Babies' First Christmas

Teenage mums talk about the honest reality of being pregnant so young. Beverley Turner attends a natal hypnobirthing session. Author Amy Licence gives a history of royal births. 

Edith's live in Glastonbury with festival-going Mums, and also catches up with organiser Emily Eavis, who recently had her second child. Colin leads a discussion on why so many pregnancies end in C-section, and Beverley Turner is there in the operating theatre when one of our Bum ...  Show more

Mother Tongue are joined by Dubai's leading Lactation specialist, Dru Campbell. Dru is a trained nurse, midwife and lactation consultant and is registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the UK and the Dubai Health Authority (DHA). Dru shares her wealth of knowledg ...  Show more

In 2013, broadcaster and journalist Krupa Padhy, one of the presenters for BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, lost her first child because of medical negligence in a London Hospital. Legal action was taken. Midwives and doctors were given extra training. Lessons were, apparently, learne ...  Show more

Deux duo féminins se rencontrent lors de cet épisode : la psychologue Lory Zephyr et la journaliste Jessika Brazeau reçoivent au podcast la psychologue Roxane Larocque et la sexologue Loryanne-Héllène Gauvin pour parler de l'allaitement sous un angle (malheureusement) peu commun. ...  Show more

Engineers showcase new technologies to help women return to work after maternity leave - but why is the engineering profession itself so male-dominated? Jane Wakefield attends a breast pump hackathon at MIT, speaking to businesses venture capitalists and campaigners such as Cathe ...  Show more