Episode 7: Informed, Supported, Confident with Dr Catherine Bell, Creator of The Birth Map

This special episode is the recording of our first live online panel, bringing together three Canberra practitioners who have each been guests on the podcast. Tracey Anderson Askew is a birth educator, coach and parenting specialist with nearly 30 years of experience who runs Transform Parenting. Lo Mathias is an endorsed midwife and internal pelvic release practitioner whose Canberra practice, Tall Trees Pelvic Care, supports women to prepare their bodies for birth and recover afterwards. An...

Rachel Whytcross is the founder of Shine Om and works as a sibling transition specialist, supporting families through what she calls one of the most significant and most under-served seasons in family life: the arrival of an additional baby. A former primary school teacher of over a decade, and also a yoga teacher and mindfulness coach, Rachel built her signature program, the Joyful Parenting Project, after living through the transition herself as a mother of two girls 21 months apart. Rachel...

Anne Endres is a Canberra midwife and IBCLC lactation consultant who has supported hundreds of families through pregnancy, birth and feeding. Multiple women in this community pointed me toward Anne. She is considered something of a breastfeeding guru here. I heard Anne's name again and again before we sat down, always from women who said the same thing: she was the person who finally made feeding make sense for them. That reputation is well earned. In this conversation we cover why feeding is...

Narelle Dickinson has worked in the fertility, pregnancy and postpartum space for 25 years. She began her career in an obstetric hospital unit after an early plan to become a forensic psychologist didn't pan out, and quickly found her calling working with women. Over time her practice broadened into donor conception and surrogacy counselling, and obstetric loss and birth trauma. She now supports people across the full spectrum of family creation, from those navigating anxiety and depression i...

Kellie Hermes is a Canberra-based birth and postpartum doula, Reiki practitioner and mother of four, and the founder of Adorabirth. Her path into this work began with her own births, including the loss of her first baby, and the deeply supported water birth of her daughter that followed, guided by a continuity-of-care midwife who believed completely in her body. That experience of being trusted through a hard posterior labour became the blueprint for the doula she is today. In this conv...