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S5, Ep4 How to Fail: Francesca Segal

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Trauma of a Pregnant Mother

The NHS calls mother of mothers over the age of 35 geriatric. And I had as textbook and easier twin pregnancies as it's possible to have until 29 weeks when I woke up at five o'clock in the morning and thought oh shit I've wet myself. The pelvic floor was gone. It was bound to happen one day. There's two babies in there and then I turned the light on and actually it was blood. I had a partial placental abruption which is when the placenta just for reasons they don't know detaches from the wall of the uterus. So what happens in the immediate aftermath of them being born? They disappeared. That was what happened in my experience

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