Episode 49: Harriet Gibsone

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Kat Rulach

Kids & Family, Arts, Music, Parenting

4.8 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Harriet Gibsone is a freelance journalist and mum of a much-longed-for one year old. She recently interviewed my mum and I for a lovely Guardian feature called Flashback. But even before that meeting I liked her immensely as I had come across an incredible article she wrote about her journey to becoming a mum. At 31 and newly married, Harriet started suffering the symptoms of the menopause and, as soon as she was diagnosed with POI, she was on a race against time to try and have a baby. We talk about the confusing and dramatic symptoms that took her to the doctor originally, and how she went all-out to have a baby with the help of her sister, before having her son through an egg donor.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to
0:09.6	to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work.
0:14.1	I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years,
0:20.2	so I spin a few plates myself.
0:22.4	Being a mother can be the most amazing thing,
0:24.9	but can also be hard to find time for yourself
0:26.9	and your own ambitions.
0:28.4	I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything.
0:32.0	Welcome to spinning plates.
0:36.2	Hello, darlings. I speak to you from in the streets of Aberdeen I am here for a gig tonight with
0:46.0	steps just come from two nights in Manchester which is really fun the gig last night was wicked
0:51.9	loved it and I'm on my own doing the thing I like to do
0:57.9	where I Google the nearest or the best vintage shops in town and use that as a way to like
1:06.2	get me at the hotel and walking around. So I've been out now for about an hour, I think, maybe an hour and a half.
1:12.7	Putling about.
1:14.6	It's a very handsome place, actually, Aberdeen.
1:16.7	I like it.
1:18.3	And, yeah, bought myself a nice little turquoise 60s-esque frock.
1:24.7	And, oh, a small chance I'm walking in the wrong direction when I'm talking to you.
1:29.3	I'm going to look at my map while we speak.
1:31.3	Let's see. Where is she?
1:35.3	That wasn't me talking about myself in the next third person.
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