MamaBetes

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By: Ashleigh Ricardo, Rachel Hicks, Carleigh Eastlake

MamaBetes is a podcast created by 3 Australian women with type 1 diabetes for other women with type 1 diabetes. Mamabetes brings lived experiences backed by evidenced based practice on what it’s like to plan pregnancy, be pregnant and be a mum with type 1 diabetes.

54 | Shoshanna's Story
#54
07/31/2022

Listeners are advised that this episode contains themes of domestic and family violence. If you are impacted by any of the content we discuss today, please reach out to 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732), or another trusted individual.

We are joined this week by Shoshanna, who was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes while raising her family. We listen to Shoshanna share her story about how she and her children adjusted to this diagnosis, and any challenges she faced and overcame along the way, to how she is doing now , 7  years later. Shoshanna also shares her personal i...


53 | Dealing with Sleep Changes
#53
06/25/2022

Rachel, Carleigh and Ash sit down this week to discuss the sleep of our children in the early years. We share how we coped with changing sleep after our babies' were born, the progression of their sleep, the effect on our relationships with our partners and ourselves, and the impact it had on our diabetes and overall health.

Our babies all slept so differently but one thing was universal amongst us - that none of us appreciated our CGM alarms during the middle of the night when we were already tired from waking babies.

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52 | Recovering From Birth Trauma
#52
06/16/2022

This week, we sat down with Maddy, to talk about her two birth stories. Maddy openly talks about birth trauma after her first baby, a fourth degree tear, making the decision to have another child, having a new healthcare team, and being empowered to have a beautiful, healing birth - all while having type 1. 

For support related to birth trauma, please reach out to the Australasian Birth Trauma Association.

In this episode, Maddy discussed a support group for fourth degree tears. This group can be found here.

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51 | Welcome Back to Season Three
#51
06/10/2022

Welcome back to MamaBetes! In this short introduction episode we let listeners know what we have been up to and set the scene for this season.

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50 | What is ENDIA?
#50
09/09/2021

On this weeks’ episode of MamaBetes, we are very excited to be chatting about ENDIA - The Environmental Determinants of Islet Autoimmunity (ENDIA) Study. The ENDIA study aims to find the cause(s) of type 1 diabetes to inform ways to prevent it. Joining us for this episode is Kelly McGorm, who is the Engagement Coordinator of ENDIA.

If you wish to find out some more about ENDIA, such as more about what they do or more information for participants, you can do so by clicking HERE.

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49 | Assisted Births
#49
08/31/2021

On this weeks’ episode of MamaBetes, we are discussing assisted deliveries.  Belinda Moore, trusted Midwife and Diabetes Educator joins us again to talk about what an assisted delivery involves, why you might need one, how common they are, and the benefits and risks. Our lived experience guest Isabelle Smith shares her induction experience and resulting ventouse, episiotomy and forceps delivery.

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48 | When Sofie met Darcy and Audrey
#48
08/06/2021

Today we are privileged to be bringing you the two birth stories of Sofie, for her son Darcy In 2016, and her daughter Audrey in 2019. Sofie had the experience of one spontaneous labour and one induced labour, choosing to birth privately both times

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47 | PapaBetes after birth
#47
07/15/2021

Hugh, Drew and Ray talked so much in their season 2 episode that we had to split the podcast into two parts. In Part 2 of this season's discussion, they talk about the immediate post partum period and what it was like to become a new dad.


46 | When Mikaela Met Jasper
#46
07/08/2021

This week on MamaBetes, Carleigh is bringing you another amazing birth story from our community. For this episode, they are joined by Mikaela, who shares the birth story of her son Jasper. Jasper was born in October 2019 and is the first baby for Mikaela and her partner Sam.

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45 | The Postpartum Experience
#45
06/25/2021

Today we are talking about the post partum experience with type 1 diabetes - how our bodies were impacted, what we did to care for ourselves and our babies whilst juggling our diabetes, any challenges we faced, and our recovery after birth.

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