Happy Tuesday! Third time's a charm seems to ring true for Kaitlyn as she shares her story of birthing her third baby boy, Banjo. 

From VBAC dreams to a planned c-section, juggling pregnancy with toddlers and renovating Kaitlyn discusses the power of your birthing team when delivering after birth trauma. 

We discuss: 

- the profound impact of an intentional fourth trimester

- postpartum recovery after c-section

- c-section stigma

- waiting until the 'safe' 12 week mark to share your pregnancy 

Kaitlyn has experienced a vaginal delivery, emergency caesarean and now planned caesarean so this episode is full to the brim of experience, wisdom and amazing take aways. 

You can follow Kaitlyn @holding__mama

Emma @emmagray_____

and email us [email protected]

www.thesuiteset.com

www.srchealth.com/products/src-recovery-shorts 

www.cadenshae.com.au 

Recent research shows us that one third of parents don’t know how to safely sleep their baby. 

This Friday 13th August 2021 is the 33rd year of Red Nose Day raising critical funds for Red Nose Australia. Since Red Nose Australia was founded they have seen a 85% reduction in SIDS and raised over $18 million for life saving research.

Join Emma and Kaitlyn as we speak with Red Nose Australia's chief midwife Jane Wiggill. We discuss what are the critical things every parent should know about safe sleeping and safer pregnancy and how we as parents can reduce the risk of SIDS and stillbirth.

9 babies die everyday in Australia in 2021, help Red Nose achieve 0 deaths a day by listening to this conversation, continuing the conversation and making a donation this Red Nose Day.

You can find Red Nose on the following links

https://rednose.org.au/section/safe-sleeping

https://rednose.org.au/article/what-does-sudden-unexpected-death-in-infancy-sudi-mean

https://rednosegriefandloss.org.au/

www.rednoseday.org.au/donate 

Find Emma and Kaitlyn

www.instagram.com/emmagray_____

www.instagram.com/holding__mama

This episode of the podcast is sponsored by the incredible Second Scout

www.instagram.com/secondscoutau

www.secondscout.com.au

Join Emma and Kaitlyn in episode 30 of The Nurtured Village Podcast who interview the beautiful Tazz Wright. Tazz is a mum of 5 ranging from 16 to 6 month old twins. We are passionate about using this platform to have authenic and raw conversations, as we say, 'with inspiring individuals in parenthood', we don't think it gets any more authentic than our conversation with Tazz. Tazz shares her traumatic birth story, her struggle with mental health and body dysmorphia and her motherhood journey. 

This one isn't one to miss. We do include trigger warnings in this episode if you're not up for listening about topics including mental health and birth trauma you may want to leave this episode for another time 

https://www.panda.org.au/

https://www.lifeline.org.au/

https://www.cope.org.au/

https://www.birthtrauma.org.au/

@tazzwright

• signs of readiness
• letting children take the lead
• regressions
• toilet training neurodiverse children 
• night training and so much more 

It's been 12 months since we launched the podcast so we thought we'd do a little anniversary bonus episode to celebrate. We speak about our favourite bits and guests of the last 27 episodes, the future of the podcast and The Nurtured Village Hampers. 

@emmagray_____

@holding__mama 

@thenurturedvillagehampers

www.thenurturedvillage.com

Join Emma and Kaitlyn in episode 27 of the podcast where we chat with mum and registered psychologist Carly Jayet. Carly shares her personal and professional experience of grief and parenting in the episode. 

In reality, each of us with grieve and parent and Carly speaks about how we can do this for ourselves and in the best way, for our children. 

