In this festive episode of mothers talking, Natalie and Jenna chat to lovely Freya Haines about everything hair and identity in motherhood. Freya is a mum of two and a hairdresser and in her new video series called 'Unbecoming' Freya is exploring a new mother's identity and how it transforms when they have a baby and how empowering it can be to get a new hairstyle. Freya chats about how she nurtures new mothers in the postnatal period through their hair and gives them a chance to explore the changes they are going through. This episode really sheds a light on how important our hair can be to us and how something simple can have a profound effect on our wellbeing. Thanks so much Freya.

If you would like to contact Freya, her details are below -

@kaiahairbyfreya

freyaclarehair@gmail.com

Salon - www.sta-studios.com

As always, thanks for listening,

Natalie and Jenna

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www.nataliemeddings.com

www.theminimalistdoula.com

As you probably know by now, Natalie can get quite excited about education. So she was especially pleased to have a chance to explore and explain the mysteries of Steiner schooling with Jenna Kim, mother of Cora, Ada and Iris, who are just starting out on that journey.

In this much needed episode of mothers talking, Natalie (author of Why Home Birth Matters) chats to Alex Smith. Alex Smith has been a childbirth educator since the 1970s and an observer of the changing attitudes to childbirth during that time. She has had the privilege of attending many home births and believes that this is probably the only setting where truly physiological birth is able to unfold. She regards the rapid escalation of induced labour and caesarean birth as an ecological issue with consequences for mankind that are as grave as the melting ice floes. As a mother, grandmother and great grandmother, Alex wants to see the winds of change shift in a way that will allow future generations of women to have restored faith in the natural process of birth - secure in their trust that medical resources are at hand, if needed, but as a safety net and not a conveyor belt.

This deep dive into the history of birth and how it has shaped maternity care today, is as fascinating as it is reassuring especially about how safe birth actually is when you can trust it. If you're wondering how to trust yourself when faced with the challenges of the maternity system, well you can use Alex's simple but very effective traffic light system...

Thank you so much to Alex for this wonderful episode.

AIMS (Association for Improvements in Maternity Services)

https://www.aims.org.uk/

Natalie's website where you can buy her books, Why Home Birth Matters and How to Have a Baby

www.nataliemeddings.com

As always, thanks for listening.

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