Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond

By PBB Media Incorporated

What's Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond about?

Pregnancy Birth & Beyond where stories, science, traditions and new ideas meet. We work and live on Bundjalung Country, Australia.Visit us at www.pbbmedia.org

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Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond episodes:

03.25.2024
In The Life of Two Midwifery Students, Xanthe and Tallulah
In this episode, Oni Blecher interviews Tallulah and Xanthe. Both are Bachelor of Midwifery students in the final year of their studies. Tallulah grew up on Bundjalung Country and was immersed in a community that favoured an integrative approach to...
03.14.2024
Gentle Traditional Medicine with Naomi Jansson
In this episode, Oni Blecher interviews Naomi Jannson. With over 20 years of experience as a health professional, Naomi weaves a wealth of expertise from diverse healthcare settings to provide clinical care and education. Naomi inherited a strong relationship with...
02.22.2024
Born at Home Film with Amanda Banks
In this epsiode, Oni Blecher speaks with Amanda Banks, co creator and producer of the new film Born at Home. Empowered by the homebirth of her second child in 2020, Amanda, together with long term dear friend Eleanor, set out...
01.11.2024
Breastfeeding and Postpartum: Navigating Transition with Dr. Michelle Gerbi
In this interview, Oni Blecher interviews Dr Michelle Gerbi. With a background as a chiropractor, perinatal health coach, functional medicine provider, certified perinatal health coach, postpartum corrective exercise specialist, and international board-certified lactation consultant, Michelle has had the privilege of...
12.10.2023
Dr. Howard Chilton: Baby's Brains and Responsive Parenting
Public Service Announcement: Would you like to support us ? We are raising money for our NFP and podcast to obtain an office space and podcast recording studio for 2024. Our goal is $10, 000 AUD and any donation big...
11.29.2023
Yin and Taoist approaches to parenthood with Tahnee Taylor
In this episode, Oni Blecher speaks with Tahnee Taylor. Tahnee is a yoga teacher with a deep and resonant love of Yin Yoga and how it meets the alchemical magic of Taoism. She is also a practitioner of Chi Nei...
11.16.2023
Pelvic Physio: Optimising Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum with Ruth Schubert
In this episode, Oni Blecher speaks with Ruth Schubert. Ruth is a physiotherapist for 20 years. She Schubert is inspired to help her clients lead a beautiful life. She believes in building resilience through developing a strong body and calm...
11.10.2023
Twin Life with Natalie Woods
In today's episode, Oni Blecher speaks with Natalie Woods. Natalie Woods is a twin mother to two boys, River and Jarrah. She lives in the Northern Rivers with her partner Dan. She’s also a writer and community builder, which has...
10.30.2023
Stillbirth: A Father's Story, with Nyck Jeanes
In this interview, Oni speaks with local father Nyck Jeanes. Nyck is also a musician, producer, independent journalist, and as one close friend describes him; a social engineer; he’s out to help change the way we relate to one another,...
10.25.2023
Parenting As Social Activism with Robin Grille
Robin Grille Is a psychotherapist, psychologist, author, mentor, speaker, and educator. His work seeks to restore relationships to their natural flow and balance: include family relationships, partnerships, workplace relationships, and relationship to self. His work enlivens relationship to vocation, to...
09.23.2023
Motherhood: Holding it Tenderly with Jacqui Lewis
This episode is a conversation between Oni Blecher and Jacqui Lewis. Jacqui Lewis is a meditation teacher, mentor, an author of four books, a Tedx Speaker, and hosts leadership programs globally. She co-founded The Broad Place, a global school sharing...
08.03.2023
Samantha Neal: In Deep Relationship with The Menstrual Cycle
In this episode, Oni Blecher brings you an interview with menstrual educator Samantha Neal.Samantha has been working for over six years, contributing to the field of menstruation by way of workshops, comprehensive online education programs, private mentorship and circle facilitation....
07.09.2023
Jane Hardwicke Collings: Bringing Birth Trauma Out of the Dungeons
In this Episode, Oni Blecher interviews Jane Hardwicke Collings. Jane has spent decades in the realms of birth education and ther wider work of reconnecting women with their sacred rites of passage. Jane started and runs the School of Shamanic...
07.05.2023
Rhea Dempsey on BayFM's Make a Change show
Dione from Make a Change on BayFM interviews Rhea Dempsey and Sally Cusack on birth trauma and related events coming up in the region for #birthtraumaawarenessweek 16 - 22 July 2023.Rhea Dempsey, childbirth educator, counsellor and author, will be in...
06.13.2023
Tane Luna: Evolving Obstetrics
In Today's episode, Oni Blecher will be interviewing Tane Luna, A Spanish obstetrician that is working as the head os Obstetrics at Lismore Base Hospital. Tane has had vast experience working in many models of care, including a period of...
05.26.2023
Researcher Alysha-leigh Fameli: PTSD in Birth
This epsiode is a conversation between Annalee Atia and Alysha-leigh Fameli. Alysha-leigh is PhD student/Registered Psychologist University of Sydney. Alicia-leigh has already undertaken important research to recognise childbirth related PTSD and it's impact on the early mother-infant relationship. She has...
10.21.2022
