We Need to Catch Up, I’m a Mum Now!?

from The Weird Years · host Lydia Vornweg

If you told me a year ago that I would be releasing this episode, I would have been shooketh...But wow can things change. Really fast and really dramatically. And now my big becoming era is being shaped by a new reality of motherhood. I was very unsure about the choice to have a child, I was very scared about how it was going to shape me and maybe you're feeling the same if this is something you're considering. So I'm going to lay it all bare, the good, the bad and the weird. In this weirdly personal episode I get into:✨ How my birth plan got derailed ✨ The c-section experience ✨ Sharing a ward with a schizophrenic mother in psychosis ✨ How weirdly magical breastfeeding is ✨  The REAL partner test ✨ The inevitable identity shift coming my way If you’ve been circling the idea of motherhood, wondering what it really does to you, not just physically, but to your identity, your control, your relationship, your sense of self - then this one is for you 🤍Stick it on and go for your hot girl/guy walk.Follow the show on your favourite platforms:Instagram - ⁠@theweirdyearspodcast ⁠Tiktok - ⁠@theweirdyears⁠

What this episode covers

If you told me a year ago that I would be releasing this episode, I would have been shooketh...But wow can things change. Really fast and really dramatically. And now my big becoming era is being shaped by a new reality of motherhood. I was very unsure about the choice to have a child, I was very scared about how it was going to shape me and maybe you're feeling the same if this is something you're considering. So I'm going to lay it all bare, the good, the bad and the weird. In this weirdly personal episode I get into:✨ How my birth plan got derailed ✨ The c-section experience ✨ Sharing a ward with a schizophrenic mother in psychosis ✨ How weirdly magical breastfeeding is ✨ The REAL partner test ✨ The inevitable identity shift coming my way If you’ve been circling the idea of motherhood, wondering what it really does to you, not just physically, but to your identity, your control, your relationship, your sense of self - then this one is for you 🤍Stick it on and go for your hot girl/guy walk.Follow the show on your favourite platforms:Instagram - ⁠@theweirdyearspodcast ⁠Tiktok - ⁠@theweirdyears⁠