HeyJaredWe Are Mothers.
We Are Mothers is a podcast dedicated to real, honest motherhood stories.Chapter One centres on birth.
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S3 EP 6 | Hayley’s Story: A midwife navigating hospital birth trauma, a home birth with shoulder dystocia and why birth debriefs truly matter (opens the original)
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This episode discusses birth trauma, a non-consented vaginal examination, neonatal resuscitation, and postpartum psychological therapy. Listener discretion advised. This week we're joined by Hayley - a midwife, wife, and mum of two who shares two profoundly different birth experiences from a truly unique vantage point: as both the woman giving birth and a clinician who understands exactly what's supposed to happen in that room. Hayley takes us through the birth of her first daughter, Adeline, a
S3 EP 5 | Renea’s Story: Three Births | Induction and Intervention Leading to Education and a Sacred Homebirth (opens the original)
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This week we're joined by Renea, a mum of three based in Queensland, who takes us through an incredible evolution across three completely different birth experiences. Renea's first birth took place during COVID lockdowns, with fragmented antenatal care, an induction that spiralled into two Code Pink emergencies, an episiotomy and forceps delivery without consent, and a postpartum haemorrhage. This was followed by an isolating, under-supported hospital stay with an underweight newborn on a gruell
S3 EP 4 | Mardie’s Story: Hyperemesis, Uterine Inversion, Emergency Surgery & Two Calm Caesareans (opens the original)
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This week we sit down with Mardie, a stay-at-home mum of three living on a farm in country Victoria, to hear the story of her three very different births. Mardie takes us through the birth of her son Harrison, a smooth labour and delivery that turned into a medical emergency when her uterus inverted following the birth, leading to major blood loss, emergency surgery, and a night in ICU separated from her newborn. She shares what it was like to have that first-time-mum experience turn so unexpect
S3 EP 3 | Alana’s Story: Losing Zara, Fighting for Harvey, Saying Goodbye to Daisy: One Mum's Pregnancy Loss Journey (opens the original)
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Content warning: This episode discusses pregnancy loss, infant death, medical termination for medical reasons (TFMR), and NICU experiences. Please take care while listening. In this episode, we sit down with Alana, a mum from South Gippsland, who takes us through three profoundly different pregnancies — and the devastating losses and hard-won joys that shaped her into a mother of three. Alana shares the story of her first pregnancy with daughter Zara, who was born at 23 weeks after an undiagnose
S3 EP 2 | Sarah’s Story: 42 Weeks and Trusting the Wait | Fourth Birth, First Homebirth (opens the original)
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In this episode, birth and postpartum doula Sarah shares the story of her fourth and final birth, a home water birth in northern NSW that arrived sixteen days past her due date, right as COVID lockdowns began. Sarah opens up about the emotional preparation that shaped this birth: hypnobirthing, acupuncture, and confronting a long-standing pattern of people-pleasing that had surfaced in her previous births. She talks candidly about navigating pressure from the hospital system while planning a hom
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