Latest Waterbirth Podcast Episodes
429 | Celia Pacquola, needle phobia, hypnotherapy, private obstetrician, pelvic girdle pain, induction, anxiety, breastfeeding, formula
Australian Birth Stories - October 23, 2023 02:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode, I chat to comedian Celia Pacquola about her pregnancy and birth experience. Motherhood was never a top priority for Celia but when she met her partner, it only took a few months for them to conceive. She chose continuity of care with a private obstetrician, used hypnotism to ...
428 | Kirby five babies, septate uterus, breech, emergency caesarean, tongue tie, VBAC, miscarriage, second trimester pregnancy loss, IVF
Australian Birth Stories - October 15, 2023 23:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today's episode, and in honour of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, Kirby shares her story. After her first two pregnancies and births, she experienced her first miscarriage but knew it was a common experience and wasn’t perturbed by it. However, what followed was a period of inferti...
427 | Elizabeth, physiological birth with MGP, The Birth Class, spontaneous labour, TENS machine
Australian Birth Stories - October 08, 2023 22:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn this episode Elizabeth shares her first pregnancy and birth experience. She had bloods done before her copper IUD was removed as she has coeliac disease and wanted to ensure her iron levels were adequate before she conceived. Having been a listener of the podcast, she was interested in her lo...
426 Postpartum | Samantha, postpartum preparation, postpartum doula, social media, matrescence
Australian Birth Stories - October 05, 2023 01:49 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode, Samantha details her postpartum journey with her second baby and explains why switching off social media was the best option for her. As a postpartum doula she knew exactly how to prepare for postpartum and prioritised filling her freezer with nutritious food. Yet she was sti...
425 | Bridie, two births, endometriosis, MGP, pubis symphysis dysfunction, posterior labour, induction, epidural, water birth
Australian Birth Stories - October 02, 2023 03:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode, Bridie (one half of the witty/hilarious new podcast Cool Story that will undoubtedly make you smarter at dinner parties) shares her two birth stories. Bridie’s mum is a midwife so she had the utmost faith in her knowledge and expertise and felt supported and safe throughout h...
424 Postpartum | Brylee, hydrops fetalis, foetal medicine team, amniocentesis, thoracentesis, caesarean birth, NICU
Australian Birth Stories - September 28, 2023 00:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsAlmost 1 in 5 babies spend time in the Special Care Nursery (SCN) or Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Australia. For the mothers of these babies, postpartum is very different to what they planned or hoped for and there’s often a distinct grief that accompanies the stress of having an unwel...
423 | Leonie, two babies, perinatal anxiety and depression (PAD), psychology, episiotomy, postpartum depression, mother rage, private obstetrician
Australian Birth Stories - September 25, 2023 04:46 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode Leonie shares her experience with perinatal anxiety and depression which manifested as a profound sense of defeat in pregnancy and visceral rage in postpartum. She opted for talking therapy with a psychologist and managed her symptoms but she was still overwhelmed at birth whe...
422 Postpartum | Leila, fraternal twins, breastfeeding twins, postpartum doula
Australian Birth Stories - September 21, 2023 06:41 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsFollowing on from her birth story in episode 419, Leila shares her early postpartum experience with twins. She organised a foundation of strong and trustworthy support including private midwifery care, a postpartum doula and a meal train involving her closest friends. Despite her preparation she...
421 | Shelley, Herpes virus, planned caesarean, VBAC, Breastfeeding challenges
Australian Birth Stories - September 18, 2023 03:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode, I interview Shelley who shares her two pregnancies and births. Shelley has herpes simplex virus (HSV) and experienced considerable stress throughout pregnancy which led to an outbreak. Despite planning a vaginal birth, Shelley consulted with her care provider and made the inf...
420 Postpartum | Elizabeth, one baby, MGP, jaundice, hospital readmission, light therapy, biliblanket
Australian Birth Stories - September 13, 2023 11:08 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsElizabeth’s newborn baby was readmitted to hospital to treat jaundice which is one of the primary reasons a baby will need to return to hospital after discharge. She had to navigate conflicting medical advice and opinions on the ward which isn’t an uncommon experience in the postpartum health sp...
