This week on Parents You've Got This - The Expert Guide to Parenthood we are discussing bullying. This is a big word - and a loaded one - and something that as a parent, you never want your child to experience.

Bullying behaviour can take numerous forms, from verbal teasing to physical threats, exclusion, mean comments, online threats, or malicious posts or messages in chat groups. It is intentional, repetitive and reflective of a power imbalance.

We welcome our Child Psychologist Dr Deirdre Brandner to help us all navigate this tricky topic and provide us with a tool kit to help our children build the skills and resilience they need if they see or experience bullying behaviour. 

We discuss:

- Bullying happens in different ways, shapes and forms. What actually counts as bullying?

- What are some signs that your child may be experiencing bullying

- We don't always know when our child is being bullied. Why it can be hard for our child to tell us?

- If you suspect your child is being bullied, Deirdre shares suggestions to help your child to open up, especially if they keep saying “I'm fine”

- What a parent should say or do if their child opens up to them and says that they are being bullied 

- How to maintain trust with your child if they don't want you to speak with the teacher or the child’s parents but you know they can't make the bullying stop

- How role play can be used to give your child some phrases to respond to a bully

- The best way to advocate for your child without escalating the situation

- If your child is the one doing the bullying, how do you best handle this

- How online bullying should be treated and if it is a different approach to in person bullying

- How to tell if your child needs professional support
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This week on Parents You've Got This - The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast we are talking about speech and language development in babies and children.

From first words to full sentences there is nothing more magic than hearing your little one talk for the first time. Equally it can be really challenging if your child has difficulties speaking and communicating. 

Joining us this week as we interview Speech Pathologist Danielle Swinnerton who shares her practical tips to help support your child's speech development. 

We discuss:

- What is considered normal speech development for babies and young children

- When should we expect our child to begin talking

- The first sounds/words your baby may make

- Key milestones when it comes to speech in a baby, toddler and preschooler

- When a parent should be concerned if their child is not talking

- Danielle's tips to help your child develop their speech 

- Common sounds which children find more difficult to say

- Lifestyle factors which could be impacting your child's speech

- Do dummies and screen time impact your child's ability to talk

- When a speech therapist might be a good idea for your child

- Do speech delays resolve on their own or do parents need to seek support

- What a typical speech therapy consult entails

- Bilingual parents - the impact on a child's language and speech development

- Tips for children who have stutters or lisps 

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It is only natural to feel stressed and a little fearful of giving birth, especially when everyone seems to tell you how much it is going to hurt and random strangers walk up to you in the supermarket to tell you their horror birth story.

Don't worry; this week's episode of Parents You’ve Got This: The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast will dive into how to reduce stress during labour and birth with our Midwife and Positive Birth Expert Narelle Tsiros

This episode will help you feel less stressed and more confident as you get closer to meeting your baby.

In this week's episode, we discuss:

- Narelle's top tips to reduce stress in labour.

- How to prepare your home to help reduce stress during labour 

- Why a hospital dry run, a birth bag packed and a full tank if petrol can help reduce stress

- Practical tips to ensure your bed and car are protected from amniotic fluid & reduce the stress of the mess

- How understanding the birth process can help reduce stress

- How understanding your birth choices can help avoid stress on the day

- How to reduce stress in the birth suite and turn a hospital room into a birthing sanctuary 

- How breathing, conection and oxytocin and weapons againts stress and how to harness these tools in labour and birth 

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This week on Parents You’ve Got This The Expert Guide to Parenthood we are talking about IVF - what it is, the reasons that you might need or consider IVF, and what exactly is involved. 

There are so many questions and emotions surrounding this topic. Even though IVF has helped more than 12 million people around the world grow their families, it is a deeply personal topic.

We are excited to welcome our IVF and Fertility Expert Dr Hector Georgiou into the podcast studio to help us all better understand this topic.

We discuss:

- What is IVF is

- How IVF works

- Who IVF is typically recommended for

- At what point patients should move from trying naturally to trying IVF

- What is involved in a typical IVF cycle

- What patients can expect physically and emotionally during a IVF cycle

- The typical success rates for IVF

- The factors which come into play when discussing success rates of IVF

- Potential risk factors with IVF

- Dr Hector's tips for coping with the uncertainty of having IVF

- If IVF pregnancies higher risk

- What happens to unused embryos

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Could your child have a food allergy?

In this episode of Parents You’ve Got This - The Expert Guide to Parenthood, we're covering Allergies in Children, a topic which affects many families. Joining us in the podcast studio is Dietitian Karman Liu from Happy Bellies Nutrition, who will break down the facts about allergies and give you the confidence to navigate allergies as a parent.

So, whether you are dealing with a recent diagnosis or just want to be prepared, this episode is packed with essential insights every parent needs to know about allergies in children. 

We discuss:

- Why food allergies have become more common

- The percentage of children experiencing food allergies

- What the 9 common allergens are

- The most common ages food allergy symptoms appear

- How to introduce allergens to your child

- Are food allergies hereditary? Or are children more likely to have a food allergy if their parents do?

- What are the symptoms children experience if they have a food allergy?

- How to tell the difference between an intolerance and an allergy

- How allergies affect children

- What is involved in food allergy testing 

- Karman's view and thoughts on commercial allergen starter packs on the market

- Rashes and other reactions

- Anaphylaxis

- What Karman wants all parents to know about food allergens and children

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Friends have to be one of the best things about life and our childhoods, but it can be incredibly hard as a parent to watch your child navigate friendships.