What's IVF like? With Holly Rankin-Smith
In this episode, host Rose Ricketson talks with community development worker Holly, about her experience with IVF in Australia. Holly shares a very personal IVF journey that impacted every corner of her life, shedding light upon a very common experience,...
09.10.2022
Birth After Caesarean with Hazel Keedle
Rose Ricketson talks with Hazel Keedle, PhD, Lecturer of Midwifery at Western Sydney University and author of her recently released book Birth after Caesarean: Your Journey to a Better Birth. They discuss her research and findings around VBAC in Australia,...
08.31.2022
When Midwives give Birth. New reserach with Sharon Stoliar
It would be reasonable to assume that the care one provides is the care one would be happy to receive. But this is not what new research reveals. Today on Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond Annalee Atia speaks with Sharon Stoliar...
08.22.2022
Rural maternity care with Catherine Bell
Today our host Rose is chatting with Catherine Bell about the need for better maternity care for rural women, consent and communication in maternity care, the need for rural midwives and policy change, and more. Catherine Bell is the Birth...
08.09.2022
The Realities of Single Motherhood with Klyne Love
Today's episode is with Klyne Love, who shares generously about her experience with single motherhood throughout floods, housing crises and a lot of grief. Despite being a heavy topic, Klyne has a spirit of hope and optimism and holds a...
08.01.2022
'Birth Time' in Retrospect With Jerusha Sutton
Jerusha Sutton is a doula, birth videographer, actor, and recently, one of the faces behind the documentary 'Birth Time'.In this episode, Oni Blecher speaks with Jerusha about life since Birth Time; what's happening in the Birth Time movement and where...
07.25.2022
Longform episode: Maternal Mental Health
Welcome to Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond! Today we bring you a special podcast recorded in May 2020 for World Maternal Mental Health day. Birth Trauma Awareness week 2022 just concluded with a powerful theme this year on Birth Injuries. Our...
07.04.2022
'Parturescence' and the birth of a parent with midwife Ella Kurz
Dr Ella Kurz is a midwife from Ngunnawal Country in the ACT.Today we chat through her work in maternal and child health research at the University of Canberra, as well the term 'parturescence' she coined in her PhD to refer...
06.20.2022
Maternal eco-psychology with Allison Davis
Allison Davis joins us today from New Mexico, USA. Allison is a counsellor, educator and researcher of maternal mental health. Today we discuss the ecological domain of matrescence - learning to approach the challenges and struggles with a viewpoint of...
06.07.2022
Down to Birth Midwifery with Sarah Smits
Today's guest is Sarah Smits, who joins us from Lake Atitlan in Guatemala where she is learning traditional Mayan practices. Sarah is a home birth midwife, lactation consultant and body worker who incorporates her experience of travelling the world and...
06.07.2022
Sera Smitten - Down To Birth Midwifery.
Today's guest is Sera Smitten, who joins us from Lake Atitlan in Guatemala where she is learning traditional Mayan practices. Sarah is a home birth midwife, lactation consultant and body worker who incorporates her experience of travelling the world and...
03.08.2022
Northern Rivers Devastating floods and the heartening Community Response
Hi out there to our listeners, its Annalee. It is Tuesday, 8th of March in 2022. We are bringing you a special bulletin on the catastrophic flooding in Northern NSW, Australia. In the early hours of Monday 27th February, a...
01.12.2022
A vagina in the house. Motherhood, blended parenting, painful & vital talk and love with Lissie Turner
Lissie Turner is our guest today on Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond. Lissie is a mother, blended family parent, foster carer, grandmother and an accomplished radio host and producer in the music industry. She is the creator of several renowned Yoga...
12.23.2021
Midwifery in Private Practice, Mothers & Babies report and deskilling in Maternity Care
Midwifery in Private Practice, Mothers & Babies 2021, March of Midwives and deskilling in Maternity CareIn this episode of Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond, we catch up with privately practicing Australian Midwives Astra Joynt and Sunae Reilly. We chat deskilling in...
11.30.2021
Maternity Choices In The Time of COVID with Annalee Atia From Maternity Choices Australia and Nadine Richardson from SheBirths
This is a special edition interview coming from the SheBirths podcast ! In this conversation, Annalee Atia from Maternity Choices Australia and PBB Media speaks with Nadine Richardson about how adverse times can further inspire us to commit to being...
10.12.2021
Revolutionising Home Birth with Dr Melanie Jackson
During this pandemic, there has been a huge increase in the demand for home birth in Australia and private practicing midwives are being flooded with calls from women and birthing people looking to birth outside of the hospital system. However,...
06.02.2021
Eva Rose: A Life in Birth
In this episode, Oni Blecher interviews Eva Rose. Eva Rose is an internationally renowned Norwegian birth photographer, videographer, documentary filmmaker, doula, and by virtue of all of these things; an activist for many birth issues. Eva is a third generation...
05.21.2021
The Grave Impact of Maternity Care Meconium Policies on Women.
