In today’s podcast Shari & Nicola interview a most inspiring women, Nadine Muller.  Mumpreneur, Registered Nurse who was until recently in the Australian Defence Force (Air Force) a Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor, a wife to Dane, and Mother to two amazing awesome little boys, Madden & Beckham.

This episode comes with a WARNING to anyone suffering with child birth trauma. This is a vulnerable, open, raw and real conversation and might be hard for some to hear, so please know we are here to support you, I have included some resources to help you if you need support from your own birth trauma experience.

Nadine shares her journey through pregnancy suffering with Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) and then her second birth to Beckham where she opens up to the the trauma of his birth.

Nadine and Dane are both passionate to help and support many families who have suffered with child birth trauma and Nadines passion and support for women struggling with HG.

Please take a big breath as you sit back and listen to Nadines journey.

If you are looking to work with Nicola and gain more support, understand how to breathe in pregnancy / birth and beyond,  please visit her on www.nicolalaye.com

If you want to work with Shari and learn more about Hypnobirthing and how to have a positive birth, contact Shari at www.belly2birth.com.au

If you are struggling after listening to this episode please contact the following resources you are not alone.

If you would like to follow Nadines story and life

www.instagram.com/nadinemuller/

PANDA

https://www.panda.org.au

1300 726 306

Australasian Birth Trauma Association

https://www.birthtrauma.org.au

The Gidget Foundation

https://gidgetfoundation.org.au

COPE - Perinatal Foundation

https://www.cope.org.au

For the Men the Dad’s

Dads Group -

https://www.dadsgroup.org

Birth Trauma is real and couple possibly affects 1 in 3 women. 

Birth trauma looks and feels different to every woman, birth partner and even birth workers.

In this episode, we wanted to create conversation and bring to light around birth trauma and so we invited Dr Erin Bowe into this conversation.

Dr Erin Bowe is a Clinical Psychologist and perinatal psychologist, and transformation coach for women. 

She has also previously taught childbirth education with Hypnobirthing Australia. She has 12+ years experience supporting families through the worst traumas imaginable, to find growth, strength and beautiful resilience they never knew possible. 

After experiencing her own birth trauma (twice!) she quickly learned how little support and training there is for our birth workers who hear and witness these stories every day.  From this, she developed two birth trauma training courses – one for parents, and one for birth workers. She has attracted over 1000 students in less than 6 months, so this speaks volumes to how much this work is needed.  

Her book, More than a Healthy Baby, is due for release in December. This is a beautiful, heartfelt call to action for families to not only find strength and growth after birth trauma but to become the guardians of change in birth culture for the next generation.

To work with Erin or to look at the support she can offer you through her courses visit her website https://doctorerin.com.au/

Follow Erin on Instagram @doctorerinbowe

To work with Shari Lyon and book an online Hypnobirthing Course CLICK HERE

To work with Nicola Laye or breathe with Nicola CLICK HERE

Kirby Hood from Olive Juice Lifestyle Photography is an award-winning birth Photographer and Doula.

In our chat with Kirby we talk about her role as a Doula and how she supports women and also we clear up some of the most common questions asked about Birth Photography... And no birth photography is not just about taking photos of your vagina.

Through the work Kirby does she is able to document the whole birth experience for families to look back on and reflect on the amazing moments.

If you live within the Brisbane, QLD Gold Coast area and want to connect with Kirby as a Doula or to photograph your birth you can follower her on Instagram @olivejuicelifestyle or website www.olivejuicelifestylephotography.com.au

Be sure to also follow Nicola and Shari:

Shari Lyon - @belly2birth or to book into an upcoming Hypnobirthing Online Course CLICK HERE

@nicola_laye or to breathe and work with Nicola CLICK HERE

In this podcast Shari & Nicola interview an inspiring Mumpreneur, Jenni Cauchi a formulator and founder of skin care range Blum, Brisbane born, a wife & mum of a beautiful little boy.

Jenni shares her life and the up’s and downs of trying to become a mum and breaking the stressful career path…

Jenni was thriving in her career as an Interior Designer, but working exhaustive hours in a high stress environment.

She was totally happy riding the adrenaline wave until it slapped Jenni in the face (so to speak) . I would most likely have to have IVF or assisted conception. I set out on a quest for answers, If I cannot do what I am fundamentally programmed to do as a woman then what on earth was I doing wrong?!

Jenni watched countless friends struggle with anxiety, depression, adrenal fatigue and infertility. Jenni was struggling with her own hormonal imbalances and set out on a quest to resolve them with the hope that one day she would be able to have children after many years of absent periods. Little did she know that she was embarking on a HUGE lifestyle overhaul to eventually land at the root cause of the problem – CORTISOL!

She then dove more and more into the ‘alternative’ lifestyle

And Blume was born……

Jenni products invites you to carve out the time to embrace self-love and quiet moments of reflection, creating a more conducive mindset for preconception, pregnancy and postpartum. Allowing every woman an opportunity to blūm.

