The Oxytocin Hour

Guest Emma.

Listening in to the beautiful retelling of Emma's conscious conception journey through to her pregnancy labour and birth. Emma is a first nations mother with a background in health and fitness, she was determined to soak up all the knowledge on all things birth when taking the step to motherhood.

Join Dayna and Emma as they chat about birth choices, water birth, preconception health and so much more, juicy topics!

Gain insight into the thoughts and beliefs of these two women as they lay it all out for you to soak up the knowledge and good energy of this chat.

Mama - @emma_mcrae

This quick lil' ep is great to hear a recommendation for deciding between these two careers and taking other things into consideration.

Somethings are discussed that Dayna and a lot of other people aren't aware of until after studying the degree!

Guest Bianca

Dayna and Bianca connect to chat about Bianca's pregnancy, labour and birth experience of her first born.

Bianca, a lawyer and Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner shares her journey through preconception and discovering she had PCOS, through to a GDM (insulin dependant Gestational Diabetes) diagnosis, seeking independent birth education and a looming induction push.

This beautiful episode is sure to ignite a sense of hope and determination in the ability to have an empowered hospital birth experience despite a "higher risk" status for any listener.

Listen in as Bianca retells how she possessed the ability to take each issue and circumstance that arose in her journey, observe and make the best decisions for her and her baby to achieve the experience that she set out to.

Bianca - @birthingbliss_au

Independent Childbirth Education - @hypnobirthingaustralia

A great introduction to the word, "Matrescence" and exploring other rites of passage that women go through in their lives, this episode gives a nice, brief run down of the aforementioned and helps to expand ones mind to consider the importance of each of these transitions.

A longer form episode with an expert on Matrescence will be released at a later date. For now, enjoy this little snippet.

Book - Childbirth as a Rite of Passage by Dr Rachel Reed

*this episode speaks heavily about trauma, sexual abuse and obstetric violence - if you have experienced any or all of these it's important to know that listening to this episode may resurface trauma. please listen at your own discretion and keep your body, mind and spirit safe.*

Guest - Michelle Palasia.

"I want justice and accountability and fucking heads to roll". - Michelle.

Prepare to be activated and triggered when you listen in to this fire episode. Dayna and Michelle leave no stone unturned as they chat all things birth trauma awareness week, trauma, violence and abuse and why they believe that awareness simply isn't enough.

Please listen to this episode with an open mind and heart and prepare to understand the inner thoughts and beliefs of these two women as they relay accounts of witnessed trauma, abuse and violence. If you have ever found yourself triggered by previous thoughts shared by either Dayna or Michelle, this episode will assist you to understand the complexities of the words they speak.

Is speaking up and calling out wrong-doings divisive? When does speaking ones truth become too much?

Strap yourself and prepare for an episode that will blow your mind.

Michelle - @michellepalasia

Dayna - @daynajangles

Birth Trauma Association (UK) - www.birthtraumaassociation.org.uk/

PATTCh - http://paatch.org

Crisis Support

Beyond Blue - 1300 22 4636

Lifeline - 13 11 14

Suicide Call Back Service - 1300 659 467

Enough is enough.

A burning desire to speak PASSIONATELY about this topic for a while sparked the release of this episode. If you're a human being, you are planning to have a baby, you are pregnant, you will come into contact with someone who is pregnant, you NEED to listen to this one.

Stop. Trauma. Dumping. On. Women.

K Bye.

Follow @theoxytocinhour + @daiisy.est.2020

Dayna shares the 5 feeding journeys she has had with her 5 children.

Spoiler alert, it's not ALL easy, in fact it gets a little shakey in parts, but ultimately it's a great listen to understand the complexities and nuances of the same mother but 5 different babies and how each and every feeding journey can be oh so different.

14+ year of breastfeeding - and Dayna hasn't gotten into the nitty gritty of the individual experiences but they will be explored in depth in later episodes (we're talking feeding after breast augmentation, milk donation for various reasons, breastfeeding children that aren't yours!)

But for now, you can hear about them all briefly and gain a general understanding before hear about the more complex experiences.

Australian Breastfeeding Association - 1800 MUM 2 MUM - @ozbreastfeeding

@flourishlactation - Katie (IBCLC + Midwife)

@milkybusinesslactation - Kate (IBCLC + Private Midwife)

@maternalinstinctsbyamberley - Amberley (RM/EM Private Midwife)

@_kerrie_adams - (IBCLC)

@susieproutlactation - (LC + Midwife)

Dear Dayna - Guest Beau.

Dayna sits down with Beau to chat about the listeners question, "how do I convince my partner to agree to a home birth.." and "how did you convince Beau?'

Like all Dear Dayna's it's not a simple answer, and they both delve into possible reasons one might have reservations, other underlying issues within the relationship, and, pose another question, "do you even need to convince someone?'

They revisit reasons for choosing free birth and home birth and how they drew those conclusions, and, give some handy opinions for the listener or any other woman in the same position.

Listen as Beau, a qualified electrician, gives his two cents on a delicate subject around birth and relationship issues.

Guest Nicole - Giddy up! This is the first episode that we have a caesarean birth Mum on, let alone a Mother that's experienced both vaginal and caesarean births! Nicole candidly shares her 5 birth experiences and shines a refreshing light on what it is like to birth in both the public and private sectors as well as why she feels that her decision to have 2 elective caesareans following 3 vaginal births was just as empowering as the first 3 births.

There're many giggles, hilarious anecdotes and wise words shared.

An episode not to be missed. This is Nicole's story...

Dayna gets a spicy (not that kind of spicy!) question in her inbox and decides to dig further. This prompts an episode filled with the top google searched questions starting with the words, “why do midwives…” a teeny bit thought provoking, entertaining and funny.

Join Dayna as she discovers what the worlds been searching on google about midwives as she single handedly and on the spot attempts to answer the hard hitting questions!