Listen to The Mother Podcast

Join us as we discuss how to thrive in the lifelong experience of motherhood.

Each episode looks at women's health - how to heal and be strong during fertility journeys, pregnancy, birth and postnatal. Listen as we bring you information on hormone balance, uterine and pelvic health and menopause. With our guests, all women's health practitioners, we discuss realities of motherhood and how to live and support each other as strong, connected women, while nurturing children who will shape the world.

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S2:Ep8 breastfeeding Challenges with Dr Justice Reilly

In this episode, Suzanne speaks with Dr Justice Reilly, a specialist breast doctor and lactation consultant, about some of the challenges you may face while breastfeeding.

We discuss birth weight and factors that may influence this. How the birth weight can weight loss can affect a breastfeeding experience. We also discuss mastitis, sore nipples, oversupply and the breast crawl.

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S2:Ep7 Preparing for Breastfeeding with Kat Prangle of Breastfeeding Lens

In this episode Suzanne and Kat Prangle of Breastfeedinglens offer practical tips and considerations when preparing to breastfeed.

Pregnant women often say they want to breastfeed, but go into the experience with little or no preparation or education. Many factors can influence the ease of the breastfeeding journey. What happens during labour and the birth, and in the first few days and weeks afterwards, makes a big difference to how successful breastfeeding is.

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S2:Ep6 Healing After Abortion: A Discussion with India Elyn, Author of Honouring the Loss

In this episode, Suzanne speaks with India Elyn – folk herbalist, birthkeeper, artist and a healer who helps people tend the threshold of pregnancy loss.

India is the author of the book Honouring the Loss: A Holistic Guide to Healing with Ritual and Herbal Medicine after an Abortion.

As a society, do we care for women who have made the difficult decision to have an abortion?

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S2:Ep5 Homeopathy for Pregnancy and Postpartum with Lyssa Clayton

In this episode, Suzanne speaks with Lyssa Clayton, a homeopath who is passionate about working with women and families.

Homeopathy is an intricate interplay of healing substances and a person's energetic balance, along with close connection of the practitioner to their client. Yet, like many holistic healing practices, you can buy do-it-yourself kits! And a popular one is the homeopathic kit for labour and birth.

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S2:Ep4 Helping Babies Sleep with Helen Cummings

In this episode, Suzanne speaks with Helen Cummings, the Calm Baby Sleep Expert.

Helen works with pregnant people and parents-to-be to educate and support them with learning how to help their babies to self settle. Her techniques are gentle and loving, and allow parents to get to know their baby’s needs to reduce burnout and postpartum depletion.

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S1:EP8 Herbal Medicine and Hormone Balance with Klayr Hunter

In this episode Suzanne speaks to Klayr Hunter, medical herbalist, about hormonal balance and disorders of the female reproductive system, and how nutrition and plant medicine can help support a woman through this. Klayr talks about PCOS, endometriosis and fibroids as examples of when hormones are out of balance, and how herbal medicine can help.

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