Baubo: The Podcast
Baubo: The Podcast
Podcast Description
Baubo: The Podcast is hosted by Mathilde. The podcast sheds light on vulvodynia and vaginismus, two conditions that affect many women but remain shrouded in taboo, under-researched and under-funded. Mathilde invites top experts across multiple fields to deliver up to date and relevant information to help people experiencing these conditions, whilst sharing her own experience with vulvodynia.
Podcast Insights
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The podcast focuses on women's health issues, specifically vulvodynia and vaginismus, with episodes featuring expert insights into the neuroscience of pelvic pain, the anatomy and importance of pelvic floor health, and the common medical misconceptions surrounding these conditions, such as the episode with Dr. Tania Adib discussing the root causes of vulvar pain.
Chronic pelvic pain doesn’t have great PR. Vulvodynia, vaginismus, painful sex, pelvic floor dysfunction – conditions that affect 1 in 4 women and still get treated like a secret. This podcast is trying to change that.
The World’s Tightest Community is a weekly podcast hosted by Mathilde – a patient-turned-advocate who built this space out of her own experience with vulvodynia and vaginismus. Each episode goes deep into the conditions that millions of women live with but few feel safe naming: vulvodynia, vaginismus, vestibulodynia, pudendal neuralgia, and the wider landscape of chronic pelvic pain and painful sex.
Mathilde speaks with gynecologists, pelvic floor physiotherapists, sex therapists, psychologists, and researchers working at the front edge of women’s sexual health – translating clinical knowledge into something actually usable, alongside honest conversations about diagnostic delays, medical gaslighting, and what it really costs to navigate these conditions.
You’ll leave each episode with more language for your experience, clearer questions to bring to your next appointment, and the specific relief of knowing someone has thought carefully about this.
New episodes every week. Follow wherever you listen, and find the community on Instagram. <3
If you are googling vestibulectomy recovery at 2am, this one is for you.
Bonnie Gross has had the surgery twice, ten years apart, and she is unusually good at describing it – she wrote and executive produced Lady Parts, the award-winning comedy based on the first one. We recorded this four weeks after her second.
Most of this conversation is the practical side she could not fit in the film: the pre-surgery shopping list, the recovery timeline week by week, the insurance denial, the graft taken from inside her cheek, and what dilator work is really like afterwards.
Sponsors:
Pelva – pelva.com, code TWTC10 for 10% off
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Connect with Bonnie:
- IG: @ladyparts_film
- Website: ladypartsfilm.com
Connect with Mathilde:
- IG: @theworldstightestcommunity
- Website: theworldstightestcommunity.com
- Sign up to the newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/4h4snzzd
- Support the podcast: https://tinyurl.com/mtxnzhsd
Chapters:
00:00:00 Cold Open: Lady Parts Trailer
00:01:29 Welcome, Episode Overview
00:02:58 Bonnie Gross, Four Weeks Post Op
00:04:06 Lady Parts, Comedy Drama, True Story
00:06:31 College, Penetration, Clothes, Sitting
00:07:17 Three Years Searching; Gaslighting at 19
00:10:43 Dr. Amy Stein, Referral to Dr. Goldstein
00:11:14 Cost, Q-Tip Test, Being Believed
00:12:05 Ruling Out Hormonal Vestibulodynia
00:13:33 Surgery on the Table; Capsaicin
00:17:06 Vestibule Clock, 12 O’Clock, Urethra
00:17:46 Nerve Endings Left, Buccal Graft
00:18:49 Endometriosis, Hypermobility Overlap
00:20:09 Denied as Cosmetic, $10,000, No Code
00:21:12 Eighty Percent Relief, Ten to Four
00:22:28 Sponsor: Pelva
00:23:54 Sponsor: Origin
00:25:29 Practical Prep; Sitz Baths
00:27:35 Peri Bottle, Pee Pads With Adhesive
00:28:38 Nightgowns, Robes, Going Commando
00:29:12 Ice Packs, Liquid Meds, Soft Foods
00:30:41 Outpatient Surgery, Going Home
00:32:14 Legs Together, No Sitting, No Shower
00:33:13 Six Weeks in Bed, Needing Full Care
00:34:14 Pain by Phase, 24 Hours to Two Weeks
00:36:47 Mouth Pain, Graft Site, Fast Healing
00:38:12 Walking by Day Two, Itchy Stitches
00:38:52 Tool: Take the Pain Meds
00:39:24 Stitches, Donut Pillow, Back to Work
00:41:41 Clitoral Adhesions, Hood Retraction
00:43:17 Physiotherapy, Scar Tissue, Dilators
00:46:54 Tool: A Chair at the Edge of the Bath
00:48:10 Time Off Work, Desk Jobs, Commuting
00:51:03 Mesh Undies, Ice Packs, Baby Food
00:53:52 Periods in Recovery, Free Bleeding
00:55:19 IUD, No Period Through Surgery
00:56:33 Making Lady Parts, Ten Years
01:00:53 Life Savings, Making the Film, On Set
01:02:01 Festivals, Distribution, Screenings
01:04:57 Where to Watch: Prime, Tubi, Kinema
01:06:12 GoFundMe, Where to Find Bonnie
01:07:20 Outro, Reviews, Supporting the Show
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