ABC Babytalk
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Podcast Description
Welcome to Babytalk, it's all about babies and their parents.
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Doulas: Why every pregnant woman deserves one. | How would you describe your birth experience? Would it have been better if you'd had your own advocate, someone who knew the hospital system, who had coached you on what to expect? A person who was going to stay with you right through the whole birth pr | 5/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Poetry Dad | Parenthood as Poetry, can you see it? I could have written odes to my sleeping child but the screaming/teething/sick one definitely not! Cam Semmens has done it tough with two children under two but he can still appreciate the amazing earth shattering m | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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World's Worst Mom! | World's Worst Mom! What a title to earn! One can only imagine the horrors she inflicted on her children to earn this epithet. However the World's Worst Mom is funny, smart and quite a small woman to hold up the heavy title she now wears with pride, aft | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Perfect Posture for your Toddler | Happy Body is the series created by physiotherapist Anna Louise Bouvier, in her practice she sees people in various states of disrepair every day and unfortunately her clients are growing younger and younger. If you've noticed more aches and pains since | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mothers Day Classic #6, here we come! | Mothers Day is almost here, and for thousands of us around the country there will be no sleeping in, rather the pulling on of runners and tracksuits and the fun competition that is the Mothers Day Classic. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Postnatal Doula | The first few weeks after a baby's birth are both chaotic and important in equal measure. For those of us who felt like we were operating in a haze the idea of having the help of a 'Postnatal Doula' sounds like a dream come true but as Julia Jones from N | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Men's Fertility has a Use-By Date Too | Did you know that one in six couples in Australia suffer from infertility? It's a horrible statistic and despite our fairy-tale science there is not always a happy ending. The trick with infertility is to catch it early. To discover there is a problem | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mothers Day Classic # 5 Cross Training | So you think you might be able to make the 4 km or 8km run on Mothers Day? Are you sure? I'm not wanting to knock your confidence but could a little cross training spice up your exercise? You don't need to just be pounding the pavement to get a good re | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bump to Baby Diet | Are you pregnant? Planning to be? One thing you need to get used to is people telling you what you need to eat, drink and do! Some of that advice is definitely to be taken with a grain of salt. Sometimes though the science is well worth considering an | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mothers Day Classic, keep it going! | You might surprise yourself if you get out and try some of our training tips for the Mothers Day Classic. We want you to enter and join the ABC Babytalk team and Lisa Westlake is back for some ideas on how to overcome some of the psychological barriers to | 4/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Baby Teeth | As a parent you have a big responsibility to care for your baby's teeth until they're able to manage for themselves, but what is that age? How careful do you have to be with teeth they will eventually lose? These are some of the questions that plague us | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to run like a Mother | Feel like a run? ABC Babytalk is supporting the Mothers Day Classic this year, helping us all get on the track to exercise, even if you've never attempted it before! In this week's podcast, Lisa Westlake explains the specifics of the training plan and h | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mothers day fun run #2 which event? | How do you decide which event to register for in the Mothers Day Classic? Can you run 4km or 8km, should you walk and take the baby along in a pram? Have you got enough time to get into shape by May 13th? The answer is YES, as long as you download our | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Parenting Trends with Pinky McKay | If you wait long enough in fashion your old clothes will eventually become trendy again and so it seems with parenting techniques as well. The wonderful Pinky McKay is a parenting educator who has seen trends come and go, even falling foul of a few as a | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babytalk and the Mothers Day Classic | Would you like to join me and thousands of other Australians taking part in the Mothers Day Classic? The Mothers Day Classic is a run or walk that raises money for breast cancer research and I want you on my team! ABC Babytalk is collecting new mothers | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can you affect emotional intelligence from birth? | Can you influence your child's emotional intelligence from birth? Does your style of parenting influence the way your child responds to stressful situations? Are you potentially pre-disposing your toddler to tantrums? Are there behaviours as a parent y | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sleep Wars Dan's Story | As the parent