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	Podcast:		Please Explain
	Episode:		‘Weeping and humiliated’: When new mothers are rushed out of hospital
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:12:59
	Publish Date:		2023-07-30 19:01:00
	Description:		Shell-shocked, stitched up and bleeding. This is how health reporter Henrietta Cook describes the situation she was in, only 19 hours after giving birth to her first child, The problem? Rather than being tended to in hospital, she’d been discharged already. Instead, she was stuck in peak hour traffic, dazed and inching along a main road on her way home. But she’s far from alone. Almost half of mothers in Australia are now discharged from hospital one day or less after having an uncomplicated vaginal birth, compared with about one in four women a decade ago. This, despite recent research that found there was no evidence to support discharging new mums from hospital less than 24 hours after birth. Today, health reporter Henrietta Cook on the havoc that this practice is wreaking on new Australian mothers. Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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