166 episodes

Pregnancy with Physio Laura is a podcast to help mamas feel confident, empowered and informed in their pregnancy and birth journey.

Laura, a women’s health physiotherapist, will share solo riffs on her clinical physiotherapy expertise combined with her personal experience as a mama as well as guest expert interviews from all fields of women’s health.

Pregnancy, birth and the post-partum period is not just for surviving, but thriving. Enjoy!

Pregnancy with Physio Laura Laura Callea

    • Health & Fitness
    • 5.0 • 4 Ratings

Pregnancy with Physio Laura is a podcast to help mamas feel confident, empowered and informed in their pregnancy and birth journey.

Laura, a women’s health physiotherapist, will share solo riffs on her clinical physiotherapy expertise combined with her personal experience as a mama as well as guest expert interviews from all fields of women’s health.

Pregnancy, birth and the post-partum period is not just for surviving, but thriving. Enjoy!

    166. Primal birthing and mothering w/ Dr. Sarah Buckley

    166. Primal birthing and mothering w/ Dr. Sarah Buckley

    I am so honoured to welcome the incredible Dr. Sarah Buckley to the podcast to discuss all her research on the incredible hormone oxytocin, and how this works to help us labour and birth in the primal way our bodies are designed.

     

    In this beautiful chat with @drsarahjbuckley we discuss:

    💥 Why oxytocin is such an important hormone for birth

    💥 How to protect our primal hormonal process for labour and birth

    💥 What environments help to stimulate oxytocin

    💥 How to “fill the gap” when interventions are introduced into birth

    💥 Third stage of labour and why protecting physiology is so important

    💥 The difference between “managed” third stage versus physiological

     

    Enjoy this episode and jump on over to @physiolaura to let me know your thoughts!
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    • 1 hr 12 min
    165. Emotional freedom in parenting w/ Ashleigh Warner.

    165. Emotional freedom in parenting w/ Ashleigh Warner.

    I am thrilled to have my beautiful friend Ash @raisinghumanskind on the podcast this week.

     

    Ash is a family psychologist who speaks so well to helping our kids work through their emotions and regulate their nervous systems.

     

    In this chat we discuss:

    ⭐️ How can we gain more emotional freedom in our parenting

    ⭐️ How to sit with the entire range of our emotions

    ⭐️ How accepting our own emotions helps us to hold space for our children emotions

    ⭐️ Self enquiry practices to use at home (mind, body and unconscious practices)

    ⭐️ Why we don’t need to be our kids entertainment

    ⭐️ How to practice self care without needing time away from your kids

     

    Enjoy this episode and jump on over to @physiolaura to let me know your thoughts!
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    • 1 hr 3 min
    164. The spiritual dimensions of pregnancy w/ Jane Hardwicke Collings

    164. The spiritual dimensions of pregnancy w/ Jane Hardwicke Collings

    I am thrilled to have the incredible teacher Jane Hardwicke Collings join me on the podcast.

     

    Jane is a home birth midwife who teaches on important rites of passage, the sacredness of the menstrual cycle, the shamanic dimensions of pregnancy and so much more.

     

    In this incredible conversation with @janehardwickecollings we discuss:

     

    💥 Why are rites of passage important

    💥 The significant female rites of passage

    💥 Menstrual cycle shame

    💥 How we can truly honour and celebrate the menstrual cycle

    💥 How pregnancy is our spiritual teacher

    💥 How each birth teaches us what we need to know to mother that child

     

    Enjoy this episode and jump on over to @physiolaura to let me know your thoughts!
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    • 1 hr 6 min
    163. The perfect mother myth w/ Dr. Sophie Brock

    163. The perfect mother myth w/ Dr. Sophie Brock

    I’m excited to have Dr. Sophie Brock @drsophiebrock on the podcast this week to chat all about motherhood, cultural norms and how mothers are placed in society right now. Sophie is a Motherhood Studies Sociologist and speaks so well to this topic that affects so many women.

     

    In this episode we discuss:

    📍What is the perfect mother myth?

    📍Why do so many mothers feel a sense of loneliness or failure? And why is it not their fault?

    📍Practices to help us identify the false “rules” we place on ourselves and what our values truly are

    📍Comparison and competition in motherhood

    📍Mum guilt and shame

    📍Mothering versus motherhood - what is the difference?

    📍The care versus career conundrum that many mothers face

     

    Enjoy this episode and jump on over to @physiolaura to let me know your thoughts!
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    • 1 hr 7 min
    162. Empowered Breech Birth w/ Dr. Elliot Berlin

    162. Empowered Breech Birth w/ Dr. Elliot Berlin

    I’m excited to have the wonderful doula and chiropractor @doctorberlin on the podcast this week to talk about the highly niche and very interesting topic of breech birth.

     

    Dr. Elliot Berlin has taken a real interest in breech birth and is working hard to preserve breech birth in an industry that is slowly phasing out any other option than a C-section birth for breech babies.

     

    We discuss:

    📍Why babies present in the breech position

    📍Factors we can modify to help a baby turn head down

    📍Pelvic stretches, anatomy and tension that could contribute to baby positions

    📍ECV procedures - the pros and cons

    📍Birth options for women with breech babies

    📍The flaws in the research that turned many practitioners away from vaginal breech birth

    📍Dr. Berlin’s breech vaginal birth documentary

     

    Enjoy this episode and as always let me know what you think over @physiolaura!
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    • 1 hr 11 min
    161. Maternal assisted caesarean births with Dr.Natalie Elphinstone

    161. Maternal assisted caesarean births with Dr.Natalie Elphinstone

    I am excited to be releasing a second episode with the wonderful @drnatalieelphinstone to discuss everything we need to know about our options when it comes to caesarean births.

     

    In this episode we discuss:


    What is a maternal assisted caesarean section
    What inspired Natalie to start to implement this in her practice
    The mental and physical impacts this method is having on mothers

     

    I’d love to know what you thought of this episode, jump over to @physiolaura and tell me what you learnt!

     

    And if you’d like to learn more about supporting yourself through pregnancy, labour and birth, then I invite you to join me inside my online membership program The Pregnancy Posse. We have weekly workouts, labour and birth preparation, pelvic floor exercises and so much more!

     

    You can find out more and trial the program for 7 days, just visit thepregnancyposse.com.
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    • 24 min

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