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Total podcasts produced by Sally: 30

The best way to Cloth Nappy; with Jannine Barron

Published: 11/12/2015

Sally's interview with Jannine Barron, founder of Nature's Child on cloth nappies.
Aired on 99.9 BayFM Byron Bay on 7 Dec 2015.
www.natureschild.com.au
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Annie Bryant singer storyteller "Summertime Christmas"

Published: 11/12/2015

Sally's interview with Annie Bryant about ways to bring meaning to the festive season beyond just consumerism. And she performs live her new song "Summertime Christmas Song" in the studio with a small children's choir.
www.talesandsongs.com
Aired on 99.9 BayFM Byron Bay on 7 Dec 2015.
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack
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Paul Crebar on Expectant Fatherhood

Published: 29/11/2015

Sally's interview with expectant father, Paul Crebar about his hopes and expectations and the mysteries of parenthood that await him. The two main mysteries for him at in the last 10 mins!
Features a couple of mins of another interview with Robin Grille on the birth of his daughter. "It was like the ocean was looking at me."
Paul also talks about the imprint of fatherhood that his dedicated father has given him, what he wants to do the same, what he would do differently.
Paul also cites his most important educational resources for preparing for birth:
Films: Birth as We Know it by Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova and Birth Day by Frank Ferrel and Diana Paul
Book: Down to Earth Birth Book by Jenny Blyth
Also cites Will Smith when wondering about one of the mysteries that awaits him.
Aired on 99.9 BayFM Byron Bay, Australia on 16 November 2015.
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Monica Elliott on cravings during her pregnancies

Published: 05/10/2015

Monica Elliott, mother of Ros Elliott from Go Earthcare show on BayFM, shares her experiences with cravings during pregnancy over 60 years ago.
Sincerest thanks to Ros for the recording, and to Monica for sharing her experiences.
Aired on BayFM on 5 October 2015
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Patricia Edmonds PART 2 Home Birth Midwifery & more

Published: 05/10/2015

Part 2 of Sally's interview with Patricia Edmonds, American homebirth midwife about midwifery, continuity of care and much more. Recorded at Byron Bay in November 2014, aired on BayFM on 5 Oct 2015.
Part 1 here:
http://www.spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/patricia-edmonds-on-use-of-ultrasounds-i
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack
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Nicole Moore on the limbic imprint and our olfactory senses

Published: 05/10/2015

Nicole Moore from Birth into Being Australia on the impact of smells in our early life and how we carry them into our adult lives, as well as for a mother and baby to bond.
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Patricia Edmonds on use of ultrasounds in pregnancy Pt1

Published: 04/10/2015

Part one of Sally's two part interview with Patricia Edmonds, homebirth midwife from the US about the role of technology such as ultrasounds during pregnancy and their perceived benefits. Aired on 99.9 BayFM on 28 September 2015.
Part 2 here: http://www.spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/patriciaedmondspart2of2-20150928
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Nicole Moore on emotional healing with water

Published: 04/10/2015

Sally's interview with Nicole about the use of water in healing from past traumas and 'recoding' our limbic imprint. Aired on BayFM on 28 September 2015.
Refs:
http://birthintobeing.com.au/nicole-moore/
Call to Conscious Birth video: https://vimeo.com/91479892
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Shayla Plosko and Ritchie Male Student Midwife

Published: 02/09/2015

Sally's interview with Shayla Plosko, mum from Canberra who started a petition to have maternity services policies and procedures updated according to latest research. This is in response to what she describes as being her son's unnecessarily traumatic birth two years ago.
https://www.change.org/p/health-minister-revise-outdated-hospital-policies
From 26:55 we also have a follow up interview with male student midwife and dad Ritchie. We first met Ritchie earlier this year when we played his interview recorded at the Midwifery Today Conference in Byron Bay in November 2014. Ritchie is an officer in the navy and is looking to make the career transformation to homebirth midwifery next year.
Recorded via Skype from Singapore, so please excuse the sound quality.
First interviews with Ritchie at: http://www.spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/student-male-midwife-part-1-of-2
Interviews aired on 99.9 BayFM on 10 Aug 2015
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Murwillumbah Birth Service Update and Jane Hardwicke Collings

