Bron Lewis
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I thought I, again, completely deserved it because I'd made mistakes along the way and this was just my penance.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's normal to feel fury at the people who ask.
I was angry at this doctor, both doctors.
I was, like, taken aback with how frank they were at the time when they actually had to broach the question.
And I was so angry.
But that's exactly the response that they were probably expecting.
Like, of course you're feeling angry because you thought that you were going to get through this beautifully.
Are you disappointed that you weren't as good at this?
When I say good at this, it's not โ I know now โ
It's not about being good at something or bad at something.
It's about how you're handling it and the pedestal that you put yourself on.
And I'm from a long line of like stoic women and my nan and my mum and all of these or my aunties who seemed to me look like motherhood looked so easy.
And none of them ever talked about it.
None of them ever said, oh, that was โ like my mum laughed.
She'd go, God, you were an awful baby.
Oh, my God, you were awful.
I used to put a bit of string around my ankle and the other string on the pram and I would kick the pram down the hallway and then pull you back and kick you down the hallway and pull you back.
And it was just like a funny tale that she told about how hard it was to get me to sleep and how much I cried.
But I reckon if she was honest about that time โ