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Jul 10, 2025 4 min

The Retrievals S02 - Trailer

from Serial Hosted by Serial Productions & The New York Times

C-sections are the most frequently performed major surgeries in the world. So why do so many patients feel severe pain during them? Season 2 of the award-winning podcast “The Retrievals” is an investigation into this underreported problem — and the new effort to solve it. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more about upcoming episodes of METRO and get a look behind the scenes, find us on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook by searching “Serial Productions”. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback? Email us at [email protected].

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C-sections are the most frequently performed major surgeries in the world. So why do so many patients feel severe pain during them? Season 2 of the award-winning podcast “The Retrievals” is an investigation into this underreported problem — and the new effort to solve it. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Subscribe now for a special offer on all of our games. Hello, serial listeners. Sarah Kanek here. Today is a big day over here at serial productions, because we're releasing the second season of the Retrioles, the series hosted by Susan Burton.

The first season came out two years ago, and it was great. It was named Best Podcast of the Year by a bunch of outlets, so if you're like us and you love those shows, you're in for a treat. This new season of the Retrioles rolls out like a top medical drama. If you want to take season two for a spin, you can listen to the trailer on about to play.

Or if you're already a fan, then you already know how good the show is going to be. So why wait? Just go ahead and search for the Retrioles podcast. You'll find the second season there, ready for your start.

It's four episodes, and we'll be releasing a new episode every Thursday for the next few weeks. And of course, if you're a New York Times subscriber, you can listen to the whole season right now. OK, here's the trailer for the show. And again, please search for the Retrioles in your podcast apps.

Or Susan. If you're listening to this, it might be because you heard a podcast series I made, called The Retrioles. Sometimes when I meet people, they'll say, oh, the one where the nurse will fentanyl. Others don't mention the thought.

They go straight for the theme. They know the podcast has. The one where doctors aren't normal for the women to be in pain. It doesn't matter if you haven't heard the Retrioles.

The details of that podcast are less important than the common experience they describe. They end up reading listen to. They end up reading adequately treat. That resonated with many listeners and hundreds of them, mostly women, begin writing to me with their own stories.

One afternoon, I opened a note that was on like any I ever see so far. The listener described something that was so shocking that I thought which experience must have been singular. And then, only I mistake. Then, within a day or two, I opened two more of these notes describing similar experiences.

Soon I understood that this was such a good come up again and again. I was rushed into the C-section and my husband was there and I could feel them starting to be up reach and I could feel the decision. And the doctor asked me to feel pressure. And I said, no, I feel everything.

And then when you kept telling me, oh, you know, you're just going to be on a pressure. And I was like, no, I'm pretty sure this was just pain. And I said, well, that's not possible. And if you were feeling that you would pass out from the pain.

And I was like, I wish I could pass out from the pain. Because this is I could feel them taking my organs out and moving them. I could feel them pulling the baby. And it was I'm shaking just talking about it.

It was major Donald surgery without falling in the sea. So what I look back to residency, it's something that we all see. And we all know what I remember hearing is that C-sections are going to hurt. I mean, I don't think anyone was like, hey, it's okay for your patients to be in severe pain.

But it was kind of like, well, pressure's normal. Pressure's normal. And I'm like, how does it know that pressure's not pain? I feel like at first, before I saw it happen, when people would say, oh, yeah, I felt everything.

And I was like, I can't be true. I think there's no way. There's no way. We would have happened.

Like, we would do that. But from serial productions and the New York Times, I'm Susan Burton. And this is the retrieval season two, the C-sections. Coming to LinkedIn, listen wherever you get your podcast.

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