In episode 2 we talk to Louise who was "fat" or "high BMI" when she was pregnant and was treated exceptionally because of this label. Many of us will have some label attached to us during pregnancy, so Louise's journey through navigating these complex issues around professionalism, communication barriers and deep seated internal bias is relevant to us all. 

To help me understand the complexity of labelling women during pregnancy, I called upon my friend and midwife, Sam Bull to reflect on my chat with Louise. Sam has some amazing nuggets of wisdom on how we can think about not just labels but how we can approach our pregnancy care with context of evidence from generalised data to making individual decisions. 

If you are looking for more information on high BMI during pregnancy the NHS website is a good starting point.