If you see your child being left out or dealing with friendship drama, we just want to be able to fix it for them, but should we? We are excited to have Psychologist Deirdre Brandner back on the podcast to help us unpack how friendships develop through childhood and how we can support our children along the way.

In this episode we discuss: 

- Navigating friends in the early years from kindy, to primary school to high school 

- The role of the parent in helping children navigate friendships

- If a child comes home with a friendship issue, what is the best approach for a parent to take

- Some common mistakes parents make when trying to help their child navigate a tricky friendship situation

- Deirdre's tips if your child isn't making friends

- What you can do to support your child make friends

- Tips for parents if your child has chosen a friend that you don't like

- If there is a "normal” level of friendship drama that parents can expect their child to go through 

- If there is a particular gender more likely to experience friendship drama over another

- Sometimes little ones will come home and say ‘no one played with me’. Deirdre shares her advice on what we should say if they say this

- Deirdre's advice for parents wanting to help their child build friendship skills

- Do playdates and birthday parties help to build children's friendship circles or can they make them feel more left out?

- What to do if you see your child’s behaviour dramatically change as a result of hanging out with a child whose family may have different values to your family.

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The rate of growth of your child over the early years is quite extraordinary; they really do grow before your eyes. During this time, they have key growth spurts and can experience painful growing pains.

This week on Parents You've Got This - The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast, we welcome back our Paediatrician Expert Dr Lexi Frydenberg to talk about growth spurts and growing pains and to share her expertise on when these occur and how you can help give your little one some relief.

We discuss:

- What a growth spurt is 

- The key ages when children experience growth spurts or mini growth spurts

- Key growth spurt stages - Infancy, Toddler and Early Childhood, and Puberty

- How girls and boys differ in their growth timetable 

- Signs your child is going through a growth spurt

- When boys and girls typically stop growing

- What is a growth pain? Do children actually feel themselves growing?

- If your child wakes in the middle of the night crying out in pain are they likely to be experiencing growing pains?

- What causes growth pains?

- Symptoms of growth pains

- How common growth pains are

- Key ages children will experience growth pains

- Key body parts where your child may experiences growth pains

- Dr Lexi recommends specific treatments or strategies which can be used to help provide relief

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Want to become a Mum but haven't met the right person yet? Or would you prefer to have a child on your own? How do you go about making your dream a reality and what might you need to consider along the way?

This week on Parents You've Got This - The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast, we welcome Alisha Burns, founder of the Solo Mum Society who has done just that - become a mama on her own - and geared her life around helping other women to do the same. If this is something that you have ever considered or you want to feel inspired by her incredible journey, then this is the episode for you.

In this episode Alisha shares: 

- Her journey to become a Solo Mama by Choice

- Recommendations around the first steps to take if you think you may like to be a solo mama

- Insights into sperm donation and how to go about selecting and acquiring sperm 

- Tips on how to navigate the cost of being a solo parent

- How do you know if being a solo parent is the right choice for you?

- The best parts of being a solo parent

- The hardest part of being a solo parent

- What people don't tell you about being a solo parent

- One of the biggest worries for a solo parent is that they are robbing their child of another parent. Alisha shares her thoughts around this and what her community of solo parents and kids think

- Advice for tackling negative comments people may make if you decide to become a solo parent

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Do you have a picky eater? Is every mealtime stressful?

Don't worry, we have you covered with this episode of Parents You've Got This - The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast

Feeding Difficulties in Children: Expert Help for Picky Eaters, Food Refusal & Mealtime Stress.

This week's topic can be surprisingly complex for families. Food can be one of life's greatest pleasures, but if you have a little one who finds food challenging, it can become a daily battle.

From picky eaters to food refusal, difficulties chewing and swallowing, or other feeding challenges, these can all be really stressful for parents and family mealtimes.

To help with feeding and mealtime challenges, we welcome Nicole Wu, Speech Pathologist and Co-Founder of Learn to Eat Love to Eat, to the podcast chair.

We discuss:

- What the role of a speech therapist is when it comes to feeding and mealtime challenges

- When parents should start to be concerned about their child

- How do we know if it is developmentally normal to refuse food- Some children have a very limited number of foods they are happy to eat.

-Nicole shares her tips on how to increase your child’s food variety

- Signs your child may be having difficulties with swallowing

- Food texture struggles and Nicole's tips to help

- Gagging 

- Dribbling. What’s normal, and when to see a speech therapist about excessive dribbling

- Nicole's Top Tips to make mealtime more fun

- What an assessment looks like for fussy eating 

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This week we welcome back our Paediatrician Expert Dr Lexi Frydenberg to help us understand what tests are routinely conducted when your baby is born.

When your newborn arrives, they undergo a series of tests to ensure they are fit and healthy or to see if any interventions are necessary for their health. In this week's episode we unpack exactly what those tests are and what's involved.

We discuss:

- The APGAR test - what it is and how your baby is scored 1 minute after being born and again at 5 minutes

- What the 5 key components of the APGAR score are

- Why a scale is used for the APGAR score and what it means for your baby if they are given a low score

- When your baby is born your baby will be checked head to toe to ensure everything is as it should be. We discuss in detail the examination of the baby's heart and lungs, hips, eyes, and spine

- Why oxygen saturation is checked and how this is tested

- The Heel Prick test - what the test is, how the test is conducted and what potential serious disorders are screened for 

- Newborn hearing tests - what is involved, and why it is tested in hospital

- We discuss newborn immunisations (Vitamin K and Hepatitis B) and why you might consider these

- Dr Lexi shares her tips and tricks to help babies and parents with newborn screening tests.

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