It’s 21st May, 2021 and some months back I caught up with Tori Heath, mother of four with a background in psychology, who has worked in child protection and executive recruitment. We meet to recount the story of her first...
04.27.2021
Birth Experiences Study: The Biggest of its Kind! What is it and how to get involved.
If you are someone that understands how important maternity care and the perinatal period are for mother, baby, family and community health and wellbeing, tune in today to learn about vital new research into mothers experiences of maternity healthcare and...
04.22.2021
Reclaiming the Rebozo with Mayte Acolt and Montse Olmos
In March 2021 Totonaca Indigenous birth companions Montse Olmos and Mayte Acolt started a petition titled 'Removing Rebozo Teachings From Doula Trainings'. It was a call to the international birth community and large training organisations, to stop their participation in...
04.06.2021
Optimising Menstrual Health and Fertility; an Ayurvedic Perspective
In this conversation, Oni Blecher speaks with Dylan Smith. Dylan Smith is a certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and holistic health educator based in Sydney, Australia, where he runs and operates the Vital Veda clinic for patients and for those who love...
03.30.2021
PBB Bulletin - Improving Maternity Care in Australia with Alecia Staines
PBB Special Bulletin/Interview with Alecia Staines, Director of Maternity Consumer NetworkIf you are tuning in from Australia, this is an important message to women, people, families and community members accessing maternity healthcare services. A federal election is coming up and...
03.17.2021
Beyond the Birth Plan: Getting Real About Pain and Power
In this podcast episode, Oni Blecher speaks to Rhea Dempsey about her recent book launch of 'Beyond the Birth Plan, Getting Real About Pain and Power'. Rhea Demspsey is a childbirth educator, counsellor, doula trainer, and birth attendant, having attended...
03.01.2021
The Subtle Realms of Birth and Babies with Craniosacral teacher Etienne Perisman
In this episode, Oni Blecher speaks with Etienne Peirsman. Etienne is a biology and physical education teacher who has been involved with emotional training, encounter work, primal healing and meditation since 1974. He began teaching craniosacral in 1991, and founded...
02.14.2021
Nappy Free with Nicole Moore
Nicole Moore, founder of Nappy Free and Birth Into Being Australia, speaks about her passion for nappy free or elimination communication for babies.Recorded by Sally Cusack in March 2019.Presented by Kirilly Dawn at 99.9 BayFM Byron Bay on 24 June...
02.11.2021
Our Kids Belong With Family with Rärriwuy Hick
In this episode, Kirilly speaks with Rärriwuy Hick, Yolngu woman, actress, artist, storyteller and the founder of Our Kids Belong With Family - a campaign which she started on 13th February 2017, after her nephews were forcibly removed by Territory...
02.04.2021
The Art of Listening to your Body with Jin Ong
In this interview, Oni Blecher speaks with Jin Ong. Jin Ong is an Osteopath, Psychosomatic Therapist, Personal & Practitioner Coach. Jin lives and works with her partner and children in the beautiful lakeside town of Wanaka, New Zealand. In the...
01.25.2021
Birth Sovereignty Panel
What does birth sovereignty, and decolonising the maternity care system, look and feel like? How does the current patriarchal birth culture impact First Nations women and marginalised communities? How can we re-imagine a birth culture that centres and supports women...
01.18.2021
Reducing the C-section Rate, Equitable and Safe Maternity Care with Dr Neel Shah
“If your c-section is high that means that you’re not supporting people in labour, that’s just a fact.” - Dr Neel ShahA cesarean section, or c-section is the most performed major surgery on the planet, it is also...
01.05.2021
The Birth Matrix with Craniosacral Teacher Hugh Milne
In this episode, Oni Blecher speaks with Hugh Milne. Hugh Milne is a third-generation Scottish osteopath and now craniosacral teacher and educator through his self-founded education body, ‘Milne Institute’. He spends most of professional time teaching visionary craniosacral work internationally....
12.15.2020
Maternity advocacy and maternal wellbeing with Mother and Consumer Rep Helena Mooney
Around the country and indeed around the world hustling and cajoling, therein the complex webs of healthcare and community lie dedicated individuals and organisations working tirelessly to improve services. There always have been and I suspect, there always will be....
12.13.2020
Evolutionary Gynaecology: Tending to your root.
In this episode, Oni Blecher speaks to Muse Lokajickova. Muse practices revolutionary care for the generative systems also known as evolutionary gynaecology. Muse has 15 years of hands-on practice weaving tools from western herbalism, indigenous medicine, and classical Chinese medicine....
11.22.2020
The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made
Fiona Katauskas is a cartoonist, illustrator, and author of “The Amazing True Stories of How Babies Are Made’, a children’s book about conception, and childbirth that is relevant to our current social word. Fiona once studied politics at the...
11.16.2020
The Herstory of Midwifery, Reclaiming Midwifery Expertise and Rights of Protection with Dr Rachel Reed
In this episode of Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond, Annalee Atia speaks with Dr Rachel Reed about the history and her story of midwifery and its evolution to the modern day midwife, UK & Australian differences in practice and care both...

