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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

In this episode, Suzanne speaks with Lucie Bradley, a medical herbalist who is eager to teach people how to use and integrate herbal medicine into their lives.

Lucie runs a busy clinical practice in Glasgow alongside teaching online courses to the public on remedies for simple ailments at home.

Lucie is also an ethnobotanist and has lived in Africa, working alongside doctors and nurses integrating herbal medicine alongside Western medicine.

In this episode, Suzanne speaks with Lena Fong, a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner who uses acupuncture, herbs, moxibustion and cupping to heal to maintain vitality and wellbeing.

Lena is a highly learned and experienced practitioner and explains the TCM approach to health.

Lena is also a yoga teacher and a doula, and is passionate about working with pregnant and postpartum women to maintain health and wellbeing.

In this episode Suzanne speaks to postpartum doula Jenny Smith-Nicol about pelvic steaming.

Pelvic steaming - or yoni steaming, vaginal steaming - is practised worldwide by women for reproductive health and is now being rediscovered in the West. Steaming helps gently cleanse the womb to help with menstrual problems, or to be used postpartum for better healing.

In this episode, Suzanne continues her discussion with Susana Montoya Pelaez, a body worker who uses physiotherapy, craniosacral therapy, visceral manipulation and applied kineseology to her treatments, along with numerous other modalities. Susana explains how she would help a woman's body recover from birth, whether it be caesarean section, instrumental or normal vaginal birth. She also discusses what a baby's body needs to do to prepare its nervous system for life outside the womb, and how birth prepares it for that. And how interrupted births - caesarean sections - affect the baby. She also gives some advice on how to help your baby make the transition to extrauterine life, regardless of the mode of delivery.

In this episode Suzanne concludes her discussion with Ayurvedic Consultant and Therapist Mairead Moodie. In this second part, Mai discusses the Ayurvedic approach to health and wellbeing in the postpartum period. Mai talks about how women can nourish themselves in the days and weeks following birth, and how mental health is viewed from the Ayurvedic perspective. Mai offers wisdom and practical advice to be used to increase wellbeing and vitality throughout the early days of becoming Mother.

This episode is a discussion with Jenny Smith-Nicol on traditional postpartum care traditions and how we can implement them into our lives. Jenny and Suzanne discuss proper nourishment during pregnancy and the postpartum period and the need for deep rest following the birth in order to avoid depletion and long-term health issues. The link between postpartum care and women's health and wellbeing is often disregarded in our western society and women are left unsupported and simply trying to survive what is actually a sacred time for both mother and baby. We discuss the western culture's disconnection with honouring this sacredness and how we can begin to change our norms to better appreciate and feel healthy and joyful in the postpartum time.