In this last episode of season 1, Tara and Kayla are comparing car seat wars with toddlers - is it a developmental stage of toddler-hood to not want to get strapped in your car seat, or it is just our kids?!

Tara also gives you an update on her pregnancy - bub due any time, trying to remember what labour signs to look for, breech at 38 weeks and insight on the ECV that she chose to have, something she had never heard of before needing one. Please excuse Tara's heavy breathing, bub is stealing all of her air.

In this episode:

• Car Seats and Toddlers

• Parenting Tools

• Breech Baby

• ECV - External Cephalic Version

• Risks and Benefits

• Early Labour Signs

• Breath-work and Meditation

• Birth Maps

Tara discusses the support she received from breath work specialist Nicola Laye - check out episode 37 to learn more about her work.

This episode is sponsored by @bump.southport

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On this week's episode, Tara and Kayla are more relaxed and breathing better than ever after having a chat with Nicola Laye. Nicola is a birth and pregnancy specialist, holistic health practitioner, and breathwork coach on a mission to help more women reclaim their power and show up as the best version of themselves.

As well as running through a breath experience, Nicola talks in depth about breathing on purpose and how 90 percent of the population is not breathing properly. and what we can do to correct it. We cover breath in pregnancy, postpartum and motherhood, plus so much more.

In this episode:

• Breathing with purpose

• What a breathwork session involves

• Regulating ourselves and our children

• The first and last breath of life

• Advice for entering an ECV for a breech baby

• Breath in Pregnancy and why it changes to your back

• Habit stacking and where to fit breath work in

• Tips for helping your kids with breathwork

To find out more about Nicola and the amazing work she does, head to - https://www.nicolalaye.com/ or on instagram @nicola_laye.

This episode is sponsored by @bump.southport

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On this week’s episode, Tara and Kayla chat with Marion Rose PHD, Marion is an Author, Podcast Host, Psychospiritual Mentor, Level Two Aware Parenting Instructor and creator of The Marion Method for Psychospiritual Development, Parenting, and Entrepreneurship.

Marion is passionate about understanding mothers, children, and babies and helping them heal from stress and trauma, and is particularly passionate about Aletha Solter’s work with Aware Parenting, where she is a regional coordinator and now also has her own method to assist parents. She talks about how early trauma and stress can start, and it’s a lot earlier than you may think.

In this episode:

· What is Aware Parenting?

· Re-parenting ourselves

· Core Aspects of aware parenting

· Loving limits and boundaries

· Attachment parenting

· The Marion Method

· Healing and releasing stress and trauma

· Following the child’s lead

· Attachment play

· Feeling connection

To learn more about Marion Rose PHD head to https://marionrose.net/ , you can find her on Instagram @_marion_rose_ or @awareparenting, you can also listen in to her popular podcast 'The Aware Parenting Podcast Marion Rose PHD' on all major podcast platforms.

Marion and Lael’s book 'Raising Resilient & Compassionate Children' is available from multiple online bookstores, including Booktopia. All of Aletha Solter’s books that Marion mentions in the podcast can also be found on Booktopia or Amazon.

This episode is sponsored by @bump.southport

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On this week’s episode, Tara and Kayla are so excited to welcome parenting guru Lael Stone to the show. Lael is an author, speaker, and educator who is always ‘speaking for the heart of the child’ and offers so much insight into parenting and understanding our little humans on another level. Lael's Ted Talk on How To Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children has amassed over a million views and for good reason.

We discuss the term conscious parenting and why raising emotionally intelligent children starts with us and we also dive into what our fears are for the education system in Australia and why this sparked Lael to start her own school, of course with children being at the centre every step of the way.

In this episode:

• Conscious parenting

• Raising emotionally intelligent children

• How to react when children lash out

• Why understanding our own imprint is so important

• Being curious

• Feelings are ok

• Why our education system is letting our children down

• Plus, much, much more...

To learn more about Lael head to https://laelstone.com.au/about/ or you can find her on Instagram @laelstone. Lael and Marion's book 'Raising Resilient & Compassionate Children' is available from multiple online bookstores, including Booktopia and you can head to @mothernation.au to learn more about her new program 'Holding The Mother'.

This episode is sponsored by @bump.southport

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On this week’s episode, Tara and Kayla are talking about how Motherhood changes a multitude of relationships ‘in our lives, not only with your spouse, but family and friends too. It can be a hard change or a positive one but one thing that is certain, nothing remains the same and it’s constantly changing as we as parents grow and change.

Tara also updates us all on Beau’s big bed transition and why kids are maybe much more adaptable than us.

This episode includes:

· Resentment

· Not feeling seen

· Making fast friends

· Disconnection

· What being a default parent means

· Understanding our needs

· Learning to say no

· Dropping expectations

This episode is sponsored by @bump.southport

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On this week's episode Tara and Kayla chat with Mum of Two, Midwife and Maternal Health Nurse Caitlin Rounds. Caitlin has been a Midwife for 15 years and is so passionate about all things pregnancy, labour and babies, and we can't wait for you to hear her recount her own home birth stories, including common misconceptions around home birth in Australia, and why she thinks all women deserve continuity of care when pregnant.

