Ash London

I was like, I don't want to be on maternity leave because I don't know what kind of mother I'm going to be.

I don't know what kind of child I'm going to have.

I don't know if I'm going to want to go back to work or not.

And I'm a real people pleaser.

And I didn't want to let people down.

And I didn't want the expectation.

I didn't want to.

have the baby and then go, okay, I've got six months and I'm going to need to be ready to work again.

So I literally was like, I'll, I'll end my show and my radio contract and I'll have this baby and then I'll see what happens.

So it was a love letter to radio, my favourite thing in the world.

And it was like a way for me to feel like the creativity, which still so much existed in me had somewhere to go.

Otherwise I would have gone crazy.

So yeah, I did like a,

a podcast about being a new mother.

And I wrote this book.

And luckily for me, I had a very easy child.

So if anyone is listening and they are in the depths of their own postpartum experience or they're remembering their postpartum experience and thinking I could never have done that, I got very lucky with a very easy baby.

And I have many close friends who opening the door and breathing fresh air was a huge achievement for their day.

So I want to just acknowledge that.

Yeah.