Published: 31/08/2015

Aired on 99.9 BayFM on 31 Aug 2015.
Sally's update on campaign to reinstate birthing services at Murwillumbah Hospital
and
at 7:45 mins her interview with independent homebirth midwife and teacher of women's mysteries Jane Hardwicke Collings. Topics include how each rite of passage a woman goes through informs the next rite of passage, eg from menarche to birth to peri-menopause and menopause, benefits of preparing for each rite of passage to be open to the change and learn from each experience.
More info on Jane: www.moonsong.com.au
References: "The Wisdom of Menopause" by Dr Christiane Northrup, "Being Born" by Robyn Fernance and maieutic (Socratic) method of midwifery, Dr Sharon Maloney, Qld, re. connection between menstrual shame and difficulties in birth.
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Rites of Passage with Tamara Newlands and Natural Learning with Dudley Leggett

Published: 27/07/2015

Sally's interview with Tamara Newlands facilitator of Rites of Passage to Womanhood Camp about the importance of acknowledging rites of passage for young women.
Refs: tamaranewlands.com and doctorarne.com
And Dudley Leggett, co-founder of Dharamananda Community and Sustainability Research Institute about natural learning and models for families living in community.
www.sustainable-research.org
infinitechoices.com.au conference - 1-3 October 2015
Aired on BayFM on 27 July 2015
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack
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Ziggy Alberts on Homeschooling

Published: 27/07/2015

Sally's interview with local musician and free surfer Ziggy Alberts (ziggyalberts.com) about his homeschooling experiences with his family until he was 13 years old.
Other refs: "Live Learn Love" by his mother Csilla Totzer
Aired on BayFM on 13 July 2015
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack
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The state of maternity services in Northern NSW

Published: 05/07/2015

Sally Cusack on the state of maternity services in the Northern NSW Local Health District. In 2009 national health reforms led to the signing of the National Maternity Services Plan (NMSP), which obliged the implementation of midwifery-led continuity of care for all women by 2015. All state health ministers signed this agreement at the COAG of 2010. In 2010 NSW Health created the Towards Normal Birth, a policy directive in line with the NMSP to be implemented by 2015 for all women using maternity services in LHDs. So far, we have the wonderful services at Mullumbimby, Lismore and until recently Murwillumbah, but other than that, our LHD is unlikely to implement with TNB and the NMSP for all women. And it's a very retrograde step to be removing the service at Murwillumbah.
With thanks to Carolyn Hastie and Rachel Bryant.
To find out more: go to www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Tweed-Valley-Birthing-Service/
and
www.facebook.com/groups/FriendsofNNSWLHDBirthingServices
How are maternity services in your area? We'd love to hear from you!
And you can make your voice heard at:
nnswlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/about/northern-nsw-local-health-district/complaints-and-compliments/
Aired at 99.9 BayFM on 29 June 2015
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack
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Paulette Bray-Narai on NVC and parenting

Published: 27/06/2015

Sally's interview with local certified Non-Violent Communication instructor, Paulette Bray-Narai about NVC and its value in parenting.
www.expresspeace.com
www.cnvc.org
Marshall Rosenberg's Book "Non-Violent Communication"
Aired on 99.9 BayFM on 15 June 2015
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Zanni Louise on creativity for parents

Published: 06/06/2015

Importance of parents expressing their creativity and tips for doing so.
Zannilouise.com
mylittlesunshinehouse.com
Aired on 99.9 BayFM on 1 June 2015
Motherhood and Creativity: The Divided Heart by Rachel Powers, featuring conversations with some of Australia’s most prominent female artists like Rachel Griffiths and Clare Bowditch
http://rachel-power.blogspot.com.au/
The North Coast Creative Business Women’s Community - a closed Facebook group for connection and inspiration https://www.facebook.com/groups/creativebusinesswomen/
Mama Creative: Interviews with women who balance creativity with motherhood on My Little Sunshine House blog: http://mylittlesunshinehouse.com/category/mama-creative/
Meet Me At Mikes: a blog by Pip Lincoln who is a very creative mother. She’s also written a book called “Craft for the Soul" http://meetmeatmikes.com/
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Sally with Erica NettleChik - Creating Luminous Youth

Published: 24/05/2015

Sally's interview with Erica Nettle-Chik on the work of mums to create luminous youth, how we need to develop our intuition for raising our children, as we are the experts in what they need.
http://www.luminousyouth.com/events.html
Refs: Nassim Harramein, Robin Grille, Bruce Lipton, Anastasia and the Ringing Cedar Series, Lucy Cavendish, Heart Math Institute
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack
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In Celebration of Publicly Funded Homebirth

