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The Making (and Unmaking) of Mothers After Midnight

by Lucy Wolfe and Ellen Wolfe

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We've made it to the last episode of Season 1! To celebrate we recorded a question and answer episode with your very own questions. If you would like to be featured on the next series of The Making (And Unmaking) of Mothers After…
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About the show

This is a podcast that explores honest and real experiences with sleep. The good, the not so good, the idealised, and the actual. Exposing the unseen emotional and embodied labour of care, when women work the night shift. Hosted by child and adolescent sleep consultant Lucy Wolfe, MA Psych RM and PhD researcher, co-hosted by Ellen Wolfe.