<p>Welcome to the second series of Am I Nuts. This is the seventh episode in a series of ten weekly podcasts from us at the Women’s Running podcast. I am your host Esther Newman, and she is your other host Holly Taylor.</p><p> </p><p>In this series, we wanted to explore some of the things that we’ve talked about on our big podcast – that’s the Women’s Running podcast – that don’t necessarily have anything to do with running. Hol and I are natural born worriers, and we’ve realized that in almost every episode, we talk about at least one of those worries – and we also realized that with many of them, we’ve thought we were the only ones. We thought we were nuts.</p><p><br></p><h2>Having kids</h2><p><strong>Trigger warning: in this episode we discuss pregnancy and miscarriage.</strong></p><p>In this episode we want to find out if we’re nuts to worry about having kids. There’s a lot of huge topics here; so many we think we could do a whole series on this. There’s a lot to unpack and worry about: the societal (and familial) pressure to have kids at a certain age, the concerns and struggles with fertility, the question of how to tell people you have chosen not to have kids, the conversations about miscarriage, and the prejudice around fertility, motherhood and women in general.</p><br><p>If you have thoughts on this, or any other subject we’ve talked about this series , then please email us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[email protected]</a></p><p> </p><p>-----</p><p> </p><p>Thank you so much for listening. Do please like and subscribe, so that you’ll be first to know when the next episode in this special series drops</p><p>Am I Nuts has been brought to you by the Women’s Running podcast – do please check it out wherever you listen to your podcasts for longer episodes to keep you company while you run. And if running is your thing, or you’d like it to be your thing, check out Women’s Running magazine – right now you can save up to 50% off the cover price. Just go to <a href="https://shop.womensrunning.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">shop.womensrunning.co.uk</a> to find out more.</p><p> </p><h2>Helpful links</h2><p><a href="https://www.tommys.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tommy’s</a> – the pregnancy and baby charity</p><p><a href="https://www.nct.org.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NCT</a> – the UK’s leading charity for parents</p><p><a href="https://maternityaction.org.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Maternity Action</a> – the UK’s maternity rights charity</p><p>The <a href="https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pregnancy page</a> on the NHS website</p><p><a href="https://maternalmentalhealthalliance.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Maternal Mental Health Alliance</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gingerbread.org.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gingerbread</a> – the single parent charity</p><p> </p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
