Fearne Cotton
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Before we do that, we have got a whole load of stuff to chat about.
Now, having followed bits of your journey, you're in a really interesting place at the moment.
For one reason, you had a big, big week the other week where you put forward a petition to the UK Parliament.
And this is all in order to appoint a maternity commissioner.
This is very big, important work.
Can you tell us what that role would mean to, well, women and men out there?
Because it would affect everybody and benefit everybody.
How would that affect us?
It's crazy to me that it needs debating.
I know.
It's someone close to you in life will at some point possibly get pregnant and have to go through what's supposed to be this magical, amazing experience can really be turned on its head if the maternity care isn't there.
And this petition has been inspired because you have this inquiry and report.
that has all of these bleak statistics in there about postnatal care and also prenatal care.
And that it's massively lacking.
And also that a lot of it's to do with sort of a postcode lottery.
Depending on where you live, quite literally depends on what that standard of care will be, which seems absurd.
But you're bringing the heat and the attention to it.
That's very important.
It's all very well and good, and rightly so.
Theo, who you're working with, will have that knowledge and that background, but equally we need voices out there speaking about it, and we need the attention on it.