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MOMENT | Language in birth is offensive - This is why it needs to change

The Motherkind Podcast

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8837 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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**Trigger warning - baby loss**  Welcome back to Moment. Moment is your place for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. In this week's MOMENT, midwife Sophie Martin talks about the offensive terminology used throughout pregnancy and why this needs to change in order to make mothers supported. This show is proudly sponsored by Stokke Continue the Conversation Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This episode is sponsored by cricket. Now, if you follow me on social media, you will have seen

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that to get me off my phone in the evenings, I've started crafting and I love it. What has totally

0:11.7

changed the game for me is getting a cricket machine, which is technically a smart cutting machine.

0:17.1

But what it really is is creating stickers for the girls, personalising everything in sight

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and even making my own birthday cards. There is so much you can do. Now let's be clear, I am not a

0:28.1

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0:42.1

of her notebook.

0:43.1

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1:52.5

Tell me about some of those language shifts because I think, you know, when I experienced those miscarriages, even that word miscarriage felt like it was blaming me somehow, that I had missed something. And I'm wondering,

2:05.2

what are some of the other language things that you struggle with? And how do we move this on

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