Join your hosts Kaitlyn Bywater and Emma Gray as they chat with Liana Quinlivan. Liana is a single mum of 3.5 year old Hazel, a loss mum after having to Terminate For Medical Reasons (TFMR) during her 1st pregnancy with a baby they named Audrey...

At 32 and around 6 weeks ago our podcast co-host bestie Kaitlyn Bywater was diagnosed with Autism and ADHD. In this episode Kaitlyn shares her journey to diagnosis with us and how she is feeling about the diagnosis now! As always, ...

Join your hosts Emma Gray and Kaitlyn Bywater for a chat with Llani Hill. After suffering most of her life from mental health disorders Llani is using her lived experience to create programs and events that empower women with information and ac...

50% of mothers suffer with chronic exhaustion85% of mothers report feeling unsupported90% of mothers report feeling lonely and isolatedAs a society we’ve never been busier or needed to be more ‘on’ b...

Join us this week for a new snack episode and a really important topic we think should be on the agenda for every antenatal appointment; matrescence. We talk about what matrescence is, what it looks like for women and how we have e...

Amy Hinton-Kench from Glenroy in Melbourne was devastated when her baby daughter Ayla Joy was stillborn on 2 May 2021.Amy received counselling support from Red Nose, which helped her begin to process her loss. Amy then decided ...

We are back baby! We apologise for the gigantic gap between seasons. We are back with season 3 of the podcast and will be launching a new episode each Tuesday for the next few months! This episode is a bite sized (or a lobster in Kaitl...

Join Emma and Kaitlyn this week as they chat with  the beautiful Mandy Dante.  Mandy is an ex-speech pathologist, TEDx Speaker, Model, an Australian Accredited Facilitator and last but not least, Mandy is the founder and CEO of Flouri...

Happy Tuesday! Join Emma Gray and Kaitlyn Bywater for The Nurtured Village's final 'snack' for season 2 of the podcast. Emma and Kait chat about the season, their fave moments and an update on charity status for The Nurtured Village Hampers.&nb...

Join your hosts Emma Gray and Kaitlyn Bywater this week for a special episode of The Nurtured Village Podcast. We chat with Elise and Grant Waser who are so kindly sharing their journey to becoming parents through adoption. Back in  201...

Merry everything and Happy New Year! This Tuesday we are bringing you a snack episode where your hosts, Emma Gray and Kaitlyn Bywater chat all things, Preparing yourself to send your kids to school. Watching your little ones walk through the...

We are sick of being left in the dark about contraception, the menstrual cycle, vaginas, cervical fluid - like, why aren’t we talking about this? Well today we are. Dr Lauren Bracey is a women’s health GP and, most significantly, mu...

Join Emma and Kaitlyn as they chat candidly about the seven recognised stereotypes of mums. Do they serve us? we explore our thoughts on stereotypes, good v's lazy mothers, how stereotypes  play a role in the way we form relationships, com...

Tam Bickersteth is a Kindergarten teacher and Assistant principal based in Sydney Australia.  Join Emma Gray and Kaitlyn Bywater as we chat with Tam about starting big school and supporting our kids with the transition. We discu...

Welcome to another episode of 'The Snack' by Emma Gray and Kaitlyn Bywater. A bite sized morsel of chin-wag and parenting chit-chat. In this episode we chat about feeling 'done' having babies, do you ever feel done? Whilst this may...

In the spirit of Movember, join your hosts, Emma Gray and Kaitlyn Bywater as they chat with Matt Defina; a registered organisational psychologist and Head of Programs at The Man Cave. If you haven't already heard of The Man Cave, tune right...

Episode 2 of The Snack is here and in this ep, we talk all about our experiences of making friends as a new mum. What helped or hindered us. Whilst we discuss the many barriers and things that make making friends as a mum we hope that this chat...

Everything you never knew you needed to know about breast pumps. Join your hosts, Emma Gray and Kaitlyn Bywater as we chat with the inspiring Alexandra Sinickas from Milkdrop Pumps. Alex Sinickas is an engineer and struggled w...

Hello and welcome to season 2. Same hosts, same children intrerrupting, slightly different look.This week we have launched our very first episode of The Snack, a little morsel of chin-wag about parenting topics that we aren't talking about ...

Jessica Prescott is the friend everyone wishes they had when they were a new Mum!In addition to being a mum of two (to her boys Jude and Louie), Jess is a published cookbook author, postpartum doula and half of the wonderful business that i...

Happy Tuesday! Third time's a charm seems to ring true for Kaitlyn as she shares her story of birthing her third baby boy, Banjo.  From VBAC dreams to a planned c-section, juggling pregnancy with toddlers and renovating Kaitlyn discusses...

Recent research shows us that one third of parents don’t know how to safely sleep their baby.  This Friday 13th August 2021 is the 33rd year of Red Nose Day raising critical funds for Red Nose Australia. Since Red Nose Australia was foun...

Join Emma and Kaitlyn in episode 30 of The Nurtured Village Podcast who interview the beautiful Tazz Wright. Tazz is a mum of 5 ranging from 16 to 6 month old twins. We are passionate about using this platform to have authenic and raw conversat...

Join us in episode 29 of the podcast where Emma and Kaitlyn speak with maternal child health nurse Janine Armocida on Toilet Training. Janine has been a Maternal child health nurse for 20 years and a Nurse Continence Specialist for 15 of thos...

It's been 12 months since we launched the podcast so we thought we'd do a little anniversary bonus episode to celebrate. We speak about our favourite bits and guests of the last 27 episodes, the future of the podcast and The Nurtured Village Ha...