“I don’t think there’s enough recognition –still to this day–around how difficult the role of parenting is, how messy it is. There’s no clean delineation between work and parenting, it all mushes in together, it’s all consuming and it’s never ending.”
“I had ginormous maternalcravings, to the point where I look back now & think‘what was that’? I had that feeling for a long time.”
“The hardest thing I struggled with was that once I had children, my time wasn’t my own anymore.”
“As a parent to a child with a disability you really have to become an advocate and I didn’t really know what that meant, but it just means putting your foot down. I’m ruthless when it comes to Arlo.”
“Many of us need to get better at [rituals of] self care because being a parent is a massive, massive task & we underestimate that.”
“When I first had a baby I thought… ‘have I totally fucked my life up?'”
