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A conversation for babywearing professionals about lockdown 3. This covers the legislation and guidance and how we work, Madeleine talking about the new variant as well as track and trace.

My lovely friend (and fellow babywearing consultant/sling librarian/all round amazing lady) Lizzie joins me for a chat about mental health and parenting in the crazy world that we are living in right now.

Rachel, who is a babywearing consultant and midwife talks us through the government guidelines and how we can look at the risk factors of seeing people in various ways as lockdown begins to ease. To help us find a new way of running out businesses and supporting parents. She talks about PPE, risk factors and risk assessments, different venues and how to work with them, cleaning slings and much more!

A really useful conversation with Ruth who is a women's health physio for the NHS. we talk about recovering from giving birth, when to start babywearing, babywearing after a difficult birth. We talk about babywearing with bigger babies, how to avoid injury and aches and pains. What to do if you have a back injury and how useful back carrying can be!

A chat with Lizzie about the fourth trimester, the juggle of having a newborn and a toddler. Sleep, no sleep, co-sleeping, ante-natal prep, how babywearing helps with the fourth trimester and beyond and so so much more!

On this episode I am joined by Steph Grainger (the business therapist) who talks about parenting, business, juggling anxiety and tips for how to cope with anxiety.

Welcome to the first mini episode of the babywearing mama podcast.