Pregnancy Uncut
Pregnancy Uncut
Dr Alex Umbers and Dr Kara Thompson
S5. Ep3. Far from home. A farming mum's journey with fetal heart block and long distance care.
48 minutes Posted Feb 28, 2023 at 1:00 am.
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Married to a busy farmer and working as a midwife at their nearest hospital, Marnie’s dream was always to have her family born and bred close to home. She was just 19 weeks pregnant with her second baby, when her rural GP obstetrician found that baby's heartbeat was around half what it should have been, and diagnosed fetal heart block - a rare condition that would shape the pregnancy, birth, and first months of baby Amelia's life. What followed was the opposite of what Marnie had envi...