Knitting needles and losing the plot with Laura Jackson
Birth Stories with Clemmie Hooper
Off Script
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Laura Jackson joins Clemmie this week to talk about the birth of her daughter Sidney. Laura discusses why she decided not to have a birth plan, how having an epidural helped her regain control after pain caused her to panic and worry during labour, and how she felt both overwhelmed and underwhelmed when the baby finally arrived. They also take a listener question about different methods of induction.
Find out more about Laura’s new project Hoste here: https://hostelondon.co.uk/
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Clemmie's book How to grow a baby and push it out is available now: amazon.co.uk/How-Grow-Baby-Push-Out/dp/1785040383
Birth Stories is produced by Hannah Varrall and created by Off Script
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bear Stories with me Klemi Hooper, created by Offscript. My husband has been Broodie for a very long time and he has wanted me to have a baby for a few years now. |
| 0:19.0 | I just didn't know when the right time was and I kind of thought there was never going to be a right time was and I kind of thought that it's never going to be a right time. |
| 0:25.0 | I had gone camping to Cornwall and I love a margarita. |
| 0:31.0 | I mean I actually want to call my daughter Margaroots because it's my favorite drink. See she's... |
| 0:34.6 | And she's saying no mummy, absolutely not. I just felt really sick and I was sat in the pub and I had to lie underneath the table on the floor. |
| 0:47.4 | And then the next day I didn't get out of bed and I did a test. |
| 0:50.5 | I was sick actually for the first trimester. I'd go to work and I'd be sick in the |
| 0:57.4 | bin at the station on the way there and then I'd get off the train and I'd be sick in |
| 1:02.1 | the bin there. I didn't enjoy being pregnant. I didn't hate it. It's not the |
| 1:05.7 | worst thing in the world, but it's not fun. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello, I'm Klemi Hooper and welcome to Birth Stories, a podcast where I talked to amazing women |
| 1:16.4 | about the fascinating and unique ways that they had their babies. |
| 1:19.9 | Just a quick note, we'll be talking about childbirth in a lot of details so you may not want to listen to this podcast around young children |
| 1:27.0 | My guest today is TV presenter and food writer Laura Jackson |
| 1:31.7 | Laura gave birth to her first child, a daughter called |
| 1:34.8 | Sydney just 10 weeks ago and she's here today. Laura thank you so much for coming on |
| 1:40.8 | and making time for this. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:44.0 | So we open the podcast with talking about how you found out you're pregnant and you're really |
| 1:48.0 | honest actually in saying how much parts of it you didn't enjoy. |
| 1:51.0 | I think that's really important that women talk about that |
| 1:53.6 | because we're told you know we're so blessed and you're so lucky to be able to have a baby and |
| 1:58.3 | carry a baby but actually the hard bits people don't really talk about for fear of I guess judgment. |
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