Becoming Mum

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Let's talk about sex... sounds and pooping in Labour with Liesel Teen Jul 15, 2019

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Liesel Teen has been a Labor and Delivery Nurse for over 4 years and runs a very successful blog and instagram account, mommy.labornurse that openly shares her nursing knowledge to help mamas-to-be learn more about pregnancy and birth for a happier, healthier and safer delivery. She talks about all the things you want to know about but don’t ask about – so today I’m going to do that for you from sex sounds in labour to caring about your pubic hair – we’ve got you covered!
Find out more about Liesel and her birth course here: www.mommylabornurse.com
Liesel's Must-have new mumma postpartum essentials: https://mommylabornurse.com/postpartum-essentials/

Long-awaited Child - IVF, Adoption, Donor Eggs and Surrogacy with Kellie Harriden Jul 08, 2019

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Kellie Harriden, author of Long-awaited Child is an incredible Australian woman who travelled across continents to beat the odds in order to fulfill her quest to have children. Her journey to becoming mum started when she was 31 years old and 8 long years later she got the thing she wanted most – her twins Bane and Daya. Her and her partner Ian battled one obstacle after another, and this story spans across IVF, foster care, adoption, donor eggs and international surrogacy. It’s truly remarkable and I hope if nothing else, it inspires you to never let go of hope.
Purchase Kellie’s book here – https://longawaitedchild.com/products/long-awaited-child-the-book

The role of a Doula with Moran Liviani Jul 02, 2019

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Moran Liviani is a certified Doula, Stillbirth Doula, Hypnobirthing practitioner, Placenta Encapsulation Specialist, Lamaze certified childbirth educator and mother of three beautiful girls. Located in Brisbane, Australia, Moran is an advocate for a well known Marie Mongan quote – ‘when you change the way you think about birth, the way you birth will change’. In today’s episode we chat about what role a doula plays in your birth and how childbirth education and removing fear is key to a positive birth experience – however you decide to birth your baby. Moran aims to give her clients the trust to believe in their bodies and their abilities to handle anything and to let them gain the knowledge to the array of choices that are available so that they can make informed decisions when it comes to their birth.
Recommended Reading: Birth with Confidence by Rhea DempseyGentle Birth, Gentle Mothering by Dr Sarah BuckleySpiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin
Recommended Documentaries:The Business of Being Born The Face of Birth
Find out more about Moran and her services here: www.2life.com.au

Birth Without Fear: Your judgement-free guide with January Harshe Jun 10, 2019

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January Harshe is a wife and a mother of 6, who started a Facebook page called Birth Without Fear to inform women of their birth options and then support them in their own individual choices, a few months later that was followed by a blog which has since evolved into world-wide Birth Without Fear events, a podcast with her husband Brandon and most recently January’s first book - Birth Without Fear: The Judgement-Free Guide to Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum. I could NOT put this book down, I think I read it 3-4 days and if women only read one book during their pregnancy – I’m going to call it and say this is the one they need to read. January’s passion is to support women on their journeys of womanhood, pregnancy, birth, and motherhood with peace, love and healing. I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I did!
Find out more about January and BWF here: https://birthwithoutfearblog.com/Follow on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/birthwithoutfear/Follow on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/birthwithoutfear/Leave a Review on Amazon or Amazon Australia

Hypnosis for IVF, Pregnancy + Birth with Grace Smith Jun 03, 2019

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Grace Smith is a world-renowned hypnotherapist and founder of both Grace Space, “Your Virtual Hypnotherapist,” and Grace Method Hypnotherapy School, and author of Close Your Eyes, Get Free, her first book on self-hypnosis, which hit the shelves in July last year. As you’ll hear today, Grace started off as a skeptic but when hypnosis transformed her life, and shortly thereafter the lives of her loved ones, she made it her mission to make hypnosis mainstream. Her private clients include celebrities, CEOs, professional athletes, and government officials and she has been featured in the likes of Marie Claire, Forbes, InStyle, MindBodyGreen and The Hollywood Times. Today we discuss just how hypnosis works and how you can use it on your journey to becoming mum with specific hypnosis recordings for Fertility & IVF Anxiety-Relief, Easing First Trimester Symptoms, Breathing Through Childbirth and Gentle parenting. Make sure you listen all the way to the end as Grace runs us through a deeply relaxing group hypnosis session, that will benefit all of us.
Find out more about Grace and her programs here - www.gshypnosis.comFollow Grace on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/GraceSmithTV/and Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/GraceSmithTV/

Why you need to see a pelvic-health focused practitioner with Sami Cattach May 27, 2019

