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Pregnancy Uncut
Dr Alex Umbers and Dr Kara Thompson
60 episodes
1 month ago
Few people can genuinely claim to have changed the course of healthcare but Caroline de Costa could do just that. Not that she would, for her - pioneering change and fighting for women's rights in healthcare is just part of the all-encompassing job of an obstetrician. With a career spanning decades, Caroline has been on the frontline of ensuring women have active choice over their reproductive health, from fighting for abortion rights in Ireland early in her career, to pioneering access to me...
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Few people can genuinely claim to have changed the course of healthcare but Caroline de Costa could do just that. Not that she would, for her - pioneering change and fighting for women's rights in healthcare is just part of the all-encompassing job of an obstetrician. With a career spanning decades, Caroline has been on the frontline of ensuring women have active choice over their reproductive health, from fighting for abortion rights in Ireland early in her career, to pioneering access to me...
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Episodes (20/60)
Pregnancy Uncut
S6. Bonus Episode. Caroline De Costa - A Lifetime of Leadership
Few people can genuinely claim to have changed the course of healthcare but Caroline de Costa could do just that. Not that she would, for her - pioneering change and fighting for women's rights in healthcare is just part of the all-encompassing job of an obstetrician. With a career spanning decades, Caroline has been on the frontline of ensuring women have active choice over their reproductive health, from fighting for abortion rights in Ireland early in her career, to pioneering access to me...
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1 month ago
51 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S6. Ep10. Disrupting the status quo - When your birth plan provokes public debate
In our final episode for season 6, Kara talks to Dr. Imogen Hines about Induction of labour, specifically planned induction and the surprising reaction it can prompt.As an orthopedic doctor, Imogen was no stranger to research and so when she found out she was pregnant she didn't hesitate to put that to the test researching the birth that was going to be best for her and her baby. Based on her findings and on her personal situation she decided to book for a planned induction at 39 weeks.As a p...
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1 year ago
1 hour 8 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S6. Ep9. Informed consent. The cornerstone of maternity and obstetric care.
In this episode we are thrilled to welcome back to the podcast, Amy Dawes - co-founder and CEO of the Australasian Birth Trauma Association to talk with Kara about informed consent. This was the theme of this year's birth trauma awareness week and Kara and Amy do a deep dive on just why it is so important.When Amy was last on the podcast she spoke openly about her personal journey of birth trauma and living with levator avulsion. Now, some years on we welcome her candor as she talks about her...
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1 year ago
1 hour 12 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S6. Ep8. Outside of my own body. When birth triggers long-buried trauma
Hayley is a qualified trauma counsellor and mum of two. With her education and expertise she felt well equipped to manage her own trauma from sexual assault, particularly when her first birth was straightforward.Going into her second Hayley felt prepared and excited. However, in the midst of her labour and birth she found herself disassociating and unable to reach anyone who would be able to help her. Bravely sharing her raw yet insightful story, Hayley teaches us how past trauma can impact p...
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1 year ago
43 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S6. Ep7. The memory of a sound - how vividly our birth experiences stay with us
Family is everything to Renee. At 95, she is a living legend, and our oldest guest on Pregnancy Uncut. Renee' s memory is impressively sharp and despite her age, her experiences of her five births remain vivid and profound. Renee now has three grown up children, but she also has two children no longer earthside: she is a survivor of her time, to say the least.Renee is one of ten (10!!) and grew up in a time where resilience reigned and preventable deaths were part of life. She's lived th...
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1 year ago
45 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S6. Ep6. 'Love from Dad': A bereaved father's journey through birth trauma, grief and advocacy
When his partner Maddy went into labour with their second child, Matt was excited to meet the new addition to their family, but a cord prolapse leading to emergency surgery, saw him instead, alone in a waiting room looking at the seemingly motionless hands of a clock. When Baby Wren was born, she required intensive breathing support, and soon afterwards Matt and Maddy had to make the impossible decision to palliate or transfer her to Melbourne to see if specialist help could save her.Wren spe...
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1 year ago
59 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S6. Ep5. When a nagging feeling becomes a confirmed diagnosis - Breast Cancer in Pregnancy.
After a complex fertility journey and a birth and post-partum overshadowed by Covid, Isla was hopeful that she was through the complexity and her journey to her next baby would be more straightforward. At first, this seemed to be the case - as Isla naturally fell pregnant with second baby Freddie. Everything seemed to be going well when Isla discovered a lump on her breast.Thinking it was likely nothing, possibly mastitis or something connected to the changes of her body in pregnancy, Isla co...
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1 year ago
45 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S6. Ep4: Into the unknown: Navigating a congenital CMV diagnosis.
When Candice took her baby boy Emmett home from hospital he had twice failed the standard hearing tests. However, no one seemed too concerned, her pregnancy had been uncomplicated and everything seemed well. However an outpatient audiology consult that should have taken a couple of hours, lasted nearly a full day and maternal instinct started tingling. At the end of that day she was told that Emmett had permanent hearing loss on one side and they were referred for further testing ...
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1 year ago
1 hour 9 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S6. Ep3. Birth of a Feminist – An interview with RANZCOG Vice President Dr. Nisha Khot
In this episode we side-step from our usual content to hear the considered insights of Dr. Nisha Khot.Nisha grew up, studied and practiced to become a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in India - where 'a feminist was born'. After further training and working in the UK she landed on Australian shores, practising and training the next generation of O&G specialists, many (including our co-host Kara) are all the better for it. Working as a consultant, Nisha realised that the in...
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1 year ago
55 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S6. Ep2. When a picture hides the true story – An inspiring journey of IVF, miscarriage and hope.
