Podcasts
Prefer listening to reading? The podcasts below provide an easy introduction into physiological plateaus. Explore how midwives recognise and handle plateaus, how time-based maternity care threatens such natural pauses in labour, and what we can do to ensure that women are not rushed through labour but supported with empathy, skill and patience.
Failure to progress or just normal?
This might be suitable for listeners with some backgorund knowledge of maternity care, of if you are feeling particularly rebellious today.
Midwifery researcher and activist Mel Jackson speaks with Clare Davison and Marina Weckend, discussing why promoting and researching physiological plateaus is still a rebellious act.
Labour pauses – Failure to progress or just normal? – An interview with Dr Marina Weckend
This might be more suitable for listeners with some background insight into the politics of birthing.
In this episode, midwifery researchers Katie James, Rachel Reed and Marina Weckend discuss why researching physiological plateaus is vital, and which changes still need to happen in our maternity care systems.
Understanding natural pauses in labour and when to wait or when to act
This episode is most suitable as an easy introduction into physiological plateaus for women, friends and families. We keep technical jargon to a minimum.
Calmbirth educator Karen McClay and Marina Weckend explain how you can recognise natural pauses in labour and why these pauses are valuable for mother and baby.