Tea & Toast: Talking Birth
This podcast aims to discuss and muse a different birth topic every month, with our hosts, who collectively have over 80 years of midwifery experience. For some episodes we will be inviting special guests to contribute towards our conversation. We do not intend any of our discussions to act as medical advice, and all of our considerations are merely our own thoughts and feelings on that particular subject, utilising our collective experience and knowledge. Our aim is to bring together the wider community of birth, combining clinical experience with the felt experience in a hope to demystify pregnancy and birth, and share information and evidence. Please visit our Instagram TeaandToastTalkingBirth or Tweet us @birth_tea with your thoughts, comments or suggestions for future shows. Title music by Rojj from Fugue Supported by The University of Hull
Episodes
The topic for this episode is the Golden Hour, and the team are joined by student midwife Aimee Honeysett and midwife and midwifery lecturer Ola Ogbuehi as they consider the physiology of the first hour after birth and some of the practices which may be more or less helpful during this time.
Resources
Eyal Abraham, Talma Hendler, Orna Zagoory-Sharon, Ruth Feldman,
Interoception sensitivity in the parental brai...
In this episode of the Tea & Toast podcast, the team discuss mental health and mental ill health before and after birth. Joined by midwifery lecturer and researcher Dr. Catriona Jones, they discuss why this can be such a vulnerable time for parents' mental health and consider what strategies and support might help.
Accessing support around mental health in the perinatal period
If you have any concerns ab...
Episode 6 of the Tea & Toast podcast sees the team considering the use of complementary and alternative medicine and therapies in pregnancy and birth. Joined by midwifery lecturer and researcher Dr. Catriona Jones, they discuss why women might choose to use complementary therapies, have a look at some of the issues around evidence and contemplate the role of the midwife in this area.
References
Dekker, R. (201...
This episode of Tea & Toast: Talking Birth looks at one of the most common interventions in modern maternity care - induction of labour. We consider how and why labour might be induced and consider the experiences of Leanne, who had her first labour induced, and Sarah, a third year student midwife, and how she has found offering and undertaking inductions.
References
Dagustun, J. (2012) Beware the dead baby ca...
A special edition of Tea & Toast for the new academic year, this episode features two of our student midwives at the end of their first year of the programme as we reflect upon professionalism, what it means in midwifery and how it impacts on the experience of childbearing women and their families through pregnancy and birth.
Resources
Halldorsdottir, S. & Karlsdottir, S. (2011) The primacy of the good mid...
The Tea & Toast team are delighted to bring you June's episode, which considers issues around freebirth. As result of pressures during the COVID-19 pandemic, some maternity services have suspended access to home birth or midwifery led units, meaning that some women may not be able to access the place of birth that they had planned. It seems possible that this has led to an increase in the number of women opting for freebir...
The Tea & Toast team are delighted to bring you May's episode, which looks at childbirth and time, especially around the latent phase of labour, inspired by an extract from Trudy Stevens' chapter 'Time and Midwifery Practice' in Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time.
Episode 2 - About Time and Birth
Resources
Armstrong, P. & Feldman, S. (2017) A Midwife’s Story: life, love...
For our first ever episode, the team discuss what a positive birth experience means, and what steps women, midwives and students can take which might help achieve it.
Podcast Episode 1: A Positive Birth Experience
Resources
Cronk, M. (2010) The Midwife: a professional servant? In Kirkham, M. (ed.) The Midwife-Mother Relationship. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 55-65.
Dahlberg, U. & Aun...
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