The Great Birth Rebellion

If you are planning a waterbirth, care for women using water, or you are just waterbirth curious, this episode is for you! You’ll also find this a handy episode for your birth support team so they kno...

14 Jul 20241h 6min

Dr Max Gulhane @dr_max_gulhane from the Regenerative Health Podcast and Regenerate health summit interviews Mel about Decentralising Maternity care and childbirth. Mel and Max have collaborated on thi...

10 Jul 20241h 13min

Dr Sarah Buckley, academic and author of the best selling book ‘Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering, joins Mel to discuss how the brain works during labour and it’s interaction with the body. We speak abou...

7 Jul 20241h 9min

Mel delves into the use of movement to regulate blood sugar levels during pregnancy, particularly for women managing gestational diabetes. Mel discusses research on how movement affects blood sugar le...

3 Jul 202418min

Lily Nichols, world renowned author of 3 books comes on the podcast to speak about her book ‘real food for gestational diabetes’. Mel asked her all about which foods help control and prevent diabetes ...

30 Jun 202458min

This episode Mel addresses the inaccuracies of gestational diabetes screening and how we still don't have good research evidence on how to diagnose diabetes in pregnancy. Get more from the Great Birth...

26 Jun 202426min

In this episode Mel proposes that the use of Apgar scoring is invalid for women under the care of midwives, for babies who have their umbilical cord intact for longer than 60 seconds and for women hav...

23 Jun 202413min

We explore the options for tying off or clamping your babies umbilical cord including why ties went ‘out of fashion’ and what instigated the use of clamps instead. Mel will also discuss concerns some ...

19 Jun 202423min