Becoming a Parent
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
NEWS FLASH: Becoming a parent changes your life! Who knew?
The day you or your partner finds out they are pregnant - everything changes!
And it might just change your attitude towards drinking too...for better and for worse!
In Vic and Hamish - you have two people who took opposite paths.
(Oh, and in case you hadn't figured it out yet - you also get the opinion of a Mum and a Dad!)
In today's episode you will hear how becoming a parent affected both of their drinking and they will share some tips on how to maintain your sobriety during this rollercoaster period of your life.
You know that no parenting situation is made easier by having a drink but for many of us it is not as simple as that. Just look at the effects of Mummy drinking culture (and Dads are certainly not any better!).
NEWS FLASH (AGAIN!): Being hungover and having a baby screaming and pooing on you is pretty rubbish.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The cattle's boiled, Vic. |
| 0:03.0 | Great, perfect timing. Just a dash of milk for me, please, mate. |
| 0:08.0 | Here you go. Should we get started then? |
| 0:16.0 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and said, I'm never drinking again, |
| 0:21.4 | and then found yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour? |
| 0:25.1 | Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one, |
| 0:27.8 | while you head to a dodgy after-party with a weird bloke called Disco Dave? |
| 0:31.6 | If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship with your reliable social crutch, alcohol. |
| 0:38.1 | On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze |
| 0:42.2 | and find out if it's possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit |
| 0:45.4 | before things get too messy. |
| 0:47.5 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories |
| 0:51.1 | to help you understand why waking up from a booze coma each weekend with a |
| 0:54.9 | kebab sticking out of your top pocket might actually be negatively impacting your health. |
| 0:59.9 | Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober, an unwanted warts and all look |
| 1:05.3 | into why giving up those cheeky pints or putting down those mummy wines will make you feel happier, |
| 1:12.0 | help your anxiety and mental health, and turn you into the most sparkly authentic version of you. |
| 1:16.5 | Won't that mean I become boring though, Vic? |
| 1:18.3 | Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. |
| 1:20.9 | I'm Victoria Vanstone. |
| 1:22.5 | I'm Hamish Adams Cairns. |
| 1:24.1 | And this is Sober Awkward. |
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