Rocky bars and stitches with Nadiya Hussain

Birth Stories with Clemmie Hooper

Off Script

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

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Nadiya was just 21 when she gave birth to her first child, Musa, in 2006. Although she was hoping for a quick and stress-free birth, her labour ended up taking 5 days from the first contractions to her baby finally being born. She and Clemmie discuss how her anxiety stopped her from attending antenatal classes, how sustaining a 3rd/4th degree tear during birth impacted her relationship with her son in the first few weeks of his life, and how ice lollies were an important part of her post-birth recovery. They also take a listener question about having a second child after an episiotomy.

Nadiya's books Finding My Voice and My Monster and Me are out now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472259963/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1, https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1444946439/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4

This is the last episode in series 1, stay subscribed to be the first to hear about series 2, which will be coming soon.

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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

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0:00.0	Hello and we're welcome to birth stories with me Klemi Hooper created by offscript.
0:10.0	I'd love to say that it was one of those moments where we sat down and we had a really big discussion and we had this light bulb moment and thought,
0:17.0	you know what, we want to start a family.
0:19.0	But it was just tick-box for us. We got married and we just said, do you think we're going to have a kid at some
0:25.0	point and we're like yes and that was it. So we lived in a rented room in my
0:31.8	father-in-law's house and I remember opening the door and there were quite a lot of takeaways
0:36.1	sort of past our house and I could smell oil in the air and I'd never smelled that oil before and so I said I think we need to go to the pharmacy
0:44.6	came back with a test Anna McDonald's and then it came back positive yeah the first
0:51.0	couple of months it doesn't really feel real it didn't feel real all I was was sick
0:55.7	I remember thinking if this is what pregnancy is supposed to feel like this just kind of doesn't feel
1:00.1	worth it and I think it was only when I started to get that little bump.
1:04.6	I think that's when it started to feel real but also I remember feeling extremely
1:08.6	daunted at the thought that there was something in there. There. Hello, I'm Klemi Hooper and welcome to birth stories, a podcast where I talk to
1:20.1	amazing women about the fascinating and unique ways they had their babies.
1:25.2	This is the last episode in Series 1, so we've invited a very special guest today, TV Chef,
1:31.8	presenter, and author Nardia Hussein. Many people will know Nardia
1:36.6	for winning the Great British Bake-Off in 2015. Since then she's presented
1:42.4	TV shows, Britain cookbooks and recently released a memoir
1:46.3	Finding My Voice. Nadia is a mother of three and her first son Musa was born in
1:51.3	2006.
1:52.8	Nadia, thank you so much for coming on.
1:54.8	Oh, thank you for having me.
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