Sarah Graham, author of the book Rebel Bodies and the blog Hysterical Women, speaks to Rosie Taylor about all the reasons science, medicine and governments fail to recognise the importance of postnatal health – and the revolution beginning to change things for the better.

Sarah chats about medicine’s patronising attitudes towards women and the fact mothers are expected to sacrifice their own health for their children, as well as how she was pleasantly surprised by her own positive experiences of birth and postnatal recovery.

You can buy Sarah’s book Rebel Bodies here and read her blog here. Follow her on Instagram: @sarahgraham7writer and Twitter: @sarahgraham7.

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Please don’t suffer in silence!

You can request an NHS referral to a women’s health physiotherapist via your GP, or search for a local private physio here.

Organisations that offer help and support with postnatal mental health issues include Pandas and Make Birth Better.

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Journalist Rosie Taylor is on a mission to find out why we so often fail to give mothers the care and support they need after birth and in the months and years afterwards.

On the Mother Bodies podcast, she speaks to fascinating guests about how politics, prejudices and systemic problems are affecting the postnatal care we receive – and what we can do to improve parents’ lives for the better.

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