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Podcast: Private Parts Unknown: Sex & Love Around the World
Episode: The Untold Dangers of Childbirth: Emily McLaughlin on Surviving a Postpartum Stroke & the Risks & Rewards of Motherhood
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For the 228th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes writer and educator Emily McLaughlin, who nearly lost her life after a postpartum stroke.
Emily opens up about her complicated journey into motherhood—from initial ambivalence about having kids to the harrowing complications that followed childbirth. She shares what it was like to face life-threatening medical trauma, the long road to physical and emotional r...