who is pregnant, you NEED to listen to this one. Stop. Trauma. Dumping. On. Women. K Bye. Follow @theoxytocinhour + @daiisy.est.2020

Dayna shares the 5 feeding journeys she has had with her 5 children. Spoiler alert, it's not ALL easy, in fact it gets a little shakey in parts, but ultimately it's a great listen to understand the complexities and nuances of the same mother but 5 different babies and how each and every feeding journey can be oh so different. 14+ year of breastfeeding - and Dayna hasn't gotten into the...

Dear Dayna - Guest Beau. Dayna sits down with Beau to chat about the listeners question, "how do I convince my partner to agree to a home birth.." and "how did you convince Beau?' Like all Dear Dayna's it's not a simple answer, and they both delve into possible reasons one might have reservations, other underlying issues within the relationship, and, pose another questio...

Guest Nicole - Giddy up! This is the first episode that we have a caesarean birth Mum on, let alone a Mother that's experienced both vaginal and caesarean births! Nicole candidly shares her 5 birth experiences and shines a refreshing light on what it is like to birth in both the public and private sectors as well as why she feels that her decision to have 2 elective caesareans following 3 vagi...

Dayna gets a spicy (not that kind of spicy!) question in her inbox and decides to dig further. This prompts an episode filled with the top google searched questions starting with the words, “why do midwives…” a teeny bit thought provoking, entertaining and funny. Join Dayna as she discovers what the worlds been searching on google about midwives as she single handedly and on the spot attempts to a...

Guest - Jess. Join Jess as she gushes to Dayna about her empowering, transformative experience birthing her one and only child, her beautiful daughter Lily. Listen in as she retells the moment she found out about her surprise pregnancy and come along for the ride as Jess's story brings tears, gasps and absolute joy and laughter. Jess recounts being a young, first time mother birthing in a rura...

A listener requests the subject of spirit babies be discussed and Dayna happily obliges as she has had a very personal experience with a spirit baby of hers. Although not claiming to be well versed in the subject, Dayna does touch on what a spirit baby is, her own personal journey with her spirit baby and bringing her to earth through conception pregnancy and birth and where you can learn more. Ep...

Guest - Victoria. Join us as Vicki shares her journey from a 16 year old first time Mum in the public maternity care system, to a second time Mum back into the public hospital system, to an induction experience in hospital, and finally, her family-centred home birth journey. She explains how she has managed to power through suffering Hyperemesis Gravidarum with all 4 pregnancies and how each pregn...

Due to feedback on part 1 Dayna gets more specific about the topic and addresses some key points. Here's the literature: The study and article Dayna directly refers to in the episode - https://www.thewomens.org.au/news/could-delayed-cord-clamping-help-babies-who-fail-to-breathe A lil' somethin' something' extra easy to read - https://www.hudson.org.au/news/early-cord-clamping-could...

Dayna speaks candidly about her experience flowing into the conception and pregnancy of her second child, Avalon. After experiencing a land hospital birth she delves into the world of continuity models of care and flirts with the idea of water immersion. Retelling her point of view as a "not-yet-midwife" and an "ignorance is bliss" view point, she touches on baby weight, ultras...