We discuss: 

- how to find the time to grieve with young children

- if it is appropriate to bring children along on our experience of grief

- emotional responses from children

- co-experiencing grief and joy and so much more

Books

The Invisible String (Carly's fave).
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-invisible-string-patrice-karst/book/9780316486231.html

Invisible string Workbook
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45031835-the-invisible-string-workbook

Gentle Willow.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62245.Gentle_Willow

Paper Dolls.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16667794-the-paperdolls


Support online and in person:

The Compassionate Friends (for bereaved parents, grandparents, siblings) https://tcfa.org.au

The National Centre for Childhood Grief

In episode 26 of the podcast your host Emma Gray speaks with editor of Minty Magazine an owner of Smallist Nicole Ray about her experience of the 'juggle'; can we call it a juggle? of managing motherhood and running 2 businesses. 

Mum of 2, Nicole, is the editor of Minty Magazine and founder of Smallist, both of which collaborate with Australia's leading designers and brands in childrens interiors and lifestyle aimed to inspire and take the overwhelm out of shopping for our children. 

We all know the mental load of motherhood, the invisible labour of events, appointments, school, food, commitments, oh gosh I could just go on for days, add 2 businesses on top of that, Nicole tells us how she does it. 

We also discuss how to even begin starting a small business, mum guilt and identity loss in motherhood.

If you are a business owner, thinking about starting a small business or a working mum wondering how on earth other mums manage mum and work life and everything that comes with that, this episode is for you. 

This episode is sponsored by Smallist. https://www.smallist.com.au/ 

Smallist first birthday giveaway

 https://mintymagazine.com.au/smallist-first-birthday-mega-giveaway-is-here/

https://mintymagazine.com.au/ Minty magazine 

Link to Second scout as highly recommended by Nicole https://shop.secondscout.com.au/ 

Episode 25 is here and in this episode Kaitlyn and Emma Gray speak with Dr Sophie Brock. Dr Brock is a sociologist of motherhood studies and the host of The Good Enough Mother Podcast. Sophie discusses postpartum rage or maternal anger, mum guilt and how all of that is linked in with the perfect mother myth and unpacking that. 

We absolutely loved having this discussion with Sophie, amongst navigating 2 tiny humans who were particularly demanding whilst we were recording. 

You can find Sophie at 

 https://drsophiebrock.com/

@drsophiebrock on Instagram

Kaitlyn @the_rehab_mama

Emma @emmagray_____

If you find any of the topics triggering in this episode you can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or PANDA https://www.panda.org.au/ 

If you enjoyed the episode please let us know by leaving a review, doing a star rating, emailing or contacting us via Instagram 

In episode 24 of the podcast your co-hosts Emma Gray and Kaitlin Bywater chat with Hyperemesis Australia founder Caitlin-Kay Smith about her journey with HG including Kaitlyn Bywaters experience with Hyperemesis throughout 3 pregnancies, how women can distinguish if what they're experiencing is morning sickness or Hyperemesis, the ongoing physical impact of HG, how friends and family can support loved ones with HG and so much more. 

We started this podcast with a ultimate goal of making women and their partners feel seen in their journey on or into parenthood and we don't think there are women who need to feel more seen than those experiencing HG so we loved having this conversation. 

You can find Caitlin @hyperemesisaustralia on Instagram and Facebook or at https://www.hyperemesisaustralia.org.au/

You can follow Emma and the podcast @emmagray_____ on Instagram and Kaitlyn @the_rehab_mama 

In episode 23 of the podcast I speak with Emily Hanlon. Emily is a clinical psychologist based in Sydney with a particular interest in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) after her younger brother was diagnosed.  We discuss: 

• What is Autism
• Emily's personal experience
• At what age do signs of autism start to appear and common symptoms 
• Where should families begin if they are concerned their child has major milestone delays  
• What is the cause of autism? 
• Common myths and misconceptions about Autism
• How spectrum disorders are diagnosed  

For more information including Emily's online Masterclass and website you can follow the following links.

https://www.theplayfulpsychologist.com/ 

https://theplayfulpsychologist.thinkific.com/ 

You can find Emily @theplayfulpsychologist on Instagram 

You can follow me and the podcast @emmagray_____  

If you enjoyed this episode please leave a review and star rating on Apple podcasts. Feel free to get in touch [email protected] with me if you would like us to discuss certain topics or to share your story.