Dr Charlotte Elder

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275 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2019 last heard Mar 2021

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The Hook Up · Giving birth on the toilet: when you didn't know you were pregnant · 9 Dec 2019 podcast

It's thinking about drinking and how it works and making sure that you've got hopefully good contraception so that if you are binge drinking, it's less likely to have an effect on someone else.

It's an interesting one.

So there's a few things that play into that.

So one is that there's a thing inside the uterus at the same time as the baby called a placenta, which is basically like a big squishy bit of meat.

And if that's sitting on the front wall of the uterus, then often the baby can kick and punch that instead of the uterus.

And so that means that you're less likely to feel it.

And often that means that you just feel things around the edges and less so in the front.

The back of the uterus doesn't tend to feel things as well.

So people don't tend to feel movements at the back.

Sometimes people can have a heart-shaped uterus and so that the baby is just sort of shoved up in a corner and so it's out of the way.

The other thing is that constipation is pretty common in pregnancy, but constipation is pretty common anyway.

Sorry, I'm talking about poo.

Doctors always talk about

here.

So people can be constipated and then have a grumbly tummy.

And actually a constipated grumbly tummy kind of feels similar to a baby moving.

And if you're not expecting a baby to move, you're not going to notice it.

Normal people who are kind of cruising along and like get pregnant, pee on a stick, know they're pregnant, often still have to teach themselves what their baby's movements feel like.

So it's not something that's like an innate part of being a woman or having a uterus.

You have to learn what a baby movement feels like.

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