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🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Making a Mother is a collection of raw, honest stories about some of the complex circumstances and unthinkable challenges women face in the pursuit of motherhood. These stories speak to the physical scars left on our bodies, as well as the emotional scars left on our hearts. Featuring universal themes of loss and redemption, broken dreams and resilience, deep heartache and unwavering love—each episode showcases one woman’s unique story of courage, hope, and tenacity.
Making a Mother will be released in January of 2025. If getting a peek into these stories moves you the way it moves us, we’d love for you to be part of our Making a Mother podcast launch team.
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0:00.0 | I thought about being a mom, like starting when I was probably like 10. |
0:05.5 | I expected you meet somebody pretty young and you get married. |
0:10.8 | I always knew I wanted to be a mother. |
0:13.3 | It's probably from growing up in a big family. |
0:15.6 | I've had a long list of baby names. |
0:18.6 | I mean, probably since high school. |
0:22.3 | Remember that nursery rhyme? |
0:23.8 | First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage. |
0:28.3 | As little girls, a lot of us grew up thinking we'd have kids someday and it would be that |
0:32.7 | simple. |
0:34.1 | But what happens when becoming a mother turns out to be far more complicated than we expected? |
0:41.1 | Should I have taken this test or drank this tea or paid for this supplement or extra acupuncture? |
0:49.3 | It just went down the list of guilt. |
0:51.7 | You didn't do it right. |
0:53.3 | There's a reason why your body isn't working. |
0:56.8 | I felt really upset and really shocked and surprised because I just didn't expect to hear that. |
1:06.7 | I never expected it. It could just be because you're a black woman. I definitely had a lot of nightmares and they were almost always either like trying to |
1:15.6 | get away from somebody and I couldn't or trying to scream for help and I couldn't. |
1:20.6 | I was a mess. I was homeless. I had no family, no friends. |
1:25.6 | I had just found out I was pregnant. I was assaulted a few months before that on the street. It was hard and it was, I mean, even sitting here today thinking back, I still can't believe I survived. |
1:43.2 | What would you be willing to endure to become a mother? |
1:47.6 | Expect that circumstances are going to be beyond your control, |
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