Australian Birth Stories

Sophie Walker

A Podcast of Mothers' stories of childbirth. Weekly interviews with mothers giving their first hand accounts of child birth in Australia. Designed to help educate and inform first time pregnant women, parents wanting to have better subsequent births and birth enthusiasts who love to hear and tell birth stories. An entertaining and heartfelt resource for pregnancy, labour and delivery and postpartum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Australian Birth Stories

Episodes (599)

Yesterday 600 | Postpartum - Ruby, breastfeeding, sleep challenges, normal infant biology, low sleep needs
Monday 599 | Ellie, Navigating Pregnancy and Birth as an Autistic Mother, Hospital Birth, and Early Motherhood realities
Mon Mar 16th 598 | Estelle, unexplained infertility, two positive birth experiences, postpartum anxiety, feeding challenges

Australian Birth Stories

Mar 26, 2026
27½ minutes
21 MB

In today’s episode Ruby shares her journey with infant sleep. We all come to postpartum with a predisposed understanding of baby sleep which usually involves the mindset that it’s the parent’s ‘job’ to ‘teach’ the baby to sleep. But as you will hear in this episode, babies have a primal drive to sleep and their sleep needs are ultimately influenced by their temperament. Ruby sought advice from two sleep training experts (which she admits felt counterintuitive), before she found a sleep consultant who specialises in normal infant biology. From here, Ruby grew to understand her...

Australian Birth Stories

600 | Postpartum - Ruby, breastfeeding, sleep challenges, normal infant biology, low sleep needs

Sophie Walker

00:00 -26:30