Dr Punam Krishan on Maternal Health: "I Wasn't Taken Seriously Because I Was An Anxious Mum"
6/30/20261 hr 24 min
In this episode Giovanna sits down with NHS GP, resident GP on BBC Morning Live and bestselling author, Dr Punam Krishan!
Punam opens up about her own traumatic first birth and the life-threatening complications, postnatal depression, and PTSD that followed.
She also talks about the breast cancer diagnosis she received last year that reinforced the importance of listening to her body and advocating for herself. Please take this conversation as a reminder to check your chests!
Dr Punam's latest book, The Mother Load Every Mother’s Guide to Juggling Health, Life & Happiness, is out now!
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Dr. Punam Krishan· Guest0:15
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Giovanna Fletcher· Host0:24
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to a brand-new episode of Happy Mum. Today's guest is someone who always makes me cry whenever I talk to her. It's Dr. Punam Krishan. She's a GP, um, a working GP who we do see on the telly, but she talks so eloquently and so warmly and so just beautifully about maternal mental health and being a mum and all the things that come with that. Punam had a, um, a really traumatic birth, which led to, um, I mean, she's gonna tell you, triple organ failure, um, sepsis, and then postnatal depression, PTSD. Uh, and that was a long, old recovery out of that. That has led her work, and I think it's that passion, that drive, uh, of, of how women should be treated that makes her so special. She's also written an incredible book called The Motherload that's out now, um, that doesn't just focus on the first trimester, uh, you know, of, of being a mum. The fourth trimester, as we call it, you know, that first little chunk of time. It focuses on your role as