BBC Breakfast fans have hit out at the show for covering a ‘gross’ topic so early in the morning.
Hosts Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt returned to our screens on Friday (January 12) to host the well-loved BBC morning show. As usual, the pair were professional and serious and they looked across the day’s main headlines so far.
After running through the major stories of the day, Charlie and Naga began to give details at the issues women face from suffering from pelvic floor issues. According a recent study, 1 in 12 women in the UK are suffering from a prolapse in their pelvic floor, with many living in silence with the disease.
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Covering the topic to raise awareness of the issue, Munchetty, 48, and Stayt, 61, had three of guests on to increase the profile of the condition. Jo Prance, Christine Sweet and Susanne Anata all currently suffer from pelvic floor problems, including prolapsed vaginas and incontinence.
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One of the guests, Jo, spoke of how her condition came about following the birth of her baby son. “My experience is stress-urinary incontinence, but really a catalyst for that was traumatic childbirth,” she said.
Jo admitted that she had given birth to her baby at the age of 22, and was “naive” in not having any information on the knowledge of birthing pains and injuries. She added that though she was induced, the baby’s weight was not factored in properly and cause immense damage to her privates.
“I tore, I had a significant injury,” she recalled. “So there was an argument over me between the two midwives whose care I was under – should I go for a surgical repair or would she fix me?
“So she repaired me for a second-degree tear, but I now know that I had a third-degree tear because two years after my son was born, I became fecally incontinent,” she confessed. Similarly, Christine echoed Jo’s story after she suffered a prolapsed bowel, uterus and bladder following a traumatic birth.
During the interview, Naga and Charlie reflected on the taboo of the subject and the wish to break the stigma by talking openly about the condition. However, fans watching the show at home were less than impressed with the graphic nature of the story at such an early time of the day.
Taking to social media, one disgruntled fan wrote: “A report on prolapsed bowels and vaginas is EXACTLY the start to my weekend I was hoping for!” Whilst a second user sarcastically quipped: “I don’t think BBC Breakfast discusses haemorrhoids enough, do you?”
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But other fans were grateful for the inclusion of the story, as they commended the channel for raising awareness of the condition. One viewer penned: “Really informative piece about prolapse in women on BBC Breakfast – relieved I seem to have dodged that particular bullet,” they said.
Continuing on, however, the user offered some stern advice. “Oh…PLEASE don’t search ‘prolapse’ on Twitter. You have been warned.”
BBC Breakfast airs every day at 6am on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer.
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