Episodios
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Leah Hazard talks to award-winning editor, writer, speaker, podcast host, and digital media consultant (who likes talking and thinking about women and work) Jenn Romolini about why motherhood is a "fucking scam". Her 2017 book "Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures" was named one of the best leadership books of the year by Fast Company and the âbest personal development and human behaviourâ book of 2017 by Porchlight Books.
Jenn is the former Vice President of Content for Zooey Deschanel's HelloGiggles and the deputy editor of Lucky Magazine and her recent work has appeared in The New York Times, Audible, Catapult, ELLE, and many others. In 2019, she was chosen as one of ten authors to create The New York Times's âWorking Womenâs Handbookâ and she is currently working on heer second book, âAmbition Monster,â a memoir about the connection between ambition and trauma.
Oh, and she co-hosts a weekly podcast for women over 40 with her old boss, former Sassy editor and Lucky Mag editor-in-chief, Kim France. Itâs called Everything Is Fine.
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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, Womenâs 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 â Let's break the silence around baby loss (babyloss-awareness.org).
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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 womenâs 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 â she learned about her nether regions from magazines, other peoplesâ big sisters and Tampax leaflets. This meant she wasnât brilliantly prepared for the realities of childbirth.
Passionate about feminism, healthcare, and smashing the stigma around womenâs bodies she has spoken about her condition, and also the wider impact of taboo in womenâs 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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Midwife Leah Hazard explores surrogacy and becoming a dad with author Robin Morgan-Bentley, who welcomed baby Solly with husband Paul during lockdown last year. Robin tells Leah how the couple went about finding a surrogate as well as the challenges that came along and the relationship they've since built up with their incredible surrogate Rachel.
Since this episode was recorded, Robin's new book has had a last minute change of title and is now very definitely called The Guest House. It's out next year!
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What the Midwife Said is back with a brand new series, and what better way for midwife Leah Hazard to kick it off than with a catch up with adventurer, author, mischief maker, Girl Guiding ambassador and new mum Anna McNuff about how she's had to put her daredevil lifestyle on hold after of the birth of her first child, Storm.
Anna, who was Leah's first ever guest in series one, talks about life since the welcoming Storm into the world with fellow extreme athlete and partner Jamie, and she lifts the lid on how everything hasn't quite been as expected!
To find out more about Anna and her adventures, click here. You can also join the conversation on social media using #whatthemidwifesaid and follow @whatmidwifesaid on Twitter for podcast updates.
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In the final episode of the first series of What the Midwife Said, Leah picks the brain of Sunday Times bestselling author, speaker, novelist and podcaster Emma Gannon to find out about her debut novel, Olive, and why she and her book's main character are staying child-free by choice.
Leah and Emma talk about why the decision not to have kids should be celebrated, and explore why that can be tough to accept for some people.
Join the conversation on social media using the hashtag #WhattheMidwifeSaid, follow @whatmidwifesaid on Twitter for updates, and stay tuned for the next series!
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In this episode of What the Midwife Said, Leah catches up with nutritionist and Intuitive Eating Counsellor Laura Thomas, who explains how she helps “people get their shit together around food.”
She’s also a new mum to baby Avery and she tells Leah all about the dos and don’ts of pregnancy snacking including why you need to listen to your appetite and dip the odd finger/spoon in the peanut butter jar, and why social media might not be the best place to turn to for advice and support.
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In episode ten of What the Midwife Said, Leah explores the challenges of having a premature baby with BBC 5 Live and BBC Breakfast presenter Rachel Burden, whose son Henry - her fourth child - was born at 31 weeks.
Leah and Rachel discuss pre-eclampsia, home schooling, life on the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) and why chocolate might just be the answer to breast feeding anxiety.
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In the first episode of What the Midwife Said in 2021, Leah meets award-winning journalist and new mum Rosamund Urwin to find out about her quintessential pandemic pregnancy, which bookended the first two periods of lockdown. Rosamund tells Leah about the challenges she faced during her pregnancy and why her husband should have been allowed into the hospital for scans.
Leah and Rosamund also explore the lessons that could be learned from the Covid pandemic and why the words used by a midwife really do matter.
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In the final episode of What the Midwife Said in 2020, Leah explores the life of a full time GP during the pandemic with telly favourite Dr Amir Khan.
Leah and Amir also cover hedgehog parenting, baking, obs and gynae placements, terrifying midwives and, of course, Mama Khan.
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In this episode of What the Midwife Said, Leah meets fellow author Katherine May, to discuss her new book 'Wintering', coping with home schooling during lockdown, her autism diagnosis and the joy of open water swimming.
Leah and Katherine also speak honestly about the difficulties new parents face, why we should talk openly about the female body......and they imagine going vulva-blind.
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In this episode of What the Midwife Said, Leah compares medical notes with NHS Dr Anita Mitra, who specialises in obstetrics and gynaecology, and is better known to some as the author of The Gynae Geek: Your No-nonsense Guide to ‘down there’ Healthcare.
Leah and Anita cover night shift social media use, deadlifting weights + the very real challenges medical professionals face on the labour ward every day when it comes to delivering newborns safely.
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**WARNING: THIS EPISODE DOES CONTAIN THE ODD EXPLETIVE!**
In this episode of What the Midwife Said, Leah chats to podcaster and author Clemmie Telford, who presents the Honestly podcast and is about to release her first book 'But Why?' in May 2021.
Leah and Clemmie talk pregnancy, book babies, and discuss how writing a book is actually very similar to giving birth! Who knew?!
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In this episode of What the Midwife Said, Leah chats to Lauren Mahon, who set up the online community Girl vs Cancer after her own breast cancer diagnosis and now presents the multi award-winning BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C.
In a typically honest conversation, Lauren reveals how important exercise has been to her mental health and discusses how cancer has impacted her family, her fertility, and her future plans.
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In this episode of What the Midwife Said, Leah chats to star of Gogglebox, Songs of Praise and BBC Radio 2, Reverend Kate Bottley, about her experience of pregnancy, giving birth, and being a parent to teenagers.
Kate and Leah cover the dangers of open water swimming, superhero alter egos (just call Kate Lightning Crotch from now on), as well as the stigma attached to caesarean sections and the emotional impact of a difficult pregnancy.
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In this episode of What the Midwife Said, Leah chats to Tinuke Awe and Clo Abe who co-founded Five X More in response to a 2018 report that found that black women in the UK are five times more likely to die during pregnancy than white women.
The two mothers came together with the ambition of improving maternal mortality rates and health care outcomes for black women in the UK.
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In the first episode of What the Midwife Said, Leah chats to adventurer, author, mischief maker and Girl Guiding ambassador Anna McNuff about how she's putting her daredevil lifestyle on hold ahead of the birth of her first child.
Anna explains how she's preparing for the birth of her daughter with fellow extreme athlete and partner Jamie, and she talks about the pressure of becoming a mum and a role model for her child.
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Welcome to What the Midwife Said! Here's what you can expect from this brand new podcast!