of a toddler do you sometimes feel like you are living in a sleep-deprived-war-zone? That it is an ongoing battle of toddler vs parent to the very end? Is it possible to convince your child to sleep in a non confrontational way and mantain | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sleep Wars | Do you sometimes feel like you are living in a sleep-war-zone? That it is baby or toddler vs parent in a battle to the very end? There are techniques and sleep advice on offer left right and centre but in the cold hard light of the early morning the sle | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Breastfeeding (what they don't tell you!) | Breastfeeding you would imagine is the most natural thing in the world but why is it sometimes so hard? Many new mothers have a terrible time at breast feeding and can sometimes fail in spite of a terrific effort. Is it as simple as being given the righ | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fathers who kill | Filicide. It's a term that seems so light, airy almost inconsequential. It is the word used to describe the killing of a son or daughter and recently Australia has been rocked by several high profile cases where men have murded a child as the act of rev | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Parlour Games for Children | Have you started to experience the need to keep your toddler entertained but loath to turn on the TV or hand over your smart phone? Do you think that you and your family might need a way to connect that's fun that doesn't involve everyone plonked on the | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Washing | When you have a baby in the house suddenly the washing machine seems to be on overdrive. It's not that babies are necessarily more messy (that job falls to toddlers) it's more that we parents are probably more paranoid about keeping everything spotless. | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eat Your Dinner! | Eat Your Dinner! If there is one phrase as a child you determined NEVER to repeat it was "EAT YOUR DINNER" but as parents come to terms with their own children's eating preferences suddenly there's a whole lot of emotional energy invested on the plate... | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Amazing Premature Babies | One of the amazing things technology has given us the ability to rescue tiny premature babies. Twenty four weeks seems to be the absolute earliest medical science can manage but with the right resources and whatever luck the universe bestows, some tiny p | 2/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A mum in China | What is it like being a parent in China? How does the one child system impact on parents? Do parenting traditions survive amidst the upheaval of communism and the modern lifestyle of Chinese cities today? Would you recognise the ambitions, traditions, | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Getting ready for childcare | Is it possible to prepare you and your child for childcare? How can you make childcare a more enjoyable experience? Why is it so hard to find and why is saying good bye so difficult? Many questions, some answers and a very personal experience this week | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babytalk's Third Radio Show | Sunday 22nd of January was ABC Babytalk's third radio program aired on ABC Local Radio, ABC Digital and online the program talked with baby whisperer Jo Ryan from Baby Bliss and met the guys behind the Aussie Dad Blog 'Tackle Nappy'. | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babytalk's Second Radio Show | Sunday 15th of January was ABC Babytalk's second radio program aired on ABC Local Radio, ABC Digital and ABC Radio online the program talked about amazing baby facts and the difficulty of returning to work with a baby. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babytalk's First Radio Show | Sunday 8th of January was ABC Babytalk's very first radio program aired on ABC Local Radio, ABC Digital and online the program talked about tantrums! | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Karp and Happy Babies | We all want a happy baby but the reality is we sometimes have crying uncomfortable babies who just will not settle to sleep. Is it because all human babies are born just a little too early? Dr Harvey Karp believes there are some simple physiological sol | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Help! My Toddler is a Caveman | Help! My Toddler is a Caveman! Do not despair as even the toughest cavemen are pushovers if you know how to deal with them and US pediatrician Dr Harvey Karp who made the original analogy has some great suggestions for dealing with your own little Neande | 1/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Born on Christmas Day | If your due date is December 25th then you might be worrying about having a baby born on one very inconvenient day! Is it really bad news to be born on Christmas day? Are there compensations for a Christmas Day birthday and how hard should you try to ho | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Could you do cloth? | We all know the reasons for avoiding disposable nappies: energy, landfill, non renewable resources wasted.. but is there a better, easier to use alternative to the throw out nappy? Many people believe so and as converts to what's known as the 'Modern Clo | 12/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Baby Car Seats | Baby Car Seats, they are a legal requirement for transporting your new baby but how hard are they to use and is it possible to choose the safest seat for your family? Are we being lulled into a