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Sami Cattach is an Australian trained and registered physiotherapist, and mother of one. She works in private practice with a focus on pelvic health and peri-natal care and continually provides education to pre and postnatal women, yoga teachers, doctors, and other health professionals. She is one of the few practitioners in the world who is both a Pelvic Health Physiotherapist and Restorative Exercise Specialist, certified by Nutritious Movement founder and biochemist, Katy Bowman. Sami’s practice, Body and Birth Physiotherapy located in Brisbane, Australia is designed for women of all ages and uses an approach that takes into account the whole body, with the goal to have you feeling pain-free, empowered, and confident for the long term! In today’s chat we talk about the importance of postpartum women seeing pelvic-health focused practitioners, what a vaginal examinations can tell you about your pelvic floor, why being tight in the pelvic floor can be just as problematic as a weak set of muscles, Diastasis Recti, the most effective labour positions and so much more!
For 25% OFF Sami’s Prental Online Program, designed to safely guide expecting mothers through one of the most challenging and beautiful times of their lives, use the CODE: JOYMUM25 (all caps)
Find out more about Sami’s Brisbane practice here: www.bodyandbirthphysio.com
Follow on Instagram here: http://instagram.com/bodyandbirthphysio
and Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/bodyandbirthphysio
Watch on YouTube here: http://bit.ly/2HDZdBK

Real Food for Pregnancy, eating right for you and baby with Lily Nichols May 20, 2019

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Lily Nichols is a real food Dietician, Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Educator. She is also the best-selling author of two books, Real Food for Gestational Diabetes and her latest, which we talk about today, Real Food for Pregnancy. In her book and in today’s episode, Lily debunks a LOT of prenatal nutrition myths. Most of the prenatal nutrition advice we hear today is out-dated or not evidence based. And this book includes over 930 citations – to say it is well researched and evidence based is an understatement! We chat about supplements, macro and micro nutrients, high fat versus low fat, whether it’s possible to hit all your nutritional requirements if you are following a vegetarian or vegan diet and why eating runny eggs and sashimi may not be anywhere near as dangerous as we are led to believe. There has never been a more comprehensive and well-referenced resource on prenatal nutrition, I loved the book and highly recommend it to all mums-to-be and women even thinking about having children.
You can find out more about Lily here: www.lilynicholsrdn.com (you can download her first chapter for free)
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#realmumtalk The importance of turning within amidst fertility struggles with Kate Caddle May 13, 2019

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Kate Caddle is an award winning life coach, writer and speaker, who works with women whose lives look great on paper, but don’t feel so great on the inside. By helping them overcome jealousy, comparison and perfectionism, Kate empowers women to live their #bestlife through thriving health and happiness. But as you’ll hear in today’s episode, things haven’t always been so rosy for this now thriving and happy Gold Coast woman. Today she opens up about her infertility struggles starting with her experience with endometriosis, IVF, changing her lifestyle both physically and mentally and finally, falling pregnant naturally. Self love and turning within is a big focus for Kate and I hope you enjoy hearing just how this concept has really transformed her life and has the potential to transform yours.
Find out more about Kate here - www.katecaddle.com
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Crystals, Essential Oils + Placenta Encapsulation with Lou Mackie May 07, 2019

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Louise Mackie is the founder of Yogi Tree, which was born as a vehicle for her many passions and creative exploration. A deeply soulful woman dedicated to the service of women in her community, Louise is passionate about using the gifts mother nature has given us including crystals, essential oils and flower essences to enhance the wellbeing of women – particular pregnant and postpartum ladies. She is also a yoga teacher, holistic birth practitioner and placenta encapsulation specialist. We cover all of this in our chat today, so if you’re an earth mumma that loves all those things you’re going to love this!
Visit Louise's website here: https://www.yogitreewellbeing.com/Follow her on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/yogitreeweb/

Changing perspectives on infertility and pelvic health with Nikki Bergen Apr 29, 2019

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Nikki Bergen is the amazing lady behind The Belle Method, which is described as pelvic health meets Pilates. And more recently, The Bump method which is transforming exercise in pregnancy and in post partum. Nikki is a Pilates Instructor and professional Dancer based in Toronto who is a new mumma that has her own story of fertility struggles. She opens up about that in this episode as well as practical and interesting advice for the mums-to-be and the recovering mumma. Her message, which I love, is the slower you go the fast you change, hitting back at this unreasonable concept of “bouncing back quickly after child birth.” Even with a teething toddler in the background and technology issues – we got there in the end and I am so glad we did. I loved this chat and I hope you do too!
You can find out more about Nikki here: thebellemethod.comAnd follow her on Facebook here: www.facebook.com/TheBelleMethodAnd on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/thebellemethod

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