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What is 'The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby' about?
This is a CBC Podcast. Hey, Sam here. If you listen to Sea of Lies, I want to tell you about another CBC podcast I think you're really going to like. It comes from a CBC feed called The Con. In The Con, Caitlin's Baby, a woman named Caitlin Braun asks dozens of doulas to help with her pregnancy, only to string them along through an escalating series of disasters. Rape, pregnancy loss, even a coma. One by one, the duelists struggle to support her and grieve with her and even save her life. And then the truth comes out. In the six-part series, host Sarah Treleaven untangles a complex web of deception to ask who Caitlin really is and why she did the things that she did. This is not your average con and Caitlin is not your usual scammer.
Now here's episode one of The Con, Caitlin's Baby.
Who is Amy Perry and how is she involved?
A warning. This story contains references to medical emergencies, including baby loss. We also deal with sexual assault, and there is some strong language. Please take care. It's a Friday night in November 2022. Amy Perry is at home, in a town just west of Toronto, Canada. And she's sick.
I was fighting an RSV virus that was going around, so I was going to be home not doing anything.
She was spending most of her time in bed, bored and scrolling on Facebook.
I manage a Facebook group for local birth workers called Placenta Squad.
I just love that name, Placenta Squad. Amy, along with most of the Placenta Squad, is a doula.
I'm coming up on eight years. Yeah, I've been a doula for a long time. I've attended over 100 births now, and it's been a ride.
Doulas work with pregnant people. They're not medical professionals. They assist people through labor and delivery by offering emotional support. The focus is on the woman, not the baby. They will help with massage or position or talk you through the pain or when things start to get too overwhelming. And they're different from midwives. A midwife has medical training. Often a doula will work alongside midwives or doctors, but unlike someone with medical expertise, they cannot give or prescribe medication.
It just made sense for me. I could make my own hours. I could work around my health. I could have my own business. I could be here when my kids were little, and it made a lot of sense for us. I'm the child of two parents of chronic illness. I've grown up taking care of people, and this is very natural for me.
Doula work can involve helping women through trauma. In fact, many doulas come to this line of work through their own bad experiences, so it's a point of pride that they take on the really hard cases. And that night in November, Amy is scrolling on the Placenta Squad page when she sees a post from her friend and fellow doula, Katie.
How did Caitlin's story begin to unfold?
Katie is working with a client in crisis, who says her pregnancy is the result of an assault. Here's Katie.
She told me that, you know, generally that she didn't have family or friends to support her, that it was just like as traumatic a scenario as it possibly could be because she had just found out that her baby didn't have a heartbeat as well.
This client's name was Caitlin Braun, and she was 24 years old, and she would now have to birth a stillborn baby. Caitlin found Katie through social media. After sending a message and setting things up, Katie and Caitlin connected on the phone. Caitlin said she lived with her mom, but they didn't have the best relationship. Her life had been hard and full of neglect.
She said basically like she is just kind of a victim of the system, if you will, and had gone through like years of different forms of abuse and just was like somebody that had fallen through the cracks at kind of every point along the way.
This is November 2022. Remember COVID? Much of our world was online or by phone, and that includes doula work. So when labor started, it was Katie on the phone with Caitlin.
She ended up having contractions while I was on the phone with her, like working through contractions. They were timed out properly. When things would get more intense, her cognitive abilities would come and go, which is very normal. When her labor progressed, like, she would be throwing up.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is 'The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby' about?
0:01–1:06
2
Who is Amy Perry and how is she involved?
1:06–3:17
3
How did Caitlin's story begin to unfold?
3:17–7:19
4
What challenges did Amy face while supporting Caitlin?
7:19–13:14
5
Why was Caitlin sent home from the hospital?
13:14–19:27
6
What complications arose during Caitlin's delivery?
19:27–25:58
7
How did Caitlin's medical situation escalate?
25:58–39:54