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Woman's Hour: Practical advice for anxious mothers. Burns specialist Professor Fiona Wood. Iran protests

15/11/2022

Practical advice for anxious mothers. Burns specialist Professor Fiona Wood. Iran protests

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Practical advice for anxious mothers. Burns specialist Professor Fiona Wood. Iran protests

Practical advice for anxious mothers. Burns specialist Professor Fiona Wood. Tampon tax .

Practical advice for anxious mums-to-be from Dr Cathy Green. Leading Australian burns specialist Professor Fiona Wood. Tampon tax campaigner Laura Coryton. Iran protests.

The imagery around pregnancy is often of glowing women doing yoga with calm expressions. For many women through it can be a time of anxiety about the birth, the baby, the future. All perfectly natural but it can be hard to ask for or access help. A new book  ‘Break Free From Maternal Anxiety’ A self-help Guide for Pregnancy, Birth and the First Postnatal Year’ offers CBT-based support. One of the authors Dr Catherine Green joins Emma Barnett to share professional and personal experience.

We hear from Professor Fiona Wood a world leading burns specialist the reluctant subject of a new book ‘Under Her Skin’. She was the first female plastic surgeon in Western Australia (in 1991) and has been named Australia’s Most Trusted Person and National Living Treasure becoming a household name after she led a team that helped saved the lives of people injured in the Bali bombing.

Women continue to lead protests in Iran.  But many Iranians say speaking out against the regime brings real risks.  Now according to State Media a court in Iran has issued the first death sentence to a person arrested for taking part. We get the latest from Faranak Amidi the BBC's Near East Women's Affairs Reporter and Rushanara Ali  the Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow about what she wants the UK Government to do.

A tribute to Sue Baker one of the original members of the Top Gear team who's died.

Plus tampon tax campaigner Laura Coryton on new research which suggests at least 80% of the savings, as a result of the tax ending two years ago has been absorbed by retailers.  
 
Presenter   Emma Barnett
Producer   Beverley Purcell

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