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Woman's Hour

Practical advice for anxious mothers. Burns specialist Professor Fiona Wood. Iran protests

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The imagery around pregnancy is often of glowing women doing yoga with calm expressions. For many women through it can be a time of anxiety about the birth, the baby, the future. All perfectly natural but it can be hard to ask for or access help. A new book ‘Break Free From Maternal Anxiety’ A self-help Guide for Pregnancy, Birth and the First Postnatal Year’ offers CBT-based support. One of the authors Dr Catherine Green joins Emma Barnett to share professional and personal experience. We hear from Professor Fiona Wood a world leading burns specialist the reluctant subject of a new book ‘Under Her Skin’. She was the first female plastic surgeon in Western Australia (in 1991) and has been named Australia’s Most Trusted Person and National Living Treasure becoming a household name after she led a team that helped saved the lives of people injured in the Bali bombing. Women continue to lead protests in Iran. But many Iranians say speaking out against the regime brings real risks. Now according to State Media a court in Iran has issued the first death sentence to a person arrested for taking part. We get the latest from Faranak Amidi the BBC's Near East Women's Affairs Reporter and Rushanara Ali the Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow about what she wants the UK Government to do. A tribute to Sue Baker one of the original members of the Top Gear team who's died. Plus tampon tax campaigner Laura Coryton on new research which suggests at least 80% of the savings, as a result of the tax ending two years ago has been absorbed by retailers. Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.3

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.0

As the Prime Minister speaks on international issues from calling Russia's war on Ukraine

0:15.0

bar barric, it's a saying China is the biggest state-based threat to Britain's economy

0:20.2

at a meeting of the G20 countries which is now underway in Bali.

0:24.0

The government is also under pressure to respond to the latest reports about the female

0:27.8

led protests in Iran.

0:29.8

We'll have more on that for you in a moment.

0:32.5

But also on today's programme, I'll be joined by Fiona Wood, a woman who became a household

0:36.6

name in Australia 20 years ago last month when her pioneering medical approach was lauded

0:42.2

for saving the lives and hugely helping some of those caught up in the Bali bombings.

0:48.0

An eight years on, while the former student behind the hugely successful and popular with

0:52.2

many tampon tax campaign, might be starting a whole other petition.

0:57.5

I also wanted to make space today to ask you about the words of the former US First Lady

1:01.9

Michelle Obama in her new book, The Follow-up to Her very Popular First Becoming.

1:06.8

She describes her book as a toolkit to live boldly, and while she details living with a

1:11.6

fearful mind and how to overcome it, she also admits that she hates how she looks all

1:18.4

the time, no matter what.

1:21.1

She says she's found strategies to be kind to herself when she was talking to my colleague

1:24.8

Nagamun Chetty on BBC Breakfast, saying she's still a work in progress, but facing herself

1:30.5

each morning is something still kind of a challenge.

1:34.5

As she continues to say, every day she tries to find something to say positively.

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