Olivia Willis
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783 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2017
last heard May 2021
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So they think what might be going on there is actually that a proportion of these women didn't actually ever plan to go to the hospital.
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They planned to have a free birth without a medical person there to assist.
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Right.
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And then potentially complications
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after the birth and they call the ambulance.
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Kind of, yeah.
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The babies that are born before arrival do have kind of more adverse outcomes than their counterparts who are born in hospitals.
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But it's so that they're more likely to go to kind of neonatal intensive care or a special care nursery unit.
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But the thing to note there is that those kind of outcomes are associated more commonly with prematurity than with the baby being born before arrival.
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So it's not because they didn't make it to hospital often that there's an adverse outcome.
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It's because they're quite premature.
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there were some instances of that.
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But similar to Tegan's case, if the baby's being carried full term and it's been a pretty healthy pregnancy, then the risks are generally not too bad.
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That, that was one of them.
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Look, they said not to, you know, not to worry too.
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Women shouldn't worry about it too much.
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Often women do and it's a pretty rare occurrence.
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It's about every four in 1,000 births that this happens.
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They said if it does happen, the best thing to do is to keep the baby nice and warm, to bring it straight up onto your chest and not to cut any cords.
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Don't cut the placenta cord.
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