Guest - Katelyn Pankhurst
In this beautiful episode, Katelyn shares briefly her experience birthing her first baby in hospital through the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital Birth Center with care from the Young Parents Program. Katelyn touches on some negative aspects of her experience including mistreatment from staff. She then shares her journey, deciding to have a home birth and navigating dual living and other issues that arose in making the decision. Again, her second birth was very speedy, the midwife very near missed it! She had a very empowering experience which led to her full support of home births.
Finally, Katelyn opens up and shares the surprise pregnancy with her third, very wanted, little boy. She knew immediately that her choice for birthing this time would be at home again, but without the care of a private midwife.
Hearing the ups and downs of Katelyns journey through all of her pregnancies and births will surely have you engaged and full of oxytocin.
I've also kept a little "break" in the poddy where Katelyn tends to her child, happily playing around her, because this is real life and the little voices are so sweet! Most women that I have on the podcast are breastfeeding while chatting or have their little ones around them. I love it!
Enjoy! D x
Hospital Birth - YPP (young parents program), RBWH, Birth Center
Homebirth - @mymidwives primary midwife - Karen
Freebirth <3
On this episode, Dayna introduces you to your new Dear Dayna and X co-host who we know you'll love because the chemistry and conversations are fun, entertaining, spicy and above all HONEST.
We answer the burning question of "what is the easiest childs age?!" and also, "what is the hardest childs age?"
We waffle on a bit, but it's great.
D x
Guest - Kate
In today's episode, Kate shares her experience becoming a chinese medicine practitioner, what she'd learnt and her experience in China and her journey becoming a midwife afterwards and how that impacted on her two birth experiences.
This conversation is so informative and eye opening with topics ranging from conception, study, acupuncture, menstrual cycles, fertility and private midwives. Kate is a wealth of knowledge with many years of experience and is now residing in Perth.
Kate = @themamasalchemist
Dayna = @daynajangles
In this last episode of a solo Dear Dayna (before the new co-host joins us next week!) a listener writes in to ask a few questions about what she's been seeing on social media lately. That is, more birth workers speaking up about their opinions on women having a plethora of information about (more specifically but not limited to) birth positions.
Can't wait for you to have a listen to this one!
Let us know what you think and your opinion.
D x
Hello my loves!
I have a few important announcements to leave you with before the new year and the new season officially takes off. Let me know what you think of them.
Take care and I'll catch you in the new year xx
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In this solo episode Dayna talks about a theme showing up in the inbox, a hot topic at the moment, and that's having another baby and what that dynamic is like emotionally.
'How could I possibly love another child as much as I love THIS one?!" A question on many mothers minds, far more common than we realise..
Dayna gives her 2 cents. What does she think? Well, you'll just have to listen. <3
Guest - Sarah Giannetta
Join Sarah and Dayna as they explore a wide range of potent topics such as preconception work, rites of passages, midwifery in and out of the system and more.
Sarah is an ex-registered midwife, wife and mum of 3 living in Melbourne, Australia. Otherwise known as "the midwife mummy" from her popular instagram account, Sarah has proven to be a wealth of knowledge on all things conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
This epic episode is sure to get brains ticking!
Sarah - @the.midwifemummy
Book "Wild Power" - by Alexandra Pope & Sjanie Hugo Wirlitzer
HBA - @hypnobirthingaustralia
Dayna - @daynajangles
@theoxytocinhour
Dayna reflects about personal development and how such simple questions have impacted her and have changed the way she sees herself for the better.
Offering a few, bite sized tips, this episode might just give you a little inspiration to finding more balance in your life, as a mother.
*Warning* this whirlwind episode has it all!
Dayna retells her experience birthing her third, but her husbands' first, baby. She firstly gives a background and insight into what was happening in their lives at that point in time, including fleeing a DV situation, studying midwifery, meeting Beau, a flooded house, surgery, sleeping in a car, a proposal and so much more.
This episode contains topics such as breech and other presentations, spinning babies, cholestasis, decision making around induction and precipitous labour.
Keeping the episode to under an hour Dayna feels she could have expanded on everything so much more, and kept it more streamlined, but staying true to the labour and birth, things got hectic!
Enjoy! x
Birthing through the birth center at the RBWH in Brisbane, Queensland.
Midwives - Tania Nairn & Bec Lloyd
Photographer - Maddie @ettaphotography
This episode, Dayna chats about her experience that day of attending a rally at Parliament House steps in Meanjin, Brisbane with dozens of other midwives, midwifery students, mums, associates and supporters to prompt the health minister to consider where budget funding for the maternity care system in QLD will go.
Regardless of where you're from, this episode is a great little insight to current political issues in maternity care in Australia.
Guest Emma.
Listening in to the beautiful retelling of Emma's conscious conception journey through to her pregnancy labour and birth. Emma is a first nations mother with a background in health and fitness, she was determined to soak up all the knowledge on all things birth when taking the step to motherhood.
Join Dayna and Emma as they chat about birth choices, water birth, preconception health and so much more, juicy topics!
Gain insight into the thoughts and beliefs of these two women as they lay it all out for you to soak up the knowledge and good energy of this chat.
Mama - @emma_mcrae
This quick lil' ep is great to hear a recommendation for deciding between these two careers and taking other things into consideration.
