Hannah Witton on Pregnancy with a Stoma: What It’s Really Like
Happy Mum
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week Giovanna sits down with creator and OG YouTuber Hannah Witton!
Hannah opens up about navigating motherhood while living with long-term chronic illness.
She also shares her journey with secondary infertility and the emotional challenges of coping with other people’s pregnancy announcements.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mum, Happy Baby, the podcast. |
| 0:10.3 | Today's guest is the amazing Hannah Witten. |
| 0:14.9 | She has been a YouTuber for a long old time. |
| 0:17.4 | She's one of the OGs in my mind. |
| 0:19.7 | She is an activist when it comes to sex education, |
| 0:23.3 | to feminism, to relationships, to body image. She is an incredible communicator. I think, you know, |
| 0:31.0 | we talk about YouTube and influence and stuff like that. She is someone who has really helped |
| 0:36.3 | a lot of teenagers and young adults sort of |
| 0:40.1 | figure out their place in the world and their place in their bodies. She is just a really |
| 0:45.7 | powerful and incredible person to talk to. She also has a little boy called Rowan. And over the |
| 0:51.5 | years, from a very young age, actually, she's had a lot of different health |
| 0:55.3 | issues, which we talk about. She's had inflammatory bowel disease. She's been diagnosed with |
| 1:00.2 | PCOS. She has ulcerative colitis, which resulted in her having a stoma bag fitted in 2018. |
| 1:08.0 | And she talks about actually having that stoma bag and how she managed to it throughout pregnancy, |
| 1:12.7 | which I found fascinating. |
| 1:14.2 | So please enjoy listening to Hannah Whitten. |
| 1:18.5 | Yeah, I feel like when I've had those situations of like when I got my stoma or like getting pregnant and having a baby of that, |
| 1:27.0 | oh, I've kind of like crossed a threshold |
| 1:29.3 | into this entirely new existence and like world. |
| 1:33.8 | And when I, when my baby was first born, I remember calling it, what's it called in |
| 1:40.7 | Stranger Things? |
| 1:41.5 | The upside down. |
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