The Kick Pregnancy Podcast
Everything you need to know about pregnancy and birth. Your host Obstetrician Dr Patrick Moloney and co-host Brigid Moloney focus on expert information about the essentials of growing a baby, with a good dose of relatable chats about their experience of being parents to four boys. Restore your calm and build your confidence during pregnancy and birth and take the next step to becoming a parent. Want more? Join them in their week by week program at GrowMyBaby.com.au to tap into their evidence based and expert information built from the experience of helping more than 4000 babies to be born.
Episodes
In this week's episode of The Kick, Brigid talks to Narelle Dickinson who is a Clinical and Health Psychologist about navigating pregnancy after a loss.
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When your baby comes too early
We've all heard the term 'Premmie" and we've seen the little babies in the special care nurseries with their Naso-gastric tubes, little caps on their heads and surrounded by monitors. It's a frightening image but sometimes it always seems to happen to someone else - until it doesn't.
This podcast is all about defining what prematurity is. It covers:
• The known reasons...
This week on The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid are back with their thirty-eighth Q and A session as they answer questions from listeners of The Kick.
This Q and A session answers the following listener questions:
• Subsequent pregnancies after a uterine dehiscence.
• Aspirin as a precautionary treatment for pre-eclampsia.
• Weighing up the options of trying to concei...
In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk about why you will be recommended a Vitamin K injection for your newborn, why an injection is better than oral dosing and some of the different reasons people will tell you that you should decline this intervention.
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This week on The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid are back with their thirty-seventh Q and A session as they answer questions from listeners of The Kick.
This Q and A session answers the following listener questions:
• Fertility and conception with adenomyosis
• On-call rosters in private obstetric care
• What is a uterine arteriovenous malformation?
•An update from a listener
What are normal baby movements?
Baby movements is your baby’s way of telling you all is well. A healthy baby should move. Imagine if you were really sick, you would still move around the bed and get up several times a day to go the toilet. If you lay in bed for many hours, not moving at all, you would probably be dreadfully ill.
A baby that’s doing nothing is not normal.
And why are we so insistent about ...
This re-released episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talks about what cytomegalovirus (CMV) is, how it is spread, how it can impact pregnancy and things you can do to reduce the risk of transmission.
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In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk all about feeling tired and fatigued in pregnancy and some of the causes of these feelings.
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This week on The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid are back with their thirty-sixth Q and A session as they answer questions from listeners of The Kick.
This Q and A session answers the following listener questions:
• What can you do to increase the success of an embryo transfer?
• Unusual cervix presentations in first births
• What can I do to decrease my risk of gestat...
Content Warning: This episode of The Kick discusses mental illness and suicidal thoughts, if you feel you need support please use any of the links at the bottom of the show notes.
In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk about common pregnancy symptoms that may not always be normal, and the red flags to look out for.
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This week on The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid are back with their thirty-fifth Q and A session as they answer questions from listeners of The Kick.
This Q and A session answers the following listener questions:
• How does an extra placental lobe affect my pregnancy and birth?
• When can I restart my folate vitamins after a methotrexate injection for an ectopic pregnancy.
• Is my short luteal phase the reason i...
In this week's episode of The Kick, Brigid talks with Seb from Canines on Cue about introducing your newborn to your dog and training your dog to be use to toddlers and babies.
You can find Seb's safe start course here.
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In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk all about the syntocinon drip, including the pros and cons of its use and why it might be used in a labour.
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In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid discuss whether pregnancy and birth advice on social media is evidence-based or just loud and how to gauge the validity of the advice and infomation you see.
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In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk about why PCOS is now called PMOS and the new guidelines that accompany the name change.
You can find the new PMOS Guidelines here.
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In this quick kick epiosde of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk about who is in the room when you give birth and why they are there.
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This week on The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid are back with their thirty-fourth Q and A session as they answer questions from listeners of The Kick.
This Q and A session answers the following listener questions:
• How does previous breast cancer treatment affect a pregnancy?
• When can I restart my folate vitamins after a methotrexate injection for an ectopic pregnancy.
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In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid answer the question of whether caesarean section rates are rising, and discuss some of the statistics around this.
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Listen to episode 165. Should I choose private or public care? here.
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...This week on The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid are back with their thirty-third Q and A session as they answer questions from listeners of The Kick.
This Q and A session answers the following listener questions:
• Do I need to worry about class A drugs and pregnancy safe food while trying to conceive?
• Pregnancy care in rural and regional areas.
• How much sleep do ...
In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid answer the question of whether caesarean section rates are rising, and discuss some of the statistics around this.
If you have a question you want answered, please leave your message on speakpipe to be chosen for Dr Pat to answer during a Q&A:
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