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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Misopedia
Leaving the Ivory Tower
The Right Side of History
Etonian Lives Matter... but not as much as they used to.
On Rapid Home Delivery
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The Sea at Christmas
A Sense of Home
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
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More Questions Than Answers
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The Child Question
The Eve of Destruction
Car Hatred
Two Small Scandals
Not in My Movie
Talking about Integration
In Praise of Mathematics
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