Mothering
This morning I met a woman in playgroup who had just been offered a ten episode series shooting in the USA. She was in shock still, (on cloud nine she said) wildly sending emails on an ipad, calling people on the phone and attending to a baby. She was trying to find a TV agent to broker a deal before she was set to start filming in two weeks time. There was a slightly jarring air about her. She has peroxide hair in a spunky updo, a kind of sports lux peaches geldolf vibe. Which turned out to be appropriate as she had recently become the attachment parenting pundit for daytime TV, as peaches had once been and is also a hypnobirther. She told me that she would be interviewing people about their birthing experiences, and challenging and questioning choices as well as celebrating them. She feels women shouldn't be having birthing experiences which result in so much trauma. I don't have strong opinions about birthing or parenting and adhere to no formula so was happy to ask questi...