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Ready Birth Go

Carly Sandland

Real birth stories, told by the women and their partners who lived them.

Each episode, host Carly Sandland - birth doula and founder of The Doula Club - sits down with parents to hear their birth stories. What they expected. What actually happened. The decisions, the turning points, and what they wish they'd known.

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  • 2 episodes
  • Updated Thursday

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  • Thursday · 39 min

    Madeleine Shaw on lifting her own baby out during her caesarean

    In this episode of Ready Birth Go, Carly Sandland talks to nutritionist and bestselling author Madeleine Shaw about her two births, and the honest, messy, wonderful reality of becoming a mum twice over. Her first birth was fast and unmedicated - ten hours, and she arrived at hospital already eight centimetres. Her second was a planned caesarean, and nothing about it went the way she'd pictured. We talk about: A breech, big baby, and deciding not to try to turn him Why she never wrote a birth plan How an early loss shaped everything that came after What no one warns you about caesarean recovery The love, and the fear, that arrive with a new baby Quickfire: three words, and the worst advice she was given Content note: this episode includes discussion of pregnancy loss and miscarriage. Madeleine: instagram.com/madeleine_shaw_ · tiktok.com/@madeleine_shaw_ · The Glow Space, her wellness platform: madeleineshaw.com/the-glow-space Carly: instagram.com/thedoulaclub Ready Birth Go, Carly's birth preparation course: readybirthgo.com Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/william-proulx/for-me

  • July 22 · 53 min

    Amy Walsh on learning to trust her body in birth

    In the first episode of Ready Birth Go, Carly Sandland talks to Emmerdale's Amy Walsh about two births, four years apart, and how the first one shaped everything about the second. Bonnie arrived on Boxing Day 2021 after a Group B Strep positive result, an induction Amy was pushed towards on her due date, an epidural that fell out without anyone noticing, an episiotomy and a haemorrhage. She calls it torture, and says she came out of it feeling cheated. So when she was pregnant with Nell, she read more, asked more, and declined nearly everything she was offered. We talk about: Group B Strep, and how one test result can shape an entire labour Why a sweep is an induction, and why it's rarely described as one Declining a seven-day induction and negotiating for ten Epidurals that don't work Fetal scalp monitoring Birth trauma, and how a second birth can reopen the first What partners carry into a second birth Quickfire: three words, the TENS machine, and a six-hour playlist Amy: https://www.instagram.com/amyvwalsh · https://www.tiktok.com/@amy.walsh27 Carly: https://www.instagram.com/thedoulaclub Ready Birth Go, Carly's birth preparation course: https://readybirthgo.com/ Content note: traumatic birth, haemorrhage, and postnatal mental health. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/william-proulx/for-me