Published: 04/05/2015

To mark the 3rd anniversary of commencement of Mullumbimby Community Birthing Service's Homebirth Programme, Sally's interview with midwife Debra Hayhoe and local mother Bridget Perry. Aired on 99.9 BayFM on Monday 4 May 2015.
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Link: http://nnswlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/about/hospitals/mullumbimby-district-war-memorial-hospital/mullumbimby-birth-centre/the-home-birth-program/
Other: Birth Afloat birthing pools

Michel Odent on the Foetal Ejection Reflex - Entire Interview

Published: 25/04/2015

Sally's complete interview with retired French obstetrician Michel Odent and 'protector' of the labouring woman's natural process (or "foetus ejection reflex"). Recorded 30 March 2015.
0-6 mins - Introduction
6 min - Interview commences
15 min - Natural childbirth advocates and medical view have been working to short term criteria of emphasis on live mother and baby at the end of the process, but he calls for us to expand our view to take into account longer term impacts of interventions.
18:30 min - Hormones of childbirth
20 min - Lack of general understanding of birth physiology and the needs of the labouring woman. Need to ask "what are the needs of the labouring woman, and not simply promote natural childbirth. We need to think "like physiologists" and identify possible inhibitory factors. Key word - to "protect" the natural process.
24:30 - Our powerful neo-cortex and how it inhibits our birth process if engaged and active.
27:30 - Human sense of smell is stronger than we realise and is inhibited by the neo-cortex.
29:30 Need reduced neo-cortical activity to give birth.
31 min - How to reduce neo-cortical activity (eg be in dark)
35 min - Our cultural conditioning of "helping" the labouring woman - where there is an active role necessarily played by someone else, not the woman, which is disempowering for her. Socialisation of birth started in Neolithic times.
37 min - Paleolithic women probably isolated themselves, so our cultural conditioning is around 10,000 years old.
45 min - Turning 85 yrs this year and feels he is running out of time so must speak directly about these issues and not worry about being politically correct.
48 min - Our fear of birth started during Neolithic times when women saw other women giving birth and built up culture around experts and helpers needing to attend birthing women, whereas Paleolithic women probably did it alone, ie their behaviour not observed so story couldn't build up around what they did when birthing.
49 min - most women experience disturbed birth. Authentic midwifery needs to set up optimal conditions for foetal ejection reflex to occur. Difficulty for women is that when they birth instinctively their behaviour can be culturally unacceptable for those present.
57 min - 1970 footage of Papua New Guinean woman giving birth alone. Her mother helps her set up birth space then moves away for the actual moment of birth.
1:01 min - "Support" is the most toxic word as it gives women the idea that they can only do it with the help of others. Urgent need to reconsider words we use and look at using words like "protection" instead.
1:06 - Natural childbirth advocates and medical practioners alike interfere with natural childbirth process by using words like "Support".
1:07 - Newborns need love, microbes and stress - what is meant by stress. Impacts on pre-labour caesarean babies.
1:13 - We need to study babies born without labour and those born with labour (and born either vaginally or by C/s)
1:14 - Swedish study into sense of smell on newborns - comparison between babies born vaginally or by C/S. The sense of smell is 'switched on' by noradrenalin, a hormone produced by the baby in labour and it is needed to help a baby find the nipple.
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Hannah Dahlen-epigenetics and birth

Published: 18/04/2015

Epigenetic impacts of birth interventions on our species, what women need to give birth, experiences with midwifery in hospital and home with Hannah Dahlen. http://www.hannahdahlen.com.au/ Aired 13 April 2015.
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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An active neocortex: The greatest risk in birth with Michel Odent

Published: 12/04/2015

French obstetrician Michel Odent on the disruptive role that the neocortext can plan in birth. The biggest risk to a woman giving birth naturally is from her neocortex, and not being able to disengage from it.
Sally's complete interview with Michel is here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/michel-odent-entire-interview-30-mar2015
www.wombecology.com
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Dr. Sarah Buckley on Birth Hormones

