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Cuppa with a doula

Alicia Cloarec-Riouat

Welcome to cuppa with a doula, a podcast dedicated to sharing real stories on all things pregnancy, birth and parenting. Every week you will hear a mum or mum-to-be telling their story of pregnancy and parenting. Some stories are raw but all are real and told without any taboo. I"m your host Alicia, Exercise Physiologist and Doula. Through this podcast I hope to help you find information, reassurance and for you to feel like you are seen and heard. You are not alone so join in and enjoy the show!

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All Episodes

01:09:04

#041 Shanice - Uterine septum, endometriosis, FIFO,...

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2024/11/24

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation with the incredible ShaniceIn this episode we chat all about ✔️discovering she had a uterine septum during laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis and getting that removed before trying to conceiving ✔️her husband working FIFO which made it hard to line up ovulation with his work schedule ✔️going down the path of obstetrician led care as Shanice felt this would be better due to her previous gynecological surgeries ✔️finding out at 19 weeks that her

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01:28:11

#040 Rachel - PCOS, IVF, ICSI, fresh embryo transfer,...

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2024/11/09

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation with the amazing Rachel In this episode we chat all about ✔️trying to conceive and knowing that something wasn’t right - going on letrozol for 6 cycles and only ovulating twice ✔️deciding to go on IVF and deciding between light and regular IVF ✔️collecting 22 eggs from her IVF cycle but having none fertilize due to egg-sp*rm interaction problem ✔️doing IVF rounds using ICSI fertilisation and oocyte activation which gave Rachel the most fertilised

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01:48:12

#039 Ann - “small placenta may be the leading cause...

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2024/10/27

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation with the amazing Ann, all the way from the USA who shares with us the story of her motherhood journey and in particular the birth and death and her baby Elijah who passed away at term due to a small placenta size. Since then, Ann has created an amazing organisation in the USA called measure the placenta, backed by research showing that the detection of small placentas through measuring the placenta during pregnancy could help prevent a large number of

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01:07:24

Cuppa with a pro #08 Shantelle - NICU mum “my baby is...

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2024/06/02

Hey hey, Welcome back to another episode of Cuppa with a pro where I interview professionals that work within the pregnancy, birthing or parenting space to chat about their expertise. In today’s episode, I am chatting with Shantelle whose little boy Bowie was born at 24 weeks of gestation and spent 8 months in the NICU. Shantelle has already shared her story on the podcast (link below) and agreed to come back to help set a scene for what a NICU stay is like, talk about the language used and what

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01:35:47

#038 Grace - OCD, BMI bullying, positive hospital...

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2024/05/26

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation with the amazing Grace who is a mum to baby North and quite a strong minded woman as you will hear in this interview! In this episode we chat all about ✔️not knowing what her options are, going to her GP to confirm pregnancy and being told she will do shared care ✔️going to antenatal appointments at public hospitals and feeling so unsupported, not heard or listened to and being very triggered ✔️working hard to prepare for a positive birth by

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01:28:58

#037 Sarah - Endometriosis, birth centre,...

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2024/05/19

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation with the amazing Sarah, who is a special ed teacher, mum to 2 and now an author of her very own book “Little Harvey’s big feelings”, which you will hear more about on the podcast very soon! In this episode we chat all about ✔️tossing between birthing at a birth centre or having a home birth with a private midwife, based on her sister’s two births and the fact that her sister is a midwife in an MGP program ✔️deciding to birth at the birth centre where

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02:02:44

#036 Kellie - OB, hypnobirthing, GD,...

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2024/05/12

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation with the amazing Kellie, mum to 2 living in Brisbane and who has made it her mission to share motherhood as it is on instagram @naturallykellie_ In this episode we chat all about ✔️falling pregnant first go when trying for their first baby, which Kellie was not expecting at all ✔️interviewing her OB to ensure that they would be supportive of Kellie having an undisturbed birth and be able to birth on her own terms ✔️doing hypnobirthing and how

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01:04:06

Cuppa with a pro #07 Janelle - Women’s health...

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2024/05/05

Hey hey, Welcome back to another episode of Cuppa with a pro where I interview professionals that work within the pregnancy, birthing or parenting space to chat about their expertise. Before we dive into the episode, let me introduce you to this week’s sponsor: Executive Alice, taking care of all the behind the scenes of your business so you can do what you do best Find Steph and get in touch with her here https://www.instagram.com/executive.alice/ In today’s episode, I am chatting with

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01:08:21

#035 Cobi - OB, switched to private midwife at 20...

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2024/04/21

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation with the amazing Cobi, actually on the day of this episode being released is Cobi’s boy’s Sidney’s 2nd birthday, so happy birthday to you little SidneyIn this episode we chat all about ✔️initially going through an OB-led model of care, thinking she would get the highest possible care for herself and baby ✔️having a friend tell her about home birth and meeting with a private midwife, deciding this was the right option for her ✔️in hindsight seeing how

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01:03:41

#034 Mel - Indigenous birthing on country, mum at 22,...