false sense of security by the government regulations and ho | 12/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Baby's First Christmas | Baby's First Christmas, it's a phrase all sparkly and deserving of it's very own Christmas ornament but if you have a moment to think on it, baby's first Christmas can be a nightmare not even Charles Dickens had the ability to conjure! For the record thi | 11/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yummy Mummy and Savvy Chic Anna Johnson on being a mum from NYC to Sydney | Have you ever been swept away by the idea of living the glamorous life in New York City? How romantic would it be to live in a loft, have a New York romance and have a baby? Well maybe it's a dream if you're Beyonce but for most New Yorkers ordinary lif | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The most important job in the world | When you think of all the jobs that you outsource as a busy parent: shining the car, washing the dog, mowing the lawn, cleaning the house and caring for your children, the job that probably pays the least is caring for your most precious possession, your | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mums making a big difference | There is nothing that makes you feel more connected with your local community than having a baby. Suddenly you connect with other parents at the park, you meet a new group of people through your maternal child health nurse and mother's group. Just turni | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nappies: why we are still stuck on the disposables? | It is estimated the average baby produces 240kg of waste per year. We shouldn't beat around the bush this is pooh, a lot of it and unfortunately as parents we are the main ones who have to deal with this. Disposable nappies are the main choice for Austr | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The physical dangers of parenting! | Did anyone let you into the secret that parenting is a risky business? I'm not talking about the mushy heart, emotional stuff. Being a mum or dad can be sheer hard work and damaging to your physical well-being. Did you know that your back, wrists arms | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Driveway Safety | Today is National Kidsafe Day and it's always tempting to think that the message is targeted towards other parents.. That the terrible things that happen on the news will happen to other families, other parents who are less vigilant, less organised or les | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can your baby hear you? | Can your baby hear you? How can you tell? Technology has delivered us amazing ways of testing even a newborn's hearing but nothing is more accurate than a parent's intuition. I didn't know that a child's hearing is liable to fluctuate due to tiredness | 10/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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My Pregnancy: a woman's story | How did you find your pregnancy? Was it easy and joyful? Did you spend a lot of time wishing it was over? Were you fearful of how things would turn out? Every woman and every couple that has a child has a different story as to how it all developed. I | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Giving your baby the advantage is Small Steps! | If there is one thing we all have in common as parents, we all want our children to have every advantage in life. When it comes to being a great parent we always wonder what it is that really makes a difference? What can we do that will make sure that o | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Smacking your child? | Do you smack your child when it's behaving badly? Were you smacked as a child? Do you think smacking is a reasonable way to discipline a child? If you don't agree with smacking were do you go to find out about alternatives? Does smacking saying more a | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anne Geddes beautiful babies | For years Anne Geddes has been intriguing us with her photographs of babies. From the first baby in an empty flowerpot this remarkable photographic artist has been moved by the deliciousness of newborn babies. Beautiful images of newborns and the natura | 9/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Who you gonna call? | Baby not sleeping? Toddler not eating? Family bed-times taking ages.. who are you going to call? No not your mum, she's already planning to leave the country! There is always help and advice available if you know where to look and we hope that some of | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Disability Insurance | What would it mean to parents if there was a no-fault insurance scheme that would allow them to choose the services they could access to help care for a child with disabilities? Is this a project that all of us as parents should support? How many of us | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Go to sleep! | It is no mistake that a tongue in cheek book called go the "f*%$ to sleep" has rocketed up the book sale charts. Getting a child to go to sleep in a timely and calm manner is a secret that would make the holder many billions of dollars! Jo Ryan is a ba | 8/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Funny Children's Books! | When it comes to children's books not all are created equal. It's a sad fact that you will start to loathe some books as you read them over and over again and you will also discover that discover that some authors make life so much nicer for parents who | 8/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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