Christiana
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A good dad.
A good dad.
A good dad.
A good dad.
Okay. For someone who wants to be an active and present father, in the current capitalist framework we have, where your work is on your phone, your email, you can't escape it. It's very tough. After work, drinks, socializing. Now they're like, return to the office. They don't want us to work from home, right? So you're away from your family all day.
Okay. For someone who wants to be an active and present father, in the current capitalist framework we have, where your work is on your phone, your email, you can't escape it. It's very tough. After work, drinks, socializing. Now they're like, return to the office. They don't want us to work from home, right? So you're away from your family all day.
If you're a man that wants to see your kids and be present, it's bad for you as well. But I think with, and it's an argument, a conversation me and Lewis have a lot, The woman, you take on the actual physical brunt of the pregnancy. The emotional, physical labor, the hormones. It's feeling like you're being invaded. I find pregnancy very disembodying. I'm not one of these women.
If you're a man that wants to see your kids and be present, it's bad for you as well. But I think with, and it's an argument, a conversation me and Lewis have a lot, The woman, you take on the actual physical brunt of the pregnancy. The emotional, physical labor, the hormones. It's feeling like you're being invaded. I find pregnancy very disembodying. I'm not one of these women.
I had the most beautiful time in my life. I was close. I feel like shit. Like, I don't enjoy it. And I've had really... I've had rough pregnancies. I've had... My last birth was my favourite birth. I felt really powerful. I knew what I wanted. Like, I felt very confident. That's amazing. Yeah, and it was just, like, I'd done it a lot of times before to be, like, listened to and postpartum was...
I had the most beautiful time in my life. I was close. I feel like shit. Like, I don't enjoy it. And I've had really... I've had rough pregnancies. I've had... My last birth was my favourite birth. I felt really powerful. I knew what I wanted. Like, I felt very confident. That's amazing. Yeah, and it was just, like, I'd done it a lot of times before to be, like, listened to and postpartum was...
I couldn't even really dwell on it because I have two other children. But for a lot of women, it's this earthquake and you're constantly feeling aftershocks. And whatever decision you make, whether you decide to stay at home with your children or also work as well, you don't have the support for the most part.
I couldn't even really dwell on it because I have two other children. But for a lot of women, it's this earthquake and you're constantly feeling aftershocks. And whatever decision you make, whether you decide to stay at home with your children or also work as well, you don't have the support for the most part.
I find my friends that are stay-at-home mums, they live really isolating existences and they do work that's not respected financially.
I find my friends that are stay-at-home mums, they live really isolating existences and they do work that's not respected financially.
You've seen it up close multiple times now.
You've seen it up close multiple times now.
I call it witching hour.
I call it witching hour.