I listened to the podcast as I’m due to give birth again in a few weeks and I’m far from a private patient like Ailbhe so i was interested to hear her take on things. To be honest she is just too sweet to be wholesome! She mentions about other mothers giving advice when it isn’t appreciated etc... and that’s about as raw as she gets! she doesn’t really give any advice herself to be fair but I’m just sick of going online and watching her so in love, so in awe, so everything is hunky dory all the time! Makes the podcast sound a little unbelievable when she says how “hard” she found it or is finding it! She has her mam around the corner from her able to see the baby on walks daily. My poor mam might not see this baby for months the rate things are going coz she’s living in total fear of breaking lockdown rules. Go watch Caroline Foran for a bit with her screaming baby and you’d have an idea of the reality of being a FTM or anytime mam for that matter. The whole process leading up to Ailbhe’s birthing was magical! Her consultant was a godsend! I’ve seen my consultant twice and that’s with complications. I’m finding it far from magical to tell you the truth except for one amazing. Midwife who is so clued in. Ailbhe had a scan at 38 weeks and a day later went for an induction, laboured immediately, popped him out within 12 hours! She was so lucky! The Everymum podcast obviously wants positive birthing stories out there I get that and agree! It’s very hard to listen to complications! Especially when you are due but I think now more than ever the public should be so enraged at this level of barbarism within the Irish maternity sector and there are women whose awful experiences aren’t being echoed like these positive ones! It’s not fair on them and it’s not fair on future mothers to be.