The Kick Pregnancy Podcast

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 you need during pregnancy?
• Are molar pregnancies genetic?
• How to know when you are ovulating?
• Getting pregnant with irregular periods.
Listen to episode 85. All the terms that describe miscarriage HERE.
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LINKS
Join our pregnancy and birth course
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Just pregnant? Download our checklist to take to your first appointment.
Website: https://www.growmybaby.com.au/
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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.
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:
LINKS
Join our pregnancy and birth course
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Just pregnant? Download our checklist to take to your first appointment.
Website: https://www.growmybaby.com.au/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid are back with their thirty-second Q and A session as they answer questions from listeners of The Kick.
This Q and A session answers the following listener questions:
• Cervical shortening in first and subsequent pregnancies.
• Can breeched births reoccur?
• Skin irritations in pregnancy.
• Feeling concerned about being pressured into decisions during pregnancy and birth
• Being educated for pregnancy and birth.
• How common is coning of a baby’s head in birth?
• Is there anything that can be done to get a baby into anterior positioning.
LINKS
Join our pregnancy and birth course
Join our pregnancy course
Instagram @thekickpregnancypodcast
Facebook @thekickpregnancypodcast
Just pregnant? Download our checklist to take to your first appointment.
Website: https://www.growmybaby.com.au/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this re-released ep of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk about what to do once you have done a home pregnancy test and it is positive.
This episode covers when to see a doctor, what happens at this first appointment, what all the blood tests are for, what estimated due dates mean, what an unsighted pregnancy is, what beta hCG is and what medical history needs to be discussed with your doctor. Plus loads more.
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:
LINKS
Join our pregnancy and birth course
Join our pregnancy course
Instagram @thekickpregnancypodcast
Facebook @thekickpregnancypodcast
Just pregnant? Download our checklist to take to your first appointment.
Website: https://www.growmybaby.com.au/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's episode of The Kick, Dr Pat and Brigid talk all about ovarian cysts in pregnancy, such as, what's normal and what needs further investigation.
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:
LINKS
Join our pregnancy and birth course
Join our pregnancy course
Instagram @thekickpregnancypodcast
Facebook @thekickpregnancypodcast
Just pregnant? Download our checklist to take to your first appointment.
Website: https://www.growmybaby.com.au/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.