ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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 expect from a visit with your favourite midwife.
Guests include dynamic, diverse voices - some familiar and some fresh - from Lorraine Kelly, Dr Amir Khan and Emma Barnett to athlete/adventurer Anna McNuff, author Katherine May, activists Tinuke Awe and Clotilde Abe who founded the FivexMore campaign highlighting racial disparities in maternal health, and many more.
Subscribe, leave a rating and get involved in the conversation on social media using the hashtag #whatthemidwifesaid.
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 expect from a visit with your favourite midwife.
Guests include dynamic, diverse voices - some familiar and some fresh - from Lorraine Kelly, Dr Amir Khan and Emma Barnett to athlete/adventurer Anna McNuff, author Katherine May, activists Tinuke Awe and Clotilde Abe who founded the FivexMore campaign highlighting racial disparities in maternal health, and many more.
Subscribe, leave a rating and get involved in the conversation on social media using the hashtag #whatthemidwifesaid.
Update frequency:
every 8 days
Average audio length:
44 minutes
English
United States
19 episodes
since Oct. 20, 2020
episodic
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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 F…
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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 na…
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 bo…
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 overc…
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 sinc…
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 bir…
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 Emm…
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 snackin…
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 …
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 a…
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