Time To Talk TFMR

Hello, and welcome to today's episode.

We're speaking with Kaitlyn and Erika from the US, and Claire from Ireland, about advocacy for TFMR (and abortion).

Unless you have been on the moon (!) for the last 12 months, there's a US election about to be decided on the 5th November, and women's reproductive rights is a key issue.

Kaitlyn and Erika tell us about their experiences with advocacy within the US. How and why they are doing it and how they are holding up. We hear from Claire about the formation of TFMR Ireland, their key part in winning the right to a referendum on Ireland's restrictive abortion laws, and then going on and winning that referendum, changing Ireland's laws on abortion.

These are three brilliant women, who out of trauma and grief are using their pain as power. 

As always, listen to your gut on choosing to listen to this episode. If you know us, you know we don't shy away from hard truths and direct language.

You know we love to hear from you, so please get in touch and let us know what you think of this episode.

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

Hello and welcome back to season 10!

In this episode I am speaking with Jane fisher, Director of Antenatal Results and Choices about TFMR and abortion within the political sphere.

Many do not realise how much ARC keeps up with the abortion debate within the UK and how they insure that politicians are informed and educated about TFMR. Unfortunately, we always need to be on our toes for those politicians seeking to lower the gestation age for abortion (24 weeks in the UK) and/or trying to ban women from being able to have a TFMR for certain conditions, like T21.

We discuss what happened just before the UK election this summer and how ARC quietly works in the background on these issues.

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

Hello and welcome to today's episode. This will be our final episode for season 9, but we'll be back in the Autumn with season 10.

Today, Kris joins me as we talk about his and his wife's experience of TFMR, men's grief and mental health and how golf has helped him in his grief story so far.

You can find Kris's Golf Yourself Healthy website, blog and podcast details here

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

In this episode I speak with Sara and Angela about their experience of TFMR last year for a T21 diagnosis. I really appreciate their candour about their decision making process and how they navigated this very difficult time as a couple.

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

Hello and welcome to this special episode with a live audience and panel of great expert guests, recorded at Camden Arts Centre in London.

It was a really fantastic opportunity to meet some of you, our wonderful listeners, hear your stories and connect over (copious!) olives. As well, of course, as hearing from a expert guest panel answering all your TFMR questions:

Dr Brenda Kelly, Matrernal and Fetal Medicine Consultant
Dagmar Tapon, Genetic Counsellor
Jane Fisher, Director of Antenatal Results and Choices

A special thank you to ARC for organising and supporting the event.

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

In today's episode, Hayley is speaking with Keren Ludski CEO of Red Nose Australia and Amanda Tipping, General Manager of Pink Elephant Support Network. Our first Australian episode!

Keren and Amanda talk about how their organisations support women and couples who have terminated a wanted pregnancy. They also share a little about their personal experiences with pregnancy and baby loss.

More information about both organisations can be found here:

Pink Elephants Support Network
Red Nose Australia

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

Hello and welcome to this episode talking to four women and their experiences of TFMR just before and after the fall of Roe vs. Wade.

Roe vs. Wade was the five-decade old supreme court decision to uphold a woman’s right to obtain an abortion. In June 2022, the supreme court overturned this decision, sending abortion rights and access across the United States into a crisis.

We hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR.

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

Hello, and welcome to the start of Season 9!

We're kicking it off with an epsiode about exercise. It's something that a few of you have asked for over the years, and to be honest, I've always felt mixed about. In a society that tells mothers to 'bounce back' after full-term, live births - the pressure for bereaved mothers can be crushing.

Thankfully, we have Casey to talk to us about healthy re-engagement with fitness and how to look after your post-partum body. Casey is passionate about core and pelvic floor health, any exercise you do should consider these aspects of your physiology.

Some terms used:

Diastasis - When the muscles of the abdomen separate during or after pregnancy.

Pelvic Floor - Several muscle, ligaments and fascia attached to your pelvis. Damaged/weakened pelvic floor muscles can lead to incontinence (leaking wee or poo).

Prolapse - Pelvic organ prolapse is when 1 or more of the organs in the pelvis slip down from their normal position and bulge into the vagina. It can be the womb (uterus), bowel, bladder or top of the vagina.

We hope you enjoy this episode and get some good advice and support in how to go about healthy fitness.

You can find Casey on Instagram @twopeaswellness and her website can be found here.

I hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR and Twitter @TalkTFMR

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

Hello, and Happy New Year!

In today's episode I am speaking with Dr Rachel Foggin from BPAS (British Pregnancy Advisory Service) about surgical termination. 

Many of you wrote in with your questions about surgical termination and we tried to get as many of these answered as we could. This is a very open, honest and frank conversation about what surgical termination in the U.K., and we are very grateful to Rachel for sharing her expertise with us.

I hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR and Twitter @TalkTFMR

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.

 Thank you for joining us today. In this episode, Nick Embleton (consultant neonatologist) joins me as co-host for this episode talking to a group of Fathers about men's grief after TFMR. 

The Fathers joining us are Brian, Kenneth, Justin. They are all joining us from the USA and Canada and all have experienced TFMR due to foetal anomaly.

RTZ Hope is spoken about in this episode and they can be found here: https://rtzhope.org/

This is the third and final episode in our series talking to father's about their grief and experiences.

If you liked this, you may also want to listen to:

Episode 45: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2082264/12845792-tfmr-fathers-uk.mp3?download=true

Episode 48: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2082264/13777297-tfmr-fathers-maternal-health.mp3?download=true  

Episode 31: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2082264/11678036-tfmr-a-father-s-grief-with-rasmus-ilso.mp3?download=true

I hope you enjoy listening. Get in touch and let us know what you think. 

Social media: Instagram and Facebook @TimeToTalkTFMR and Twitter @TalkTFMR

Email is [email protected]

This episode is supported by Antenatal Results and Choices. For more information on how they support women and couples click here or call them on 0207 713 7486.