The Oxytocin Hour

Guest - Katelyn Pankhurst

In this beautiful episode, Katelyn shares briefly her experience birthing her first baby in hospital through the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital Birth Center with care from the Young Parents Program. Katelyn touches on some negative aspects of her experience including mistreatment from staff. She then shares her journey, deciding to have a home birth and navigating dual living and other issues that arose in making the decision. Again, her second birth was very speedy, the midwife very near missed it! She had a very empowering experience which led to her full support of home births.

Finally, Katelyn opens up and shares the surprise pregnancy with her third, very wanted, little boy. She knew immediately that her choice for birthing this time would be at home again, but without the care of a private midwife.

Hearing the ups and downs of Katelyns journey through all of her pregnancies and births will surely have you engaged and full of oxytocin.

I've also kept a little "break" in the poddy where Katelyn tends to her child, happily playing around her, because this is real life and the little voices are so sweet! Most women that I have on the podcast are breastfeeding while chatting or have their little ones around them. I love it!

Enjoy! D x

Hospital Birth - YPP (young parents program), RBWH, Birth Center

Homebirth - @mymidwives primary midwife - Karen

Freebirth <3

On this episode, Dayna introduces you to your new Dear Dayna and X co-host who we know you'll love because the chemistry and conversations are fun, entertaining, spicy and above all HONEST.

We answer the burning question of "what is the easiest childs age?!" and also, "what is the hardest childs age?"

We waffle on a bit, but it's great.

D x

Guest - Kate

In today's episode, Kate shares her experience becoming a chinese medicine practitioner, what she'd learnt and her experience in China and her journey becoming a midwife afterwards and how that impacted on her two birth experiences.

This conversation is so informative and eye opening with topics ranging from conception, study, acupuncture, menstrual cycles, fertility and private midwives. Kate is a wealth of knowledge with many years of experience and is now residing in Perth.

Kate = @themamasalchemist

Dayna = @daynajangles

In this last episode of a solo Dear Dayna (before the new co-host joins us next week!) a listener writes in to ask a few questions about what she's been seeing on social media lately. That is, more birth workers speaking up about their opinions on women having a plethora of information about (more specifically but not limited to) birth positions.

Can't wait for you to have a listen to this one!

Let us know what you think and your opinion.

D x

Hello my loves!

I have a few important announcements to leave you with before the new year and the new season officially takes off. Let me know what you think of them.

Take care and I'll catch you in the new year xx

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In this solo episode Dayna talks about a theme showing up in the inbox, a hot topic at the moment, and that's having another baby and what that dynamic is like emotionally.

'How could I possibly love another child as much as I love THIS one?!" A question on many mothers minds, far more common than we realise..

Dayna gives her 2 cents. What does she think? Well, you'll just have to listen. <3

Guest - Sarah Giannetta

Join Sarah and Dayna as they explore a wide range of potent topics such as preconception work, rites of passages, midwifery in and out of the system and more.

Sarah is an ex-registered midwife, wife and mum of 3 living in Melbourne, Australia. Otherwise known as "the midwife mummy" from her popular instagram account, Sarah has proven to be a wealth of knowledge on all things conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

This epic episode is sure to get brains ticking!

Sarah - @the.midwifemummy

Book "Wild Power" - by Alexandra Pope & Sjanie Hugo Wirlitzer

HBA - @hypnobirthingaustralia

Dayna - @daynajangles

@theoxytocinhour

Dayna reflects about personal development and how such simple questions have impacted her and have changed the way she sees herself for the better.

Offering a few, bite sized tips, this episode might just give you a little inspiration to finding more balance in your life, as a mother.

*Warning* this whirlwind episode has it all!

Dayna retells her experience birthing her third, but her husbands' first, baby. She firstly gives a background and insight into what was happening in their lives at that point in time, including fleeing a DV situation, studying midwifery, meeting Beau, a flooded house, surgery, sleeping in a car, a proposal and so much more.

This episode contains topics such as breech and other presentations, spinning babies, cholestasis, decision making around induction and precipitous labour.

Keeping the episode to under an hour Dayna feels she could have expanded on everything so much more, and kept it more streamlined, but staying true to the labour and birth, things got hectic!

Enjoy! x

Birthing through the birth center at the RBWH in Brisbane, Queensland.

Midwives - Tania Nairn & Bec Lloyd

Photographer - Maddie @ettaphotography

This episode, Dayna chats about her experience that day of attending a rally at Parliament House steps in Meanjin, Brisbane with dozens of other midwives, midwifery students, mums, associates and supporters to prompt the health minister to consider where budget funding for the maternity care system in QLD will go.

Regardless of where you're from, this episode is a great little insight to current political issues in maternity care in Australia.