419 | Leila, two births, homebirth, fraternal twin vaginal birth without epidural, private midwife, planned postpartum
Australian Birth Stories - September 11, 2023 02:55 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode Leila shares her beautiful birth stories; her first at home, and her second which was a twin birth in hospital at 41+2. Leila thoroughly educated herself about birth and postpartum in her first pregnancy so when it came to her twin pregnancy, she was well aware of how she want...
418 Postpartum | Naomi, two births, birth trauma, postpartum doula, postpartum preparation, homebirth, postpartum cookbook
Australian Birth Stories - September 06, 2023 23:53 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode Naomi takes us through her first pregnancy and admits that she was so focussed on her birth preparation that she didn’t once think about her postpartum journey. Her birth was challenging and the newborn days were full of anxiety, severe sleep deprivation and a lot of not-knowi...
417 | Dara, one baby, miscarriage, thyroid, private obstetrician, birth education, planned caesarean, mother’s group
Australian Birth Stories - September 04, 2023 04:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode Dara discusses her choice to have a private obstetrician and the steps she took to educate herself and plan a vaginal birth. Towards the end of her pregnancy she decided that being focussed on one birth option didn’t feel right so she started exploring what an induction, emerg...
416 Postpartum | Alice, hereditary varicose veins, clexane, vein removal
Australian Birth Stories - August 30, 2023 08:10 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsI interviewed Alice about her births in episode 18 and episode 110 but today she talks about her varicose veins in postpartum which are hereditary but got increasingly worse with each of her pregnancies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
415 | Jessie, one baby, anxiety and depression, private obstetrician, vaginismus, pelvic floor physiotherapist, pregnancy insomnia, TENS, epidural, breastfeeding challenges, postpartum joy
Australian Birth Stories - August 28, 2023 04:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode, Jessie shares her first birth story. Her pregnancy was a surprise and she admits the shock of it definitely informed her experience. With a history of anxiety and depression she worked closely with her psychiatrist and psychologist to navigate changes to her medication and her...
414 Postpartum | Billi homebirth and hospital transfer, NICU
Australian Birth Stories - August 24, 2023 01:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn this episode Billi discusses what it was like to discover she was pregnant at 14 weeks, subsequently missing her entire first trimester. She hired a private midwife for her birth and planned a homebirth that required a hospital transfer after her baby was born. Billie’s postpartum plans had to...
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Australian Birth Stories - August 23, 2023 02:47 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsBonus episode to say Thankyou. FREE Gift with purchase Enjoy a free wooden ABS birth comb with any purchase of The Birth Class, The Caesarean Birth Class or The Birth Bundle. Valued at $19.95 *while stocks last See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
413 | Larissa, three births, VBAC2, PCOS, second-trimester miscarriage, caesarean, induction, weight-loss surgery
Australian Birth Stories - August 21, 2023 04:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn this episode Larissa takes us through her three births across 14 years. She fell pregnant for the first time when she was 18 and followed her doctor's advice to have a caesarean. In her second pregnancy - six years later - she attempted a VBAC but had to be induced and an emergency caesarean w...
412 Postpartum | Kate + Dylan discuss their journey into parenthood and Dylan’s escalating mental health concerns that resulted in his admission to a mother and baby psychiatric unit (now called a parent + baby unit)
Australian Birth Stories - August 16, 2023 09:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsToday Kate and Dylan are incredibly generous with sharing the birth of their first child and the significant challenges of postpartum. Dylan has lived with anxiety his whole life but in the first few months of parenthood his anxiety was debilitating and was only amplified by his baby’s cries. He ...
411 | Jessie, physiological birth, private obstetrician, doula, acupuncture, miscarriage breastfeeding
Australian Birth Stories - August 14, 2023 03:33 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode Jessie shares her incredibly positive physiological birth which was so rare in the private hospital she birthed in, that five midwives came to watch. With the support of her doula and the midwife on staff, Jessie navigated her labour with the TENS machine, the shower, bath and ...
