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Episode 81 - How do homebirth midwives manage birth emergencies
Mel invites her work-wife Ashlee Anslow from the birthing tree midwifery to discuss how they manage birth emergencies at home. We discuss foetal distress in labour, cord accidents, shoulder dystocia, neonatal...
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Episode 80 - Caring for a late preterm baby
Mel draws on her life and midwifery experience (and the research evidence) to discuss care of late pre-term babies born between 34-37 weeks. Mel offers some alternative care strategies such as delayed cord clamping,...
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Episode 79 - Interview with wise woman Sheryl Sidery
Mel interviews wise woman midwife Sheryl Sidery who has been a private midwife for 40 years. Learning from experienced midwives, in our western culture, is one of the only ways to learn new things about physiological...
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Episode 78 - Meconium in the waters
Mel describes what the current research says about meconium stained amniotic fluid. What is it? Is meconium truly ‘sterile’? Is meconium always a problem? and what might happen to your baby if there is meconium in...
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Episode 77 - The place of policy
Dr. Kirsten Small and Dr. Melanie Jackson discuss the place of policy in maternity care. You can't navigate what you don’t understand. Stick with us as we explore how hospitals are organised, why policies are created,...
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Episode 76 - Ask me anything
Mel answers some listener questions in a one and only public ‘Ask me anything’ episode. In the future these episodes are reserved for premium hub members who get one of these per month and have access to the ‘ask Mel...
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Episode 75 - Things are changing around here
In this episode Mel explains why she chose to release B as co-host of the great birth rebellion podcast and offers a summary of the changes you can expect of the podcast going forward.
04:30 - Summary of listener...
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Episode 74 - The cascade of interventions
Mel and B discuss the concept of ‘the cascade of interventions’. The cascade occurs when an additional intervention is needed in order to counteract the impact of the last intervention. We specifically make reference...
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Episode 73 - Episiotomy Part 2
Part 1 (episode 72) is essential listening if you want to get the full picture. In this episode Mel and B continue their exploration into the intervention of episiotomy by talking about issues of consent, how to keep...
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Episode 72 - Episiotomy Part 1
Episiotomy is the practice of using scissors to cut the opening of the vagina to make it larger for childbirth. In Australia, 25% of women receive one. We examine this practice in what we thought would be one episode…...
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Episode 71 - Birth Debriefing
Mel and B discuss birth debriefing, or life debriefing and using debriefing to prepare for and process transformative events, such as birth and parenthood. B shares her career knowledge about debriefing and we discuss...
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Episode 70 - Freebirth in the Media with Charlotte King ABC reporter
Mel meets with Charlotte King, a researcher and reporter from the ABC news network in Australia. Charlotte was one of the reporters working on a recent (Feb 2024) media story about Freebirth in Australia. This...
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