Zoe Strimpel reflects on the extraordinary experience of ‘crossing the rubicon separating non-motherhood from matrescence’.
‘I had never quite put aside an abiding ambivalence about having a baby, even during pregnancy,’ writes Zoe.
But in the space of thirty minutes - and the delivery of a baby girl by C-section - Zoe says, ‘my hop over the long-tended, long-contemplated border with motherland rapidly resolved as her tiny features came into focus and a sense of interestingness became a sense of desperate affection and even of familiarity.’
Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Liam Morrey Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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The Myth of Inevitability
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September Anxiety
On Ghost Cities
Nature Red in Tooth and Claw
Against Theory
To the Bathroom!
The Vultures of Culture
Leaving Florence
British Populism and Brexit
The Language of Leaving
My People
Distributing Status
A Knight in Shining Armour?
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