The Great Birth Rebellion

Raspberry leaf tea and dates are often recommended to you women with the thought that consuming them during pregnancy will assist with a more efficient labour and fewer complications. Today Mel looks ...

9 Apr 202356min

This episode gives you strategies to prevent and manage shoulder dystocia. Have you had a shoulder dystocia before? Midwives will receive specific tuition on how to manage a shoulder dystocia and it's...

2 Apr 20231h 11min

Does size matter? Well sometimes it does - but how do we know the size of your baby? In this episode Mel explores the accuracy of technologies that can help determine the size of a baby before it’s bo...

19 Mars 20231h 26min

This episode is for your birth support people, your partner, doula, mum, friend… whoever you’ve chosen to be with you for your birth. Mel explains the role of a great support person clearly to give pr...

12 Mars 20231h 13min

This episode explores the very sexy topic of gestational thrombocytopaenia (a.k.a low platelets during pregnancy). If you find yourself looking after someone with low platelets or you are one of the 1...

5 Mars 202321min

The Breech whisperer Dr Andrew Bissits is here to talk about breech birth, breech birth options in Australia, the research about breech and inspiring news about how practitioners are becoming skilled ...

26 Feb 20231h 4min

Many women fear bleeding after birth... but do we have to be affraid of postpartum haemhorrage? In this we define what postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is, how they can be prevented and management strate...

19 Feb 202343min

There are 3 options you have to choose from when making plans for how you want to give birth to your placenta. Once you give birth to your baby, then comes the placenta - let's chat through how to do ...

12 Feb 202345min