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This episode is a little bit different. I'm in Perth at the moment visiting my family, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to sit down with my mum and talk to her about her birth story. In the lead up to my son's birth late last year, my parents came over from Perth, and I remember asking my mum about her birth story. I found it a really empowering thing to listen to, and it gave me a lot of strength going into my own birth, because she went through something that wa

Dr Catherine Bell | Birth Map | PhD Researcher, Birth Advocate and Managing Director, Maternity Choices Australia Dr Catherine Bell is the creator of the Birth Map, a birth advocate, science communicator and PhD researcher, and she is also the Managing Director of Maternity Choices Australia, where she is working to roll out the Birth Map nationally and eventually globally. She came to this work through her own birth experiences and through years of hearing women say, “I wish

Dr Jan Jamieson | Acupuncture Therapist and Chinese Medicine Practitioner, Canberra Dr Jan Jamieson has been practicing acupuncture and Chinese medicine in Canberra for over 42 years. She holds a Masters of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Western Sydney University and is currently a PhD candidate at ANU, where her research sits at the intersection of fertility and ethics in Chinese Medicine. She is AHPRA registered and a member of the Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medi