Epidurals and golf courses with Shakira Akabusi

Pre- and post-natal fitness expert Shakira Akabusi joins Clemmie this week to discuss how she managed her OCD, needle phobia and anxiety during her second birth. Shakira’s positive first birth created high expectations for the second, but she had to fight to get the care she needed and struggled to find time to connect with the pregnancy. Clemmie and Shakira discuss mental health provisions in the NHS, what it feels like to have an epidural and the unfair stigma around pain relief in childbirth. They also take a question about having a phobia of blood loss. Find out more about Shakira’s campaign at stronglikemum.com Follow Clemmie's Mother of Daughters account: instagram.com/mother_of_daughters/ Follow Clemmie's Gas and Air account: instagram.com/gasandair/ Birth Stories is produced by Hannah Varrall and created by Off Script. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Epidurals and golf courses with Shakira Akabusi is an episode from Birth Stories with Clemmie Hooper by Off Script.

This episode is 36:21 long.

This episode was published on Aug 13, 2019.

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