Melanie The Midwife

Melanie The Midwife Midwife in Private practice, Host of the Great Birth Rebellion Podcast, Midwifery Mentor and Research

Melanie lives in the Blue Mountains with her Husband and two children and has been a midwife in private practice, and providing homebirth services, since 2009. She has a passion for providing minimal intervention care and has respect for the physiological process of pregnancy, birth and the early postnatal period. Melanie loves to see the powerful process of birth unfold and watch families blossom as pregnancy and birth unfolds. Her passion for midwifery led her to complete her PhD, called "birth outside the system", in 2015, and she has held positions in midwifery research, midwifery lecturing and National Policy development at the Australian College of Midwives along side her work as a midwife. Melanie has a degree in Naturopathy and incorporates alternative therapies and nutritional guidance into her midwifery care.

19/10/2025

How to sabotage a perfectly good birth with your own stupidity. This weeks episode of podcast is all about how to be a GREAT SUPPORT PERSON. It's packed full of practical ways to support a labouring woman through birth. This one is for the support people!

16/10/2025

Vaginal examinations. We've accepted an INSANE circumstance where fingers in your va**na is part of routine birth care. There is NO evidence that va**nal examinations improve outcomes for women or their baby. You can say NO. ep. 148 podcast

15/10/2025

If you aren't given medicine to birth your placenta, you'll give birth to it with your own power. Most of the time this happens without any external input.
To get my first placenta out. I sipped raspberry leaf tea, took a wiff of clary sage essential oil and the acupuncturist sped the whole thing up with expert placement of an acupuncture needle.

Did you do anything to get your placenta out? What was it like to give birth to it without assistance? Let us all know in the comments

People ask me, ‘how do you do it all?’. I laugh… I don’t do it all, Dan does! The truth is, I have a husband that shows ...
15/10/2025

People ask me, ‘how do you do it all?’. I laugh… I don’t do it all, Dan does!

The truth is, I have a husband that shows up non-stop for me, our business and our family.

This is our text thread from yesterday and today. In it I’m asking for food and coffee 😂 so I can keep making podcast episodes and write my book… meanwhile he’s doing all the marketing strategy for our company, looking after the kids and their education and trying to prevent me from getting hangry.

Honestly, I’m nothing special. But Dan is.

15/10/2025

For so many years as a midwife I routinely recommended to women that they start drinking raspberry leaf tea from 32 weeks. A trusted midwife had told me about some studies when I was a student and I didn't even think to check if my suggestions were evidence based. Hear all about it on ep 172 podcast - consuming Raspberry leaf tea and dates for labour.

13/10/2025

Small studies have shown that eating 6-7 date fruit per day from 35-37 weeks could impact on the function of your body during labour... BUT the studies are too small and not good quality enough to make firm conclusions. Hear all the research on ep. 172

13/10/2025

Consuming date fruit in the hope of a better labour and birth? Have a listen to episode 172 podcast about raspberry leaf tea and date fruit. This week Melanie The Midwife talks through all the research on if these work or not.

I have an 8 year old daughter who is formidable. Like, break-the-family-nervous-system-with-a-straight-face formidable. ...
13/10/2025

I have an 8 year old daughter who is formidable. Like, break-the-family-nervous-system-with-a-straight-face formidable.

Sometimes I struggle to know how to guide her to her act more gently and kindly, without losing her edge. The other day I said ‘this level of sass is very unattractive’… without skipping a beat, taking a breath or barely letting the sentence leave my lips she responded, ‘I’m not trying to be attractive’

I slow clapped and did an in-mind standing ovation for that fierce non-f**ks giving girl of mine and praised her for not trying to be attractive… but reminded her that she can be fierce but she must always be kind and clever.

I wish all women would have the sass of a second born 8 year old girl when navigating the maternity care system. I feel like you need this level of sass to thrive in it.

12/10/2025

Raspberry leaf tea and date fruit... you may have been told to eat them during pregnancy so today podcast ep. 172 I comb through the research to see if these two things are likely to make a difference to the outcome of your birth. You can listen now!

10/10/2025

Let me take you on a placenta tour -- The placenta is made by the baby during pregnancy and adheres to the wall of your uterus, nourishing your baby the whole time. After the birth of your baby comes the birth of your placenta. For more information on giving birth to your placenta listen to episode 129 called 'giving birth to your placenta'

09/10/2025

Get the full story podcast episode 167. Pushing out your baby

Let’s talk free strategies that helped you work through labour without pain medication 👇🏽What else could we use… hit me ...
07/10/2025

Let’s talk free strategies that helped you work through labour without pain medication 👇🏽

What else could we use… hit me with some comments

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Springwood, NSW
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