Myself & Shari love introducing women to theses incredible experiences found within the products they truly are nurturing and is made with so much love.

Sit back and feel inspired… Jenni is such a beautiful soul

If you want to find out more information please see the link below to connect with Jenni and Blume

https://www.blumorganics.com.au/nurturehub

Today we are sharing a very special episode with you, in August this year we held two LIVE online Pregnancy Circles for over 1700 women from all over the world.

It this moment we realised how much women are needing connection and community from all over the world.

In this circle we cover breath safe for pregnancy and a fear release meditation, we hope you enjoy every moment of being in this circle.

To prepare for this circle, get into a relaxed space, undisturbed and ready to meditate and enjoy the feeling of being in circle with women from all over the world. We hope you love every moment of this live circle experience. This is an unedited recording of the LIVE. 

If you are looking to work with Nicola and Shari and gain more support, understand how to breathe in pregnancy/birth and beyond,  please visit her on www.nicolalaye.com

If you want to learn more about Hypnobirthing and how to breathe with your partner in birth, contact Shari www.belly2birth.com.au

Sit back and enjoy this episode.

This episode is an interview with Shari about her journey and life mission to empower women to have a positive birth. Shari’s passion for women is truly heart felt and Shari’s mission is to spread the word of positive birthing and that she truly believes that we all deserve to have a positive experience no matter how your baby comes into the world. 

Shari personally used the Hypnobirthing Australia™️  techniques during her own 2 births. Shari’s first and life-changing experience was with her son at a Birth Centre on the Gold Coast, Australia and her second in a beautiful home birth where she even filmed her birth for you to see her using the techniques she teaches within her current courses and so you can see just how amazing birth can be. 

Watch Shari’s birth by clicking here 

If you want to learn more about Hypnobirthing and are looking to work with Shari,  please visit her on https://www.belly2birth.com.au 

Work with Nicola to support you with Breath Work in pregnancy and apply for her upcoming pregnancy coaching programme  www.nicolalaye.com  

Our babies’ births are significant, creating imprints within their neurobiology and emotional life.

For our babies’ optimum development, for ourselves as parents, for the blessed unfolding of our lives together; we need to bring them in gently, with love.

Our responsibility as parents is to create the best possible circumstances, for them to have the gift of the most gentle, loving arrival possible.

We want to imprint our young, our future generations with love, not fear.

In this beautiful interview with Nicole Moore from 'Birth Into Being' and shares about how during our pregnancy we imprint our babies with our feelings and emotions and Nicole helps women understand what they can do to release any fears, worries, stress and anxiety during pregnancy.

You can find Nicole: www.birthintobeing.com.au

Follow Nicole on Instagram: @birthintobeing

In this episode, we are coaching a beautiful mum to be, Paris.  Paris is one of our Nurture Hub members and she is wanting some help and guidance with pre-birth nerves.  Paris Is about to welcome her next little Bub into the world and had the most amazing first birth experience but as she approaches this birth she is starting to compare, over think,  trying replicate this birth the be the same as the last.  We help Paris to let go of the fears, overthinking mind in this episode and focus on how to calm the mind, release the over the thinking with some great techniques.  

Join one of Shari's upcoming online Hypnobirthing courses by >>> clicking here 

 Or work with Nicola through her Breathing coaching pregnancy programmes by >>> clicking here

In this episode, we interview Mae't Pearson about her midwifery practice and her incredible support that she has continues to deliver to all women and families in the community. 

Mae't Pearson is a private practice midwife and Mum of three gorgeous children. She has a masters of midwifery and is a UK educated midwife. Maet has worked in tertiary hospitals, university lecturing, community midwifery and home and private practice. She is a director at It Takes a Village Midwifery and has trained as a spinning babies parent educator and Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner. 

With over 16 years working with pregnancy, birth and postnatal care Mae't is passionate about choice, empowerment and positive birth and parenting journeys. Mae't has a thriving centre that supports families in achieving their best birth and holds women at the centre of care. She specialises in undisturbed birth navigating through the system of maternity care to achieve the gold standard of continuity of midwifery care and positive experiences. If you would like to connect with Mae't contact her on https://www.ittakesavillagemidwifery.com 

We would love your feedback and thoughts on this episode so please leave a review for us and come and comment on our Instagram pages @belly2birth and @nicola_laye 

To book into a breathing workshop with Nicola Laye visit www.nicolalaye.com 

To book into a Childbirth education course online with Shari Lyon visit www.belly2birth.com.au 

In this episode, we are coaching a beautiful mum to be, Kate.  Kate is one of our Nurture Hub members and she is wanting support / coaching on how to engage in a calm & empowered conversation with her obstetrician around her needs and wants in her birth.   

Kate has gestational diabetes and her obstetrician is wanting to discuss a possible induction and Kate is needing some guidance with how to approach this situation.   

 Join one of Shari's upcoming online Hypnobirthing courses by >>> clicking here 

 Or work with Nicola through her Breathing coaching pregnancy programmes by >>> clicking here