New RTE Show: Baby Bodies | Contributors Needed

Zoogon Productions are making a new television show for RTE2 called Mairead Farrell: Honestly Speaking… Baby Bodies, which aims to talk openly about how Irish women really feel about their pregnant and post-baby body – the good and the bad. We are currently still looking for a range of contributors to take part:

  1. Do you love everything about your pregnant body or post-baby body?
  2. Do you embrace all the bodily changes whole-heartedly?
  3. Have you (or did you) put on more weight than you wanted to during pregnancy?
  4. Or have you struggled with obesity before or after pregnancy?
  5. Are you (or were you) pregnant while still a teenager?
  6. Are you exercising a lot while pregnant?
  7. Or after childbirth to regain your figure?
  8. Has pregnancy or having a baby dramatically affected your sex life?
  9. Do you have a fear of pregnancy and childbirth?
  10. Or did a traumatic experience lead to a fear of future pregnancy?
  11. Are you giving birth (hospital or home birth) in the next few weeks and may consider the birth being filmed?

Finally – do you have an interesting story to tell relating to your ‘baby body’ experience that we haven’t mentioned, but you would like to tell us about?

We hope that the documentary will be a vehicle to show mothers out there that they're not the only one experiencing body issues during pregnancy and after, or indeed inform mothers-to-be of what to expect. Please get in touch by emailing amy@zoogon.tv or call to chat on 0044-2890323600 and ask for Amy or Aislinn. All correspondence will be in the strictest confidence.

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Did You Know?

In 2007, only 5.9% of Ministers of State, 21.4% of government ministers, 20% of the Seanad, and 13.3% of the Dail were women

Source: The way we are: Facts about Older Women in Ireland in 2008