Pip had always seen herself having a family and as a driven and organised obstetrician she had clear expectations about how, and when, that might happen. But rarely do fertility journeys unfold as we expect. After an initial miscarriage that instantly her interactions and understanding of the women in her care, she found herself on an IVF journey that would bring heartbreak, complications, twists and turns that she could never have predicted. Now a mum of four, the family picture b...
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1 year ago
1 hour 9 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S6. Ep1. Uterine Transplant. The medicine behind a miraculous second chance.
Following the birth of her first child, Violet, Kirsty experienced a large post partumhaemorrhage, which required a hysterectomy to save her life. This would seem to spell an end to her fertility journey and Kirsty, who had always imagined more children, began conversations around surrogacy. However, she couldn't get rid of the nagging feeling that she desperately wanted to carry another child herself.Still deep in postpartum, Kirsty began a journey of discovery about uterine tran...
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1 year ago
51 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S5. Ep5. Inconceivable. Solo motherhood and donor conception
Alexandra had always imagined being a mum, but the onset of baby hunger in her late 30s, while a long term relationship with a man who didn’t share her dream, led to a change in direction. After moving back in with her parents, a series of bad dates, time began to outrun her reproductive age, so Alexandra made the pragmatic decision to go it alone using donor sperm.What followed was a journey of discovery; leading her family through their unease and grief of an expected path, encounter...
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2 years ago
41 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S5. Ep4. Yelling into a void. Why are we still not talking about severe perineal trauma?
Nine years on from a traumatic birth that led to a fourth degree tear, Verity still finds herself wondering if there is more she could have done; asked a different person, articulated herself differently, said the magic words that would have got her the help she so desperately needed.The reality however, is that she pushed and pushed and pushed. Went down every avenue, was articulate in her concerns, her needs and her emotional vulnerability. Had it not been for her mother and a GP who finall...
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2 years ago
50 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S5. Ep3. Far from home. A farming mum's journey with fetal heart block and long distance care.
Married to a busy farmer and working as a midwife at their nearest hospital, Marnie’s dream was always to have her family born and bred close to home. She was just 19 weeks pregnant with her second baby, when her rural GP obstetrician found that baby's heartbeat was around half what it should have been, and diagnosed fetal heart block - a rare condition that would shape the pregnancy, birth, and first months of baby Amelia's life.What followed was the opposite of what Marnie had envisage...
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2 years ago
48 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S5. Ep2. Reborn from Tragedy. How stillbirth both breaks and shapes a mother.
Heidi is mother to three children but her firstborn, Harry, was stillborn at 38 weeks after a seemingly straightforward pregnancy. The delivery of that news, that no expectant parent should ever hear, was done in a way that lacked the care and compassion it warranted and that memory continues to loom large. Returning home, Heidi and her family were lucky to be surrounded by love and support but there were still moments where she felt isolated and alone.That unique and difficult insight ...
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2 years ago
38 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S5. Ep1. 'Childless: A story of freedom and longing'. In conversation with Sian Prior
An accomplished writer, musician, journalist, broadcaster and climate activist, Sian Prior has led a fulfilling life. However, she has always felt a chasm where her child should have been and it is only recently that she has given herself the space and compassion to acknowledge the grief that has been with her throughout much of her adult life as a resultThe grief connected to Sian's journey of infertility and recurrent miscarriage carries its own weight, but has been further exacerbate...
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2 years ago
46 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S4. Ep 11. Spina Bifida: One family’s heartbreaks, and new hope with intrauterine surgery.
Claudine had been having a normal second pregnancy but when her 20 week scan showed abnormalities and she received the heartbreaking news that her baby, Sophie had severe Spina Bifida, her and her husband had two weeks to make the hardest decision of any parent.Soon after, Claudine fell pregnant for a third time and took every recommended precaution but again, this time at 18 weeks, she received the same devastating news of Spina Bifida with baby Willow already showing signs of multiple compl...
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2 years ago
58 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S4. Ep 10. Birth on the spectrum. One women's experience of Autism, ADHD, and pregnancy.
Following years of masking and unanswered questions, Annie was finally diagnosed Autistic and ADHD when she was in her late 20s, a delayed trajectory that is not uncommon in women on the spectrum. Annie has also faced several challenges including a history of sexual assault, PTSD, Ehlers Danlos syndrome, and complex mental health (including an eating disorder) . In this episode of Pregnancy Uncut, Annie shares her experience of navigating pregnancy and birth as a neurodivergent wo...
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3 years ago
54 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S4. Ep 9. Transitioning to fatherhood. One man’s journey of pregnancy and birth.
Kim and July met at an all-girls school. But when deciding to embark on a relationship, Kim had one important consideration; he identified as male, and wished to take the necessary steps for him to affirm his gender identity as a transgender man. Several years later, Kim’s wife July faced a heart-breaking IVF journey and was unable to conceive. Faced with the possibility of never having the family they longed for, Kim made the difficult decision to pause his hormone therapy, and carry t...
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3 years ago
54 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
S4. Ep 8. Health At Every Size. How weight bias in fertility treatment can harm.
Portia has, in her own words, always lived in a larger body. Even when she adopted excessive and almost disordered eating and exercise habits, her body mass index (BMI) remained in the ‘‘overweight’ category. As a doctor working in general practice, Portia understood the significant shortfalls of the BMI as a measurement, and the poor correlation of weight as an independent marker of overall health. Portia is one of a growing group of medical professions in Australia practising HAES-aligned c...
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3 years ago
49 minutes

Pregnancy Uncut
Few people can genuinely claim to have changed the course of healthcare but Caroline de Costa could do just that. Not that she would, for her - pioneering change and fighting for women's rights in healthcare is just part of the all-encompassing job of an obstetrician. With a career spanning decades, Caroline has been on the frontline of ensuring women have active choice over their reproductive health, from fighting for abortion rights in Ireland early in her career, to pioneering access to me...