About this episode

Alex Bollen discusses the pressures mothers face and challenges common motherhood myths.

Alex Bollen is a researcher, writer and postnatal practitioner. She was previously a director at the research agency Ipsos MORI and is now self-employed. She qualified as a Postnatal Practitioner with the NCT and has been running groups for new mothers for more than a decade. Her book Motherdom: Breaking Free from Bad Science and Good Mother Myths was published by Verso in 2025. The Washington Post described Motherdom as “a thorough investigation into the intense pressures mothers face” and TheNew Yorker praised the book for being “irascible, informative.” www.matrescence.uk

Topics covered

• motherhood
• postnatal care
• parenting myths
• research
• women's health

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