Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGiving Birth In A High-Intervention System with Guests Sheena Byrom OBE and Professor Soo Downe
Season 5 Episode 4
Intervention rates have climbed so fast in UK maternity care that it is hard not to ask a blunt question: is all this doing what it promised to do? I…
6 hours ago
'Evidence-Based' Maternity Care: Limits, Bias, and How to Navigate It with Guest, Midwife Beth Russell
Season 5 Episode 3
Think scientific evidence is going to give you a clear a 'best' path forward in your birth decision making? Unfortunately, it's rarely that simple. W…
10 months ago
Reconciling Caesarean Birth Stories Through Storytelling with Guest Hannah Marsh
Season 5 Episode 2
What happens when your birth experience completely contradicts everything you prepared for? For author Hannah Marsh, an emergency cesarean section af…
10 months, 1 week ago
Celebrating the Power of Informed Birth with Guest, Davina McCall
Season 5 Episode 1
Davina McCall joins the Birth-ed Podcast to share her transformative journey from anxious first-time mum to empowered birth advocate. Celebrating the…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
SEASON 5 TEASER
Season 5 Episode 1
Season 5 of The Birth-ed Podcast launches THIS WEEK.
On Friday 26th September (and every Friday thereafter), we are back with world leading expert gu…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Optimal Cord Clamping, with Amanda Burleigh
Season 4 Episode 11
When to clamp the cord that leads from placenta to baby has become a contested issue in recent years. Today’s guest, Amanda Burleigh, has fought long…
2 years, 1 month ago
Positive Hospital Birth, with Lily Brockenhurst
Season 4 Episode 10
Some women choose to labour in hospital, others feel they arrive there through the course of their care. If you find yourself in a delivery suite or …
2 years, 1 month ago
High BMI pregnancy and birth, with Alice Keely
Season 4 Episode 9
Why is so much importance placed on how much you weigh in pregnancy? Is a mother with over 30 BMI really at a high risk of complications in birth?
Thi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Postnatal exercise and bouncing back, with Hollie Grant
Season 4 Episode 8
Our culture surrounds us with pressure to look a certain way and be a certain way, and no more so than after pregnancy. The focus on whether you ‘bou…
2 years, 1 month ago
Breathwork in pregnancy and beyond, with Carolyn Cowan
Episode 7
If you’re a regular listener to the show, or you’ve done a Birth-ed course, you’ll know that I really value breathwork in labour, but I hadn’t realis…
2 years, 2 months ago