Shuttle buses and neonatal care with Cathy Kamara
Birth Stories with Clemmie Hooper
Off Script
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Mother of two Cathy Kamara talks to Clemmie this week about the birth of her first daughter, who arrived two months early by emergency section following a fall. Her baby was kept in neonatal care for two months to help her temperature and breathing, which led to Cathy losing confidence in herself as a mother. She also tells Clemmie about being a mum with achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism, and how that impacted the way she and her baby were cared for during pregnancy and birth.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bear Stories with me Klemi Hooper, created by Offscript. |
| 0:05.0 | I decided really early on before I even had a partner but I really wanted children. |
| 0:14.4 | That became a bit of a focus to kind of find somebody and figure out how I was going to make the babies. |
| 0:20.2 | I, well, this is going to sound a bit funny but the day that we consummated the pregnancy |
| 0:28.0 | I said this is it we've done it and so I just waited two weeks and I was at work one day. I was just sitting at my desk and I said to myself I'm going to go and get a pregnancy test. I was paranoid to take it into my office, so I took it into another random office nearby. |
| 0:47.0 | I went into their disabled toilet and took the test and it was positive. And then I went back to that shop and bought three more of three different brands and they were all positive. |
| 0:58.0 | I didn't have any of the things that you know you see in the movies like the cravings or morning sickness. |
| 1:04.8 | I don't want to use the word easy but it was easy low maintenance. |
| 1:08.4 | Hello I'm Klemi Hooper and welcome to Birth Stories, a podcast where I talk to amazing women |
| 1:18.5 | about the fascinating and unique ways they had their babies. Today's guest is Mother of Two, Kathy Cameron. |
| 1:25.0 | Thanks for coming in Kathy. |
| 1:27.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:29.0 | So we've talked a little bit in the opening about how you found out you were pregnant I love the three |
| 1:34.2 | pregnancy tests so Kathy because of your disability did you have extra |
| 1:39.1 | appointments and scans were you under a specialist team? Yeah so I lived in Oxford when I became |
| 1:46.7 | pregnant I just saw a midwife there but when I was five months we moved to Hampshire and then I was introduced to a specialist team. |
| 1:57.0 | And I think for any a chondroplastic woman that is somebody who has the type of dwarfism that I have. |
| 2:05.0 | You're kind of introduced to a lot of medical professionals quite early on in the pregnancy |
| 2:11.0 | who depending out of your care before and after you have your baby |
| 2:16.0 | and during and after you having your baby. And just for any listening it doesn't |
| 2:21.6 | know can you describe actually what the type of dwarfism |
| 2:25.6 | that you have and what does it mean? |
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