Published: 09/03/2015

PBB Radio's contribution to Australia's Community Radio Network's broadcast for International Women's Day 2015 - aired Sunday 8 March 2015.
Hormones of birth with Dr Sarah Buckley
'Physiological' birth with Scandinavian midwife Tine Greve
Interviews recorded at Midwifery Today Conference Nov 2014 Byron Bay
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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From Midwife to Mother with Danie Smallwood

Published: 20/02/2015

Sally's interview with Danie Smallwood, local midwife of 3 yrs, becoming a mother, how this experience may be changing her perspectives as a midwife.
First part of this recording is a review of VDay Byron Bay's performance of Vagina Monologues, including a brief recording from the birth monologue.
Then final part of (part 3 of 3) interview with a male student midwife. See parts 1 and 2 with our other recent episodes.
(Part 1: https://www.spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/student-male-midwife-part-1-of-2)
(Part 2: https://www.spreaker.com/user/4527888/male-student-midwife-part-2-of-3)
Then interview with Danie.
Related links:
www.vdaybyronbay.com.au
"The Aware Baby" book by Aletha Solter, PhD.
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack
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Ritchie's Journey to Midwifery

Published: 16/02/2015

Sally's interview with US Naval officer turned student midwife, about fatherhood, his second child's VBAC birth and his upcoming career change. Recorded at Midwifery Today Conference in Byron in November 2014. Aired 19 Jan, 2 Feb and 16 Feb 2015 on 99.9 BayFM Byron Bay.
Follow up interview 6 months later here: http://www.spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/shayla-plosko-and-ritchie-male-student-m
And interview with Ritchie's wife Grace about their third child's birth here:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/4527888/grace-unleashed-birthing-differently-this-time
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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VBAC and stalled labour with midwife Deborah McGillivray

Published: 15/02/2015

Interview with Deborah McGillivray from familymidwives.com.au about her VBAC practice and the gentle, on again, off again nature of VBAC labour. Recorded at Midwifery Today Conf. 2014 and aired on 19 Jan2015.
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack
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Male Student Midwife Part 2 of 3

Published: 15/02/2015

Part 2 of Sally's interview with a male student midwife, about how becoming a father has inspired him to study midwifery, particularly homebirth midwifery. Aired on 2 Feb 2015.
Part 3 here (approx 5 mins in): https://www.spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/danie-smallwoodmidwife-becoming-a-mother
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Tigress Yoga for Intuition with Claudine von Niederhausern

Published: 10/02/2015

Sally's interview with Claudine, Tigress Yoga instructor about TY and how she taps into her intuition as a mother and a woman.
(Note BayFM experienced some transmitter disruption that day, which can be heard slightly in the early part of this interview only.)
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Male Student Midwife Part 1 of 3

Published: 01/02/2015

Sally's interview with student male midwife about his wife's VBAC experience that ignited an interest in him to change careers from being an officer in the US Navy to midwifery. Recorded at Midwifery Today Conference in Byron Bay November 2014. Aired 19 Jan 2015.
Part 2 here: http://www.spreaker.com/user/pregnancybirthandbeyond/male-student-midwife-part-2-of-3
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack
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Maternity services at new Byron Hospital

Published: 06/01/2015

Interview by Sally and Samaya Nicholls-Askill from Mullumbimby Aust Breastfeeding Association with Jenny Shaw from NNSW Local Health District about the move of the maternity services at Mullumbimby Hospital to the new Byron hospital site in 2016. Aired on 8 Dec 2014.
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack.
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Dr Sarah Buckley on Birth Hormones

Published: 06/01/2015

Sally's interview with Dr Sarah Buckley at the Midwifery Today Conference in Byron Bay in November 2014. Here she talks about the main hormones of birth and childrearing, breastfeeding, and how they equate to the hormonal interactions of sexual activity, how women develop 1000s more oxytocin receptors in their bodies, which is vital for the oxytocin rush of birth, how artificial induction can impeded by a woman not yet having all the oxytocin receptors she needs for birth.
www.sarahbuckley.com
Produced and Presented by Sally Cusack
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What does meconium in the waters really mean with Rachel Reed

Published: 05/01/2015

Sally's interview with Dr Rachel Reed regarding health issues for babies when their amniotic sacs break at the end of pregnancy and the fluid is stained with meconium (baby's first bowel movement). Recorded at the Midwifery Today Conference in Byron Bay in November 2014.
Produced and presented by Sally Cusack
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