Yumi Stynes
speaker
1,797 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Yumi Stynes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Ladies, We Need To Talk · "I wish I'd never had them": the pain of regretting kids · 17 Aug 2026
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Hannah got married to her high school sweetheart and they had two babies when she was in her early 20s.
She didn't feel like she actively chose motherhood.
It was just what you did.
Being at home with two kids under two while her husband worked was overwhelming.
I was drowning.
Parenting very young kids is a demanding mix of profound hectic responsibility and unending boredom and drudgery.
Hannah was not thriving and was stuck in survival mode.
As much as I was not
Going from being in the driver's seat of her own life to feeling like a maid, wet nurse, and being at the constant beck and call to two small children came as a complete shock to Hannah.
She always worked a lot, two to three jobs at a time.
She loved gardening.
She was a runner and bike rider.
When you become a parent, you
Do you think that your experience of being a parent as a mum is very different from the experience of parenting as a dad?
And it's total bullshit.
You don't.
How did you feel that that was as a setup for not just you but for women at large?
I think it's just
When Hannah sees photos of herself from that time when her kids were babies, she's smiling at the camera.
But behind that smile was an overwhelmed mum, feeling desperately unqualified and who was starting to regret her decision to be a mother.
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