251: Dr. Sarah Buckley - Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering • Preconception Planning • The Role Of Oxytocin
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Buckley is a New-Zealand-trained GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. She's also a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, where her research is focused on the hormone systems of labour and birth and the impacts of interventions.
Sarah is the mother of four home-born children, and currently combines motherhood with her work as a writer on pregnancy, birth, and parenting. She's the author of the bestselling book, Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How the birth of Sarah's children inspired her passion
- Nature's hormonal blueprint for labour and birth
- The impact of epidurals and C-sections on hormonal flow
- The reward and pleasure of birth
- Preconception planning
- The model of care
- Trusting your body
- Home birth is a safe option
- Water births
- Be flexible
- The impact of ultrasounds
- Get in touch with your baby
- Everything has its pros and cons
- The truth about epidurals
- The importance of oxytocin
- Ecstatic birth
- How a C-section affects the baby
- Why you should delay cord clamping
- Health benefits of the placenta
- What is a lotus birth?
- Power of skin-to-skin contact
- The rewarding benefits of breastfeeding
- Co-sleeping and breast-sleeping
- Find your tribe
- Educate yourself
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Related links:
Dr. Sarah Buckley – Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering (book)
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Dr. Sarah Buckley - Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing (report)
Ultrasound Scans in Pregnancy – Your Questions Answered! (Sarah's blog)
Epidurals in Labour (Sarah's blog)
Leaving Well Alone: A Natural Approach to the Third Stage of labour (Sarah's blog)
What's so Great about Hormonal Physiology? (Sarah's blog)
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James J. McKenna, PhD – Co-sleeping
Australian Breastfeeding Association
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I say the mother needs the baby to release their own oxytocin just as much as the baby needs the mother. Hello and Welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 251. |
| 0:15.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:17.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:20.0 | This week our featured guest is Sarah Buckley. She's a New Zealand trained |
| 0:24.4 | GP family physician with qualifications in GP obstetrics and family planning. |
| 0:29.3 | She's also a PhD Canada at the University of Queensland where research is focused on the hormone systems of labor and birth and the impacts of interventions. |
| 0:38.0 | Sarah is the mother of four home-born children and currently combines motherhood with her work as a writer on pregnancy, birth, and parenting. |
| 0:45.2 | She's the author of the best-selling book, Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering. |
| 0:48.8 | This was such an important conversation to have as it's going to benefit so many people who are |
| 0:53.8 | planning to have a family or someone that they might know in their life and I |
| 0:57.2 | know for Jesse and I this is something that's very timely as we aren't parents |
| 1:00.9 | yet so it's great to gather all this incredible information and we cover so much in this episode |
| 1:06.4 | we get into everything from finding out about nature's hormonal blueprint for labor and birth |
| 1:10.8 | the impact of epidurals and sea sections on hormonal flow, |
| 1:14.6 | pre-conception planning, how to have a home birth, the impact of |
| 1:18.6 | ultrasound, what an ecstatic birth is, what a lotus birth is, rewarding benefits of breastfeeding, and what |
| 1:26.2 | co-sleeping looks like. |
| 1:28.2 | So much incredible information, so excited if you guys to listen to this one. |
| 1:32.0 | Here we go with Sarah Buckley. |
| 1:33.7 | Hello Sarah and welcome to the podcast. How you doing today? |
| 1:36.8 | I'm good, thank you. Yeah, it's a beautiful winter morning here in Brisbane, Australia. |
| 1:41.2 | Amazing. It's a nice summer evening over here in Ontario. |
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