The birth-ed podcast

About The birth-ed podcast

Bringing you the information you thought you'd get in your antenatal appointments, but didnt. The birth-ed podcast opens up conversations about all aspects of pregnancy, birth and parenthood, with the World's leading women's health & parenting experts- from Midwives to Obstetricians, Doulas to Activists. Host and founder of birth-ed, Megan Rossiter is your warm guide, a gentle holding hand through these vulnerable moments of pregnancy, birth and parenting. If you want to feel safe, nurtured and fully informed in your birth preparation, you're in the right place. Through inspiring, informative and sometimes challenging conversations, Megan leaves no stone unturned when it comes to preparing you for your pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.

Publisher

Megan Rossiter, birth-ed

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Oct 2019

Latest episode

10 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

63 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Aug 2026

   Giving Birth In A High-Intervention System with Guests Sheena Byrom OBE and Professor Soo Downe

   Intervention rates have climbed so fast in UK maternity care that it is hard not to ask a blunt question: is all this doing what it promised to do? I sit down with Sheena Byrom, OBE and Professor Soo Downe to explore what has changed over the last decade, why fear now feels baked into the system, and how a laser-focus on a narrow set of outcomes can quietly create new harms such as birth trauma, postpartum haemorrhage, and worsening postnatal mental health. Stillbirth rates have fallen...

2. 

   10 Oct 2025

   'Evidence-Based' Maternity Care: Limits, Bias, and How to Navigate It with Guest, Midwife Beth Russell

   Think scientific evidence is going to give you a clear a 'best' path forward in your birth decision making? Unfortunately, it's rarely that simple. With midwife Beth Russell, we explore the messy middle where numbers meet lived experience: why absolute risk matters more than scary “your risk doubles” headlines, how studies like the Big Baby Trial get misread, and why nuance changes everything. In this episode you will understand: How 'evidence' is created in the first place.What to cons...

3. 

   3 Oct 2025

   Reconciling Caesarean Birth Stories Through Storytelling with Guest Hannah Marsh

   What happens when your birth experience completely contradicts everything you prepared for? For author Hannah Marsh, an emergency cesarean section after 30 grueling hours of labor left her feeling not just physically scarred, but emotionally devastated. Despite cesarean sections accounting for roughly 43% of UK births today, Hannah found herself woefully unprepared for this possibility – having focused exclusively on hypnobirthing techniques and natural birth preparation. In the years that f...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

238 ratings

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