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Harnessing Your Hormones for Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum

Harnessing Your Hormones for Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum

Update: 2025-06-30
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How can you harness your hormones in pregnancy, birth and when your baby arrives?

This week on The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast we welcome back our Midwife and Positive Birth Expert Narelle Tsiros to talk all about the power of hormones in pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.

Listen to learn how incredible women's bodies are and for tips to harness your hormones to help give you a positive and empowered birth.

We discuss:

- Why as a midwife and birth expert Narelle is so passionate about women understanding their bodies and how hormones play a role in pregnancy, birth and when baby arrives

- What the four main hormones are and what you can do to harness or hinder them

- How each of the main hormones play a role in labour, birth and when baby arrives

- Oxytocin

- Endorphins

- Adrenaline

- Prolactin

- How to harness your hormones to help speed up labour and birth

- How hormones play a role in the birthing environment- How hormones help to breastfeed your baby

- How to create a birthing hormone tool kit- Tips for women to trust their bodies and hormones 

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Harnessing Your Hormones for Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum

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