Mom Wars: Call the Midwife
The Ricochet Superfeed
Ricochet
4.4 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | From the front lines of the mom wars, here's Bethany Mandel and Kara Kennedy. |
| 0:07.7 | Hello and welcome to another episode of your favorite podcast. I am your co-host, Bethany Mandel. |
| 0:15.3 | It's very easy to tell us apart. I am a frequent writer for the Washington Examiner and the New York Post and a mom of six |
| 0:24.2 | who I homeschool them to varying degrees of success. |
| 0:28.8 | And I am joined by my beautiful co-host. |
| 0:31.8 | Nora Kennedy, I am a mom of one and 23 weeks pregnant today, which I feel like is dragging on now. |
| 0:40.4 | I feel like having pregnant my entire life. |
| 0:43.7 | This is the problem with finding out four weeks pregnant, I think I was when I found out that it just feels like it never ends. |
| 0:51.3 | When did you find out that you were pregnant with each one? |
| 0:54.7 | Almost immediately. I don't understand people who are surprised by it. I extremely don't |
| 1:01.0 | understand the people who were like, I had back pain and then I went to the hospital and found |
| 1:05.1 | out I was in labor. I don't understand those people. I have a cousin who supposedly found out five months and we all just think that |
| 1:14.6 | she just didn't want to tell her mom. She was 21. Fair. My mom used to work as a social worker in |
| 1:20.8 | group homes for people with severe mental disabilities. Yeah. She had a client who was like, |
| 1:26.2 | essentially the client was raped because you can't give consent when you have the mind of a five-year-old. |
| 1:33.0 | And my mom almost actually lost her job because that happened to her. |
| 1:38.5 | She went to the hospital with back pain and found out she was pregnant. |
| 1:40.9 | But like that was some of like severe mental disabilities. |
| 1:44.5 | So I can see it on that front. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.3 | But my mom almost lost her job because she didn't know that this woman that was in her care was |
| 1:51.7 | pregnant and she was on like a lot of medication, the entire pregnancy and did not turn out |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ricochet, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Ricochet and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