In this Episode:

• Home Birth

• Labour

• Having Choices

• Early Motherhood

• Continuity Of Care

• Becoming a Midwife

• Hospital Bag Essentials

• Holding Emotional Space for our kids

• Good Environments for Labour

• UFO - Upright, Forward & Open

• Intervention

The website Caitlin gives a shout out to in this episode is Spinning Babies, and is a great resource for pregnant women - https://www.spinningbabies.com/

This episode is sponsored by @bump.southport

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On this week's episode Tara and Kayla get to learn what life is like with multiples, three to be exact, with Mum of four - an almost teenager and 2-year-old triplets, Stephanie Forster.

We get an insight into what life is like carrying triplets and then managing them once they get home, and in Steph's experience - routine is everything. We chat birth story, babies in the NICU, and getting the shocking diagnosis that little Cora had contracted Meningitis in the hospital.

This episode includes:

• Struggle to fall pregnant

• Triplet announcement

• Birth Story and going into labour at almost 30 weeks

• High-Risk Pregnancy

• Meningitis

• Hyperemesis Gravidarum

• Managing triplets

• Routine

• NICU

• Plus much, much more....

The book Steph refers to when speaking about routine is: The Contented Little Baby Book by Gina Ford, to find out more follow this link: https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-new-contented-little-baby-book-gina-ford/book/9780091912697.html

Steph's pram/wagon that she discusses is from https://pragon.com.au/ and is the Wonderfold Wagon.

This episode is sponsored by @bump.southport

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On this week's episode, Kayla and Tara are discussing infant Sleep, co-sleeping, and breastfeeding with Melissa Hays the founder of Cocoon & Cradle - Melissa offers breastfeeding and sleep support, as well as her signature course Sleep Made Simple: How Breastfeeding Mums Can Get More Sleep Without Sleep Training. She is uniquely qualified as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), Holistic Sleep Coach, Paediatric Nurse, Midwife, and Mum of 3.

There are so many great gems in this episode for both new Mums, seasoned Mums, and Mums to be, as we go into Melissa's favorite breastfeeding positions, discussions on co-sleeping certainly helped put Tara's mind at ease as she was always too scared to co-sleep with Beau.

This episode includes:

• Co-sleeping
• High and Low needs sleep in kids
• Breastfeeding positions
• A holistic approach to sleep
• Optimizing sleep
• Creating a safe sleep environment
• Myths about sleep and breastfeeding
• Red flags
• Plus much, much more...

To get in touch with Melissa you can visit the website: https://www.cocoonandcradle.com/ or visit her Instagram @cocoonandcradle to find out more.

The book Melissa references in regard to safe co-sleeping is called Safe Infant Sleep, Expert Answers to Your Cosleeping Questions by James J McKenna and you can find that below:

https://www.booktopia.com.au/safe-infant-sleep-james-j-mckenna/book/9781930775763.html#:~:text=lactation%20consultant%20profession-,%22Dr.,their%20individual%20needs%20and%20circumstances.%22

Also, the website to help you find a lactation consultant near you - IBCLC head to https://www.lcanz.org/

This episode is sponsored by @bump.southport

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On this week's episode Tara and Kayla welcome Tash Duffin, Tash is an Occupational Therapist trained in Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy, paediatric feeding, infant and early childhood sleep quality and infant reflux. She is a mother of three vivacious, exuberant children and the founder of Whole Child Co.

We dive in deep with Tash this week to discuss oral function or dysfunction from newborns to toddlers, and Tara wants to know if Beau's dummy obsession is doing damage.

This episode includes:

• Optimal Oral Function

• Optimal Oral Rest Posture

• Mouth Breathing

• Signs of Oral Dysfunction

• Dummies - yay or nay?

• Bottle and Dummy Recommendations

• How an Assessment with Tash Works

• Tounge Tie

• Infant Reflux

• Focus on Children Getting Quality Sleep

• Plus, much, much more....

If you have more questions and want to find out more about what Tash does, or to arrange an assessment you can find her at : https://wholechildco.com.au/ or on Instagram @wholechildco

This episode is sponsored by @bump.southport

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On this week's episode Tara and Kayla welcome business Mumma - Kassie Callaghan, owner and creator of the online store Milk & Poppy.

(Listen to the end of the episode to find out about our generous giveaway with Milk & Poppy.)

Whilst working as a radiographer Kassie was not finding satisfaction in her role and was always looking for something else, it was really after the birth of her first daughter that she had the realisation that instead of working hard for someone else, maybe she needs to do something for herself and show her daughter that one day she can follow her passion too. It ended up being the humble nappy bag, which was really just a last-minute decision, that really created the Milk & Poppy you see today.

In this episode:

• Trial and Error

• How an interest in e-commerce led to the online store

• Starting a business with no experience

• Being aware and on top of stock levels

• Throwing out the rule books

• Launching an online store with a toddler and two day old

• The importance of showing your kids you love what you do

• Balancing Business and motherhood

• Exceeding expectations

• Trauma - how it can work for us

• Mum guilt

• Cash flow and investment

• Star signs and compatibility

• Plus much, much more

To find out more about Kassie and her online business Milk & Poppy, head to - the website https://milkandpoppy.com.au/ or go to Instagram @milk_and_poppy or follow @kassie.callaghan direct to follow her motherhood journey.

This is the link to the Parker Play Bag that we discuss as the end of the episode: https://milkandpoppy.com.au/collections/nappy-bags/products/brown-parker-play-bag

This episode is sponsored by @bump.southport

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