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All You Want to Know About the Pelvic Floor with Physiotherapist Emma Jenkins

What is the pelvic floor? These muscles which carry so much for us, and even more during pregnancy are essential to our health.
WIthout any taboo, Emma, a physiotherapist specialized in women's health speaks about the role of the pelvic floor, what happens to our bodies during pregnancy and why we should all go see a pelvic floor physio at some point in our life.

She also shares some tips and demystifies the pelvic floor for us and why ''We don't want a tight vagina, we want functional vaginas!''

A must-listen for every woman!

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Morgen and Nicola, two women who fell in love 13 years ago, share their motherhood journey -- which wasn't an obvious one at first.
From deciding who will be pregnant first, to going to a fertility clinic secretly, to choosing a sperm donor, to the process they went though to get pregnant, to defining roles within the family... It was a full journey but their unbreakable bond helped them go through it with humour and grace.

Having children in a same sex marriage is not something they took for granted. By sharing their story, they want to tell other same sex couple that it is all possible, with the right tribe, the right knowledge and the right partner.

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Theoni Papoutsis: https://www.instagram.com/papoutsistheoni/

Audio Production: https://www.instagram.com/bee_tenacity/

email: becomingmotherpodcast@gmail.com

Anna was 40 when she got pregnant with her first baby. It took a bit of time, and it turned out to be the first lesson in surrender. Both her birth went completely different. She trusted herself to have a natural birth and tried to be as prepared as possible.
But nothing prepared her for how her second baby came to the world. With a lot of humour, Anna shares how her baby was in breech position (head up), how she tried almost everything to help him turn, and how he had another plan. She was planned for a Csection but It's in Theoni's (her doula) car that her water broke and that she handled most of her labour.
Anna's story is full of hope, wisdom and a great reminder of the importance of surrender.

Pregnancy is not alway a smooth sailing. It took a heavy toll on Elena’s body. She experienced pain, Covid and Bell’s Palsy while expecting her twins. While she wished she had trusted and listened to her body more, Elena tells us how she managed to get through by reminding herself to stay in the present moment, when she suddenly had to stay at the hospital way before her due date. One day, after going out for coffee with her husband, her face suddenly became paralyzed and she had to stay in a hospital until she gave birth.

How do you remain strong when it seems your body is giving up? How do you suddenly become the mother of twins while you are still healing yourself?

With a lot of humor, joy and strength, Elena shares how she overcame all sorts of challenges from the start but also how much she enjoys being a mother and seeing her children grow and learn every day.

Once again, Elena’s journey is a proof of how resilient and brave women are.

How do you experience birth when you are a medical doctor practicing at a maternity ward in a hospital? In her job, most births she witnessed were not physiological. Lisa is the mother of two. She had a physiological birth both times and even decided to give birth at home for her second baby, ignoring what her colleagues might think. In spite of her fears caused by what she has been exposed to, she trusted herself. Lisa tells us how it wasn't easy for her to get pregnant the first time, how she released those fears and how giving birth at home was something she always had in the back of her mind. Lisa is passionate about bridging the gap between the clinical and emotional aspects of birth. In addition to being a medical doctor, she trained as a doula in order to bring even more to the women she supports. She loves counselling mothers about their birth choices and making them feel confident in themselves.

Follow the show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/becomingmother.podcast/

Deborah Nguyễn: https://www.instagram.com/debo.stories/
Theoni Papoutsis: https://www.instagram.com/papoutsistheoni/

Audio Production: https://www.instagram.com/bee_tenacity/

email: becomingmotherpodcast@gmail.com

How do you prepare for birth when you are a trained midwife?
How do you experience your own pregnancies and becoming a mother after you've learned everything in textbooks?
Victoria is a passionate midwife who has a lovely birthing home in Johannesburg. She tells us about her two very different personal experiences and how it shaped her as a midwife and the way she cares for her patients. She thinks that "women are meant to birth" and always knew she wanted to have a natural birth.
But things didn't go as planned. In spite of complications and unforeseen circumstances, Victoria listened to her intuition and knew that, although it was not going the way she hoped for, something didn't feel right and she knew she needed to have a Cesarean section. She shares how trusting ourselves is key when it comes to birthing, but also parenting.