What the Midwife Said

In Baby Loss Awareness Week, Leah 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.

Show Notes

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, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, Red magazine, Women’s Health, Grazia, the New York Post, the Guardian, and the Observer, among others.

As well as her journalism work, she is the author of the blog The Uterus Monologues, where she writes about her own experiences.

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Find out more about Baby Loss Awareness Week and access helpful resources or support at Baby Loss Awareness Week – Let's break the silence around baby loss (babyloss-awareness.org).

What is What the Midwife Said?

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.

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