Tea & Toast: Talking Birth
This podcast aims to discuss and muse a different birth topic every month, with our hosts, who collectively have over 80 years of midwifery experience. For some episodes we will be inviting special guests to contribute towards our conversation.
We do not intend any of our discussions to act as medical advice, and all of our considerations are merely our own thoughts and feelings on that particular subject, utilising our collective experience and knowledge. Our aim is to bring together the wider community of birth, combining clinical experience with the felt experience in a hope to demystify pregnancy and birth, and share information and evidence.
Please visit our Instagram TeaandToastTalkingBirth or Tweet us @birth_tea with your thoughts, comments or suggestions for future shows.
Title music by Rojj from Fugue
Supported by The University of Hull
Tea & Toast: Talking Birth
Latest Episodes
Episode 8: the Golden Hour
The topic for this episode is the Golden Hour, and the team are joined by student midwife Aimee Honeysett and midwife and midwifery lecturer Ola Ogbuehi as they consider the physiology of the first hour after birth and some of the practices whi...
Episode 7: Perinatal mental health matters
In this episode of the Tea & Toast podcast, the team discuss mental health and mental ill health before and after birth. Joined by midwifery lecturer and researcher Dr. Catriona Jones, they discuss why this can be such a vulnerable time for...
Episode 6: Alternative therapies in maternity care
Episode 6 of the Tea & Toast podcast sees the team considering the use of complementary and alternative medicine and therapies in pregnancy and birth. Joined by midwifery lecturer and researcher Dr. Catriona Jones, they discuss why women mi...
Episode 5: Induction of Labour
This episode of Tea & Toast: Talking Birth looks at one of the most common interventions in modern maternity care - induction of labour. We consider how and why labour might be induced and consider the experiences of Leanne, who had her fir...
Episode 4: Professionalism and Midwifery
A special edition of Tea & Toast for the new academic year, this episode features two of our student midwives at the end of their first year of the programme as we reflect upon professionalism, what it means in midwifery and how it impacts ...