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Clinical terms for parenting styles can often be misunderstood and loaded with bias. ‘Elimination Communication’ is one of these harsh sounding descriptions that seems to come out of a science lab! It ‘really means’ paying attention to your infant or toddlers verbal and non-verbal cues, and Cindy has lived it and writes about it.

Having an experienced Doula by your side before, during and after childbirth can fill a space that partners and parents may struggle with, or just not be equipped to handle. A sense of independent emotional support and help to understand - or just be a sounding board - for choices are among the benefits of having a 'villager' in your corner.

Our Tits Up guest today is Psychologist, Dr Levita D’Souza, and we are discussing ‘Attachment’ versus ‘Attachment Parenting’ – what do we really know?’ Levita takes us on a really insightful and surprising journey in this episode as we discuss, what is attachment? What impacts attachment and how the label ‘Attachment Parenting’ has been ‘stretched’…

Our Tits Up Guest today is Brave Mumma, Stephanie Thompson, cancer survivor, author, advocate, change maker, wife and mother of two little people. In 2015, Steph suffered a traumatic childbirth injury that changed her body and life forever.

Dr Jana Pitman – Olympian, World Champion athlete, mother of four and medical Dr in a busy emergency dept through the pandemic. You'll feel yourself getting 'puffed out' just listening to Jana Pittman's life! Often we think of athletes as determined, competitive, single minded and often, extrinsically motivated (and as time has gone by, Jana has…

Rhea’s understanding of birth has been gained over four decades. Her book ‘Birth with Confidence: savvy choices for normal birth’, explores the issue of physiological pain and the importance of experienced support. ‘While Beyond the Birth Plan: getting real about pain and power’ explores the deeper emotional and psychological dynamics impacting…

Jade Tolhurst lives in Melbourne with her husband Jordan and 2 year old son, Oscar. Jade’s life has been greatly impacted by mental illness. Growing up with family members who have experienced conditions such as depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. Then, as a new mother she developed postnatal depression and anxiety. 2 years postpartum, Jade…

Leonie Dawson is a multi-millionaire Mum who’s built a business from scratch in only ten hours a week – because that’s all the time she had around a high needs baby! Check out this sage advice from a Mum who knows how to combat the whirlwind expectations of perfection that plague mothers. And if she forgets and buys into the myth, then out comes…

Here to share her Tits Up story is Emily Writes, from New Zealand, Emily is a wife, a mum of two beautiful boys, a writer and author of two great books, ‘Rants in the Dark’ and ‘Is it Bedtime yet? Emily is a no BS woman, she tells it like it is and calls out the BS as she sees it, and when she’s not being serious, she is bloody hilarious! Most of…

With Dr Susie Obrien, journalist and columnist, Herald Sun and Sunrise, Author, ‘The Secret of Half-Arsed Parenting: Raising Kids with Half the Guilt and Twice the Joy’. Enjoy this racy and fun rant with Susie as she defines ‘half-arsed parenting’. Hint: it’s not negligence or opting out.