motherhood

Are modern women being put under increasing pressure to be “perfect” mothers? And is this pressure to the detriment not only of women’s individual mental health, but also to the detriment of the second sex’s relatively recent strides for equality?

The person who's saying there should be a cap: 61-year-old Susan Tollefson, a.k.a. "Britain’s oldest mother." In 2008, Tollefson underwent IVF treatment at a Russian clinic. Using an egg from a donor and her partner’s sperm, she went on to become pregnant at the very ripe old age of 57 and gave birth to a healthy daughter, Freya.

A great househusband, much like a reliable wireless connection, may be a modern necessity for workingwomen the world round.

Once, during a radio show promotion for our children’s book The Mischievous Mom At The Art Gallery, me and my co-author Erica Ehm were asked “What do you think is the depth of despair?”

In two months, I will compete in my first triathlon. Flashback eight months: I am a thirty-five-year-old mother of four children, ages nine through two, and after a decade of pregnancies, night feedings, and strolling around town at a toddler's pace, I have only recently started exercising regularly: at a hot yoga studio, two to three times a week.