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A Point of View: Motherland

07/05/2021

Motherland

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Zoe Strimpel on crossing the rubicon into motherhood.

Zoe Strimpel ponders the glories of modern obstetrics and crossing the rubicon into motherhood.

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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