4.2 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Seanna is a new doula and excited to help her first client: Kaitlyn, 32 weeks pregnant, who reaches out online. Seanna goes to Kaitlyn’s home, assisting her through labour. But Seanna soon realizes that something doesn’t add up. Separately, another doula, Kate, also tends to Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn appears pregnant in person. Kate provides typical doula support — massages to help alleviate discomfort, and assisting her in and out of the shower. When Seanna convinces Kaitlyn it’s time to go to the hospital, Kaitlyn receives an ultrasound. The technician, to Seanna’s shock, reveals there’s no pregnancy; the only thing in her uterus is a contraceptive device. Seanna takes to social media to warn other doulas about Kaitlyn’s scam. When Kate gets the sense that something isn’t right, she searches social media and finds Seanna’s post about Kaitlyn’s fake pregnancy. The two connect and realise they had the same traumatic experience with Kaitlyn, and plan to expose Kaitlyn’s con to the wider birth worker community.
Content warning: This episode contains strong language and references to sexual abuse, sexual behaviour and baby loss.
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0:00.0 | 1942, Europe. |
0:03.4 | Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. |
0:07.3 | They make him a member of Hitler's army. |
0:11.0 | But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. |
0:16.0 | Could a story so unbelievable be true? |
0:20.7 | I'm Dan Goberg and from CBC's personally, Toy Soldier. |
0:26.0 | Available now, wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:30.3 | A BBC World Service and CBC podcast production. |
0:34.7 | A warning. |
0:35.7 | This story contains strong language and references to sexual abuse, sexual behaviors, |
0:40.8 | and baby loss. |
0:47.6 | Oh. |
0:49.0 | Oh. |
0:50.0 | Okay, good. |
0:51.0 | It's going to grow a little bit more. |
0:53.0 | This is a recording, a doula named Shana, made of her client in labor. |
1:01.7 | For two days, Shana helped her client through the swells of labor. |
1:06.3 | When her client needed a massage, when she needed encouragement, something to eat or a bath, Shana was there. |
1:12.8 | I mean, she was there in person. |
1:16.9 | Good job. |
1:25.0 | She would fall asleep and I would fall asleep. |
1:27.8 | And then a couple hours later, I would wake up to her having a contraction. |
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