601 | Lucy's Story of an Emergency Caesarean, Twin birth, Redefining Body Image After Birth

About this episode

Lucy shares her contrasting birth experiences, including an emergency caesarean and a planned caesarean with twins.

Lucy shares her contrasting birth experiences - from an emergency caesarean with her first daughter Ocean at 42+2 weeks, to a planned caesarean with twins Koa and Maddox that took a frightening turn when Maddox was born unresponsive. Today's episode is brought to you by Bare Mum. Explore the full range of birth, recovery and breastfeeding essentials and enjoy 15% off at  baremum.com  using the code ABS2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Sophie Walker

Guest: Lucy

Topics covered

• emergency caesarean
• twin birth
• body image
• birth experiences
• parenting

Keywords

• caesarean
• twin birth
• body image
• birth experiences
• parenting
• emergency birth
• motherhood

Sponsors

Bare Mum

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Ocean, Koa, Maddox

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