Mommy Heroes

In this episode we discuss: Her children and her experience with their surrogate pregnancies The trust needed to have someone else carry your children in their womb Being invited at both of the births of her children How the surrogate mothers also pumped their breastmilk for her children and what it took to get it on a regular basis The vision her husband had of their two children even before they knew how they would come The interviewing of her children and what they told her about what makes a good parent How her children hoped for her engagement with them and freedom to be themselves How she provides a rich environment for her kids, to have a “playground" where they don’t have to be afraid of messing it up The under-scheduling of her kids to have the unrushed, openness of time Her daughter’s statement “punishment is not going to work for me” at age 4 The recent experience of her daughter being thrown from a horse and how it changed Paddy's life for the better What it did for her to have this “horrific” ex