TGMS #021 Birth Stories from Abroad with Lisa Ferland
Birth stories are so much fun, and today we get to hear from Lisa Ferland, the editor of two anthologies of birth and parenting stories, Knocked Up Abroad and Knocked Up Abroad Again (currently available on Kickstarter ). Lisa is a US citizen who has lived abroad in Sweden since 2012, working as a writer, editor, publisher, and public health consultant. She is currently raising a Lego lover and a Pippi Longstocking fanatic who enjoy behaving like Swedish children with the added bonus of American Thanksgiving holidays.
Today Lisa and I talk about her experience of giving birth and parenting in Sweden. She shares her amazing birth story, and how she got the idea to edit an anthology of birth stories from expat moms around the world. She and her contributors are in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign for the Knocked Up Abroad Again book, which runs until October 17, 2016. The book shares stories from 26 mothers around the world who talk about birthing and parenting in different cultures.
Links from the episode:
Knocked Up Abroad book
How Much Do Parents Matter?, the Atlantic
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Would you like to share your own birth story? Whether at home or abroad, birth stories connect us. We’d love to hear your story, and you can share it in two ways:
- Head over to The Global Moms Network and post a picture or story of something that happened during your birth experience.
- Call in and leave a voicemail with a birth story that might be featured on a special epsiode of The Global Mom Show. Call 657-GO-GLOBE (this is a US number).
- If you have a story under 90 seconds long, you can leave it as a voicemail on this page. Just click the “Send Voicemail” button on the right side of your screen and record!
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