MamaBetes

MamaBetes

MamaBetes is a podcast created by 3 Australian women with type 1 diabetes for other women with type 1 diabetes. Mamabetes brings lived experiences backed by evidenced based practice on what it’s like to plan pregnancy, be pregnant and be a mum with type 1 diabetes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

July 31, 2022 50 mins

Listeners are advised that this episode contains themes of domestic and family violence. If you are impacted by any of the content we discuss today, please reach out to 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732), or another trusted individual.

We are joined this week by Shoshanna, who was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes while raising her family. We listen to Shoshanna share her story about how she and her children adjusted to this diagnos...

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Rachel, Carleigh and Ash sit down this week to discuss the sleep of our children in the early years. We share how we coped with changing sleep after our babies' were born, the progression of their sleep, the effect on our relationships with our partners and ourselves, and the impact it had on our diabetes and overall health.

Our babies all slept so differently but one thing was universal amongst us - that none of us a...

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June 16, 2022 64 mins

This week, we sat down with Maddy, to talk about her two birth stories. Maddy openly talks about birth trauma after her first baby, a fourth degree tear, making the decision to have another child, having a new healthcare team, and being empowered to have a beautiful, healing birth - all while having type 1. 

For support related to birth trauma, please reach out to the Australasian Birth Trauma Association.

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June 10, 2022 32 mins
Welcome back to MamaBetes! In this short introduction episode we let listeners know what we have been up to and set the scene for this season.

Make sure you subscribe to us wherever you listen to your podcast so you never miss an episode, and leave us a review so that others can find us too. Please jump over and find us on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter. The MamaBetes team love connecting with you on these platforms! To...

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September 9, 2021 57 mins
On this weeks’ episode of MamaBetes, we are very excited to be chatting about ENDIA - The Environmental Determinants of Islet Autoimmunity (ENDIA) Study. The ENDIA study aims to find the cause(s) of type 1 diabetes to inform ways to prevent it. Joining us for this episode is Kelly McGorm, who is the Engagement Coordinator of ENDIA.

If you wish to find out some more about ENDIA, such as more about what they do or more infor...

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August 31, 2021 76 mins

On this weeks’ episode of MamaBetes, we are discussing assisted deliveries.  Belinda Moore, trusted Midwife and Diabetes Educator joins us again to talk about what an assisted delivery involves, why you might need one, how common they are, and the benefits and risks. Our lived experience guest Isabelle Smith shares her induction experience and resulting ventouse, episiotomy and forceps delivery.

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August 6, 2021 49 mins

Today we are privileged to be bringing you the two birth stories of Sofie, for her son Darcy In 2016, and her daughter Audrey in 2019. Sofie had the experience of one spontaneous labour and one induced labour, choosing to birth privately both times

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July 15, 2021 59 mins
Hugh, Drew and Ray talked so much in their season 2 episode that we had to split the podcast into two parts. In Part 2 of this season's discussion, they talk about the immediate post partum period and what it was like to become a new dad.

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July 8, 2021 38 mins
This week on MamaBetes, Carleigh is bringing you another amazing birth story from our community. For this episode, they are joined by Mikaela, who shares the birth story of her son Jasper. Jasper was born in October 2019 and is the first baby for Mikaela and her partner Sam.

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June 25, 2021 65 mins

Today we are talking about the post partum experience with type 1 diabetes - how our bodies were impacted, what we did to care for ourselves and our babies whilst juggling our diabetes, any challenges we faced, and our recovery after birth.

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June 19, 2021 45 mins
This week Ray, Drew and Hugh take the mics to talk about  their introduction to fatherhood and how they  felt as they supported their partners through labour and birth.

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June 2, 2021 37 mins
This week on MamaBetes, Rachel and Carleigh are very excited to be bringing you another birth story from our community. For this episode, they are joined by Jade Powne, who shares the birth story of her son Harrison, who is the first baby born to Jade and her husband Sean, in October 2020.

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On this weeks’ episode of MamaBetes, we chat about our experiences with managing our diabetes as we settled into new mum life. We share some of our tips and tricks that helped us, as well as what we wish we knew. Some of the topics we discuss are setting up the house, supplies, how to ask for help and support services.

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May 19, 2021 30 mins
This week on MamaBetes, Rachel and Carleigh are privileged to bring their first guest birth story to our community. For this episode, they are joined by Sophie Bartusch who shares the birth story of her son Archer, her beautiful rainbow baby born in January 2020.

If you would like to check out what Sophie and Archer get up to more regularly, you can find her on Instagram @sophiejanebartusch.

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Today we are discussing diabetes care and blood sugar management during labour, birth and the post-partum period. We will be sharing our own management plans and decisions for our deliveries, the experiences we had as a result, as well as who we turned to to help us during this time.

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April 28, 2021 56 mins
This week on MamaBetes, we are so happy to be bringing our community the birth story of MamaBetes founder Ashleigh, and her beautiful (and long-awaited!) baby girl Adeline. Adeline was born in October 2020 and is the first baby for Ashleigh and her husband Hugh.

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On this week's episode of MamaBetes, we talk about navigating Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Special Care Unit stays after birth. Joining us for this episode is Cassandra, who delivered her daughter prematurely at 26 weeks. Her daughter was classified as a micropremmie, and spent 11 weeks in NICU and 1 week in special care.

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March 26, 2021 77 mins

This week on MamaBetes we are joined once again by Belinda Moore, paediatric nurse, midwife, diabetes ducator and Endia study research nurse as we chat about induction of labour deliveries. Rachel and Ash share their personal stories of being induced, whilst Belinda provides valuable information about different types of inductions and what women with diabetes may experience in their inductions.

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March 10, 2021 43 mins
This week the MamaBetes team bring you the birth story of Carleigh and Noah. Noah was born in via "emergency elective" caesarean, which will be explained more throughout this episode, in September 2019 and is the second baby to join Carleigh and her husband Drew earthside.

If you would like to check out what Carleigh and Noah get up to more regularly, you can find her on Instagram @_carleigheastlake_.

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March 3, 2021 69 mins
This week on MamaBetes Ash, Carleigh and Rachel talk about their experience with early feeding in the first 6 months - before solids are introduced - and how they managed to look after babies feeding needs alongside their diabetes care. 

They cover the decisions they made regarding feeding their kiddos, the support they received in feeding, some of the challenges and stigma that they encountered along the way, as well as s...

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