Mental health and muppet babies with Bryony Gordon

Birth Stories with Clemmie Hooper

Off Script

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and author Bryony Gordon joins Clemmie this week to share the story of her daughter's birth six years ago. Bryony struggled through the pregnancy, which was unplanned, and was terrified of giving birth. She tells Clemmie how the pregnancy impacted her mental health and addictions, and how she ended up with an emergency c-section. They discuss wanting to be naked in labour, Bryony's theory that pregnancy was like the film Alien, and how women's bodies are incredible during childbirth. They also take a listener question about anxiety and fearing a lack of control during birth.

Bryony's book You Got This is out now.

Follow Clemmie's Mother of Daughters account: instagram.com/mother_of_daughters/

Follow Clemmie's Gas and Air account: instagram.com/gasandair/

Clemmie's book How to Grow a Baby and Push It Out is available now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Grow-Baby-Push-Out/dp/1785040383

Birth Stories is produced by Hannah Varrall and created by Off Script

*This podcast is not to replace medical advice. Always speak to your midwife or doctor if you have any concerns.*

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bear Stories with me Klemi Hooper, created by Offscript. I was really hung over which was kind of normal and I think I'd only just like moved in
0:20.3	with my boyfriend probably like two months before we haven't been together very long like
0:24.2	maybe eight months in total.
0:26.3	I felt so unwell and then I sort of clicked that my period was a bit late.
0:33.4	I was 31.
0:34.4	I was quite grown up, but I wasn't monitoring my periods or anything.
0:38.6	I wasn't thinking about that.
0:41.2	I remember peeing into a glass first because I was like I didn't you very don't need this detail and I remember it saying oh it would take three minutes and within about two seconds two lines came up. I just started crying because I
0:58.7	was like I hadn't planned this. This is not how I envisaged finding out that I was pregnant for the first time.
1:06.7	Like I was expecting this kind of like, oh it's so happy and it was like, what the fuck.
1:18.0	Hello, I'm Klemi Hooper and welcome to birth stories, a podcast where I talk to amazing women
1:20.0	about the fascinating and unique ways they had their babies.
1:23.6	I'm a midwife and a mother of four and I also run a blog called Gasinair
1:27.7	where women can share their stories of childbirth.
1:29.9	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.
1:38.0	Today's guest is journalist and author Briany Gordon. I'm a huge fan of Bryony's books in which she writes about
1:45.0	her hedonistic 20s, mental health and her love of running amongst many other things.
1:50.9	Bryony, thanks so much for joining me today.
1:53.0	Thank you for having me.
1:54.0	I remember reading your blog when I was pregnant.
1:57.0	It was one of the few kind of like bright lights and an otherwise very dark experience.
2:04.0	So thank you.
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