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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Perpetual Lockdown
Don't Mention the War
Pets Aren't People!
Brief Encounters
The Great Conjunction
Reflections on My Mother's Kenwood Mixer
The Pro-Mask Movement
What's the Magic Number?
Conspiracy Theories and a Good Hair Cut
Having the 'Wrong' Politics
Thinking Otherwise
A Fine Line
Tolerance: the Unfashionable Virtue
The End of Progress?
Gender in the Blender
The Big Benefits of Smallness
A Hazy Shade of Winter
Legacy Bottle Opener
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