Eat Sleep Repeat

A Mother’s Day comment from the Minister for Women lit up every group chat in Australia: are we really being told the earlier our babies go into childcare, the better?
Kee and Lize unpack the guilt, the impossible maths, the daycare scramble, and the quiet truth so many parents are living with - childcare isn’t the problem, but having no real choice is. Because “just go back to work” hits differently when the village is expensive, waitlisted, or doesn’t exist.

LINKS TO EVERYTHING WE MENTIONED
Our Kids Our Choice: Expand the CCS
Parents Work Collective - Give Parents One Year
HOSTS & PRODUCERS
Kee Reece Searles @keereece
Lize Ratliff @lizaratliff
AUDIO PRODUCTION
Madeline Joannou - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mylk Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠
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Kee is joined by Lize Ratliff while Kelly is living her best life in Paris, and this episode has the full motherhood spectrum: the tiny sentence that makes you feel like you might actually be doing something right… and the 6am meltdown that brings you straight back to earth.
Because motherhood can be a beautiful birthday moment one minute, and grapes in the wrong bowl the next.

LINKS TO EVERYTHING WE MENTIONED
Flik Flak Switch Watch for Kids
Holme Beauty Base Primer
Secrets of The Bees - Disney+
HOSTS & PRODUCERS
Kee Reece Searles @keereece
Lize Ratliff @lizaratliff
AUDIO PRODUCTION
Madeline Joannou - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mylk Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠
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Mother’s Day sounds simple enough… until it isn’t.
This week, Kee and Kelly get into the joy, grief, pressure and weird expectations wrapped up in one very loaded Sunday. From wanting to be celebrated, to complicated relationships with mums, to the small moments that can make the day feel beautiful, brutal, or both.

LINKS TO EVERYTHING WE MENTIONED
A History of Mother’s Day
An Ode to “Other Mothers” - Kee Reece
HOSTS & PRODUCERS
Kelly McCarren ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@kelly_mccarren⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Kee Reece Searles @keereece
AUDIO PRODUCTION
Madeline Joannou - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mylk Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠
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A chaotic work week, a Facebook Marketplace find of dreams, and a cat emergency that made Kelly look like she’d fled a crime scene - just a regular week really.

LINKS TO EVERYTHING WE MENTIONED
Maison Balzac The Everything Bottle
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
HOSTS & PRODUCERS
Kelly McCarren ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@kelly_mccarren⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Kee Reece Searles @keereece
AUDIO PRODUCTION
Madeline Joannou - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mylk Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠
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There’s a word for the strange, disorienting shift that happens when you become a mum and realise you’re not quite the same person anymore: matrescence.
In this episode, Kee and Kelly unpack the science behind how motherhood changes the brain, and hear from the shitters about what changed for them too: bodies, friendships, work, confidence, rage, softness, identity, and the sudden inability to hear a story about a child without crying.

LINKS TO EVERYTHING WE MENTIONED
Make Matrescence Mainstream
It’s hard to describe what it feels like to become a mum, but it has a name: matrescence
Pregnant women's brains shed grey matter to prime them for motherhood, study suggests
HOSTS & PRODUCERS
Kelly McCarren ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@kelly_mccarren⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Kee Reece Searles @keereece
AUDIO PRODUCTION
Madeline Joannou - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mylk Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠
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