What the Midwife Said

In Baby Loss Awareness Week, midwife Leah Hazard talks to award-winning freelance health journalist Jennie Agg about her own experience of recurrent miscarriage and how her path to parenthood has been anything but straightforward.

Jennie specialises in women's health and has written features for national newspapers and magazines including The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, Red magazine, Women’s Health, Grazia, the New York Post, the Guardian, and the Observer, among others.

As well as her journalism work, she is the author of the blog The Uterus Monologues, where she writes about her own experiences.

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Find out more about Baby Loss Awareness Week and access helpful resources or support at Baby Loss Awareness Week – Let's break the silence around baby loss (babyloss-awareness.org).

Midwife Leah Hazard talks to author and mum Lucy Brett about her book - PMSL - and her campaign to smash the taboos around women's health and birth.

Lucy started writing about women’s health, bodies and taboo after the birth of her second baby. Like many women born in an analogue age her sex and body education was a combined effort – she learned about her nether regions from magazines, other peoples’ big sisters and Tampax leaflets. This meant she wasn’t brilliantly prepared for the realities of childbirth.

Passionate about feminism, healthcare, and smashing the stigma around women’s bodies she has spoken about her condition, and also the wider impact of taboo in women’s healthcare. Part memoir, part best friend, part stigma smashing call to action PMSL is her first book.

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Midwife Leah Hazard welcomes Dr Claire Ashley to the pod to discuss life inside the NHS, how she ended up burned out and why she decided to change her career path to find happiness.

Claire also explains her new life mission - to help overwhelmed healthcare professionals recognise, prevent and overcome burnout, as well as helping them to create careers that are sustainable and fulfilling.

Find out more about Dr Claire Ashley here.

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