Pessaries and sepsis with Candice Brathwaite

Birth Stories with Clemmie Hooper

Off Script

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

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Candice was told at 38 weeks that her baby was likely to be born by section, but she was induced and went through a long labour when her baby became overdue. She tells Clemmie how the doctors took her to the very edge of labour before performing an emergency section, and then how, catastrophically, her post-surgery pain was ignored, leading to life-threatening sepsis. Candice and Clemmie discuss the black birthing experience and the results of the MBRRACE report, which showed that in the UK, black mothers are five times more likely to die in childbirth than their white counterparts. They also take a question about post-birth debriefs.

Candice’s book I’m Not Your Baby Mother is available to pre-order now. Her campaign Make Motherhood Diverse can be found on Instagram: instagram.com/makemotherhooddiverse/

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: 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	Hello and welcome to birth stories with me, Clemy Hooper, created by Offscript. I know that Esmay, my first born was conceived on Valentine's Night 2013. I know that for
0:18.7	fact. So then Papa B, my other half would say we were trying. But in my mind she wasn't panned.
0:27.0	I just remember thinking first and foremost, oh my God I can't afford this right now.
0:31.0	That was my first thought. It's like no way.
0:35.7	Pregnancy with Esme was amazing, really amazing. I was 25-26 the fittest I'd ever been I was quite queasy the first three months
0:45.6	but after that it was plain sailing and I remember I was still jogging 20 miles a week
0:50.9	up until 38 weeks.
0:53.4	Dead slow, but still out there and people looking at me like I was crazy.
0:57.6	But yeah, it was super simple. Hello, I'm Klemi Hooper and welcome to Birth Stories, a podcast where I talk to amazing
1:09.8	women about the
1:13.0	fascinating and unique ways they had their babies.
1:14.0	Just a quick note, we'll be talking about childbirth in a lot of details
1:18.0	so you may not want to listen to this podcast around young children.
1:22.0	My guest today is presenter, writer and activist Candice
1:25.8	Brathwaite. Candice is the founder of Make Motherhood Diversity, a campaign
1:30.4	that aims to encourage a more diverse representation of motherhood in the media. campaign that We opened the podcast talking about that first feeling when you found out you were pregnant
1:46.2	that was that I can't afford this baby. How did that kind of manifest into going,
1:52.2	but we're gonna do it, we're going to get on with
1:54.3	this and manage that manifested by my mom like she's got this saying it's really
2:02.2	basic she's like your life can change in 24 hours and
2:05.4	basically don't make a permanent decision on on circumstances that are forever changing and I was just like you you know what? She's so right. And it, being
2:15.0	pregnant the first time made me see my parents with parent eyes. And I just
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