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Andrea Dalton, Mildura (2025)

05/11/2025

We’re Hiring! 🌿
Embrace Midwifery Services is looking for a passionate Midwife based in Mildura — or someone who is open to relocating to this beautiful region 🍊

We’re seeking a midwife who is already endorsed, or keen to work towards endorsement with our support.
If you’re dedicated to providing compassionate, woman-centred care and want to join a supportive, like-minded team, we’d love to hear from you 💜

Please send 'Expressions of Interest' to enquiries@embracemidwifery.com.au

29/10/2025

If you’ve changed your diet, taken the supplements, removed the “trigger foods,” healed your microbiome, and you still feel bloated… crampy… reactive… heavy… or on edge in your belly, it might not be just your gut.

For many women with IBS-like symptoms, the nervous system plays just as big of a role as the digestive system.

✨ This is called visceral hypersensitivity, when the gut and brain become extra sensitive to normal sensations (stretching, digestion, movement).
What should feel like nothing can feel like discomfort, urgency, pain, or bloating.

This is not “in your head.”
It’s a real, researched interaction between the gut and the brain, especially the stress + emotional centres.

This is why:
• Food elimination alone often isn’t enough
• Stress makes symptoms worse
• You can “do everything right” and still feel symptoms
• Symptom flares can happen during times of emotional load, overwhelm, or fatigue

In clinic, I support gut health and the nervous system, because they’re inseparable.
This may look like microbiome testing, calming the gut’s inflammation, restoring digestive function and supporting the nervous system to feel safer in your body again.

If you’re reading this thinking “this is me”… please know there is a clear pathway forward.
You don’t have to keep guessing.

Send me the word GUT and I’ll share how we can approach this together, simply, gently, long-term.

🫶 Andrea Dalton | Naturopath

23/10/2025

Your ‘energy’ shouldn’t be dependent on you rushing. Your energy shouldn’t crash the moment you find stillness. Your energy shouldn’t be felt like anxiety.

So many women have it so ingrained in them that if they aren’t rushing they aren’t worthy, if they aren’t doing they aren’t worthy, that they aren’t aloud to have joy and a life outside of raising a family, so you run your life on adrenaline because it’s the only thing keeping you going.

What would happen if you stopped? If you took a breath. If you found space in your day to feel what your body was feeling and took steps towards what it needs? Ladies let’s stop accepting exhaustion as a mothers life, let’s stop accepting that running on adrenaline is the only way to get through in a man’s world, let’s stop accepting that women have to choose between themselves and their kids. 💙

15/10/2025

We can laugh about it after menstrual phase but it isn’t actually funny living it. Women can experience extreme emotions that are life altering. It requires a good support network. Healthy foundations to ensure women aren’t in a continued spiral post luteal phase. This can take time to build.

Here’s what I’d recommend if you are leaving your partner / husband every month:

COMMUNICATION: I know it’s sounds silly, but I find PMDD ladies are more then likely the type to try keep what they are experiencing to themselves, they keep on keeping on throughout the month and then luteal they explode. The change in this phase will happen when you start to express your emotions throughout the whole month and not bottle it up.

SET YOUR FOUNDATIONS: if you don’t know what they are for you, you’ll continue to spiral or you just won’t get any consistency with habits, you try when symptoms are bad but then the wheels fall off 3 weeks later. Don’t over complicate it. What is one nutrition foundation, one movement foundation, one mental health foundation?
For example: I commit to:
🥩Protein with every meal even when I don’t want too.
💃Movement is movement it could be a walk or a dance if the gym is not happening this week.
📕 Gratitude journal 5 things every day.

Let everything else drop away in luteal if you have too. Keep your foundations 💙

15/10/2025

Your illness is also a way for your body to seek the rest you didn’t give it, the love you didn’t feel you deserved, the validation you felt you needed. This is not a mistake, it’s a way for you to gain what you felt was missing. When we realise how our illnesses are actually also supporting us, we can find a new perspective to overcome them, heal them, change your stories and find fulfilling these voids in other ways.

This was vulnerable for me to share as I felt my voice crack talking about this particular feeling as a child so I know it’s something that still sits somewhere within my own health challenges but for the first time recently I noticed how much this mindset has changed and transformed within my own journey. I speak to women every day and I often hear the story behind the story, you are burnt out, from holding back the things you should be saying from holding the weight of your own expectations and from sacrificing your own values for others. Burn out was the only option!

I’ve been intertwining the perspective shifts in my clinical practice more and more because I know this is where the real work is.

Follow along if you see value in this 💙

11/10/2025

Or the absolute worst…. “You aren’t even bloated”
This is for the girlies who are struggling with bacterial overgrowth, digestive symptoms, SIBO, endo… and everyone wants to give you their opinion on how all your symptoms you’ve experienced for years will vanish.

