Penny Sarchet

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1,050 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

Penny Sarchet’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The World, the Universe and Us · The Mystery of Childbirth Is Finally Being Unravelled · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

There's a lot of studies coming out on this at the moment, but it's starting to look at least that the timing of when we give birth isn't that different to what you'd expect from looking at other mammals. voice-verified

Yeah, this kind of blew my mind, actually, because it's this sort of parenting orthodoxy now that your baby is born like three months too early voice-verified

you have to, you know, mimic the womb. voice-verified

And that's quite a lot of pressure voice-verified

a new parent, which I don't think is necessarily that helpful. voice-verified

And so, yeah, maybe we do need to rethink this idea of the fourth trimester. voice-verified

Obviously, you kind of want to cuddle and comfort a newborn to help them make that transition into the outside world. voice-verified

But maybe this idea that they're like especially helpless and ideally wouldn't have been born yet is kind of unnecessary. voice-verified

Yeah, because it's in the mother's evolutionary interest to not deplete herself so much that she can't have future children voice-verified

she wants multiple children. voice-verified

Yeah, and this all plays out in the placenta. voice-verified

For the mother, voice-verified

Yeah, and it's amazing how sort of essential the placenta is, but sinister in voice-verified

ways. voice-verified

But it does eventually start to break down towards the end of pregnancy, which is one reason why they induce babies that have been hanging around so long that it's probably time to get them out. voice-verified

Did you have a good look at it when it voice-verified

No, voice-verified

I think people do still freeze, dry it and put it in capsules. voice-verified

Alice, do you know anything about this? voice-verified

it there? voice-verified

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