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December 7, 2025 84 mins
Wendy Jackson, mother and retired midwife with 30 years' experience in the UK and Australian maternity care systems, has a lot to say about the massive cultural, social and political issues that surround the world of birth. 
Main topics covered:
  • the importance of honouring and protecting the postnatal period/4th trimester, also known as matrescence,
  • women need to know the realities of the maternity system, as well as their incredible biology and how to protect its optimal functioining in the system,
  • defensive, interventionist (and often unquestioned) practices that have evolved over the millenia, especially over the last 100 years.
  • a resource she has developed for women navigating the perinatal period - her book "Mother Becoming".
Other references mentioned:
  • Prof. Archie Cochrane "the father of evidence based medicine" who jokingly awarded obstetrics with the "wooden spoon".
  • Jenny Allenson "The Golden Month"
  • Transforming Maternity Care Initiative
  • Dr Andrew Bissets, featured in "Birth Time"
  • Human Rights in Childbirth
  • Dr Carol de Costa "The Women's Doc" first professor of obs/gyn in Australia
  • Robbie Davis Floyd
NOTE: At 15 mins 51 secs, when referring to Dr Liz Fowler "trying to get vaginal birth in", she neglected to include the word "breech", so "trying to get vaginal BREECH birth in".

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