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MY PANDEMIC PREGNANCY

After a traumatic first birth experience, Sam Herbst had high hopes for her second. She assumed that she’d be a lot more prepared, armed with knowledge and fully aware of what she was heading into. Until Covid-19 hit. Here is her story about being pregnant in a pandemic.

Joining a new genre of ‘mum noir’ is Audrey Audain’s The Push, which tells the story of Blythe Connor – a mother with a harrowing past of emotional abuse handed down over three generations of mother/daughter units.

TGE Book ClubSamantha HerbstJanuary 29, 2021motherhood, parenting, parenthood, children, television, author, weekend readComment

MOTHERHOOD and its humanising effect

I decided to kick off The Great Equalizer’s blog posts with a wake up call... My own wake up call. Isn’t that what parenting really is? Getting kicked upside the head when you even start to think that you’ve got your shit together? Getting the rug pulled out from under you the second you let yourself get the slightest bit smug?