Family: If It Takes A Village, Where’s Mine?

08/18/20 • 27 min

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Motherhood doesn’t only change your relationship with yourself. It can also change your connections with those around you. Sometimes it brings you closer. At other times, you might wish you could get just a bit more space.

On this episode of Me After You, Laura speaks to Maria Paz Hartado, who, after moving to Australia from Chile, had to abandon any notion of the familiar when it came to giving birth the Aussie way. Truan Terrance, whose in-laws saved her life when her husband was away for weeks as a FIFO worker. And journalist Narelda Jacobs on how her dad was right there by her side helping her raise her daughter Jade while she studied and worked.

We share stories about women’s experiences with their own families, and the support networks they did or didn’t have when they became mothers.

CREDITS
Host: Laura Byrne @ladyandacat

Executive Producer: Elise Cooper @elisejcooper

Producer and Editor: Lama Zakharia

Head of Audio: Bridget Northeast

Thanks to all the mums who featured in this episode, for sharing their stories to make all mums feel like they’re not alone

Narelda Jacobs- @nareldajacobs
Veronica Milsom- @veronicamilsom
Emilyeen Filardi
Teresa Palmer- @teresapalmer
Maria Paz Hartado
Truan Terrance

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If you're expecting, a new mum, or wrangling a toddler, we have all the best resources for new parents in our free newsletter here.

We share stories about women’s experiences with their own families, and the support networks they did or didn’t have when they became mothers.

CREDITS
Host: Laura Byrne @ladyandacat

Executive Producer: Elise Cooper @elisejcooper

Producer and Editor: Lama Zakharia

Head of Audio: Bridget Northeast

Thanks to all the mums who featured in this episode, for sharing their stories to make all mums feel like they’re not alone

Narelda Jacobs- @nareldajacobs
Veronica Milsom- @veronicamilsom
Emilyeen Filardi
Teresa Palmer- @teresapalmer
Maria Paz Hartado
Truan Terrance

Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Previous Episode

Work: Nine To Five Just Became 24/7

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When you become a mum, every career choice suddenly comes under scrutiny.

All of a sudden, it can feel like you owe everyone an explanation for why you’re a stay at home mum, or still in love with your job, or just slogging it out, trying to make ends meet. Like lots of things in motherhood, it seems there’s no right way to do it.

In this episode, we dive deep on motherhood and careers.

You’ll hear from journalist Narelda Jacobs about how her career in TV news made her want to hug her daughter so much tighter. From comedian Veronica Milsom, who has just left her drive time radio gig to give birth to her second child. From disability activist Stephanie Thompson about how her whole career had to shift after childbirth. And many more.

CREDITS
Host: Laura Byrne @ladyandacat

Executive Producer: Elise Cooper @elisejcooper

Producer and Editor: Lama Zakharia

Head of Audio: Bridget Northeast

Thanks to all the mums who featured in this episode, for sharing their stories to make all mums feel like they’re not alone

Teresa Palmer- @teresapalmer
Grace Bell
Narelda Jacobs- @nareldajacobs
Veronica Milsom- @veronicamilsom
Truan Terrance
Stephanie Thompson- @bravemumma and a link to her book, The Day My Vagina Broke... https://www.amazon.com.au/Day-My-Vagina-Broke-childbirth-ebook/dp/B0813YLG4X
Emilyeen Filardi

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Next Episode

Home: A Battleground And Safe Haven

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Home after you become a parent is more than four walls and a roof. It’s a battleground, and a safe haven. It’s a never ending pile of washing, it’s memories, and it’s tantrums.

On today’s episode of Me After You, you’ll be hearing from Emilyeen Filardi, a self proclaimed “clean freak” who’s on the hunt for a house that’s a bit more family-friendly, Laura Jackal who lived with a housemate after having her first baby, Ashe Davenport who finds it super helpful to embrace and meditate in mess, and many other mums who share what home life means to them.

So what does home actually mean to new parents? And how do you get past the mess to find the joy? On this episode of Me After You, we find out.

CREDITS
Host: Laura Byrne @ladyandacat

Executive Producer: Elise Cooper @elisejcooper

Producer and Editor: Lama Zakharia

Head of Audio: Bridget Northeast

Thanks to all the mums who featured in this episode, for sharing their stories to make all mums feel like they’re not alone

Truan Terrance
Teresa Palmer- @teresapalmer
Melanie Dimmitt, book Special: Antidotes to Obsessions That Come With A Child’s Disability https://bit.ly/melaniedimmittbook
Emilyeen Filardi
Laura Jackel
Grace Bell
Ashe Davenport- Author of "Sad Mum Lady" https://www.booktopia.com.au/sad-mum-lady-ashe-davenport/book/9781760877637.html

Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/

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