Christy O’Grady

Audio Producer | Part time Hobbit

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

FYI, whimsical flamingo candles are not actually meant to be used as candles. Unless, of course, you find decapitated heads floating in the bath relaxing and/or romantic.

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

The postnatal ward was complete whiplash after the supportive environments of antenatal and labour. It genuinely was a very traumatic experience and I’ve never seen my husband so angry in 15 years together.

[Dr Ruth Ann Harpur @drruthannharpur]

My mother and aunts talk fondly of their experience of postnatal wards - in ways that my cousins and I are simply bamboozled by. We couldn't get home soon enough.

Apparently the generation before us spent a restful week after the birth with endless practical help, getting a full night's sleep whist midwives and maternity assistants fed the baby bottles of formula and changed their nappies all night long if they so desired.

But the newborn nurseries that facilitated this have all been removed from nhs maternity units. This was no accident or budgetary restraint. It was a deliberate decision to foist compulsory 24-7 "rooming in" on all mothers with the aim of "supporting breastfeeding and bonding".

There is no evidence that it does either. But what it does do is place an unworkable burden on women who have just had babies to assume 24-7 care of their newborn after birth, even when they have experienced complications in their babies birth, emergency surgery or severe birth injury.

US based paediatricians have linked this practice to newborn falls and accidental suffocation where dangerously exhausted mothers have dropped or fallen asleep on their newborns. I am not aware that the nhs even monitors such incidents.

That is why we must bring back newborn nurseries for any women who decides she wants to use it.

It is also why we must not make up stories about 24-7 contact being good for bonding or whatever other nonsense is being fabricated.

Women's needs matter in their own right and it is a danger to babies when this is not recognised and taken seriously.

That's why @sue_haddon, @catherineroyuk and I penned this letter to @thetimes

https://t.co/adUGkPod9e

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

@jp_JellyRoll @KirstieMAllsopp @KirstyWark She, and others, did complain at the time

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

@cleanlife78 @KirstieMAllsopp @KirstyWark Ah yes. It is always the woman’s fault

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

I bought the sequel when I was 18. There’s a r*pe scene pretty early on. Disturbing doesn’t even scrape the surface.

[𑣲 faye @sevenflings]

guys i heard there's a tiger having sex with a woman in this book pls tell me it's not true

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

@_AndyMcHugh @DeputyGrocott @suzyg001 The only bad experience I’ve ever had with trick or treaters was from a bunch of 10 year olds who threw rubbish at me and inside my house as soon as I opened the door. All the teens last night were super sweet and polite and it’s nice to see them having harmless fun

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

@LeachSie @FinucaneOlivia @swiftscheetah WHAT. Mind blown. But also makes a whole lot of sense

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

@FinucaneOlivia @LeachSie @swiftscheetah He would have had to leave to get into the Beetlejuice costume and makeup. I think the group dance is the last thing they record on the night.

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

Also, can we talk about how much money gets spent on security around football games each week because men can’t behave themselves? Away fans literally have to be escorted to and from the train station by riot police.

[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

Those shocking reasons why Taylor Swift was granted special security

From the new Private Eye, out now.

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

@hansmollman This is literally Baker Street. These people are just mad that they’re spending millions on their flats but they don’t get to live on Marylebone High Street

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

@myfriendcallie Under-coat watch selling was very much a real thing because it happened to me in McDonalds in 2008

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

Panda’s are the literal embodiment of weaponised incompetence and it works so well for them. Fair play.

[China Perspective @China_Fact]

the panda kindergarten is a place where young pandas are cared for and nurtured. 🐼🍼

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

@charliersmith1 I absolutely love this! I’m 5 years on and I promise it keeps getting better and it does slowly get easier. After a while the practices you have to put effort into now, will become second nature. Life has some wonderful things in store for you, I’m sure.

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

@Laura_Kramer @andrew_mueller Yes!! They were my fave two as well!

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

@SheilaCaffrey01 @sos_beachcare She did quit though

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

I went to Disneyland Paris once and witnessed a mum beat the crap out of Captain Hook with her handbag because he made her daughter cry. Great day.

[Matt Desmond @DisneyScoopGuy]

Imagine going to a theme park and getting angry because the characters stay in character. These parents should feel embarrassed

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

@trevgoes4th @LEY__P @KierHardlie

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

@Chris_Leigh_UK @PeteApps People tried that during/after pandemic and the landlords didn’t like that

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

I’d love to have been in the room when they went through all the potential actors before settling on a chimp.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for the Robbie Williams biopic ‘BETTER MAN’, starring a CGI monkey as Robbie Williams.

In theaters on January 17.

[Christy O’Grady @christyevans]

This is my late nan who raised me alongside my mother until her early passing in 2002. She was the centre of the catholic community in Basingstoke the point that if she could have been voted as Pope she probably would have been. I’m proud to be one of her thousand grandchildren

[Basingstoke Gazette @BasGazette]

Iris Wilkin: One of first Asian women to settle in Basingstoke honoured https://t.co/bWfBjNa5nF