Hello, I'm currently out of office.

An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.

So, I've gone to Barbados for a month for science.

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Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker.

This is your Quicky, your podcasting bit on the side with me, Anna White House.

And me, Polly Hazelwood.

There she is.

Now, I put a post out on Instagram a couple of weeks ago that really resonated.

It was from maternal health expert, Dr. Oscar Serralak.

Dr. Oscar Serallac.

And it was basically anchored on the fact that it takes 10 years to mentally and physically recover from pregnancy and birth. So I always used to think, you know, at the end of

maternity leave, right, up and atom, keep going, you're recovered, a year is all you need.

I don't think I ever looked into really

how long it does take to recover. And it hit me that my daughter's six, my youngest is six and

my oldest is 10. So I'm only just coming through, you know, the trauma of birth, let's say

physical trauma. I'm not just saying mental trauma. The physical trauma of

birth with my eldest, and I've got four more years of recovery left with my youngest. Now,

the reason I wanted to talk about this is because both Polly and I, in the last, I'd say,

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