Maternal Mental Health Matters talks Birth Trauma with Dr Sarah Buckley.

Birth Trauma Awareness Week 2020 runs from 7-13th September. Throughout the week, tune in to insightful, thought-provoking and deeply honouring stories and discussions with people who have experienced birth trauma, clinicians and researchers in this area and maternity advocates working to change the system.

Sally speaks with Dr Sarah Buckley about the hormones of birth and how we can maximise them for the most efficient (and maybe even enjoyable) birth. The key to this is to feel private, safe and unobserved, then we instinctively release the right cocktail hormones at the right time.

Dr Sarah Buckley on the hormones of birth. Dr Buckley is a GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. She is the mother of four home-born children, and is also a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland,, where her research is focused on oxytocin and the autonomic nervous system in labour and birth, and the impacts of interventions. She is the author of the groundbreaking report Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing, which you can download for free at sarahbuckley.com. She is also the author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.

Dr Buckley can be found at:
www.sarahbuckley.com

Produced and presented by Sally Cusack
Guest: Dr Sarah Buckley

Original score by Romy Agam Rom - 'Openings'

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