The Kick Pregnancy Podcast

This week on The Kick, Brigid talks with the Clinical Director of Monash IVF Sydney and CREI Dr Katrina Rowan about all things unexplained infertility.

You can find Dr Katrina on Instagram here

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This week on The Kick, we have gone into our archives to bring you an episode of how to support your partner during labour and birth. In this episode Brigid talks to Mitch Papas about the things he did to help support his partner Georgia during her labour and birth.

You can follow Mitch on Instagram here

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This week on The Kick, we have a quick kick where Dr Pat and Brigid talk about the term 'The Cascade of Interventions' and if it is really something you should be worried about.

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Just pregnant? Download our checklist to take to your first appointment.

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This week on The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid are back with their thirty-nineth Q and A session as they answer questions from listeners of The Kick.

This Q and A session answers the following listener questions:

• What are my options if I can't tolerate the Gestational Diabetes Test?
• Nausea and Vomiting in Labour.
• Should I have a Vaginal Birth or C-Section for subsequent births after a bladder prolapse?

You can listen to episode 17. When you are told you have diabetes in pregnancy here

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Just pregnant? Download our checklist to take to your first appointment.

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In this week's episode of The Kick, Brigid talks to Narelle Dickinson who is a Clinical and Health Psychologist about navigating pregnancy after a loss.

You can find Narelle's Instagram Here

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Just pregnant? Download our checklist to take to your first appointment.

Website: https://www.growmybaby.com.au/

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When your baby comes too early
We've all heard the term 'Premmie" and we've seen the little babies in the special care nurseries with their Naso-gastric tubes, little caps on their heads and surrounded by monitors. It's a frightening image but sometimes it always seems to happen to someone else - until it doesn't.

This podcast is all about defining what prematurity is. It covers:
• The known reasons for why a baby comes early.
• The signs that your baby might be coming early.
• The treatment your baby would need if they’re born early
• The current medical thinking about preventing prematurity.

We also talk about what we can all do to support mums of preterm babies.

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This week on The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid are back with their thirty-eighth Q and A session as they answer questions from listeners of The Kick.

This Q and A session answers the following listener questions:
• Subsequent pregnancies after a uterine dehiscence.
• Aspirin as a precautionary treatment for pre-eclampsia.
• Weighing up the options of trying to conceive naturally or undergoing fertility treatment.

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In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk about why you will be recommended a Vitamin K injection for your newborn, why an injection is better than oral dosing and some of the different reasons people will tell you that you should decline this intervention.

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This week on The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid are back with their thirty-seventh Q and A session as they answer questions from listeners of The Kick.

This Q and A session answers the following listener questions:
• Fertility and conception with adenomyosis
• On-call rosters in private obstetric care
• What is a uterine arteriovenous malformation?
•An update from a listener

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What are normal baby movements?
Baby movements is your baby’s way of telling you all is well. A healthy baby should move. Imagine if you were really sick, you would still move around the bed and get up several times a day to go the toilet. If you lay in bed for many hours, not moving at all, you would probably be dreadfully ill.
A baby that’s doing nothing is not normal.
And why are we so insistent about baby movements? If we look at unexpected stillbirths in the third trimester, an alarming number of those stillbirths are preceded by a couple of days of decreased or absent fetal movements.
This podcast covers:
• How picking your baby’s pattern of movement is important
• Why we moved away from ‘kick charts’
• Why going to sleep on absent fetal movements is not a strategy
• What to do if you think you have reduced or absent fetal movements
• Why a baby ‘slowing’ down at term is not a sign you are going into labour.

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This re-released episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talks about what cytomegalovirus (CMV) is, how it is spread, how it can impact pregnancy and things you can do to reduce the risk of transmission.

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In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk all about feeling tired and fatigued in pregnancy and some of the causes of these feelings.

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This week on The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid are back with their thirty-sixth Q and A session as they answer questions from listeners of The Kick.

This Q and A session answers the following listener questions:
• What can you do to increase the success of an embryo transfer?
• Unusual cervix presentations in first births
• What can I do to decrease my risk of gestational hypertension?
• A hot tip from a listener!

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Content Warning: This episode of The Kick discusses mental illness and suicidal thoughts, if you feel you need support please use any of the links at the bottom of the show notes.

In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk about common pregnancy symptoms that may not always be normal, and the red flags to look out for.

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This week on The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid are back with their thirty-fifth Q and A session as they answer questions from listeners of The Kick.

This Q and A session answers the following listener questions:
• How does an extra placental lobe affect my pregnancy and birth?
• When can I restart my folate vitamins after a methotrexate injection for an ectopic pregnancy.
• Is my short luteal phase the reason i'm struggling to conceive?

If you have a question you want answered, please leave your message onspeakpipe to be chosen for Dr Pat to answer during a Q&A:

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In this week's episode of The Kick, Brigid talks with Seb from Canines on Cue about introducing your newborn to your dog and training your dog to be use to toddlers and babies.

You can find Seb's safe start course here.
You can find Seb on Instagram here.

If you have a question you want answered, please leave your message onspeakpipe to be chosen for Dr Pat to answer during a Q&A:

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Just pregnant? Download our checklistto take to your first appointment.

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In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk all about the syntocinon drip, including the pros and cons of its use and why it might be used in a labour.

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In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid discuss whether pregnancy and birth advice on social media is evidence-based or just loud and how to gauge the validity of the advice and infomation you see.

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In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk about why PCOS is now called PMOS and the new guidelines that accompany the name change.

You can find the new PMOS Guidelines here.

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In this quick kick epiosde of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk about who is in the room when you give birth and why they are there.

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