The Mummy Diaries

I reemerge from my hibernation over the last few months of darkness with some reflections as a new mother, as an individual and what it means for MummyYoga. 

In this episode, I want to share with you my honest coping strategies of a harsh winter. I also want to share with you how despite making plans, having ideas sometimes our external spaces seep into our resolve and make our days so challenging. 

In this episode I talk to writer, speaker and coach Lyndsey Hookway. Lyndsey has spent more than 20 years in the field supporting babies and new parents. Her nursing and lactation consultant background gives her a unique perspective on the importance of gentle and responsive parenting. 

In episode 2 we talk to Louise who was "fat" or "high BMI" when she was pregnant and was treated exceptionally because of this label. Many of us will have some label attached to us during pregnancy, so Louise's journey through navigating these complex issues around professionalism, communication barriers and deep seated internal bias is relevant to us all. 

To help me understand the complexity of labelling women during pregnancy, I called upon my friend and midwife, Sam Bull to reflect on my chat with Louise. Sam has some amazing nuggets of wisdom on how we can think about not just labels but how we can approach our pregnancy care with context of evidence from generalised data to making individual decisions.