Somethings are discussed that Dayna and a lot of other people aren't aware of until after studying the degree!
Guest Bianca
Dayna and Bianca connect to chat about Bianca's pregnancy, labour and birth experience of her first born.
Bianca, a lawyer and Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner shares her journey through preconception and discovering she had PCOS, through to a GDM (insulin dependant Gestational Diabetes) diagnosis, seeking independent birth education and a looming induction push.
This beautiful episode is sure to ignite a sense of hope and determination in the ability to have an empowered hospital birth experience despite a "higher risk" status for any listener.
Listen in as Bianca retells how she possessed the ability to take each issue and circumstance that arose in her journey, observe and make the best decisions for her and her baby to achieve the experience that she set out to.
Bianca - @birthingbliss_au
Independent Childbirth Education - @hypnobirthingaustralia
A great introduction to the word, "Matrescence" and exploring other rites of passage that women go through in their lives, this episode gives a nice, brief run down of the aforementioned and helps to expand ones mind to consider the importance of each of these transitions.
A longer form episode with an expert on Matrescence will be released at a later date. For now, enjoy this little snippet.
Book - Childbirth as a Rite of Passage by Dr Rachel Reed
*this episode speaks heavily about trauma, sexual abuse and obstetric violence - if you have experienced any or all of these it's important to know that listening to this episode may resurface trauma. please listen at your own discretion and keep your body, mind and spirit safe.*
Guest - Michelle Palasia.
"I want justice and accountability and fucking heads to roll". - Michelle.
Prepare to be activated and triggered when you listen in to this fire episode. Dayna and Michelle leave no stone unturned as they chat all things birth trauma awareness week, trauma, violence and abuse and why they believe that awareness simply isn't enough.
Please listen to this episode with an open mind and heart and prepare to understand the inner thoughts and beliefs of these two women as they relay accounts of witnessed trauma, abuse and violence. If you have ever found yourself triggered by previous thoughts shared by either Dayna or Michelle, this episode will assist you to understand the complexities of the words they speak.
Is speaking up and calling out wrong-doings divisive? When does speaking ones truth become too much?
Strap yourself and prepare for an episode that will blow your mind.
Michelle - @michellepalasia
Dayna - @daynajangles
Birth Trauma Association (UK) - www.birthtraumaassociation.org.uk/
PATTCh - http://paatch.org
Crisis Support
Beyond Blue - 1300 22 4636
Lifeline - 13 11 14
Suicide Call Back Service - 1300 659 467
Enough is enough.
A burning desire to speak PASSIONATELY about this topic for a while sparked the release of this episode. If you're a human being, you are planning to have a baby, you are pregnant, you will come into contact with someone who is pregnant, you NEED to listen to this one.
Stop. Trauma. Dumping. On. Women.
K Bye.
Follow @theoxytocinhour + @daiisy.est.2020
Dayna shares the 5 feeding journeys she has had with her 5 children.
Spoiler alert, it's not ALL easy, in fact it gets a little shakey in parts, but ultimately it's a great listen to understand the complexities and nuances of the same mother but 5 different babies and how each and every feeding journey can be oh so different.
14+ year of breastfeeding - and Dayna hasn't gotten into the nitty gritty of the individual experiences but they will be explored in depth in later episodes (we're talking feeding after breast augmentation, milk donation for various reasons, breastfeeding children that aren't yours!)
But for now, you can hear about them all briefly and gain a general understanding before hear about the more complex experiences.
Australian Breastfeeding Association - 1800 MUM 2 MUM - @ozbreastfeeding
@flourishlactation - Katie (IBCLC + Midwife)
@milkybusinesslactation - Kate (IBCLC + Private Midwife)
@maternalinstinctsbyamberley - Amberley (RM/EM Private Midwife)
@_kerrie_adams - (IBCLC)
@susieproutlactation - (LC + Midwife)
Dear Dayna - Guest Beau.
Dayna sits down with Beau to chat about the listeners question, "how do I convince my partner to agree to a home birth.." and "how did you convince Beau?'
Like all Dear Dayna's it's not a simple answer, and they both delve into possible reasons one might have reservations, other underlying issues within the relationship, and, pose another question, "do you even need to convince someone?'
They revisit reasons for choosing free birth and home birth and how they drew those conclusions, and, give some handy opinions for the listener or any other woman in the same position.
Listen as Beau, a qualified electrician, gives his two cents on a delicate subject around birth and relationship issues.
Guest Nicole - Giddy up! This is the first episode that we have a caesarean birth Mum on, let alone a Mother that's experienced both vaginal and caesarean births! Nicole candidly shares her 5 birth experiences and shines a refreshing light on what it is like to birth in both the public and private sectors as well as why she feels that her decision to have 2 elective caesareans following 3 vaginal births was just as empowering as the first 3 births.
There're many giggles, hilarious anecdotes and wise words shared.
An episode not to be missed. This is Nicole's story...
Dayna gets a spicy (not that kind of spicy!) question in her inbox and decides to dig further. This prompts an episode filled with the top google searched questions starting with the words, “why do midwives…” a teeny bit thought provoking, entertaining and funny.
Join Dayna as she discovers what the worlds been searching on google about midwives as she single handedly and on the spot attempts to answer the hard hitting questions!