How to Grow a Parent: The pregnancy, birth & postnatal podcast

Today I’m talking to Kate Lawler. Kate and her fiance Boj took a Mindful Birth course with me to prepare for their Noa's planned abdominal birth last year. Always a big supporter of The Mindful Birth Group, Kate was kind enough to make time to chat to me in amongst her busy mumming and working schedule.

We talked about the realities of the motherhood emotional rollercoaster, how leaving your kids for alone time usually ends up with you thinking about them even more and how the newborn bubble is something that doesn't happen for everyone.

It's an honest, funny and lovely conversation, which is just Kate all over.

A bit about Kate:
On the professional side, Kate is a television personality, presenter, DJ and now author.  She became the first female winner of Big Brother after winning the third series of the reality show in 2002. Kate and her fiancé Martin aka Boj hosted a very funny but also truly insightful podcast called Maybe Baby which was all about Kate’s reluctance to have a baby and exploring what it might be like to be a parent in order to put Boj off. Well we all know how that went!

Kate now continues to be a DJ on Virgin radio and is an amazing mummy to her girl and doggies, sharing an honest account of her motherhood journey on Instagram and in her new book also titled ‘Maybe Baby, On the Mother Side’ which is coming out on Mother’s Day this year but is available for pre-order now.

This show is sponsored by The Mindful Birth Group® who provide award-winning antenatal, hypnobirthing and postnatal courses for expectant parents in-person and on Zoom. The unbiased and informative courses are designed to bring calm and confidence to your experience by making sure that you know your options, what to expect from a birth experience and how to navigate unexpected turns. All whilst sharing practical hypnobirthing/mindfulness tools and techniques to use for pregnancy, birth and beyond.

You can see all of The Mindful Birth Group® courses and resources here:

Follow us on Instagram @themindfulbirthgroup

Parents:

• Courses and the Parent Hub

Professionals:

• Train to teach with TMBG (FEDANT accredited course)
• FREE training for midwives (CPD accredited)

In this episode I speak to Midwife Sally Goodwin about a whole host of pregnancy, birth and postnatal related topics. From the latent phase of labour to postnatal comparison,  I’m very sure that every expectant or new parent will find this episode helpful, interesting and comforting in some way.

I'm proud to say that Sally is a The Mindful Birth Group® member teacher and has been a midwife for 12 years  as an NHS hospital, community and caseload midwife, and now as a private midwife.

She is also a qualified hypnobirthing teacher with her company Blossom Hypnobirth & Acupuncture in the Chesterfield area and is passionate about educating about and supporting all birth preferences and choices. Sally teaches the Mindful Birth course syllabus and teaches privately and in groups both in person and on Zoom.

We talk about how Sally came to be a midwife, how her own parenting experiences have influenced her care and how she has grown through the challenges and good times to be the wonderful mum and parent support she is today.

You can book a 1:1 or group Mindful Birth preparation course with Sally both in person and on Zoom. Just head to www.themindfulbirthgroup.com/blossom-hypnobirthing

Find Sally on Instagram @blossombirth_midwife

This show is sponsored by The Mindful Birth Group® who provide award-winning antenatal, hypnobirthing and postnatal courses for expectant parents in-person and on Zoom. The unbiased and informative courses are designed to bring calm and confidence to your experience by making sure that you know your options, what to expect from a birth experience and how to navigate unexpected turns. All whilst sharing practical hypnobirthing/mindfulness tools and techniques to use for pregnancy, birth and beyond.

You can see all of The Mindful Birth Group® courses and resources here:

Follow us on Instagram @themindfulbirthgroup

Parents:

• Courses and the Parent Hub

Professionals:

• Train to teach with TMBG (FEDANT accredited course)
• FREE training for midwives (CPD accredited)

For our 1st ever episode I’m talking to Dr Natalie Elphinstone, a mother and 'mother centred' obstetrician & gynaecologist. Natalie is well known on Instagram for her maternal centred approach to her care, which is particularly unique when it comes to caesarean births.

Dr Natalie practices in Australia, in  the Mornington Peninsula area. She grew up on a farm in rural Victoria before moving to the city to study medicine.

Since graduating in 2005, Natalie has played an active role in teaching and mentoring the next generation of medical students, specialist trainees and obstetric GP’s. She also enjoys supporting patients privately where she feels she can offer an even greater level of personalised care.

Natalie is passionate about empowerment. She believes in offering an individualised care plan alongside each person and their support team. 

Today we get to know Natalie as a doctor and as a mum, what she's learned and what she is proud of. 

This episode is dedicated to my lovely doula client Zoe who birthed her baby abdominally on the day we recorded this show. It was a bit touch and go as to whether the recording would go ahead, but we managed to squeeze it in early morning for the Oz time difference too!

Dr Natalie's website: https://www.drnatalieelphinstone.com.au/

This show is sponsored by The Mindful Birth Group® who provide award-winning antenatal, hypnobirthing and postnatal courses for expectant parents in-person and on Zoom. The unbiased and informative courses are designed to bring calm and confidence to your experience by making sure that you know your options, what to expect from a birth experience and how to navigate unexpected turns. All whilst sharing practical hypnobirthing/mindfulness tools and techniques to use for pregnancy, birth and beyond.

You can see all of The Mindful Birth Group® courses and resources here:

Follow us on Instagram @themindfulbirthgroup

Parents:

• Courses and the Parent Hub

Professionals:

• Train to teach with TMBG (FEDANT accredited course)
• FREE training for midwives (CPD accredited)

It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, one thing we all have in common as expectant or new parents is that we all evolve and  grow from the people we were pre-children. 

I’m Emiliana, and I created an antenatal & hypnobirthing education company called The Mindful Birth Group in 2017. I'm a hypnobirthing teacher and a birth and postnatal doula. The Mindful Birth Group isn’t just me- it’s also made up of a family of independent member teachers who teach parents using the Mindful Birth course syllabus all across the UK and via Zoom.

In this podcast, we will share a mixture of educational episodes and conversations with past clients, Mindful Birth teachers, and other experts in the pregnancy, birth and postnatal fields. As we do in all of our courses, we’ll include all birth preferences and choices and paths to parenthood too.

At the end of each episode we’ll finish by asking our guests what they are most proud of themselves for and how they’ve grown since becoming a parent or supporting parents in their field of expertise. It’s important we celebrate ourselves because being a parent doesn’t come with a monthly appraisal as we are so used to in the work place!

I hope you will enjoy listening to this unique positive and also very real outlook on becoming a parent, please don’t forget to rate and subscribe to it if you do!

This show is sponsored by The Mindful Birth Group® who provide award-winning antenatal, hypnobirthing and postnatal courses for expectant parents in-person and on Zoom. The unbiased and informative courses are designed to bring calm and confidence to your experience by making sure that you know your options, what to expect from a birth experience and how to navigate unexpected turns. All whilst sharing practical hypnobirthing/mindfulness tools and techniques to use for pregnancy, birth and beyond.

You can see all of The Mindful Birth Group® courses and resources here:

Follow us on Instagram @themindfulbirthgroup

Parents:

• Courses and the Parent Hub

Professionals:

• Train to teach with TMBG (FEDANT accredited course)
• FREE training for midwives (CPD accredited)