Motherhood: Stories about becoming a mom
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In honor of Mother’s Day, this week we’re sharing stories about the journey to becoming a mom.
Part 1: Discouraged by the medical approach to pregnancy, Julia Whitehouse decides to have a home birth.
Part 2: When Nessa Goldman splits with her husband, her dream of having children by age 35 is in jeopardy.
Julia Whitehouse is a writer and comedian and mother and daughter. She has written for New Yorker Daily Shouts, McSweeney’s, Splitsider, Mutha Magazine, and POPSUGAR. She hosts Manhattan’s longest running weekly storytelling open mic at The Duplex every Monday at 7 pm. She enjoys figuring out how to build things without looking up tutorials but will always look up a recipe before deciding whether or not to follow it.
Nessa Goldman is a middle school math and science teacher in Sequim, Washington. She grew up in Toronto, Canada, but prefers small towns closer to the ocean and mountains. She relocated to the Pacific Northwest as soon as she graduated college and now lives at the doorstep of the Olympic National Park. The wilderness is her church and she often spends the weekends hiking and surfing. When the sun goes down, she is the host of a bi-monthly local storytelling event, the Out Loud Story Slam. Her stories have been shared on the Risk! Podcast and Story Night. You can find her online at www.outloudstoryslam.com.
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| 0:44.9 | Because science was on my side. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about |
| 0:58.8 | science. I'm your host, Misha Gayevsky, and this week, in honor of Mother's Day, our stories |
| 1:03.6 | are all about becoming a mom. Now, I'm not a mom except to a cat, but let's be real that doesn't count. |
| 1:12.1 | And I'm not sure if I ever want to be a mom because it seems like a really tough gig. |
| 1:17.4 | It doesn't seem to pay well or have good working hours, if I'm honest. |
| 1:22.3 | But I have to say, I've always been fascinated by the process of becoming a mom. |
| 1:27.1 | It is kind of magical, just from like a biological perspective. |
| 1:32.7 | The way your body changes and shifts to accommodate this new life is wild. |
| 1:38.1 | I mean, your blood volume doubles, your organs shift and grow, |
| 1:42.2 | and while your high school sex ed teacher might have said differently, |
| 1:45.8 | just getting pregnant is actually pretty hard. |
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