15 Weeks Early & 8 Days Apart: The Trauma of a Micro-Preemie Birth

What happens when your body decides to Marie Kondo your entire large intestine, but the healthcare system treats your "vestibule" like an optional extra? This week we sit down with Emily. At 23, she went from a "healthy" young woman to shitting blood 20 times a day which eventually led to living life with a permanent Barbie butthole. But the real horror story isn't the Ulcerative Colitis diagnosis; it’s what happens when you try to navigate a high-risk pregnancy in a system that compartmentalizes your "gut" from your "baby" until the two collide in a traumatic, 25-week micro-preemie delivery.

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15 Weeks Early & 8 Days Apart: The Trauma of a Micro-Preemie Birth is an episode from Sickboy by CBC.

This episode is 01:19:54 long.

This episode was published on Apr 8, 2026.

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