And no telling someone with chronic symptoms that it doesn’t look that bad is not helping, it actually just invalidates how they feel and what they experience. The women I see are sometimes very small and the bloating chronic but because other people don’t see it as an issue they think women are being dramatic or unrealistic with expectations of how they should feel or look. I see you. The symptoms can be so debilitating for your mental health and I know seeking answers when the world tells you it’s not that bad is hard but you deserve to feel supported and comfortable in your own body. 💙

06/10/2025

Not every ‘lower belly pouch’ is just body fat, sometimes it’s your gut asking for help.
Over the past few years, the women’s health space has started calling the soft lower belly fold “normal and empowering.” While body diversity is normal and we should never shame natural fat distribution, I’ve seen too many women brush off what is actually a sign of something deeper.
A constant, firm, or painful lower-abdomen ‘pouch’ can sometimes be linked to:
    •    Chronic bloating or distension from gut dysbiosis, for example, SIBO (small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth) or large-bowel overgrowth can ferment carbohydrates and create trapped gas and fluid【PMID: 31393526】.
    •    Hormonal drivers like high oestrogen, which can increase fluid retention and slow bowel transit.
    •    Reproductive issues such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, or ovarian cysts, which often create a lower-pelvic fullness.
Research shows that up to 78% of women with chronic bloating report visible abdominal distension that fluctuates during the day【PMID: 25920310】, and SIBO has been detected in up to 84% of people with IBS-type bloating【PMID: 16937439】.
If your lower belly changes through the day, flatter in the morning but puffy or uncomfortable by evening, that’s a red flag to investigate digestion, gut motility, and even pelvic health.
This isn’t about chasing flat stomachs; it’s about listening to the signal your body is sending so you can feel better, reduce pain, and support hormone + gut health.

👉 If you’re noticing a persistent pouch with bloating, pain, or bowel changes, don’t ignore it. Ask me questions in my private messages and I’ll direct you to who best to speak to if a naturopath isn’t right for you 💙

29/09/2025

Gut healing takes time, its frustrating and that’s okay.
We often hear that the microbiome can “shift in just a few days.” While small fluctuations can happen quickly, lasting change, especially for women with chronic gut health issues, it is usually a longer journey.
These results are from me , I also had a SIBO diagnosis, which adds complexity. SIBO means certain bacteria have moved into the small intestine where they shouldn’t be, slowing progress and making some “minor” numbers on a report much more relevant.
👉 For example, hydrogen-sulphide-producing microbes weren’t “high” on paper, but they were still driving symptoms, a perfect reminder that your symptoms and your report have to be read together, not in isolation.
Over the year, you can see how markers like Secretory IgA, Butyrate, and Hexa-LPS shifted with consistent work. These aren’t overnight wins, they reflect a deeper rebuilding of the gut’s resilience, immunity, and inflammation response.
There’s so much more data in this test that’s being addressed behind the scenes, but what’s shown here highlights the power of staying the course and having someone interpret your results in the context of your unique story.
✨ This shows the importance of testing, doing the work, retesting if necessary and being patient even when it’s really bloody hard (this is addressed at myself too).
Are you surprised by these changes?
Do you have questions about microbiome testing?

22/09/2025

If you’ve had to treat the same symptoms more than once, it’s not just bad luck.
Recurring thrush.
BV that keeps coming back.
Discharge that’s “off” but always dismissed.
You deserve better than a quick script and a “see how you go.”
Because treating the symptom without testing is like painting over mould.
Here’s what proper testing can reveal:
    •    Whether you actually have Candida (and what strain)
    •    If you’re missing protective vaginal flora
    •    If your hormones are triggering flare-ups
    •    And how your whole microbiome ecosystem is functioning, not just one part
Because these symptoms don’t show up in isolation.
They’re a message.
And your body is asking you to listen, not patch it up and move on.
This is the work I do:
Looking at the vaginal microbiome, gut health, and hormonal picture together.
So we stop chasing symptoms… and actually solve them.
Will it be an overnight process. Absolutely not. I don’t do quick fixes. but if you Want proper answers?
Send me a DM with the word “MICROBIOME” or head to the link in bio to book a 1:1 consult.

01/09/2025

We’re not born disconnected from our bodies. We’re taught to be.
Taught that pain is normal. That we’re “too emotional.” That discharge is gross. That bloating is just IBS. That the pill is the fix. That our shape defines our worth. That our symptoms are too much to deal with, or not enough to matter.
So we push through. We silence. We override. We disconnect.
But disconnection isn’t the goal. It was the coping strategy. The truth is, your body has always been trying to speak to you, you were just taught not to listen.

Naturopathy gives you an opportunity to learn how to listen to your body again. It won’t be easy.

Do any of these resonate for you?

 

12/08/2025

IBS is one of the most common digestive diagnoses, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood.
For many women, IBS isn’t the cause of their symptoms… it’s a label for something deeper.

In her case, it was methane SIBO + microbiome imbalance + nervous system dysregulation.
Once we addressed these, she could finally eat without fear and feel in control again.

If you’ve been living with an IBS label but still feel bloated, constipated, or running to the bathroom, it might be time to go deeper.

All the answers in an easy to follow program will be ready soon, with a personalised approach of course.

07/08/2025

For my PMDD girls: this isn’t “just PMS.”
This is a full-body, full-mind experience that can make you feel like a completely different version of yourself every month, exhausted, overstimulated, irrationally angry, deeply low, and utterly unlike you.
And it’s not your fault.

✨ Here’s what you need to know about this phase:
You’re not weak.
You’re not broken.
You’re responding to shifts in hormones and brain chemistry that affect mood, sleep, and even how safe your body feels.
This is why decision-making feels impossible, conversations feel too big, and your tolerance is non-existent.
What helps? Talking about it.
The people around you won’t know unless you tell them.
Let your partner, friend, or housemate know what this phase feels like for you and how they can support you, even if it’s just giving you space, not taking things personally, or helping with dinner.

Save this post for when it hits hard. Revisit it when you forget what’s happening.
Your cycle is a map. The more you understand it, the more power you take back.
This week isn’t about fixing everything. It’s about getting through with grace.

Andrea Dalton

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