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Bump Club
by BBC Radio 5 Live
5 live's Bump Club follows families through their experience of pregnancy and birth. Every Sunday morning from 11am with Edith Bowman and Colin Murray
Episodes
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Babies' First Christmas
Across the spring and summer of 2013 5 live's Bump Club followed the journeys of mums and dads to be as they went through the ups and downs of pregnancy. In this special Christmas programme Edith Bowman catches up with some of the bump club members and meets their babies. Edith asks how they've...
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Hypnobirthing and teenage pregancies
Teenage mums talk about the honest reality of being pregnant so young. Beverley Turner attends a natal hypnobirthing session. Author Amy Licence gives a history of royal births.
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Festival-going Mums
Edith's live in Glastonbury with festival-going Mums, and also catches up with organiser Emily Eavis, who recently had her second child. Colin leads a discussion on why so many pregnancies end in C-section, and Beverley Turner is there in the operating theatre when one of our Bump Club Mums gives...
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Breast feeding
Edith Bowman presents the weekly show about pregnancy and childbirth. Colin Murray is here in spirit, helping deliver a baby from a labour simulator, controlled by Bump Club's Beverley Turner. We also discuss whether women are under too much pressure to breastfeed. Also, why do so many…
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Should dads take a bigger role?
Edith Bowman and Colin Murray present our weekly show about pregnancy and childbirth. This week, our Bump Club babies start arriving. We catch up with Mercy Koko-Snuggs and her new twins, born by C-section on Tuesday. On Fathers' Day, there's a call for the state to make it easier for Dads to…
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Smoking whilst pregnant
Edith and Colin ask is it ever OK to smoke when pregnant? Bump Club hears the inspirational story of a mum to be Matilda Tristram who was diagnosed with Colon Cancer at 17 weeks pregnant. And would you give up your seat for a pregnant woman? Comedienne and mum to be Shappi Korsandi has her own...
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Is there a pressure to conceive?
Edith Bowman and Colin Murray present our weekly show about pregnancy and childbirth. This week, we're at Hay reviewing pregnancy advice books. What kind of pressure is there to have children today, and how does it feel if you either don't want them - or you want them, and can't fall pregnant?...
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Should you bank your baby's blood?
Edith and Colin ask should you bank your newborn baby's blood? They hear about the national blood bank that could save hundreds of lives in the future. And they ask the age-old question: could men cope with the pain of labour?
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Are dad's pulling their weight?
There are now 6,000 more full-time stay-at-home dads than a decade ago according to National Office for Statistics figures. But a new book suggests that fathers are still routinely shirking childcare in and out of working hours because they just don't want to do it. Phil asks Gideon Burrows…
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Is the NHS doing enough?
Bump Club asks whether the NHS is doing enough for women giving birth? Phil is joined by bump club mums Mercy and Charlotte as well as Chief Exec of the National Childbirth Trust and Jacque Gerrard Director for England for the Royal College of Midwives.
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Is marriage important?
This week Bump club asks is it important to get hitched before baby comes along? And married or not - what effect does a new arrival have on relationships? Bump Club regular Lorna and her husband Justyn join Giles Dilnott together with mum to be Amanda McDonald who at 35 weeks pregnant has just...
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How much does a baby cost?
Tony and the Bump Club team discuss how much a baby costs, from nappies to buggies.
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Who should pay for IVF?
Tony discusses the use of IVF and should it be the NHS or should couples who struggle with fertility have to pay privately to undergo treatment? Natasha and Sarah tell Tony about the highs and lows of their experiences of fertility treatment. GP Dr Louise Barker describes the options open to...
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IVF Clinic Special
In a Bump Club special, Shelagh Fogarty was given unprecedented access to the Midland Fertility Services clinic, to speak to patients about their hopes and the staff here trying to help them have a child.
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How old is too old to be a mum?
Bump Club mums to be Laura, Mercy and Rachel debate with Sam Walker and Professor Ellis Downes how old is too old to be a mum and what happens if a scan shows there are problems with the baby. And comedian and bump club mum to be Shappi Korshandi is trying to keep calm in her 20 week scan.
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Should men be there for the labour?
Bump Club mums to be Holly and Lorna together with their partners Tom and Justyn debate with Tony about whether blokes should be there for labour or should they leave women to it on their own? Dr Laura King, an expert on how times have changed for dads in the delivery room explains the history of...
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Changing shape
Bump Club mums-to-be Mercy and Sarah talk to Tony about changing shape and their battles to keep fit while pregnant. Kate Middleton lookalike, Heidi Agan, talks about her fake bump. And resident comedienne and mum-to-be Shappi Khorsandi gives an insight into her pregnancy eating habits.
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Beverley Turner with a Bump Club Special
Beverley Turner brings you up to date with the Bump Club mums that 5 live are following across the spring and summer of 2013. In this special edition, she speaks to midwives and other experts about birth plans, coping with complications and whether exercise is important when having a baby.…
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Sam Walker with Bump Club
Lorna, Holly, Tom and Kay join Sam Walker to talk about feeling their babies kick for the first time.They discuss this week's campaign to save independent midwives with broadcaster and mum Beverley Turner. And resident comedian and dad-to-be DANNY ROBINS on developing the perfect relationship…
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Baby's first heartbeat
Mercy and Kirsteen share a very special moment with Laura, hearing her baby's heartbeat for the first time. Bumpology expert Linda Geddes helps bust some pregnancy myths. Jenny Carter, a specialist midwife from the pioneering Preterm Surveillance Clinic at Guys and St Thomas' hospital explains…
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Changes to social lives
Holly, Lorna and Emily discuss the changes pregnancy has brought to their social lives. Following the recent news story about a mum who gave birth on a train, Emily shares her tale about giving birth in an unusual spot. Our midwife Jo talks about being prepared and a brave Danny Robins explains…
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Tony Livesey launches 5 live Bump Club
Our bump club members introduce themselves, Holly & Tom talk marriage, Laura and Lorna reveal how they conceived and Mercy describes how she burst into hysterics when she found out she was expecting twins. Beverley Turner describes the magic of giving birth and there’s advice from Senior midwife...
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5 live's Bump Club follows families through their experience of pregnancy and birth. Every Sunday morning from 11am with Edith Bowman and Colin Murray
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Bump Club is created and hosted by BBC Radio 5 Live.
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