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This episode is about the air we breathe, particularly during pregnancy. Bex Bolland from Global Action Plan has some great tips for avoiding air pollution, and Mark chats with Francine Bates, CEO of the Lullaby Trust, about the risks of smoking.
This episode is about motherhood in the media, we chatted about the influence of new and old media on feelings around childbirth, and we interviewed Emma Culley-Morgan who talked about Hollywood representations of childbirth.
Sprogcast 18 includes a chat with Clare Goggin about gentle caesarean birth, a discussion of some of the interesting things that have been in the news, and Mark and Karen get into a fight over terminology.
Karen and Hall and Mark harris talk to midwives Denis Walsh and Natalie Corden, and chat about the latest news and research.
Presented by Karen Hall. This episode features discussion of infant feeding, and breastfeeding support. We talk to Maureen Minchin, Karen reports back from the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers conference, and we have a bonus interview from there with Heather Trickey.
In Sprogcast 14 we're talking Sex and Relationships, a bit of orgasmic birth, and an interview with agony aunt Petra Boynton.
In this episode we look at emerging research about the human microbiome, and talk to author Toni Harman, and student midwife Natalie Corden. Mark and Karen also discuss women's right to request a caesarean birth, and new guidance to reduce stillbirth.
Hosted by Karen Hall and Mark Harris, features Attachment Parenting, interviews from the Doula UK conference, and Kangaroo Care.
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Sprogcast was an independent podcast about birth, pregnancy and early parenthood, hosted by Karen Hall and Mark Harris, and sponsored by Pinter & Martin. It ran from 2015 to 2020.