Hey everyone, hi, hello, it is me, Allison Rosen. Welcome to another episode of Allison Rosen, as your new best friend.

I am sitting here with Sarah Popolardo and Beth Newell of the website, Dr. Es and also the new book, How to Win at Feminism, the Definitive Guide to Having It All and then some welcome.

Thank you. Thanks for having us.

So how's it going? You guys are in your freshly in LA. Yes. You live in New York. You're here doing some book readings and book signings. Yes.

And just to orient ourselves, the election just happened. It's all very fresh. Yeah, we literally flew here like the morning after getting the news. So it's very, very fresh. Yes.

Yeah, I was a while you were in the restroom. I was talking to Sarah. And by the way, I keep wanting to reverse your names. So if I do that, I'm sorry. It's okay. We're kind of the same, but also different. We'll respond to anything.

Okay. I was talking to Sarah about what that felt like to be getting on a plane the next morning, because I just wanted to stay in bed, even though actually actually had that like all knowing. I don't know what to do with this feeling.

So I actually ran errands and went out and tried to see people. So I guess I'm lying when I say I just wanted to stay in bed. It was just a weird day. I'll say that.

Yeah, I mean, like the closest thing that I could think I was waking up after like a breakup that just happened or somebody died that you really love. Yes. That's how it felt to me. It felt like that feeling of grief. And then waking up and like, oh, this is still true. Right. This is the reality still. Yeah.

So I must ask as someone who is super pregnant, I found out that you had your baby in a car. Yes. And you tweeted about it. And I think people took you.

You tweeted that you had your baby in the Honda in a Honda fit, right? And you made a mess. And can you get a new car? And people took you seriously. But the true part was that you actually had your baby in the Honda.

Yeah. So I did have my baby in the back seat of a Honda fit. And it was my sister's car, which we were driving because our car was like deemed undrivable by its inspection that week. And we were like, fuck, we need a new car. We don't have the money for those babies coming.

So we're driving around my sister's car. And yeah, I mean, underestimated the strength of contractions and got in the car and the baby came out five minutes down the road.

So me like trying to have a sense of humor about the whole thing, which we were just sort of still in a state of shock. I like tweeted from the hospital room, just like, hey, Honda, I made a mess in the back seat of this car. Can I get a new one?

Yeah.

And the rest is history. So are you thinking of having a car baby as well?

I recommend it. I highly recommend it. Yeah. What position were you in?

So I was in the back seat, like facing out the towards the trunk, like with my hands on the headrests on my knees. And my doula was with us. So it wasn't really as scary as you might think, because I had someone there to like sort of be the expert.

And it was your second kid. Yeah, it was my second kid. And she was just sort of like, okay, get in this position. It'll be more comfortable to ride to the hospital this way.

Did you just pull over? Yeah, I mean, I what happened was my doula showed up. We were going to go to the hospital and like literally as she was walking in the door.

And we knew we were going to like leave for the hospital that second anyway, but like I was just walking the door my water broke. And we were like, oh, fuck, this might be like further along when we thought, I don't know, we didn't really think about it, because we're like, well, we're already going to the hospital. Let's just get going.

So I'm like walking out apparently like the water breaking was like maybe one of the last things that was like holding the baby. And then I like walking to the car. And I think that really like shimmyed her down into my body.

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