Early labour

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07/31/23 • 60 min

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In this episode Rachel takes us into the world of ‘early labour’. She’s been promising it for a long while, and here it is. Get your lug’ols around this one!

In this episode we discuss:

· What’s going on physiologically during this phase of childbirth

· Beta endorphins and how they work for us during labour

· The neocortex and what is so important about this part of our brain as we birth

· Why women in early labour who attend the maternity unit are often sent back home

· Early labour and the maternity system

· How early labour interventions can be prevented

· We discuss birthing babies into your tights!

· And whether we can ever fully prepare women with prenatal education

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In this episode Rachel takes us into the world of ‘early labour’. She’s been promising it for a long while, and here it is. Get your lug’ols around this one!

In this episode we discuss:

· What’s going on physiologically during this phase of childbirth

· Beta endorphins and how they work for us during labour

· The neocortex and what is so important about this part of our brain as we birth

· Why women in early labour who attend the maternity unit are often sent back home

· Early labour and the maternity system

· How early labour interventions can be prevented

· We discuss birthing babies into your tights!

· And whether we can ever fully prepare women with prenatal education

Get 10% off Katie's Breastfeeding & Lactation: the fundamentals online course today with code POD10 at checkout.

Support the show

Please support the show via Patreon or BuyMeACoffee
MERCH here!
Music Joseph McDade

Previous Episode

Our special edition: "We hit one million downloads" episode!

Welcome to the biggest episode yet! Well not really, but we have met a milestone I couldn’t have fathomed 3 years ago on 20th July 2020. It has hit home what has happened over this time and how this 'little' podcast has grown into something really fantastic. And this is due to my dear friend Dr Rachel Reed, our amazing guests who have so kindly donated their time to come on, and to all of you who listen in each episode and make the effort to share it, talk about it, grab a bit of merch to promote it, those of you who have financially supported the show and also those of you who have written in with your stories which have often bought me to tears. I am humbled and really bloomin grateful.
This is a bonus episode just for you. You will not hear anything about birth, midwifery, or breastfeeding! Be warned! This is a listener special where we asked you guys for your questions about us!

So what will your lug’ols be filled with today?

· Katie’s story of a bag of crisps called Keith

· Rachel dancing to Oliver Twist

· How surprisingly we both chose very similar people to invite to our dinner party!

· But don’t talk to Rachel about bananas or pineapples

· We reminisce on going clubbing together from 11am on public holidays in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the UK.

· We let you in on what we got up to at our midwifery university graduation

· And finally ... how Katie got chased by a lion.

Should make for good listening... not educational listening at all, but if you are up for being told a story or two then grab a cuppa and sit down with us in this special episode!

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Next Episode

Plus Size Pregnancy - an interview with Dr Sara Wickham

Welcome to season 5!! This episode we have the marvelous Dr Sara Wickham back in the cauldron with us talking all about what’s in her new book Plus Size Pregnancy.

Sara talks to us about:

· How women and families want, need and deserve better answers to their many questions about higher BMI and birth, and that midwives and birth workers need to know what the evidence says.

· Clarification of what is the BMI and as Sara says “it’s a racist, sexist, classist” index created for complete different reason than for health!

· We look at why a higher BMI comes with so many tests and limitations for birth and Sara talks us through the existing evidence.

· Are women with a high BMI more at risk of caesarean section, and if so what are the real reasons behind this?

· Why the phrase morbid obesity is utter nonsense and rooted in a much darker context.

· Sara delves into diet culture, it’s myths and the marketing behind it.

· Weight bias and fat shaming in healthcare.

· And why using BMI is problematic in maternity care.

You’ll hear all this and much more in this fabulous episode.
LINKS:
Plus Size Pregnancy book
Dr Sara Wickham website
Sara on Instagram @drsarawickham
Sara on Facebook sarawickham.com

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