S1 Episode 3. Baby Billie: A mother's story of loss
Episode 3 explores a mother’s tragic loss of her baby at just eleven days old. Candice bravely shares the story of her second daughter, Billie. She describes her short life, and death, due to a rare viral infection that caused inflammation of Billie's heart. This is a mother's honest, heartbreaking and unexpected journey into bereavement, her families new normal, subsequent rainbow twin pregnancy, and the establishment of the All for Billie fundraiser for enterovirus research. *Content ...
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Introduction to Pregnancy Uncut
Our introduction to Pregnancy Uncut. Meet your hosts doctors Alex Umbers and Kara Thompson working in women's health. Hear what motivated them to start the project, and what to expect from the first season where they explore what its like when pregnancies do not go to plan.Topics include infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth, obstetric emergencies, birth trauma, perinatal mental health, baby loss.
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S1 Episode 1. A Story of Recurrent Miscarriage
In the first episode, host Doctor Alex Umbers bravely walks us through her own personal experience of recurrent pregnancy loss. Focusing in on one particular late miscarriage at seventeen weeks due to premature rupture of membranes, and what pregnancy loss felt like for her and her partner. She shares her own challenges as a doctor working in obstetrics, and the healing journey after and subsequent pregnancies . *Content warning: miscarriage, pregnancy loss
16 Huhti 202145min
S1 Episode 2. Birth Trauma; Amniotic Fluid Embolus
Episode 2 explores Stefanie's story of birth trauma. Her third birth was all going to plan, when Stefanie suddenly and unexpectedly had a cardiac arrest and life threatening bleed after her baby was born. Her story unpacks her experience of the rare obstetric emergency (amniotic fluid embolism), her time in intensive care, and surviving birth trauma in the aftermath. She explains how she and her family worked through PTSD and her journey to recover. *Content warning: Birth trauma, cardi...
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