TRIGGER WARNING - this episode includes an honest conversation about miscarriage and pregnancy loss, in case that's a hard topic for you to hear right now. Listen with care.
"It took me about six months to really bond with them."
Dr Anita Mitra is a gynaecologist, cancer surgeon, and the voice behind Gynae Geek… and is here on Dear Mum being honest about something almost nobody admits to out loud.
Anita and I go back years, long before either of us had kids, and this conversation covers a lot: meeting her husband on labour ward mid-emergency, self-scanning herself pregnant with twins in an empty ward on a bank holiday, and the miscarriage she went through before them — including being asked, the same weekend, whether she was still able to come in for an on-call shift.
We talk honestly about not feeling the instant "rush of love" everyone promises you'll feel, the intrusive questions people ask twin parents, and why "no is a complete sentence" might be the best piece of advice we've had on this show yet.
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