Melanie The Midwife

Melanie The Midwife Midwife in Private practice, Host of the Great Birth Rebellion Podcast, Midwifery Mentor and Research

Melanie lives in the Blue Mountains with her Husband and two children and has been a midwife in private practice, and providing homebirth services, since 2009. She has a passion for providing minimal intervention care and has respect for the physiological process of pregnancy, birth and the early postnatal period. Melanie loves to see the powerful process of birth unfold and watch families blossom as pregnancy and birth unfolds. Her passion for midwifery led her to complete her PhD, called "birth outside the system", in 2015, and she has held positions in midwifery research, midwifery lecturing and National Policy development at the Australian College of Midwives along side her work as a midwife. Melanie has a degree in Naturopathy and incorporates alternative therapies and nutritional guidance into her midwifery care.

11/12/2025

Have you been told to stop pushing when you got the urge to push your baby out?
In some unusual circumstances you might get an early urge to push but most of the time if you get an urge to push at the end of your labour its perfectly fine to go with it as you feel.
Get the full story on pushing out your baby on ep 167 & 168 of the Great Birth Rebellion Podcast

09/12/2025

Gah! bloody hell! how do we keep plastic out of our bodies!!!
Episode 180 of the great birth rebellion has some helpful information to help you protect yourself from microplastics in pregnancy... comment PODCAST to join the mailing list and get access to the research papers that I used to create this and every other great birth rebellion podcast episode

08/12/2025

Is there a saboteur (someone who engages in sabotage) in your birth team? It takes a special kind of person to help you through a hard thing like birth… not everyone can sit with the discomfort

In my guide to giving birth without pain medication I have a whole section dedicated to your partner to give practical tips on how they can support you through labour. Comment GUIDE and I’ll sent you the link to buy it … is only $27, that’s cheaper than lunch and could be the best thing you ever invest in… a little bit of cash, a little bit of time to watch it and MASSIVE impact on your birth experience

Comment GUIDE and it will come straight to your messages

07/12/2025

Todays episode of the great birth rebellion podcast is about protecting yourself and baby from microplastics during pregnancy. I speak about the rampant unchecked spread of microplastics and how they get into your body. I cover the research that confirms that it's inside us, your placenta and baby and how to prevent that from happening.

Get the full story podcast episode 180 and Comment PODCAST to get access to the mailing list where I send all the research papers for each podcast episode every week.

06/12/2025

coming tomorrow... keeping yourself safe from microplastics in pregnancy
Ep. 180 of the great birth rebellion podcast

05/12/2025

There are 3 things that need to work together in order to efficiently push your baby out. Many clinicians will assume that you are ready to start pushing once your cervix if fully dilated... it's important that you don't push until:

1. You feel the urge because your baby is in the correct position to trigger an urge
2. You feel like pushing in response to the hormonal changes of the pushing phase, and
3. your cervix is fully dilated (BUT this is the least important part... it doesn't need to be confirmed unless you have been pushing for a while and nothing is changing - sometimes you get an urge before your cervix if fully dilated)

Get the full story on pushing out your baby on the great birth rebellion podcast ep. 167 - pushing out your baby.

You can’t believe everything you see on the internet, she’s right… but you can get a heck of a lot closer to the birth t...
04/12/2025

You can’t believe everything you see on the internet, she’s right… but you can get a heck of a lot closer to the birth that you want with what you’ll learn on the great birth rebellion podcast. 5 million streams and counting.

Thanks for an amazing year and special shoutout to my 1 percenters on Spotify… you know who you are ❤️

03/12/2025

I really do stand behind this.
The pain of labour is purposeful and when you take it away you change birth. Comment GUIDE below to get the purchase link to my guide to giving birth without pain medication - you might just meet the new woman in you!
Full story at The Great Birth Rebellion Podcast ep. 170 - Managing labour without pain medication.

02/12/2025

The ring of fire? NO! It's just a stretch... changing the way you talk to yourself during labour can BOOST your mental game. Listen to episode 167 of the great birth rebellion podcast - pushing our your baby.
Comment GUIDE below to get access to my guide to giving birth without pain medication... it's only $27... that's cheaper than lunch!

02/12/2025

Mental toughness strategies in labour… it doesn’t matter how physically prepared for labour you are, if your mental game isn’t strong, you’ll fall at the first hurdle

These are 3 strategies for mental toughness but there is more where these came from… comment GUIDE below in the comments and I’ll send you a link to purchase the full guide to giving birth without pain medication… it’s only $27… that cheaper than lunch!

Comment GUIDE 🥑🥑🥑

01/12/2025

You are a different person at different times of your menstrual and life cycle. This is just part of what Myself and Jane Hardwicke Collings spoke about this week on ep. 179 of the Great Birth Rebellion podcast

01/12/2025

Calling all Australian midwives who a keen to start their own midwifery business. I’m running a free webinar just for you on December 10th from 12-2pm (Sydney time).

The webinar will walk you through the legal and logistical things that you need to do in order to set up and run a midwifery business, and if you especially interested in being mentored by me to get your business up and running in 2026, this webinar is where I announce my midwifery mentorship opportunity to.

The webinar is next week so register here:

https://www.melaniethemidwife.com/ppm-webinar-opt-in

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Springwood, NSW
2777

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