"That word, for me, was workaholism and when I heard it through my headphones earlier this year, listening to an audiobook on the tube, I felt a pang of something between recognition and panic. It transported me back to the worst time in my life. In May 2016, when I was nearly five months pregnant, I travelled to rural Norway to make a short documentary for the Guardian."
"My pregnancy hadn't been easy. I'd bled heavily at nine weeks, after coming off set on Sky News. It was the early hours of Good Friday, and I had to wait four agonising days to be scanned and ultimately told everything looked fine. Then the routine 12-week screening gave my baby a one in two chance of being born with Down's syndrome."
"On the morning of the class, I woke up far too early. The moment I opened my eyes, I knew something was wrong. My throat was tight and salty; I was about to throw up, but it didn't feel like morning sickness. A searing pain was radiating from my right side, so sharp it left me breathless, but it wasn't the dull ache of cramps that would make me worry for my baby."
A pregnant woman traveled to rural Norway to film a short documentary and experienced intense anxiety linked to workaholism. Early pregnancy complications included heavy bleeding at nine weeks and a four-day wait for a reassuring scan. The routine 12-week screening indicated a one-in-two chance of Down's syndrome, prompting a chromosome test via a large needle; results showed no chromosomal abnormality but led to a heart referral. By 19 weeks the pregnancy was declared normal. While in Moi for a cultural education class, she awoke with severe right-sided searing pain, nausea, and breathlessness.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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