410 Postpartum | Eleanor Pendleton waterbirth shares her two postpartum experiences and details the choices she made to ensure her second postpartum was a slow and sacred season of rest and recovery
Australian Birth Stories - August 09, 2023 06:13 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn this episode Eleanor Pendleton takes us through the challenges of her first postpartum and the lessons learned from her breastfeeding experience with engorgement, oversupply and persistent mastitis. When it came time to plan her second postpartum, she did so with a deep understanding of Easter...
409 | Steph one baby, miscarriage, private obstetrician, PROM, induction, epidural, emergency caesarean, breastfeeding challenges
Australian Birth Stories - August 07, 2023 02:38 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode Steph takes us through her early pregnancy journey and explains her choice to have a private obstetrician. She prepared for labour and birth and the possibility of an emergency caesarean with The Birth Class and after her waters broke at 35 weeks, she was induced and opted for ...
408 Postpartum | Amber shares her personal breastfeeding challenges after a traumatic birth and her professional knowledge as a midwife and IBCLC
Australian Birth Stories - August 02, 2023 09:56 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsFollowing on from her birth story in Amber shares her breastfeeding challenges which were complicated by her long labour, traumatic birth and significant blood loss. Regardless of her professional knowledge as a midwife and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), she had to na...
407 | Georgia, two babies, MGP, physiological birth, breastfeeding, IBCLC
Australian Birth Stories - July 31, 2023 04:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode Georgia shares her two positive birth experiences; her first an induction with epidural, her second a physiological birth seven minutes after she arrived at the hospital. She admits that she’d not a big reader but was determined to finish ‘The Complete Australian Guide to Pregn...
406 | Chloe, one baby, postpartum care, birth centre, BRAIN, induction, epidural, forceps, episiotomy, triple-feeding
Australian Birth Stories - July 24, 2023 01:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode, Chloe explains her choice to have public hospital pregnancy care so she could spend money on allied health services in postpartum. It was a choice that served her incredibly well as she had significant breastfeeding challenges and opted for at-home support from a GP + IBCLC sp...
405 | Keira, endometriosis, IVF, hyperemesis gravidarum, positive induction, baby blues
Australian Birth Stories - July 17, 2023 03:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsKeira shared her first birth story in and today she takes us through her second pregnancy, detailing the head game of IVF, the daily challenge of severe hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) and the positive birth of her daughter, Goldie. Keira was vomiting between 30 and 40 times a day in this pregnancy,...
404 | Natasha, fraternal twins, PCOS, private obstetrician, planned caesarean, pre-eclampsia
Australian Birth Stories - July 10, 2023 07:52 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn this episode Natasha discusses her fraternal twin pregnancy and her choice to have a planned caesarean. She opted for private obstetric care with a doctor who specialised in high risk and twin pregnancies and experienced a relatively smooth pregnancy aside from severe nausea in the first trime...
403 | Postpartum Care Options + Costs with Dr Eliza Hannam, GP, Possums NDC, IBCLC
Australian Birth Stories - July 05, 2023 11:24 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsWe all know babies are expensive but how much does pregnancy, birth and parenthood actually cost? I’ve joined forces with , a customer-owned ethical bank and a certified B Corp, to make pregnancy finances less overwhelming. In this 5-part mini series I take you from preconception to postpartum wi...
402 | Hannah Willsmore, positive homebirth, private midwife, doula, 5kg baby, intact perineum, water birth
Australian Birth Stories - July 04, 2023 07:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsIn today’s episode Hannah - an endorsed midwife and IBCLC specialising in postpartum care - shares her incredibly positive story of birthing her 5.1kg baby at home (with an intact perineum to boot!). Hannah expected her conception journey to take time as she has endometriosis and PCOS but she act...
401 | Maternity Leave Rights, Paid Parental Leave + Childcare Subsidies with Georgie Dent
Australian Birth Stories - June 28, 2023 07:49 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsWe all know babies are expensive but how much does pregnancy, birth and parenthood actually cost? I’ve joined forces with , a customer-owned ethical bank and a certified B Corp, to make pregnancy finances less overwhelming. In this 5-part mini series I take you from preconception to postpartum wi...