What's Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond episodes:

In The Life of Two Midwifery Students, Xanthe and Tallulah

Gentle Traditional Medicine with Naomi Jansson

Born at Home Film with Amanda Banks

Breastfeeding and Postpartum: Navigating Transition with Dr. Michelle Gerbi

Dr. Howard Chilton: Baby's Brains and Responsive Parenting

Yin and Taoist approaches to parenthood with Tahnee Taylor

Pelvic Physio: Optimising Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum with Ruth Schubert

Twin Life with Natalie Woods

Stillbirth: A Father's Story, with Nyck Jeanes

Parenting As Social Activism with Robin Grille

Motherhood: Holding it Tenderly with Jacqui Lewis

Samantha Neal: In Deep Relationship with The Menstrual Cycle

Jane Hardwicke Collings: Bringing Birth Trauma Out of the Dungeons

Rhea Dempsey on BayFM's Make a Change show

Tane Luna: Evolving Obstetrics

Researcher Alysha-leigh Fameli: PTSD in Birth

What's IVF like? With Holly Rankin-Smith

Birth After Caesarean with Hazel Keedle

When Midwives give Birth. New reserach with Sharon Stoliar

Rural maternity care with Catherine Bell

The Realities of Single Motherhood with Klyne Love

'Birth Time' in Retrospect With Jerusha Sutton

Longform episode: Maternal Mental Health

'Parturescence' and the birth of a parent with midwife Ella Kurz

Maternal eco-psychology with Allison Davis

Down to Birth Midwifery with Sarah Smits

Sera Smitten - Down To Birth Midwifery.

Northern Rivers Devastating floods and the heartening Community Response

A vagina in the house. Motherhood, blended parenting, painful & vital talk and love with Lissie Turner

Midwifery in Private Practice, Mothers & Babies report and deskilling in Maternity Care

Maternity Choices In The Time of COVID with Annalee Atia From Maternity Choices Australia and Nadine Richardson from SheBirths

Revolutionising Home Birth with Dr Melanie Jackson

Eva Rose: A Life in Birth

The Grave Impact of Maternity Care Meconium Policies on Women.

Birth Experiences Study: The Biggest of its Kind! What is it and how to get involved.

Reclaiming the Rebozo with Mayte Acolt and Montse Olmos

Optimising Menstrual Health and Fertility; an Ayurvedic Perspective

PBB Bulletin - Improving Maternity Care in Australia with Alecia Staines

Beyond the Birth Plan: Getting Real About Pain and Power

The Subtle Realms of Birth and Babies with Craniosacral teacher Etienne Perisman

Nappy Free with Nicole Moore

Our Kids Belong With Family with Rärriwuy Hick

The Art of Listening to your Body with Jin Ong

Birth Sovereignty Panel

Reducing the C-section Rate, Equitable and Safe Maternity Care with Dr Neel Shah

The Birth Matrix with Craniosacral Teacher Hugh Milne

Maternity advocacy and maternal wellbeing with Mother and Consumer Rep Helena Mooney

Evolutionary Gynaecology: Tending to your root.

The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made

The Herstory of Midwifery, Reclaiming Midwifery Expertise and Rights of Protection with Dr Rachel Reed