Kerry Hudson on how a difficult childhood shaped her as a mother
Happy Mum Happy Baby
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Giovanna is joined this week by the writer Kerry Hudson.
Kerry had a turbulent upbringing marred by poverty. She tells Gi how homelessness and time spent in and out of foster care made her all the more determined to create a sense of stability and comfort for her own son.
Kerry also shares her experience of giving birth in Prague, living life to the full with a chronic illness, plus how parenthood has affected her marriage.
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| 0:04.0 | I really feel like I might be able to be a mother, even though, you know, everything I'd sort of seen and read about being a mother after sort of a difficult childhood was kind of negative. |
| 0:14.0 | You know, a lot of people said, oh, your shadows will come back to you to get you and things like that. |
| 0:18.0 | It was really alien to us because we'd only ever been like super, |
| 0:21.7 | deeply in love for these. Yeah, exactly. We also didn't know how to deal with it. You know, |
| 0:25.5 | that was the other thing. Like we were tackling sort of issues that we'd never really dealt |
| 0:29.6 | with before. Had it already sort of been through the barriers of being like, well, will I be a good mom? |
| 0:35.8 | I think I'll be a good mom, you know? Like other people say I won't, but my friends say it well. |
| 0:39.3 | And then all of a sudden I was just not the mom that I want to be for my little boy. |
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