Melissa Hemsley on fertility, food and feeling like a failure
Happy Mum Happy Baby
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Giovanna sits down with Melissa Hemsley for this week’s delicious episode!
Melissa is a former private chef, a writer, and a huge champion of sustainable, nourishing food. Now mum to baby Summer, Melissa and Gi had so much to catch up on, from IVF and pregnancy to ultra-processed foods and placenta smoothies…
Melissa also opens up to Gi about her struggles with fertility and postnatal anxiety, and the steps she took to healing.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby. |
| 0:03.6 | Now I'm a mom, I'm like, I cringe at me giving advice to anyone that was a parent before going, |
| 0:09.0 | Oh, this would be easy. I mean, my baby's only little and I'm still like, what? Is it time to eat again? What am I doing now? |
| 0:18.0 | I didn't know their story whether they struggle to conceive or not, but I remember feeling I'm so my thoughts are so ugly my heart is so ugly |
| 0:25.3 | that I don't want to look at these pregnant women I had a placenta smoothie oh right I did the |
| 0:31.2 | capsules you did the capt. How do you feel about |
| 0:33.3 | percent of smoothie? I don't know if I could Melissa. |
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