This week on The Birth-ed Podcast, I’m talking to Carolyn Cowan, embodied psychotherapist, yoga teacher and author of Breathing for Pregnancy. Carolyn explains why and how conscious breathing works, gives a short breathwork demonstration and shows how to integrate the practice into your life.

This episode is essential preparation for recovery from a caesarean birth. Women’s health Physio Clare Bourne shares her insight and support in how to navigate the early days and beyond following a caesarean section.

Megan Rossiter chats to journalist Rose Stoke about birth stories and navigating an induction of labour with confidence.

Following consultant led care, GBS+, meconium and a previous PPH, this second time mum went on to have the waterbirth of her dreams

“Big” Second baby ‘back to back’, straightforward birth with no tears, following forceps in her first birth

First Time Mum aged 41 years, 42 weeks pregnancy. Home birth in pool.

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.