Join Rhea Dempsey in conversation with some incredible people in and visiting our community in Melbourne, nationally and online, as we delve into the bowl of birth, before, during and after.

Rhea is a mother of three daughters and five delicious grandchildren, counsellor and child birth educator with over forty years experience. Rhea has extensive experience working with women and families before, during and after birth. Her special interest is in exploring the psychological aspects of birth and the pyscho-social factors which can affect birth outcomes. Rhea is a highly respected and sought after presenter at conferences, seminars and workshops on birth and counselling issues. Rhea also works in private practice running an extensive schedule of classes for couples and groups as well as education and development for midwives and birth attendants.

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Venue:

• The Living Centre - 16 Trinity Place (Trinity Hall), East Melbourne, Victoria, 3002
• Live ONLINE with access to recording for 7 days

Offering:

General: $50 - $35 Early Bird
Concession: $35 - $25 Early Bird
Live Online: $20 (with 7 day recording)

Feedback

Wonderful to sit with the matriarchal elders of women’s work and midwifery. Feeling something within renewed. Grateful. Glad I went. Liked the conversational and casual approach. ~ Lindsey

Upcoming Sessions

... Nadine Richards - She Birth - stay tuned for details

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Recordings still available

.. Dr Sarah Buckley

Dr Sarah Buckley is trained as a family physician/GP with qualifications in GP-obstetrics. She has been writing and lecturing to childbirth professionals and parents since 1997 and is the author of the internationally best-selling book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.
Dr Buckley has a special interest in the hormones of physiological labour and birth and the impacts of maternity-care interventions. She recently submitted her PhD thesis at the University of Queensland on Oxytocin in Childbirth and she is also the author of the 2015 report Hormonal Physiology of Childbirth.
Dr Buckley is mother to four adult children and grandmother to one, all born at home. She lives on the semi-rural outskirts of Brisbane, Australia.
For more, see
Website: www.sarahbuckley.com <http://www.sarahbuckley.com/>
FB: @DrSarahBuckley
IG: @SarahJBuckley

Website links

• Links to all of Sarah’s PhD publications https://sarahbuckley.com/hormonal-physiology-and-more/
• Epidurals https://sarahbuckley.com/httpsarahbuckley-comblogepiduralrisks-faqpt1/
• How to have the best caesarean https://sarahbuckley.com/how-to-have-the-best-cesarean/
• Induction https://sarahbuckley.com/labour-induction-making-choices/
• Synthetic oxytocin (Pitocin) myths and side effects https://sarahbuckley.com/pitocin-side-effects-part1/
• Synthetic oxytocin (Pitocin) and autism https://sarahbuckley.com/does-pitocin-cause-autism/

Publications:

• Maternal and newborn plasma oxytocin levels in response to maternal synthetic oxytocin administration during labour, birth and postpartum - a systematic review with implications for the function of the oxytocinergic system. Buckley S, Uvnäs-Moberg K, Pajalic Z, Luegmair K, Ekström-Bergström A, Dencker A et al. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2023;23(1):137. https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-022-05221-w
• Maternal plasma levels of oxytocin during physiological childbirth - a systematic review with implications for uterine contractions and central actions of oxytocin. Uvnas-Moberg, K., A. Ekstrom-Bergstrom, M. Berg, S. Buckley, Z. Pajalic, E. Hadjigeorgiou, A. Kotlowska, L. Lengler, B. Kielbratowska, F. Leon-Larios, C. M. Magistretti, S. Downe, B. Lindstrom and A. Dencker (2019).  BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 19(1): 285 https://rdcu.be/bOg4v 
• Maternal plasma levels of oxytocin during breastfeeding-A systematic review. Uvnäs Moberg, K., A. Ekström-Bergström, S. Buckley, C. Massarotti, Z. Pajalic, K. Luegmair, A. Kotlowska, L. Lengler, I. Olza, S. Grylka-Baeschlin, P. Leahy-Warren, E. Hadjigeorgiu, S. Villarmea and A. Dencker (2020). PLoS One 15(8): e0235806. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235806 
• Birth as a neuro-psycho-social event: An integrative model of maternal experiences and their relation to neurohormonal events during childbirth. Olza, I., K. Uvnas-Moberg, A. Ekström-Bergström, P. Leahy-Warren, S. I. Karlsdottir, M. Nieuwenhuijze, S. Villarmea, E. Hadjigeorgiou, M. Kazmierczak, A. Spyridou and S. Buckley (2020) PLoS One 15(7): e0230992. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230992
• Buckley S, Uvnas Moberg K. Nature and consequences of oxytocin and other neurohormones during the perinatal period. In: Downe S, Byron S, editors. Squaring the Circle: Normal birth research, theory and practice in a technological age <https://www.pinterandmartin.com/squaring-the-circle>. London: Pinter and Martin; 2019. p. 19-31
• The initiation of labour at term gestation: Physiology and Practice implications. Hundley, V., S. Downe and S. J. Buckley (2020). Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2020.02.006
• No. 355-Physiologic Basis of Pain in Labour and Delivery: An Evidence-Based Approach to its Management. Bonapace, J., G. P. Gagne, N. Chaillet, R. Gagnon, E. Hebert and S. Buckley (2018).  J Obstet Gynaecol Can 40(2): 2 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogc.2017.08.003
• Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing report (2015)  https://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/health/maternity/hormonal-physiology-of-childbearing.html

Stay Tuned for more

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RAISING FUNDS FOR

Past Conversations

Contact Us to obtain a recoding

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.. Dr Nicky Leap

.. Dr Stuart Fischbein

.. Lael Stone
​"Attachment and birth & parenting"

.. Liz Newnham in ADELAIDE
"Pain, power and physiology of labour"

.. Fiona Hallinan
"Preparing for Birth, the do's and don'ts"

.. Belinda Lack
"From Intellect to Instinct" 

.. Jane Hardwick Collins
"Red Threat Birth Trauma"

.. Liz Newnham
"The F*#king Epidural"