‘We need to talk about what motherhood does to women’
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Zoe Blaskey, author of Motherkind, didn’t realise that she was unprepared for the huge psychological and physiological changes that motherhood brought. Now she’s spreading the word to other mothers. But why are we still not talking about this?
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Guests: Zoe Blaskey, author of the book 'Motherkind' and host of the podcast 'Motherkind'
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Olivia Case and Taryn Seigel.
Clips: Peanut and Motherkind, Motherkind podcast.
Episode artwork: Getty Images
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| 1:15.0 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I lived in London at the time and |
| 1:26.2 | I was walking down the road where I lived in London at the time and it was the first time that I'd been out for a coffee. It was like a half an hour coffee. My baby was probably |
| 1:30.2 | three weeks old. It's the first time I'd gone out without her and whilst |
| 1:36.6 | everyone around me and everything around me looked the same, I felt completely |
| 1:42.3 | different. |
| 1:46.0 | And because I felt so different against a narrative of what I was told which would happen, which was that I'd be my old self, nothing would change, |
| 1:55.7 | I would bounce back, I would just be me with a baby on my hip this time. |
| 2:00.3 | Because I felt so different and no one was talking about that I decided that I was failing. |
| 2:06.4 | I think for any mother, any parent, any human that is just the most heartbreaking feeling and thought to have. |
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