Episode 21: Plain Sailing, with Heidi Jeffries

Born on The Rock: Gibraltar Birth Stories · May 22, 2025 · 31m

KEY TOPICS: 2 births, PCOS, natural deliveries, fast labours, postnatal depression, allergies & intolerances

Heidi Jeffries is our guest on an episode we’re calling ‘Plain Sailing,’ as her birth experiences were very straightforward… and the family has multiple nautical connections! We’re travelling back to the year 2000, when Heidi and her husband started their family soon after getting married. After convincing her husband that the pregnancy was not an April Fool’s joke (!) Heidi had a good pregnancy journey – with an unusual craving.

She received conflicting medical advice about her labour…