This episode is essential listening if you’re trying to decide whether to labour in a birth centre or midwife-led unit. Guess Midwife Issy Bourton and I explore what a birth centre/midwife-led unit is, how your experience there can differ from a hospital birth, what you can expect to happen during your labour, how to request a birth centre labour if you are not low risk, and transferring to a labour ward.

Many parents feel that they have to pick a side on the feeding debate - breast or bottle. But the reality is that often families find themselves a compromise, whether that is adding an occasional bottle to their routine, or switching to formula during the day, and breastfeeds when mum gets home from work. Despite this, information about how to go about mixed or combination feeding has been scarce, until now. My guest this week, Lucy Ruddle IBCLC, is author of a guide to mixed feeding, Mixed Up, which guides you through all you need to know.

With social media platforms increasingly censoring candid images of birth and women’s bodies, I got together this week with The Naked Doula, Emma Armstrong, to talk about why we need to see real women’s experiences online. Our wide-ranging chat touches on using the correct words for female anatomy in schools, how we set realistic expectations for birth, and how reconnecting with your body through periods, birth and the menopause is truly empowering.

Continuous Foetal Monitoring can be uncomfortable, anxiety-inducing or misleading, but there’s plenty of evidence for its use, right? That’s the question Dr. Kirsten Small set out to answer after her long career in obstetrics. In this episode she shares everything you need to know, and it’s pretty revealing!

After years of supporting 10,000s of families preparing for their births using hypnobirthing, it’s time for birth-ed to wave that chapter goodbye, and introduce- The Birth-ed Method. Find out what’s involved in this episode…

We have a tendency to separate conception, pregnancy, birth, feeding & parenting. But there is a thread that runs from one through to another. The choices you make & experiences you have during and prior to birth have a direct impact on your postpartum. In this episode, we join the dots.

This episode is one you can come back to, time and time again, any time you're feeling stuck, any time you're facing a big decision.. And use it to guide you to make confident choices that feel right for you, your baby and your circumstances.

Discover how to use birth stories as a way of deepening your understanding of birth, building your confidence & helping you to make choices for your own experience. Consider the clarity, processing & freedom sharing your birth story can bring you.

In this episode we in detail about birth plans.. let's explore together- Can you really plan for birth? Why bother? What to include? How to write one? What to do with it?

It's a solo episode from me this week, talking in detail about pain in birth.. let's explore together- What causes pain in labour? What does birth feel like? What is the purpose of pain in birth? Why most conversations about pain relief have got totally the wrong angle! Which elements of this are within our control?