Hannah Marsh pulls at threads

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

An emergency caesarean brought journalist Hannah Marsh's first child into the world. Afterwards, she struggled to make sense of the events that had led to his traumatic birth and her intense feeling of shame for not having the “perfect” birth she’d envisioned. Hannah set about looking into the origins of procedure, which in turn led to her new book, Thread: A Caesarean Story of Myth, Magic and Medicine. Jen chats with Hannah about the many misconceptions about the caesarean (including thinking of it as a relatively recent procedure), the pressure on women around birth choices, and why women are struggling to have the births they want. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.2	Standard issue for all women.
1:06.1	Welcome, welcome to a new week of the Standard Issue podcast.
1:11.1	Jen here to talk to you about today's episode in which I'm talking to journalist and author Hannah Marsh. But let me tell you, first of all, what other ear fodder we have coming up for you?
1:17.4	On Wednesday, it's rated or dated and, hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, yes, that's right, if you could make any sense of that at all, we're off to 1985's The Breakfast Club
1:32.4	for some no doubt deeply disturbing Molly Wingworld content and indeed simple minds.
1:37.6	On Thursday, Hannah and I will be wishing we'd not read the news in the Bush Telegraph
1:42.0	and on Friday, with a brand new outside the box
1:45.0	giving you the rundown of this month's television hits and indeed misses. But back to today.
1:51.9	Following the traumatic birth of her first child, journalist Hannah Marsh struggled to make sense
1:56.5	of the events that had led to the emergency caarean section that brought him into the world.
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