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, in which she interviews a different woman each week about their own birth story. There's author Francesca Segal, whose twin girls were born prematurely via emergency C-section at 30 weeks; comedian Helen Thorn, one half of thepodcast, who speaks hilariously about the home birth of her son; and clinical psychologist Michelle Tolfrey, whose baby girl Orla was sadly stillborn at 37 weeks.
"There is great power in women telling their birth stories, and it holds a huge amount of importance," Clemmie tells us."As a midwife, women tell me their birth stories all the time – at weddings, parties, taking the dog for a walk – and I love listening to them, so I wanted to take it to another level. I want to do these stories justice.""I've never heard a birth story sound the same," says Clemmie."And that is so important for women to know.
Embrace unpredictability."You can’t plan your birth, that's life. It's the women who embrace the unpredictability of birth, rather than panic, who cope better mentally during and afterwards. Take Francesca [Segal], who had an anti-natal haemorrhage and bled at 30 weeks: she was nil-by-mouth, until they told her the bleeding had stopped, she could eat again and could probably go home.
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