Mother-centred postpartum care, made practical.
Newborn Mothers Podcast is a practical, mother-centred series about postpartum care, training, and the work of supporting families after birth. Julia Jones speaks with graduates and practitioners about doula work, breastfeeding support, in-home care, business building, and the personal experiences that drew them into the field.
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Newborn Mothers Podcast is built around a simple but demanding idea: postpartum care should hold the mother as carefully as it holds the baby. The series is practical, but not cold. Julia Jones speaks with postpartum graduates, doulas, educators, and parents about the work of caring for new families after birth. Many episodes have the feel of a reflective check-in a few years down the track. Guests explain what pulled them toward postpartum work, what training changed for them, and how they turned care into a service people could actually find and afford. The conversations often begin with personal history. Jasmine connects psychology, massage, and postnatal support. Danny talks about navigating training, paid work, and the experience of severe hip dysplasia in a child. Nikki reflects on caring for her mother during cancer and later finding time and space for family-centred work. Damaris describes moving from midwifery to postpartum doula work. Keturah brings in-home care, Bengkung belly binding, cooking, and matrescence education into a wider argument for mother-centred support. Tara’s episode focuses on breastfeeding mums, nourishment, local connection, and the feeling many mothers have of becoming invisible. Ali’s story moves from speech pathology and market-selling confidence into the reality of building a first real business. The show is not only about sentiment. It spends real time on commitment, course loads, applied practice, economic pressure, family schedules, mortgage worries, local marketing, online trust, and the difficulty of selling support that a mother may deeply need but struggle to justify. Short answers are rare. The pace is gentle enough for nuance, with room for pauses, uncertainty, and stories that loop back through motherhood, work, grief, health, and care. That makes the podcast especially useful for doulas, breastfeeding supporters, maternal health workers, and people deciding whether postpartum training fits their life. It also suits parents who want language for the support they wished existed. Newborn Mothers Podcast stands apart by treating postpartum as both intimate care and serious professional practice, with the business of support kept in the same frame as the emotional cost of not receiving it.
Made for: For postpartum doulas, maternal health workers, breastfeeding supporters, educators, and parents interested in better care after birth. It especially suits people exploring postpartum training or building a small care practice.
What sets it apart: The show combines graduate career stories with concrete postpartum practice, so emotional care, in-home support, nourishment, business realities, and professional training stay connected. It is less theory-driven than many maternal health shows and more focused on how support is actually built.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Julia Jones makes mother-centred postpartum support tangible through candid conversations about care, recovery and the work of serving new families.
Newborn Mothers Podcast keeps returning to a practical question: what changes when care is organized around the mother as well as the baby? Julia Jones answers it through conversations with parents, postpartum professionals, researchers, academics and graduates of her training.
This is the show that makes you ask who holds the mother while everyone else holds the baby.
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Julia Jones and Antonia discuss the hours, practice and pressures involved in postpartum care training.
Julia Jones and Newborn Mothers educator Antonia discuss Julia's efforts to make postpartum care a more recognized profession. They then get specific about certification.
A postpartum doula asks who is looking after the mother.
Postpartum doula Keturah talks with Julia Jones about what can happen after a birth: people hold the baby while the mother goes overlooked. Keturah recalls her childhood interest in pregnancy and mothering, then describes the care she provides in homes around Sydney.
Tara connects breastfeeding support with local relationships and a mother's need to feel seen.
Julia Jones talks with Tara, a mother of five who studied Newborn Mothers' breastfeeding course and wants to support other mums. Tara gives the conversation its most affecting moment near the end, when she recalls feeling as though she was disappearing and wondering whether…
Ali talks with Julia Jones about business finances and finding community in postpartum care.
Ali's move from speech pathology into postpartum care comes with a practical question: how secure can work feel when both partners run businesses? Talking with her former student, Julia Jones makes room for the financial details.
Julia and Danielle discuss nesting parties, including meals, useful tasks and a playful game.
Julia Jones and Danielle discuss nesting parties, gatherings where friends come together to support a mother. Danielle traces the idea for a guide to a friend who hosted one and wished she had clearer suggestions for what guests could do, what meals they might prepare and how to…
Julia and Natalie Talatnikov discuss recognizing postpartum depression and anxiety through Natalie's experience after her first son's birth.
After the birth of her first son, Natalie Talatnikov experienced postpartum depression and anxiety without knowing much about either. She tells Julia how that experience led her to found Better Postpartum and to help mothers recognize when they may need support.
Masha Gessen narrates her own cousin's murder-for-hire arrest and custody battle.
Rich Roll interviews recovery and endurance guests, plus 'Roll On' segments with Adam Skolnick.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Rhonda Patrick translates NAD, vitamin D, and coffee research into daily health protocols.
Shawn Stevenson interviews researchers and coaches on nutrition, sleep, hormones, and fitness.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-hosts field Cosmic Queries on physics, space, and beyond.
Interview with midwife and academic Hannah Dahlen discussing vaccine research, particularly COVID vaccines for pregnant and breastfeeding women.
Julia Jones interviews Rachel Rose about her journey from pregnancy to becoming a circle facilitator and business mentor for postpartum care.
Natalie Talatnikov says she built Better Postpartum after living through postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety for more than a year without education about either condition.
["Recorded in January 2026, Newborn Mothers Podcast's 'The future of postpartum support' centers on Julia Jones announcing a postpartum care certification recognized by the International Institute of Complementary Therapies.", "Jones says the recognition is valid in over 30 countries, including the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, but not the United States yet.", "She says the certification totals 100 hours across 32 hours of online learning, 36 hours of integration work, and 36 hours of applied practice with real clients.", "The episode says enrolments close on 26 February, credits prior learning for current students, and frames the certification as a step toward public funding for postpartum care."]
Jasmine shares her journey from psychology student to thriving doula business, integrating massage and emotional support.
Danny shares her journey of overcoming her daughter's hip dysplasia to build a postpartum care business after taking the Newborn Mothers course.
Julia Jones interviews Nikki, a graduate of the Newborn Mothers postpartum training, about her journey into long-term doula support after caring for her mother through cancer.
A German midwife shares her journey of building a postpartum doula practice in Australia after moving to Sydney.
Keturah, a postpartum doula and Bengkung belly binder practicing in Sydney, tells host Julia Jones that she felt 'discarded' after her first birth at 23 — third-degree tear, blood loss, no support network — and spent the next 20 years building the postpartum career she wished she'd had.
Tara, a mother of five who had her first baby at 19 and her fifth at 41, tells Newborn Mothers host Julia Jones that only one in three mothers experience their breastfeeding journey the way they want it — a statistic that prompted her to combine breastfeeding support and postpartum nutrition into a professional practice after years of facilitating informal mothers' circles around home birth groups and yoga teaching.
Julia Jones speaks with Ali, a former speech pathologist in the Dandenong Ranges of Victoria, about moving from caring work into postpartum support after her son Harry’s August 2019 birth.
Julia Jones interviews Danielle, a Newborn Mothers graduate who built Nest around mother circles, nesting parties, and postpartum planning.
Julia Jones interviews Rachel Rose about her journey from pregnancy to becoming a circle facilitator and business mentor for postpartum care.
Host Julia Jones interviews postpartum doula Jo Bealey about her holistic approach to supporting new mothers through counselling, baby massage, and postpartum care.
Julia Jones interviews Emily Writes about her viral blog on sleep, her books, and her advocacy for human rights and disabled children.