The Labour Poo
5/27/202636 min
This week, Katherine's Telling Everybody Everything about The Labour Poo with our friends at Andrex, who support this important conversation empowering mums to push (and to live!) without fear. Katherine is joined by the incomparable comedian Victoria Emes @VictoriaEmes whose social videos will have made you laugh and here she is doing it again with an unmissable story. Lifting shame has always been important to us and we'd love to hear your birth story too.
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First 90 secondsKatherine Ryan· Host0:05
Welcome to a special episode of Telling Everybody Everything. We are talking about the overdue conversation. It's the labor poo, and we're doing that with Andrex today. I am joined by the fabulous Victoria Eames. She's a comedian. She's a hilarious content creator. I know you've seen all her videos. Thank you for being here. I'm such a huge fan, and I invited you because I love your candor. You're very funny. You have a mouth of the South, as my mother used to call mine- Oh, stop.
Victoria Emes· Guest0:33
Yeah ...
Katherine Ryan· Host0:33
sometimes. And I, I wanna ask you today about a subject that sadly has been taboo, I think is making a lot of women and moms and partners- Mm-hmm ... feel disempowered, and that's not what I want. I wanna talk to you about the labor poo.
Victoria Emes· Guest0:49
The labor poo.
Katherine Ryan· Host0:50
You're a mom.
Victoria Emes· Guest0:51
I am.
Katherine Ryan· Host0:52
And would this statistic shock you? 75% of people fear the labor poo.
Victoria Emes· Guest0:57
It doesn't shock me, but it does upset me.
Katherine Ryan· Host1:00
Yeah.
Victoria Emes· Guest1:01
That, that's sad, isn't it?
Katherine Ryan· Host1:02
I shared this statistic with my husband, and he said, "What's going on with the other 25%?" [laughs] They're all German. Like, everyone else is, like, stoked about it.
Victoria Emes· Guest1:11
[laughs] Really excited to take that labor poo.
Katherine Ryan· Host1:14
Yeah. [laughs] I think it's fine to be fearful, especially as a first-time parent.
Victoria Emes· Guest1:19
Yeah.
Katherine Ryan· Host1:19
I think, um, everyone, regardless of gender, has many fears.
Victoria Emes· Guest1:24
Yeah, and you don't know, you just don't know what you're going into, do you? So you don't know what the birth is gonna look like, and