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When Hillary Frank was pregnant, she tried to imagine what childbirth would be like. And since she didn't really have anything to go on, she figured it would be a lot like her mom's experience. Natrual, no drugs. Painful, but the pushing would be a relief. Turned out, Hillary's labor and childbirth was much more complicated than her mother's and she couldn't help feeling envious of her her mom for having the childbirth that she'd hoped for. But once Hillary sits down to talk to her mom about this, she finds that her mom's experience wasn't as dreamy as she'd imagined.
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When Hillary Frank was pregnant, she tried to imagine what childbirth would be like. And since she didn't really have anything to go on, she figured it would be a lot like her mom's experience. Natrual, no drugs. Painful, but the pushing would be a relief. Turned out, Hillary's labor and childbirth was much more complicated than her mother's and she couldn't help feeling envious of her her mom for having the childbirth that she'd hoped for. But once Hillary sits down to talk to her mom about this, she finds that her mom's experience wasn't as dreamy as she'd imagined.
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When radio producer Hillary Frank was pregnant and she tried to imagine what childbirth would be like, she imagined it would be something like her own mother's experience. Natural, no drugs. Painful, but the pushing would be a relief. But for Hillary, things went much differently--her labor was long and complicated and it was hard for her not to feel envious of her mother for having the childbirth that she'd hoped for. As part of her podcast, The Longest Shortest Time, Hillary sat down and talked about her own birth with her mom, and found pretty quickly that her mom's experience wasn't as dreamy as she'd imagined.
OUTRO:That was Hillary Frank and her mom, Leona Frank. Hillary is a writer and radio producer--this interview was produced as a part of her project, The Longest Shortest Time. To hear more stories about struggles in early parenthood, go to longestshortesttime.com.
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| Parking Lot | The Batteries Duo | Les Amusements. | 2010 | 05:02 |
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