Pour The Tea, Will You?

In this final episode of Season 1, Lesley is joined by Dr Sarah Buckley who shares her wealth of expertise on the topic of the hormonal physiology of birth, specifically related to Lamaze Healthy Birth Practice No.1. Dr Buckley describes quite beautifully what the consequences are for birthing mothers and their babies when hormonal gaps are created by interrupting the normal physiology of birth through induction of labour or scheduled cesarean. As with all episodes in this series, I have some top tips for you. Sarah offers her advice to how you can fill in these gaps to ensure that your postpartum is a time where you are able to experience positive attachment and increase breastfeeding success.

In this bonus episode Lesley talks to Alexia Leachman, mother, practitioner, podcaster and author of the book Fearless Birthing. Alexia shares her own story of suffering extreme fear towards pregnancy and birth. Bravely shares her experience of relief when she miscarried in her first pregnancy and how she dedicated the next years of her life to resolving her own fears before becoming a mother. Alexia offers her thoughts on the role of fear and explains the program she has designed to help other women not just come fearless in birth but fearless mothers for the rest of their lives.

Joining Lesley in the penultimate episode of Series 1 of Pour The Tea, will you is Hannah Dahlen AM. Grab yourself a cuppa and listen to Hannah's wisdom from a 30 year career as a practising midwife as well as her observations and conclusions from her world class research. Why is a midwife the best first date you will ever have and just why it’s so important to understand why the birthing woman is the most powerful person in the birth room. 11 is a lucky number to me and this episode was a real delight to record.

Joining Lesley in this episode is Kristy Manners from Growth Spectrum. Kristy is an accredited practicing dietician and breastfeeding counselor training to become an Lactation Consultant. She has a wealth of experience in the field of nutrition from working around the world in humanitarian projects with birthing families and from her own experience as a Mum of an active toddler! Grab your cuppa and listen to us discuss the important issue of nutrition whilst breastfeeding during the 4th trimester and beyond.

Joining Lesley in this episode is new dad of 5 weeks Gab. Grab your tea and listen to Gab recall his experience of late pregnancy, labour and birth during the COVID 19 pandemic. A must listen to for dads keen to find out how he tried to support and advocate as best he could for his wife during this uncertain time.