How do you have a baby during a pandemic?
Next Question with Katie Couric
Katie Couric Media
4.4 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Hospitals in hotspots like New York City may have postponed or canceling non-essential surgeries due to the coronavirus, but, you can’t postpone birth. Pregnant mothers are still entering hospitals, sometimes alone, to deliver babies to doctors and nurses in full hazmat gear. On this episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie finds out what it's like — from the perspective of mothers, doctors, and doulas — to give birth in the time of coronavirus.
First, Katie talks to Alicia Biggs, a mom who had to give birth alone at the end of March. Then, Katie checks in with two obstetricians, one from New York Presbyterian in Manhattan and one from the Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, to understand the obstacles they face in keeping pregnant and laboring moms healthy and safe. Finally, New York City doula Chantal Traub offers tips to pregnant women and their partners for how to feel safe — and empowered — during a time of uncertainty. Next Question listeners can go to ChantalTraub.com to get their free guide for how to enter birth with confidence and calm. For more, subscribe to Katie's morning newsletter Wake-Up Call at KatieCouric.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture Miami. Picture its beaches. Picture three radio journalists assassinated in cold blood. |
| 0:09.2 | This is silenced, the radio murders. |
| 0:12.4 | You left the body there for reason. It was the calling card. It's like the mafia used to do. |
| 0:17.2 | The mastermind has never been caught. To find him, we had to go deep into a world of drugs and darkness. |
| 0:24.4 | And there were these hints of a much bigger conspiracy. |
| 0:30.8 | I was volupting. Listen to silenced, the radio murders. On the iHot radio app, Apple podcasts, |
| 0:37.5 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:41.4 | It was a Hollywood movie come true and I was the star. |
| 0:45.6 | That's Damon Launer. In 2013, he founded what became known as the most elite sex club in the world. |
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| 1:10.5 | In 1973, Viva, an erotic magazine for women, launched its first issue. |
| 1:16.0 | Staffed by feminist writers, Viva was groundbreaking. But it had one bulging obstacle. |
| 1:21.4 | It's porn king publisher Bob Guccione. |
| 1:24.4 | Here is a guy wearing open shirts that chains. |
| 1:28.3 | Stiffed is a podcast about the rise in fall of Viva and why it matters today. |
| 1:33.0 | Listen to Stiffed on the iHot Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:39.5 | Hi everyone, I'm Katie Kurek and welcome to next question. |
| 1:44.3 | Today, giving birth in the time of coronavirus. |
| 1:48.4 | When I walked into the hospital, the hallways are eerily quiet. |
| 1:53.3 | One mother's surreal experience of going it alone. |
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