Surprise twins and soaked pyjamas with Francesca Segal
Birth Stories with Clemmie Hooper
Off Script
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On the first episode of Birth Stories, Clemmie meets the author Francesca Segal. Francesca's identical twin daughters were born prematurely by emergency c-section at 30 weeks, and spent the first 56 days of their lives in a neonatal intensive care unit. Francesca and Clemmie discuss instincts, how it felt to be separated from the babies and what it was like when they finally came home. They also take a question about gender disappointment and how to come to terms with something you didn't expect.
This episode contains discussion about premature births.
Mother Ship by Francesca Segal is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to birth stories with me Klemi Hooper, created by Offscript. |
| 0:06.0 | We talked about it ad nauseam really and I think we were both quite not ambivalent but just frightened I think in hindsight. |
| 0:15.6 | We were traveling a lot and it never quite seemed like the right time and then we probably |
| 0:20.4 | decided to try for a baby for the worst reason which was I was turning 35 and you know all those |
| 0:26.0 | shouty headlines make you scared about it so we sort of thought well it's now or never |
| 0:30.9 | the way that we mitigated our fear was to say to each other, right, well we're just going to have one. |
| 0:35.0 | I found out I was pregnant just before a month in New York by myself for work. |
| 0:40.0 | So I just went to a random sonographer in New York and then he got this |
| 0:45.0 | funny look on his face and he looked up from between my legs and was like any |
| 0:48.8 | twins in the family? I just instantly thought I cannot believe this has happened. |
| 0:55.0 | During that pregnancy I was the thing is I'm a natural warrior and I'm I'm a natural |
| 1:00.3 | pessimist but there was something about that sort of second trimester glow that |
| 1:05.5 | overrode all of that. I felt strong, I felt healthy, I felt amazing, I felt like I could |
| 1:10.9 | conquer the world. |
| 1:20.0 | Hello, I'm Clemy Hooper and welcome to Birth Stories, a podcast where I talked to amazing women |
| 1:22.0 | about the fascinating and unique ways they had their babies. |
| 1:25.7 | I'm a midwife and a mother of four and I also run a blog called Gassinair where women share their stories of childbirth. |
| 1:32.3 | Just to warn you this episode contains the where women share their stories of childbirth. |
| 1:33.0 | Just to warn you, this episode contains discussions |
| 1:35.8 | about premature births. |
| 1:38.0 | Today's guest is author and journalist Francesca's |
| 1:42.3 | written two amazing novels including the award-winning the innocence |
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