EP4: Plus Size Pregnancy: Stigma, Health Care Professionals, and C-Sections, with Cathy
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
EP4: A candid conversation with one of Renee’s best friends, Cathy. In this episode, the two discuss everything from the stigma associated with the word “fat”, to the challenges and added stressors involved with pregnancy, labour, and delivery in a large body. After hearing about Cathy’s experiences with her plus size pregnancy, Renee knew this had to be an episode topic and, that many women would relate to her story.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
1. The Birth Partner, By: Penny Simkin
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| 1:36.4 | you have always wanted. This episode is all about plus size pregnancy or fat pregnancy or being pregnant while living in a large body. As many of you |
| 1:48.2 | listening may know, being pregnant is already stressful in and of itself. And once you add on |
| 1:55.7 | being overweight, being obese, being plus size, whatever you want to call it, it comes with |
| 2:02.3 | a whole whack of added stressors. And one of the biggest stressors is navigating the medical |
| 2:09.8 | system. So you'll notice in this episode we talk about some positive experiences that Kathy had |
| 2:16.3 | with health care providers and then some pretty |
| 2:19.1 | horrible experiences. We touch on gestational diabetes. We also talk about her recovery from her C-section |
| 2:27.6 | and what that was like. And if you take anything away from this episode, let it be that your |
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