"I Thought I Was Going to Die" with Meaghan O'Connell
Tell Me I'm a Good Mom with Lo Bosworth NataleShow Notes
The day after I had the baby, I fainted in my hospital room. Blood pressure skyrocketing, doctors running in, a brain aneurysm fear I couldn't shake, a day-old baby at the foot of the bed. I was convinced that was how my story ended.
It wasn't. And it turns out most new moms have some version of this story. Nobody warns us.
This week I sit down with writer Meaghan O'Connell, author of And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready, the book that started telling the truth about new motherhood a decade before the rest of us were ready to hear it. We get into the C-section I elected, the C-section shelf nobody warned me about, the fear of leaving your baby that you don't tell anyone about, and the identity shift that is not about your kid even though everyone assumes it is.
It's honest. It's specific. It's not light. You will recognize parts of yourself in it.
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