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Welcome to the podcast all about how babies and families are made. In this series, working midwife, mother and bestselling author Leah Hazard speaks to remarkable women and men from all walks of life about fertility, birth, pregnancy and parenting. She explores the way we see our bodies and our relationships, the choices we make as we build our families, and the highs and lows that those choices can bring. No judgment, no shame. Just real stories, and all the warmth, wit and compassion you’d ...
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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…
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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…
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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 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 ab…
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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 care…
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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. …
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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 …
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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 shoul…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 th…
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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. Join the conversation on social media using the hashtag #whatthemidwifesa…
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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...…
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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 challenge…
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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…
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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 h…
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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 th…
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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 outcom…
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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 …
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates on news and headlines from around the world, 2 are dead from a large gathering of fascists in Virginia, labor, updates from Syria, Yemen, state spying, immigration/ refugee updates, kleptocracy news, J20 repression gets more totalitarian, Cville clips, Br…
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Tonight is a late night clip show. Updates on news and headlines from around the world, Syria, J20, G20 in Germany, commentary from Its Going Down( "The Deep State is Not Going To Save You") , and why we are against nationalism. Produced by the Authority Smashers Collective.Di Authority Smashers
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, massive protest news, immigration/refugee crisis, Black and Missing, Oxfam updates list of world’s richest, police terror news, White right wing terrorists get pass even more now, labor/economic new…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, massive protest news, immigration, labor/economic news, kleptocracy, Trump and Russia is making left crazy, congressional crime spree in domestic politics, state spying, energy news, in political pr…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, really bad news from Turkey, protest news, labor/economic news, countdown to kleptocracy, congressional crime spree in domestic politics, disastrous REINS Act passes…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Turkey, protest news, labor news, the coming kleptocracy, domestic politics, state spying, the reactionary war on women and LGBTQ backlash, and a Nixon update in radical history.…
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Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, genocide in Syria commentary, Yemen, Iraq,protest news, the coming kleptocracy, "fake news" made illegal?, and radical history. Produced by the Authority Smashers CollectiveDi Authority Smashers
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, genocide in Syria and Yemen, protest news, political prisoner and mass incarceration news, immigration/refugee updates, the coming kleptocracy, the Trump crisis and the very public ruling class conf…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, Syria, protest news, political prisoner and mass incarceration news, immigration/refugee updates, climate chaos updates, the reactionary war on women and LGBTQ backlash, and radical history. Produce…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, Syria,Yemen, protest news, labor news, political prisoner and mass incarceration news focusing on continuing national prison strike censored by state, immigration/refugee updates, climate chaos upda…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, Syria,Yemen, protest news, labor news, political prisoner and mass incarceration news focusing on continuing national prison strike censored by state, immigration/refugee updates, climate chaos upda…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, being honest about the western left divide on Syria,Yemen, protest news, labor news, political prisoner and mass incarceration news focusing on national prison strike censored by state, Abu Ghraib u…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, Mexico, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, coup in Brazil, protest news, labor news, political prisoner and mass incarceration news, GITMO update involving IS, immigration/refugee updates, state spying news…
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ASH Summer Hiatus Finale Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, the attack in Orlando, radical thoughts on gun control, toxic masculinity, mental health, root causes of mass shooting, Islamophobia, the 2016 election kabuki show gets worse, police terror new…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, the 2016 election kabuki show, police terror news and updates, more on the coup in Brazil, Mexico charged with war crimes, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine BDS blacklist, labor news, death penalty, political…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, the 2016 election kabuki show goes off the rails, police terror news and updates, more on the coup in Brazil,Mexico, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, labor news, death penalty, political prisoner and mass i…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, the 2016 election kabuki show goes off the rails, police terror news, coups in Brazil and Venezuela, Mexico, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, BDS-banning, labor news, political prisoner and mass incarcerati…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, Mexico, Syria, Yarmouk, Afghanistan, Yemen, BDS-banning, protest news including what is going on in France, labor news, political prisoner and mass incarceration news, immigration/refugee updates, i…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, Afghanistan, Syria, the fascism rising in Europe and USA, BDS-banning, protest news, labor news, political prisoner and mass incarceration news, immigration/refugee updates,in BLM & state spying new…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, Yemen, Syria, fascism rising in Europe and USA, BDS-banning, protest news, labor news, political prisoner news, immigration/refugee updates, Islamophobia, climate chaos updates, TTIP, the reactionar…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, ISIL/Daesh, Yemen, Syria, Turkey, fascism is rising in Europe and USA, Israel-Palestine news, protest news, immigration/refugee updates, climate chaos updates, the U.S. Election scam and the farce o…
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Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, Flint update,Iraq, Syria, ISIL/Daesh, Afghanistan, Yemen, Israel-Palestine news about Israel vs. BLM, protest news, war on women, immigration/refugee updates, identity politics, Islamophobia, organized right wing violence on the rise, rising neo-fascism and Trumpism, N…
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Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, a political prisoner update,police terror news, economic news, Syria, ISIL/Daesh, Afghanistan, Yemen,Egypt, Mexico,Israel-Palestine news,protest news, war on women, culture war backlash on Transhelping make 2016 the most dangerous year for transgender Americans,immigration/refugee updates…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, world economy is crashing, Turkey and Saudi Arabia invade Syria as Assad and Daesh tear it apart, ISIL/Daesh, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Haiti is politically collapsing, the Zika virus spreads in th…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, Syria, ISIL/Daesh, Turkey, Yemen,Egypt, Haiti, Israel-Palestine news,protest news, war on women, immigration/refugee updates, climate chaos updates, Precrime is here with “threat scores”, thoughts o…
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Join us live today at 6PM EST. Call in or just listen @ (917) 932-8111 Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, police terror news, fascism rising globally with Neo-Nazi mobs in Germany as Mein Kampf sells out, a commentary on why the government goes easy on the armed terrorists who have seized a federal building, Syria, ISIL/Da…
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I did my regular show the other day but got in a convo with Aaron and we decided we would just shoot the shit and talk about politics, issues, crapitalism, Punk Rock and music with a message. Looking forward to this - Should be interesting:) Met Aaron while living in Reno back during Occupy... he's Punk Rocker, singer... reader... thinker... seeker…
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Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, fascism rising, Syria, ISIL/Daesh, political prisoner news, an update on Mumia Abu-Jamal, police terror news, protest news, immigration/refugee updates, climate chaos updates since the big talks in Paris, Islamophobia, state spying news, BAR commentary, and radical history. Produced by th…
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Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, fascism rising, Why white people aren’t called “terrorist”,Syria, ISIL/Daesh, protest news, immigration/refugee updates, climate chaos updates, Islamophobia, "Sam Harris loses his mind" , "Zizek goes fascist", Trump's Dangerous call to ban all Muslims from coming to the U.S., and radical …
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Tonight we have updates and headlines from around the world, fascism rising, the state of the American right,ignored right wing terror news from Mi and Co, the war on women,Syria, ISIL/Daesh, Yemen,protest news, immigration/refugee updates, climate chaos updates,the aftermath of Paris,Islamophobia, state spying news, Sam Harris loses his mind, Zize…
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I spent the weekend at the annual WWP Conference and have a few thoughts on the experience plus there are a few other subjects and stories I need to comment on. I was unable to do a show this past week as my new work schedule is taking some time to get used to but I want to do do this one while the conference is fresh in my mind. I've got some grea…
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