Gemma: “When the baby cried, I couldn’t get to her”

Gemma gave birth to her second baby in June 2020 and says she was left unable to pick her newborn up or easily access pain relief during the 2 days she spent in hospital. She tells host Phillippa that she was left crying in pain as she waited for someone to bring her morphine after a long labour which ended in a c-section. Gemma also draws on the comparisons and differences between having a baby in 2016 vs 2020.

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 here.