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In this episode, we meet Dr Sarah Buckley!

Dr Sarah Buckley is trained as a GP with qualifications in GP obstetrics. She has been writing and lecturing to childbirth professionals and parents since 1997 and is the author of the internationally best-selling book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.

Sarah has a special interest in the hormones of physiological labour and birth and the impacts of interventions. In 2015 she completed an extensive report on this topic, Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing, published with Childbirth Connection (US).

She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, researching oxytocin in labour and birth. She has co-authored several papers on oxytocin in labour, birth and breastfeeding.

Sarah is also the mother of four children, all born at home and now all adults. She lives on the semi-rural outskirts of Brisbane.

In this episode we discussed the power of hormones in undisturbed birth and how Oxytocin assisted in natural birth. 

As well as touching base on ecstatic birth and much, much more! 

Listen to this amazing episode now to help you prepare for your homebirth! 

You can keep in touch with Sarah on these platforms:

Website www.sarahbuckley.com 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drsarahbuckley/

Twitter: @SarahJBuckley 

Instagram: sarahjbuckley

Show Notes:

• Sarah's blog on Epidurals with the oxytocin feedback loop diagram - https://sarahbuckley.com/category/blog/
  
• And one on having the best caesarean! - https://sarahbuckley.com/how-to-have-the-best-cesarean/
  
• Blog with recent findings on oxytocin - https://sarahbuckley.com/pitocin-side-effects-part1/
  
• Blog from Gloria about the importance of parasympathetic (quiet and dark) - Gloria Lemay blog: - http://wisewomanwayofbirth.com/vbac-and-the-doula/
  
• Study from British Colombia about VBAC at home BC midwifery guidelines allow VBAC with midwives and at home https://www.bccnm.ca/Documents/standards_practice/rm/RM_Policy_Statement_on_Planned_VBAC.pdf
  
• This is quite good too - http://www.midwiferygroup.ca/downloads/vbac/CMBC%20VBAC%20guidline.pdf
  
• Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing https://sarahbuckley.com/whats-so-great-about-hormonal-physiology/ 

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HAPPY BIRTHING GODDESS! 

Ashley xx