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Welcome to a space where birth, motherhood and matrescence are spoken about honestly, openly &without the filters.I’m Tanika — a conception, pregnancy & post partum doula + mum currently preparing for life with two under two.
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3 Births, 2 VBACs & a 1 in 100,000 Birth Complication - Sharni's Story (opens the original)
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Have you ever heard of subcutaneous emphysema? Three births. Two VBACs and one incredibly rare complication that she never saw coming. After her first birth ended in an emergency caesarean following 15 hours of labour and foetal distress, she went into her second birth determined to have a VBAC. She did except this birth was anything but straightforward. Her second labour involved bleeding, two hours of pushing, a second-degree tear, postpartum haemorrhage, retained products and infection. But o
70 Minute Home Birth!? My Unmedicated, Physiological Birth Story (opens the original)
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This is the story of my second birth a 70-minute labour and birth at home , completely unmedicated and physiological. After my first birth was also an unmedicated water birth, I knew I wanted to birth at home again but this labour unfolded incredibly quickly. From the beginning of active labour to meeting my baby girl was just 70 minutes! I share what made this birth so beautiful for me: no medication, no interventions, no tearing and an instinctive physiological birth. If you’re pregnant and co
Pregnant, High Risk & Living Rural - This Was Imogen's Reality (opens the original)
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What happens when pregnancy suddenly becomes high-risk and you’re living rurally, far from immediate medical care? In this episode, we hear one mother’s powerful journey through gestational hypertension, preeclampsia and the terrifying moment she nearly lost her baby at just 31 weeks. From intensive rural maternity care and an induction at 39 weeks, to a MET call and two hours in a hypertensive crisis during labour, her birth took an unexpected turn. Yet she went on to have a vaginal birth!! We’
I Didn’t Expect Breastfeeding to Be This Hard (opens the original)
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Breastfeeding is often painted as something that should just come naturally but what happens when it doesn’t? In this episode, I’m sharing the honest and raw reality of my breastfeeding journey with my second baby. From pain, sensitivity and latch struggles to supply worries, pumping, combination feeding and the emotional rollercoaster that comes with it all. No perfection, just the truth about my first weeks of breastfeeding. I truly thought after all the research I did to change my experience
Pregnancy, Postpartum & Maternal Depletion with Clare Ramirez Nutritionist (opens the original)
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Pregnancy asks so much of the body but postpartum asks even more. In this episode, I’m joined by Clare Ramirez from Wildflower Medicine for a deeply nourishing conversation about pregnancy, postpartum depletion and what our bodies truly need during the transition into motherhood. We talk about why so many women arrive at postpartum already depleted, what happens when we don’t adequately replenish after birth and how we can begin to nourish ourselves in a way that supports recovery, hormones, ene
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