The RMA Podcast Episode 30. Running For Premature Babies part 1. With Amy O'Halloran & Judy Schulstad.

On Episode 30 of the RMA podcast, our 1 year anniversary special, we are talking about running for premature babies! We interview Proud running mumma and RMA Ambassador, Amy O’Halloran who is mum to two darling premature babies, her first born Henry, who came at 34weeks and Jemima who entered the world at 33 weeks gestation!

 

I chat to Amy about her silent struggle with the guilt and the trauma she faced being a first time mum, under going emergency c sections, and traumatic births (where she couldn’t even hold her baby Jemima before she was taken away), to living in the hospital, the trauma and fear around having a premature baby and leaving to go home without them.

 

We talk about the guilt that weighed heavily leaving Amy feeling as though she had failed Henry and Jemima, which eventually led her to being diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and postpartum depression.

Today Amy is so proud of both Henry and Jemima and that she is their mum!

 

I also chat to my mum, Judy Schulstad, about her experience having two premature babies (myself and my sister) 44 years ago, and compare the differences and similarities in the motherhood journey to giving birth to a premature baby, and how she handled the news that I might indeed die.

 

This podcast is part 1 in our series where we are raising awareness and support for the Running for Premature Babies Foundation. In part 2, which will air in a fortnight we talk to its’ founder, Sophie Smith about the legacy she has built along side her late husband Ash in the memory of her beautiful baby boys, now sleeping, Henry, Jasper and Evan, and how we can support families of premature babies through our footsteps.

 

For more information on the Running For Premature Babies Foundation visit www.runningforprematurebabies.com

 

This episode of the RMA Podcast is brought to you by fisiocrem Australia