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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Gi’s guest this week is the hilarious actress, comedian, and content creator, Jane Dowden, aka Mum and a Mic!
Jane shares her journey of conceiving her twin boys through IVF. She also reflects on the emotional turmoil she faced when she went into early labour at just 21 weeks, being forced to confront the possibility that she could lose her babies.
Plus, finding a work-life balance with acting jobs, and why being a parent can often feel like being a referee!
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0:00.0 | Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby. |
0:04.0 | So they put one embryo in and I was like, I really want twins. |
0:06.7 | They were like, you don't, you become really high risk, one at a time. |
0:10.0 | It's so much safer. |
0:10.8 | I was like, okay, fine. |
0:11.9 | So they put one in and then at six weeks, they were like, oh, well there's two. |
0:17.4 | Sorry what? |
0:18.8 | Within 30 seconds, she just looked up. |
0:21.4 | Her face was white and she just went, Miss Dalton, we need to talk. |
0:25.1 | You need to get dressed. |
0:25.7 | We need to talk. |
0:26.3 | And I just instantly, like, even when I think about it now, I can remember that. |
0:29.7 | Like, I was like, oh my God, something's really wrong. |
0:33.5 | And I looked to my husband. |
0:35.2 | He was like, no, no, no. |
0:35.9 | They've just said everything's fine. I went, no, there's something really wrong. |
0:39.2 | When you've been faced with a doctor telling you that you are going to birth your children and they're going to die and then be put on you, |
0:45.0 | you would do anything on this earth to not have to live that. |
0:50.2 | Honestly, I just didn't. I would have done anything. |
0:52.6 | This episode is sponsored by Act London, the multi-award winning natural geogent with a special backstory. |
1:00.1 | Founded by two London West End performers who needed a deodient that could keep up through hours of intense performances, |
1:06.3 | Act was created to handle whatever life throws at you. |
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