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Thank you. Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.

I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.

And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor.

And today we're talking about pregnancy and motherhood.

Our guest is Angela Garbus, staff writer for Seattle Newsweekly The Stranger, and the author

of the book, Like a Mother, a feminist journey through the science and culture of pregnancy.

Angela was a food writer who, during her pregnancy, wrote a story about these astonishing

facts about breast milk, stuff no one knows. And after her story went viral, she asked

herself, what else don't I know about pregnancy and early motherhood? And that kind of led her

down this rabbit hole, which we are going to discuss today.

Well, that sounds very exciting.

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