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2024/04/14

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation with the amazing Mel who at the time of this recording is a mum to her daughter Alaska and has since welcomed into the world her baby boy Lakai In this episode we chat all about ✔️knowing she wanted to be a mum at a young age and having her daughter Alaska at 22 ✔️finding out about home birth by total chance and just knowing instantly that this was the way to birth for her ✔️still getting a referral for MGP after hiring private midwife and going to

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01:49:23

#033 Katherine - Doula, OB, 2x hospital births, calm...

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2024/04/07

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation with the extremely funny Katherine, I had an absolute blast recording the 3 incredible births of Katherine, who gave birth to her 2 children and was a surrogate for a couple in Australia ! In this episode we chat all about ✔️having difficult access to birth education 14 years ago, but doing calm birth to help her prepare for a physiological birth ✔️birthing her son with the same obstetrician, being very obedient and accepting an induction of

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00:55:04

Conversation #3 Alicia - the three pillars of...

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2024/04/01

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation focused on the three pillars of birth, what they mean and how they apply to the environment in which you will be birthing. This is something I found I have mentioned in a few birth story but that I feel really needs its own episode to really discuss the depth of it, so here it is! In this episode I chat about ✔️how the mothers and babies report 2021 reflects the current maternity system in Australia if birthing in a hospital ✔️why 97% of women in

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01:09:22

#032 Alyssa - thyroid condition, long conception,...

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2024/03/24

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation. Today I chat with Alyssa, a busy mum to 3 childrenIn this conversation we chat about ✔️having a long conception to conceive her first daughter due to an undiagnosed thyroid condition ✔️Having her waters break or leak around 37 weeks and having an ultrasound later in the pregnancy showing low fluid levels and a “small baby” ✔️agreeing to be induced due to low fluid levels and baby showing as being on the small side ✔️what the induction process was

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01:33:09

Cuppa with a pro #06 Sally - Maternity Choices...

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2024/03/17

Hey hey, Welcome back to another episode of Cuppa with a pro where I interview professionals that work within the pregnancy, birthing or parenting space to chat about their expertise. In today’s episode, I am chatting with the Sally Cusack, secretary from Maternity Choices Australia (MCA). MCA advocates to improves women’s birthing options state wide. In today’s conversation we chat about the following ✔️how to make a complaint to the hospital if you have received a service you are not happy

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00:44:00

Conversation #2 Alicia - the price of the hospital...

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2024/03/10

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation. What I wanted to address today was something that I have seen around “the price of freebirth” piece written by the ABC and add more to the conversation as I feel some very important points were not discussed. In this episode I chat about ✔️why freebirth isn’t on the rise but rather we are able to share it more easily and freely these days ✔️looking into stats from the most recent Australia mother and babies’s report and how they are reflecting the

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02:00:14

#031 Brittany PT2 - the difficult road from wanting a...

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2024/03/03

Thanks for tuning into part 2 of the amazing conversation I had with Brittany. After taking us through her first 2 birth, one heavily medicalised and one where she almost accidentally birthed her baby at home, Brittany reflected and decided to take a different path for the birth of her third son In this episode we chat all about ✔️how Brittany’s second birth and postpartum influenced her to do differently this time ✔️finding out that her GP who doesn’t support home births, used to be an

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01:46:49

#030 Brittany PT1 - “being a good girl”, OB, son...

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2024/02/25

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation with the amazing Brittany who, at the time of the recording was living on a remote cattle station and is now traveling around Australia in their camper trailer with her husband and three beautiful boys. In this episode we chat all about ✔️sharing the fertility load with the partner and not it only being the responsibility of the women ✔️choosing to have an OB for her first birth only because she thought “well I’m paying for private health insurance, I

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00:40:34

Cuppa with a doula conversation #1 Brittany -...

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2024/02/18

In today’s episode I am bringing you a very special guest, Brittany, who at the time of the recording was living on a cattle station with her husband and 3 boys and is now traveling full-time around Australia in their camper trailer I had some technical issues during the edit of this episode, it was actually edited twice because it didn't save properly and once I reedited it, it wouldn't export as a video so unfortunately, this one will be an audio only episode, sorry about that.. Before

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01:38:55

#029 Kirsty - First Australian to give birth after...

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2024/02/11

Thanks for tuning into today’s conversation with the incredible Kirsty, Australia’s first woman to receive a uterus transplant and subsequently fall pregnant. This is a story of hope for women out there who have had to have a hysterectomy or were born with a genetic defect meaning that they can’t carry a pregnancy. In this episode we chat all about ✔️falling pregnant the first time very quickly but having a miscarriage before conceiving their daughter Violet 2 months later ✔️going through a

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01:21:19

Cuppa with a pro #05 Catherine - Author of “The birth...

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2024/02/10

Purchase Catherine Bell’s book through here ⁠https://birthmap.life/?affiliates=78⁠ Check out Catherine Bell’s work at ⁠https://birthmap.life/⁠ Play “The game of birth” head over to ⁠https://birthmap.life/the-game/⁠ If you are currently pregnant, thinking of trying for a baby or know someone who is, please check out my FREE YouTube series “I’m pregnant! Now what?” Where I take you through how to navigate the system, how to effectively question and say “no”, what is consent, what models of care

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