Parents You've Got This - The Expert Guide to Parenthood

This week on Parents You've Got This - The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast we are talking about speech and language development in babies and children.
From first words to full sentences there is nothing more magic than hearing your little one talk for the first time. Equally it can be really challenging if your child has difficulties speaking and communicating. 
Joining us this week as we interview Speech Pathologist Danielle Swinnerton who shares her practical tips to help support your child's speech development. 
We discuss:
- What is considered normal speech development for babies and young children
- When should we expect our child to begin talking
- The first sounds/words your baby may make
- Key milestones when it comes to speech in a baby, toddler and preschooler
- When a parent should be concerned if their child is not talking
- Danielle's tips to help your child develop their speech 
- Common sounds which children find more difficult to say
- Lifestyle factors which could be impacting your child's speech
- Do dummies and screen time impact your child's ability to talk
- When a speech therapist might be a good idea for your child
- Do speech delays resolve on their own or do parents need to seek support
- What a typical speech therapy consult entails
- Bilingual parents - the impact on a child's language and speech development
- Tips for children who have stutters or lisps 
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It is only natural to feel stressed and a little fearful of giving birth, especially when everyone seems to tell you how much it is going to hurt and random strangers walk up to you in the supermarket to tell you their horror birth story.

Don't worry; this week's episode of Parents You’ve Got This: The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast will dive into how to reduce stress during labour and birth with our Midwife and Positive Birth Expert Narelle Tsiros
This episode will help you feel less stressed and more confident as you get closer to meeting your baby.

In this week's episode, we discuss:
- Narelle's top tips to reduce stress in labour.
- How to prepare your home to help reduce stress during labour 
- Why a hospital dry run, a birth bag packed and a full tank if petrol can help reduce stress
- Practical tips to ensure your bed and car are protected from amniotic fluid & reduce the stress of the mess
- How understanding the birth process can help reduce stress
- How understanding your birth choices can help avoid stress on the day
- How to reduce stress in the birth suite and turn a hospital room into a birthing sanctuary 
- How breathing, conection and oxytocin and weapons againts stress and how to harness these tools in labour and birth 
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This week on Parents You’ve Got This The Expert Guide to Parenthood we are talking about IVF - what it is, the reasons that you might need or consider IVF, and what exactly is involved. 
There are so many questions and emotions surrounding this topic. Even though IVF has helped more than 12 million people around the world grow their families, it is a deeply personal topic.

We are excited to welcome our IVF and Fertility Expert Dr Hector Georgiou into the podcast studio to help us all better understand this topic.

We discuss:
- What is IVF is
- How IVF works
- Who IVF is typically recommended for
- At what point patients should move from trying naturally to trying IVF
- What is involved in a typical IVF cycle
- What patients can expect physically and emotionally during a IVF cycle
- The typical success rates for IVF
- The factors which come into play when discussing success rates of IVF
- Potential risk factors with IVF
- Dr Hector's tips for coping with the uncertainty of having IVF
- If IVF pregnancies higher risk
- What happens to unused embryos

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Could your child have a food allergy?
In this episode of Parents You’ve Got This - The Expert Guide to Parenthood, we're covering Allergies in Children, a topic which affects many families. Joining us in the podcast studio is Dietitian Karman Liu from Happy Bellies Nutrition, who will break down the facts about allergies and give you the confidence to navigate allergies as a parent.
So, whether you are dealing with a recent diagnosis or just want to be prepared, this episode is packed with essential insights every parent needs to know about allergies in children. 
We discuss:
- Why food allergies have become more common
- The percentage of children experiencing food allergies
- What the 9 common allergens are
- The most common ages food allergy symptoms appear
- How to introduce allergens to your child
- Are food allergies hereditary? Or are children more likely to have a food allergy if their parents do?
- What are the symptoms children experience if they have a food allergy?
- How to tell the difference between an intolerance and an allergy
- How allergies affect children
- What is involved in food allergy testing 
- Karman's view and thoughts on commercial allergen starter packs on the market
- Rashes and other reactions
- Anaphylaxis
- What Karman wants all parents to know about food allergens and children
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Friends have to be one of the best things about life and our childhoods, but it can be incredibly hard as a parent to watch your child navigate friendships.
If you see your child being left out or dealing with friendship drama, we just want to be able to fix it for them, but should we? We are excited to have Psychologist Deirdre Brandner back on the podcast to help us unpack how friendships develop through childhood and how we can support our children along the way.

In this episode we discuss: 
- Navigating friends in the early years from kindy, to primary school to high school 
- The role of the parent in helping children navigate friendships
- If a child comes home with a friendship issue, what is the best approach for a parent to take
- Some common mistakes parents make when trying to help their child navigate a tricky friendship situation
- Deirdre's tips if your child isn't making friends
- What you can do to support your child make friends
- Tips for parents if your child has chosen a friend that you don't like
- If there is a "normal” level of friendship drama that parents can expect their child to go through 
- If there is a particular gender more likely to experience friendship drama over another
- Sometimes little ones will come home and say ‘no one played with me’. Deirdre shares her advice on what we should say if they say this
- Deirdre's advice for parents wanting to help their child build friendship skills
- Do playdates and birthday parties help to build children's friendship circles or can they make them feel more left out?
- What to do if you see your child’s behaviour dramatically change as a result of hanging out with a child whose family may have different values to your family.
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