#159 - Just try to imagine for a moment commencing your parenting journey with 7 children aged less than 3 years of age to feed and look after! This is exactly what life delivered to this week's guest, Katie Ferraro! Katie had been struggling with feeding her first child only to discover that she was pregnant expecting quadruplets. Not surprisingly, her immediate worry was how was she going to feed another 4 needy little ones when she was struggling with just one! During our chat you'll hear Katie explain how she came across baby led weaning and utilized her background as a nutrition professor ..read more

#158 - In this episode I'm chatting with birth healing specialist and pelvic health physical therapist, Lynn Schulte. Lynn is on a mission to improve postpartum care worldwide and her passion is in helping moms have smoother births and faster recoveries. With more than 30 years experience, you'll hear Lynn talk about topics including:- What happens to the pelvic bones in order for a baby to be born and what keeps them from returning to their original position? How this affects the pelvic floor muscles? How can you strengthen your pelvic floor muscles after giving birth? Check out the show n ..read more

#157 - In this episode of First Time Mum's Chat, I'm chatting with Dr. Emily Guarnotta. Dr. Emily is a licensed clinical psychologist specialising in maternal mental health and will shortly be launching an online practice aiming to reduce the barriers that mums often face when looking for support and therapy in areas such as postpartum anxiety or depression. During our chat you'll hear us talk about the challenges of returning to work after maternity leave, which is often a hard time of readjustment for mums. Check out the show notes here at https://www.mybabymassage.net/podcast/157.If you'd l ..read more

#156 - In this episode, I'm bringing you an amazing woman, ThetaHealer and mother of one, Emily Miotto. Emily helps moms work on themselves to release any limiting beliefs around motherhood and to connect with their inner selves to trust their intuition and heal both themselves and their little ones! During our chat, you'll hear Emily talk about:- Her postpartum depression journey and how understanding why she manifested it, helped break the cycle. Why your little one may be hypersensitive to everything happening around them and may have trouble sleeping. Why children coming into the world to ..read more

#154 - I've spoken with a lot of great women on First Time Mum's who help families with their sleep but what's different about Kim Hawley who I'm chatting with today, is that her focus isn't just on helping your little one. She helps entire families, which is so important because we all need our sleep right! During our chat you'll hear Kim talk about how her holistic sleep support helps entire families optimise their daily routine, daily rhythms and environment to help improve sleep for all members of your household. Visit me here at https://www.mybabymassage.net/podcast. If you'd like to reac ..read more

#153 - Imagine being pregnant and being sick up to 15 - 20 times per day at times, with what you thought was morning sickness. This was the day to day struggle that physiotherapist and holistic health practitioner Jes Reynolds endured for the first 5 months of her pregnancy! During our chat you'll hear Jes talk about her frustrations with the medical system, feeling unsupported, facing endless appointments with specialists who could offer nothing to help her, finding nothing wrong and telling her just to accept it and get on with life! In desperation, Jes took matters into her own hands and us ..read more

I've always been a big believer in getting into a regular routine of reading to children as soon as possible after they are born. This benefits their future development in many ways, and I've discussed this in a number of earlier episodes with some wonderful guests. Recently, I was fortunate enough to meet a wonderful woman on Instagram whose handle is Nanny Miss Monique. I was intrigued after listening to Miss Monique participate in a live titled 'It's Never Too Early To Start Reading To Your Baby'. I loved her passion, and I asked her if I could talk with her on First Time Mums Chat. I'm sur ..read more

Welcome back to First Time Mum's Chat.I'm kicking off the year with a second chat with Kelly Durbin. Kelly is a mother of 2, lactation consultant, childbirth educator, author, and volunteer breastfeeding counselor and this week we'll be talking about how breastfeeding can enhance or protect a mother's health after giving birth. During the episode, you'll hear Kelly talk about: Why breastfeeding is so important and beneficial in helping heal the uterus after birth and decrease the likelihood of postpartum hemorrhages. How breastfeeding can reduce the risks of being diagnosed with diabetes l ..read more

This week, I am thrilled to be bringing you the 150th episode of First Time Mum's Chat. Please help me celebrate reaching this amazing milestone by sharing this episode with other mums. Way back in January 2021, when I started the First Time Mum's Chat podcast, I had a goal to help mums who were about to become parents or who had just entered the daunting world of parenthood by providing a weekly episode with information, tips and tricks and resources to help. I am proud of my track record over almost 3 years and looking back over the podcast, I've interviewed many wonderful women and let's ..read more

Recently, I was surprised to learn that in the USA and Australia, that the cesarean rate is in excess of 30%. So more than one third of moms will experience a cesarean! Of course when you add the other routine labor interventions this percentage goes up. I've wanted to talk with someone about how these routine labor interventions can cause problems for breastfeeding for some time and in this week's episode of First Time Mum's Chat I'm delighted to be chatting with mother of 2, lactation consultant, childbirth educator, author, and volunteer breastfeeding counselor, Kelly Durbin about this ver ..read more