A Village: Honest stories of birth and parenthood

A Village: Honest stories of birth and parenthood

By Poppy RowleyParentingKids & Family
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A Village: Honest stories of birth and parenthood episodes

  • Birth Story: Sakhi & Sahir
    "After the experiences of childbirth I realised that my body is so much more than I give it credit for."
    Sakhi shares her powerful reflections on viewing her body in terms of abundance not scarcity. She also talks about her expectations around the pain of childbirth, the mental load of motherhood and speaks openly about her pregnancy loss.
    (Please remember that every pregnancy and birth is different and if you are worried at all to contact your midwife, the triage number or your GP)
    1 hr 19 min
  • A Village Chat: Grief and Parenthood

    “It’s brutal…but I think it’s really important to talk about it”

    Maudie, Siobhan and I talk about what it's like to lose a parent and become a parent. This is a raw and emotional episode in which we are all open about our experiences of death.

    Content includes: death, cancer, covid.

    1 hr 11 min
  • A Village Whisper: Guilt
    Why do we feel so guilty about so many things? In sharing the big and the small we can put ourselves and how feelings in perspective. It’s harder to parent from a place of guilt; we all do better when we share.
    8 min
  • A Village Chat: new dads
    “Your brain turns to mush, like you left the weetabix in the milk too long.” Jake and Sam talk openly about some of the highs and lows of being a new Dad! Content: Jake talks about his partner Pippa’s hospital birth by forceps after having Covid.
    1 hr 9 min
  • Birth Story: Fran and Robyn
    “Between contractions my body melted into the bed.” Fran talks about her mum’s successful battle with lymphoma, a connection with Jessie J and a vaginal birth after induction. TRIGGER WARNING: Fran talks openly and in detail about her miscarriage. If you want to skip, it starts at 9minutes until 21minutes, (and at about 18minutes she talks about grief and pregnancy loss). We return to it briefly at 27-29 and she reflects again at the end of the episode.
    1 hr 17 min
  • Birth Story: Lizzie and Cora
    “It’s like someone doing the washing up in your tummy.” Lizzie talks through her experience of having an elective c-section. She also speaks about her husband being attacked in South Africa when she was 7 months pregnant.
    58 min
  • Birth Story: Jenn and Piper
    “I think I’m going to poo!” Jenn talks about pregnancy and the vaginal birth of Piper. Content includes: anxiety, bleeding (due to a polyps) and fears around baby growth.
    38 min
  • Birth Story: Leila, Doug and Felix

    “Don’t have a curry after a c-section”. Leila and Doug started their journey nearly 8 years before having Felix. Content includes: IVF, an escalation of intervention and a caesarean birth.

    For more, check out Instagram: @a_village_honest_stories


    1 hr 34 min

About A Village: Honest stories of birth and parenthood

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It takes a village to raise a child. This is a place to hear honest stories from regular people about their experiences of birth and parenthood. No unsolicited advice, what’s right for one person might not be for another. Take what you need, ignore what you don’t. Thank you for listening.