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.
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Title music by Rojj from Fugue
Supported by The University of Hull
Tea & Toast: Talking Birth
Episode 2: About Time and Birth
The Tea & Toast team are delighted to bring you May's episode, which looks at childbirth and time, especially around the latent phase of labour, inspired by an extract from Trudy Stevens' chapter 'Time and Midwifery Practice' in Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time.
Episode 2 - About Time and Birth
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