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This week I’ve been listening to Giovanna Fletcher’s podcast Happy Mum Happy Baby each episode is about an hour and it’s just a very down-to-earth conversation with public people who are also parents. I really liked the recent episode with Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain. You can watch the YouTube video of it here
I LOVE Amy Schumer’s real postpartum picture on Instagram
Last week I mentioned the Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary RBG. This Atlantic article by a stay-at-home Dad who worked for RBG gives well-researched and hard-earned insight into how far we have yet to go for gender parity in the postpartum years.
A little more from RBG in this Atlantic animation
Back on the topic of podcasts, I love The Longest Shortest Time. Hilary Frank was interviewed on NPR a while back and one of the things she said really resonated for me
“I felt like I had one identity — and it was mom, and that was it. And I had never been a mom before, and I just felt really empty. I felt like a shell of myself. I just I felt like my only reason for existing was keeping this other little person alive. And I loved her — I wanted her I wanted her to thrive — but I just felt like everything else had disappeared.” - Hilary frank
