Lockdown Babies

Natasha: “It was lonely to be in there by yourself”

Natasha tells her story of having her baby in March 2021, a year after the first lockdown but still plagued with restrictions. Natasha also shares the heartbreak of being separated from her family in Canada until her baby was 6 months old.
Your host is Phillippa Guillou, a journalist and radio presenter whose own baby was born at the height of the pandemic. You can get in touch with Phillippa <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lockdown_babies_podcast/">here</a>.
You can listen to my chat with Laura from the Mother of All Solutions Podcast <a href="https://motherofallsolutions.podbean.com/">here</a> or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
If you’ve struggled with any of the topics we’ve raised in today’s episode, please see the links below for help and support.
Birth Trauma Association - https://www.birthtraumaassociation.org.uk/
Pandas Foundation - https://pandasfoundation.org.uk/what-is-pnd/birth-trauma/
MIND - https://bit.ly/35Lbaos
NHS Report into babies born in lockdown - https://bit.ly/3tQuit4

Lockdown Babies shares the remarkable and heartbreaking stories of the families who had babies in the middle of a global pandemic. An OG Podcasts Production.