The Relaxed Mama Club
The Relaxed Mama Club
Podcast Description
A bit of calm for baby and beyond...
Exploring physical and mental health and wellbeing during pregnancy, postpartum and parenthood. Helping you to navigate the journey with expert interviews, personal experiences and a fair bit of humour too!
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Main topics explored include mental health during pregnancy, creative outlets for wellbeing, hypnobirthing, and navigating the return to work after maternity leave. Episodes feature personal experiences and expert interviews, such as discussing the benefits of crafting with Demi Blue-Dean and understanding hypnobirthing with Sarah Mortimer.
Join Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist and birth educator Louise Lynch as she dives into the emotional, physical, and psychological sides of motherhood. Through honest conversations and expert interviews, The Relaxed Mama Club helps you release pressure, manage expectations, and reconnect with yourself – reminding you that whatever stage you’re in, you’re never alone. Real, relatable, and rooted in compassion, this is your space to breathe, learn, and feel supported on the journey into and through motherhood.
What can decades of childbirth legal cases teach us about preparing for a safer birth?
In this episode of The Relaxed Mama Club, I’m joined by US-based childbirth attorney and bestselling author Gina Mundy.
Gina has spent more than 20 years working on childbirth cases, analysing medical records and looking closely at the decisions made during labour and birth. For much of her career, she represented hospitals and healthcare professionals. More recently, she has shifted her focus to representing families and using what she has learned to help parents prepare for childbirth.
Her book, A Parent’s Guide to a Safer Childbirth, brings those lessons directly to expectant parents.
This felt like a particularly important conversation to have right now. Here in the UK, recent maternity investigations and reports have understandably left many pregnant women questioning how safe maternity care is, and perhaps wondering what they can actually do to protect themselves and their babies.
But this isn't an episode about frightening you.
It's about knowledge, preparation and knowing that your voice matters.
Gina and I talk about what she has learned from years of childbirth cases, the patterns she has seen when things go wrong, and the practical steps parents can take to become active participants in their maternity care.
We also explore the current conversation around ”normal birth”, how we can avoid creating a false choice between physiological birth and medical intervention, and why safer birth should ultimately be about receiving the right care for you and your baby at the right time.
Birth preparation isn't about trying to control every detail of your birth. It's about understanding your options, knowing what questions you can ask, involving your birth partner and feeling confident enough to take an active role in your care.
Find Gina:
📖 Buy A Parent's Guide to a Safer Childbirth
Prepare for birth with The Relaxed Mama Club:
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Because birth preparation isn't about predicting exactly how your birth will unfold. It's about feeling better equipped to meet it.
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