Knocked Up: The Podcast About Fertility and Women's Health Women's Health Melbourne

They call it an IVF Journey for a reason....

Katie and Jan share their story

• Egg freezing
• Finding the right partner
• Using ART to have children
• Losing a pregnancy
• Ultimately creating their perfect family

For more of Knocked Up, find us on Instagram - @knockeduppodcast

Join our community! Follow Women's Health Melbourne on Facebook and Instagram (@womenshealthmelbourne), and follow Dr Raelia Lew on Instagram (@drraelialew).

Have a question about women's health? Is there a specific topic you'd like us to cover? Email podcast@womenshealthmelbourne.com.au. We'll keep all requests anonymous.

Women's Health Melbourne is a holistic care precinct, for more information about the work we do click here.

Hosts: Dr Raelia Lew and Jordi Morrison
Guests: Katie and Jan

Today we are speaking with Sarah Powell from Pink Hope, an Australian non-profit organisation for educating and preventing about hereditary breast and ovarian cancer

Sarah was diagnosed with breast cancer at 29 years old but it was the news she carries a BRCA1 mutation that sent her looking for support and information. Luckily she found Krystal Barter and the Pink Hope community and since then has been a big supporter of the charity by volunteering, sharing her story and fundraising.

We speak about the Pink Hope Edu Evenings, register here


The one minute video on learning to self screen is here

• Take Action campaign from Pink Hope
• Fertility preservation when receiving cancer treatment
• Sarah Powell shares her story
• Pre-conception genetic screening to avoid BRCA1

We also have a previous Knocked Up episode on Cervical Screening

For more of Knocked Up, find us on Instagram - @knockeduppodcast

Join our community! Follow Women's Health Melbourne on Facebook and Instagram (@womenshealthmelbourne), and follow Dr Raelia Lew on Instagram (@drraelialew).

Have a question about women's health? Is there a specific topic you'd like us to cover? Email podcast@womenshealthmelbourne.com.au. We'll keep all requests anonymous.

Women's Health Melbourne is a holistic care precinct, for more information about the work we do click here.

Hosts: Dr Raelia Lew and Jordi Morrison
Guest: Sarah Powell from Pink Hope

Today with Chantelle we're going to talk about sexual concerns - things that might come up more commonly than we realise and may not know that there is help available. Especially when trying to conceive such concerns can put even more pressure on an already fragile situation.

We give an overview of how these concerns impact your sexual performance and self esteem: Vaginismus, Erectile concerns, Relationship pressure, Ejaculatory issues, Deep pain, Endometriosis, Post abortion and Vulvodynia.

Chantelle Otten is an internationally acclaimed Psycho-Sexologist based in Melbourne. With her background in scientific research, sexual medicine, and counselling, Chantelle believes that sexuality and self-esteem are an integral part of life, which everyone is entitled to and that Good sexual health should always be enjoyable, pain free and without prejudice.

When speaking to Chantelle it quickly became obvious that we would need more than one episode together to cover Raelia and Chantelle's approaches to sex and answer your many questions.

Through our series The Sex Tapes we will be discussing a range of topics including the female orgasm, sexual concerns, sex for conception and sexual self-esteem through life stages.

Find us on Instagram - @knockeduppodcast

Join our community! Follow Women's Health Melbourne on Facebook and Instagram (@womenshealthmelbourne), and follow Dr Raelia Lew on Instagram (@drraelialew).

Have a question about women's health? Is there a specific topic you'd like us to cover? Email podcast@womenshealthmelbourne.com.au. We'll keep all requests anonymous.

Women's Health Melbourne is a holistic care precinct, for more information about the work we do click here.

Hosts: Dr Raelia Lew and Jordi Morrison
Guest: Chantelle Otten, Director of the Australian Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine

For more information about Chantelle you can visit her website - https://chantelleotten.com, instagram profile - https://www.instagram.com/chantelle_otten_sexologist/ and listen to her new podcast, Sexy Stories with Chantelle Otten - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/sexy-stories-with-chantelle-otten-sexologist/id1525478250

Donor Sperm

Who needs it? Why would you choose to use it? Should it be a known or clinic recruited donor? How do I access it? How is it used?

We briefly touch on the legalities of known donor sperm, for more than that listen to our episode with Deanna Elsner who is a family lawyer and we talk about egg freezing, for which we have many blogs and podcast resources.

Find us on Instagram - @knockeduppodcast

Join our community! Follow Women's Health Melbourne on Facebook and Instagram (@womenshealthmelbourne), and follow Dr Raelia Lew on Instagram (@drraelialew).

Have a question about women's health? Is there a specific topic you'd like us to cover? Email podcast@womenshealthmelbourne.com.au. We'll keep all requests anonymous.

Women's Health Melbourne is a holistic care precinct, for more information about the work we do click here.

Hosts: Dr Raelia Lew and Jordi Morrison

First Chrissy Teigen reminded us all to keep up to date with breast checks and cervical screening during the pandemic, and now Chrissy has the world talking about miscarriage. Who doesn't have a girl crush on this brave woman?

We are at once devastated and inspired by Chrissy speaking so bravely about the heartbreaking loss of baby Jack. Let's continue the conversation and provide support to our friends and community who are also suffering from loss.

Useful resources:
http://bit.ly/WHMmiscarriage
http://bit.ly/WHMpodcastwendy
http://bit.ly/WHMpodcastCK
http://bit.ly/WHMpodcastMiscarriage1
http://bit.ly/WHMpodcastHM
http://bit.ly/WHMpodcastZM

AUSTRALIA:
Pregnancy loss support:

• Sands: 1300 072 637
• Bears of Hope: 1300 114 673
• Federal Government's Pregnancy, Birth and Baby hotline: 1800 882 436

Lifeline Crisis Support: 13 11 14
Beyond Blue: Depression and anxiety support: 1300 22 46 36
Men's Line: 1300 78 99 78
Headspace: Youth Mental Health Foundation: see headspace.org.au for your local centre
Gidget Foundation: https://gidgetfoundation.org.au
PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia): https://www.panda.org.au

Find us on Instagram - @knockeduppodcast

Join our community! Follow Women's Health Melbourne on Facebook and Instagram (@womenshealthmelbourne), and follow Dr Raelia Lew on Instagram (@drraelialew).

Have a question about women's health? Is there a specific topic you'd like us to cover? Email podcast@womenshealthmelbourne.com.au. We'll keep all requests anonymous.

Women's Health Melbourne is a holistic care precinct, for more information about the work we do click here.

Hosts: Dr Raelia Lew and Jordi Morrison

Dr Deborah Morawetz is a Paediatrician who works in Neonates in Melbourne. Graduating from Monash University Medical School in 2004, Deborah specialised in Paediatrics training in both Sydney and Melbourne.

As a mother of twins and a Paediatrician, Deborah is uniquely qualified to discuss a common dilemma in IVF, single versus double embryo transfer.

Double embryo transfer marginally increases the chance of pregnancy per IVF transfer attempt, but carries a significantly increased risk of multiple pregnancy in IVF.

Find us on Instagram - @knockeduppodcast

Join our community! Follow Women's Health Melbourne on Facebook and Instagram (@womenshealthmelbourne), and follow Dr Raelia Lew on Instagram (@drraelialew).

Have a question about women's health? Is there a specific topic you'd like us to cover? Email podcast@womenshealthmelbourne.com.au. We'll keep all requests anonymous.

Women's Health Melbourne is a holistic care precinct, for more information about the work we do click here.

Hosts: Dr Raelia Lew and Jordi Morrison
Guest: Dr Deborah Morawetz