About Your Body is a podcast about real bodies, real people and real stories.

Hey everyone! Welcome to the 5th episode of The About Your Body Podcast. This week I sat down with Mary McGowan, a trained midwife of nearly 30 years, who outlined the principles of midwifery and answered some of your labour and delivery questions.

Listen in to learn:

• The responsibilities a midwife holds
  
• Vaginal delivery versus Caesarean section
  
• How we can support women through their birth and in the postpartum period
  
• The importance of informed consent and bodily autonomy
  
• and...is it normal to poop during labour?
  

Thank you all for listening! Love to you all!

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This podcast was recorded on the land of the Gadigal people. Australia always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

About Your Body was created as an initiative that stands for the rights of all people, including: everybody who identifies as a woman, everybody who has or has had bio-female bodily characteristics, as well as intersex people, gender-non-conforming people and Indigenous sister-girls and brother-boys.