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Episode 44: From One to Two, with Roxane Codali
KEY TOPICS: 2 births, endometriosis, hyperemesis, assisted delivery, elective caesarean, pandemic
We meet local mother Roxane and her husband in this episode, plus their son and daughter born two years apart. Roxane discovered she was pregnant after treatment for endometriosis... and just as the world locked down with the pandemic in 2020.
She describes the uncertainty of changing Covid restrictions, and how severe sickness from six weeks made for a challenging pregnancy. After a lengthy labour, their little girl arrived by assisted delivery. Roxane describes the use of forceps as traumatic…
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