Saint Majella

In todays episode we turn the spotlight onto the dads - we interview our partners Nick and Tim and ask them their thoughts on fatherhood, shifts in relationships and their sense of identify. At times we were surprised by their answers, at other times we had predicted their responses perfectly - but they definitely had us laughing and hopefully will encourage a giggle from you too. Also an apology from us; this episode kept getting interrupted by our children, but hey that’s parentin...

In the 14th Episode of Saint Majella, we have a very special guest, Hannah Oppy. She is a mother, midwife and nurse that works in a tertiary hospital in Melbourne caring for women with significant mental health issues, drug and alcohol addiction, adolescents and women with intellectual Disabilities. Hannah's role encompasses the antenatal and immediate postpartum time. We chatted to Hannah about the support available, identifying mental illness, myth-busted about medication in pregnancy ...

In this episode we meet with Tessa Weadman, a paediatric speech pathologist. Tessa has a Bachelor of Health Sciences and a Master of Speech pathology. She is currently completing her PhD part-time and will finish towards the beginning of next year. She works as a speech pathologist in Melbourne with preschool and school-aged children.We chat about stutters, tongue, lip and cheek ties, the interference of dummies and thumb sucking and heaps more. There is also a tonne of useful informatio...

Today we speak with Alex Sinickas - engineer, mother and creator of Milkdrop breast pump silicone cushions. Alex experienced a traumatic start to motherhood with a stillbirth at 20 weeks and openly shares her dark journey through grief and how it has shaped her today. Becoming a mother to daughter Greta, Alex then struggled with breastfeeding and pumping which led her to create a product to empower breastfeeding women. Alex is super clever and gave us a different perspective on motherho...

In this weeks episode we chat with Amy (known as @bushrat_ in the instagram world), a birthkeeper (doula) who works with home birth and freebirthing families in northern NSW. A mama of three beautiful babes all born at home: Sylvester (6), Essie (2) and Solomon (5 months). Amy experienced a wild pregnancy and freebirth with her son Solomon and it was easily the most incredible experience in her life. She talks through her three births and also shares her experience of a lotus birth.SHOW NOTES...

This weeks episode we are turning the spotlight back to us, to Mel & Cel. As most of Australia, including Victoria is in lockdown, we’re unable to meet with the lovely guests we have lined up for you. On our instagram we asked you what you wanted to chat to us about, what you wanted to ask us both and your questions definitely got us talking! Listen in to hear our answers: what we plan for in our upcoming births, our fears, our relationships, how to keep love alive, what equal...

In this weeks episode we catch up with Rachel Maksimovic; single mama and self employed boss bitch who wrangles two year old Lenny and full-time work SOLO. Rachel shares her beautiful water birth story and the challenges and joys of being a single mama. We get along so well with Rachel who is such an intuitive and inspiring mother, we just know you'll love her too.Our chat was interrupted by a family emergency, which was captured during the recording: Celeste's daughter Mazzy was having a low...

In this week’s episode of the Saint Majella Podcast we speak to Jossie from @playrightsleeptight. Jossie is a woman of many talents; a nurse and midwife, mother of two AND sleep and settling enthusiast. In this episode Joss gives us so much holistic wisdom around sleep, settling, parenting and play and how they all interact together. You, the listeners, sent in many questions and Joss helps us answer them in the least polarising way. You can also find Jossie on insta @playrightsleeptigh...

In today’s episode, we meet with Emma Park, a passionate Functional Medicine Nutritionist that believes wholeheartedly in the power of Food as Medicine. Creator of ‘The first 1000 days’ which focuses on optimising the health and wellbeing of new humans from conception to 2yrs of age. Emma’s website offers self paced online programs for mums and dads to have backstage access to her magical brain, as well as a free online facebook community. Em is a gut microbiome wizard and we LOVED...

Kirilly Dawn is a Barkindji woman, a full spectrum doula, birth advocate and somatic movement instructor that resides in Byron Bay. She also co-hosts an informative podcast called Pregnancy Birth and Beyond. In this inspirational episode we learn about Kirilly's role as a doula. We chat about orgasmic birth and how this is possible for a birthing person in any setting, as long as they are in their safe place. Kirilly shares her insight on being culturally sensitive to an indigenous birt...