“He is dangerous. There’s no way he can go out. No way.” Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, tells @emmabarnett she believes her father Dominique Pelicot – convicted for drugging and raping Gisèle for over a decade – should ‘die in prison’. Today Programme | Listen on BBC Sounds
This interview drops tomorrow. It isn’t maternity leave. Not really. It’s service. Maternity Service. Somehow I realised this during the fog of my second tour of duty, that I had fought tooth and nail to experience. And I was weirdly elated. Elated to a) have had an original thought through the sleep deprivation, the love bomb that is our daughter and the relentless abnegation of self. And b) to have snatched the time between naps, feeding, cleaning, doctor visits, nappies and school pick-ups to explore this thought. And write my account of maternity service – live – as it was happening. The result is a book I am really proud (and still rather amazed) exists and lands on shelves on March 13. I have read so many powerful books about motherhood and parenting – esp as host of the mighty @bbcwomanshour – but never one expressly on maternity leave and what actually goes down in this love wilderness: mentally, physically and practically. Maternity service, unlike leave, also never ends. And this framing really helps me dig deep to this day with my mothering of a two and seven year old girl and boy. In the book I also share stories I have already forgotten or unwittingly erased from that period – having already happily let the rose-tinted glasses descend. More to come and to be discussed. But I would bloody love you to pick up a copy via the pre order #linkinbio and to hear your take. Genuinely. Or when it drops next month from your local bookshop if you have one. Rest assured- it’s deliberately short but packs a punch. Here are some parts of the book extract in the @sundaytimesmagazine @thetimes exclusively tomorrow. Big thanks to The Sunday Times for putting maternity leave on the front page. ✍🏼 @laurafpullman 📸 @saneseven 💄 @emmasleon 👖 @kate_barbour #maternity #maternityleave #maternityservice #idea #holdthefrontpage #sundaypaper #sunday #sundaytimes #newbook #bookstagram #preorder #women #newmum #motherhood
This interview drops tomorrow. It isn’t maternity leave. Not really. It’s service. Maternity Service. Somehow I realised this during the fog of my second tour of duty, that I had fought tooth and nail to experience. And I was weirdly elated. Elated to a) have had an original thought through the sleep deprivation, the love bomb that is our daughter and the relentless abnegation of self. And b) to have snatched the time between naps, feeding, cleaning, doctor visits, nappies and school pick-ups to explore this thought. And write my account of maternity service – live – as it was happening. The result is a book I am really proud (and still rather amazed) exists and lands on shelves on March 13. I have read so many powerful books about motherhood and parenting – esp as host of the mighty @bbcwomanshour – but never one expressly on maternity leave and what actually goes down in this love wilderness: mentally, physically and practically. Maternity service, unlike leave, also never ends. And this framing really helps me dig deep to this day with my mothering of a two and seven year old girl and boy. In the book I also share stories I have already forgotten or unwittingly erased from that period – having already happily let the rose-tinted glasses descend. More to come and to be discussed. But I would bloody love you to pick up a copy via the pre order #linkinbio and to hear your take. Genuinely. Or when it drops next month from your local bookshop if you have one. Rest assured- it’s deliberately short but packs a punch. Here are some parts of the book extract in the @sundaytimesmagazine @thetimes exclusively tomorrow. Big thanks to The Sunday Times for putting maternity leave on the front page. ✍🏼 @laurafpullman 📸 @saneseven 💄 @emmasleon 👖 @kate_barbour #maternity #maternityleave #maternityservice #idea #holdthefrontpage #sundaypaper #sunday #sundaytimes #newbook #bookstagram #preorder #women #newmum #motherhood
This interview drops tomorrow. It isn’t maternity leave. Not really. It’s service. Maternity Service. Somehow I realised this during the fog of my second tour of duty, that I had fought tooth and nail to experience. And I was weirdly elated. Elated to a) have had an original thought through the sleep deprivation, the love bomb that is our daughter and the relentless abnegation of self. And b) to have snatched the time between naps, feeding, cleaning, doctor visits, nappies and school pick-ups to explore this thought. And write my account of maternity service – live – as it was happening. The result is a book I am really proud (and still rather amazed) exists and lands on shelves on March 13. I have read so many powerful books about motherhood and parenting – esp as host of the mighty @bbcwomanshour – but never one expressly on maternity leave and what actually goes down in this love wilderness: mentally, physically and practically. Maternity service, unlike leave, also never ends. And this framing really helps me dig deep to this day with my mothering of a two and seven year old girl and boy. In the book I also share stories I have already forgotten or unwittingly erased from that period – having already happily let the rose-tinted glasses descend. More to come and to be discussed. But I would bloody love you to pick up a copy via the pre order #linkinbio and to hear your take. Genuinely. Or when it drops next month from your local bookshop if you have one. Rest assured- it’s deliberately short but packs a punch. Here are some parts of the book extract in the @sundaytimesmagazine @thetimes exclusively tomorrow. Big thanks to The Sunday Times for putting maternity leave on the front page. ✍🏼 @laurafpullman 📸 @saneseven 💄 @emmasleon 👖 @kate_barbour #maternity #maternityleave #maternityservice #idea #holdthefrontpage #sundaypaper #sunday #sundaytimes #newbook #bookstagram #preorder #women #newmum #motherhood
This interview drops tomorrow. It isn’t maternity leave. Not really. It’s service. Maternity Service. Somehow I realised this during the fog of my second tour of duty, that I had fought tooth and nail to experience. And I was weirdly elated. Elated to a) have had an original thought through the sleep deprivation, the love bomb that is our daughter and the relentless abnegation of self. And b) to have snatched the time between naps, feeding, cleaning, doctor visits, nappies and school pick-ups to explore this thought. And write my account of maternity service – live – as it was happening. The result is a book I am really proud (and still rather amazed) exists and lands on shelves on March 13. I have read so many powerful books about motherhood and parenting – esp as host of the mighty @bbcwomanshour – but never one expressly on maternity leave and what actually goes down in this love wilderness: mentally, physically and practically. Maternity service, unlike leave, also never ends. And this framing really helps me dig deep to this day with my mothering of a two and seven year old girl and boy. In the book I also share stories I have already forgotten or unwittingly erased from that period – having already happily let the rose-tinted glasses descend. More to come and to be discussed. But I would bloody love you to pick up a copy via the pre order #linkinbio and to hear your take. Genuinely. Or when it drops next month from your local bookshop if you have one. Rest assured- it’s deliberately short but packs a punch. Here are some parts of the book extract in the @sundaytimesmagazine @thetimes exclusively tomorrow. Big thanks to The Sunday Times for putting maternity leave on the front page. ✍🏼 @laurafpullman 📸 @saneseven 💄 @emmasleon 👖 @kate_barbour #maternity #maternityleave #maternityservice #idea #holdthefrontpage #sundaypaper #sunday #sundaytimes #newbook #bookstagram #preorder #women #newmum #motherhood
This interview drops tomorrow. It isn’t maternity leave. Not really. It’s service. Maternity Service. Somehow I realised this during the fog of my second tour of duty, that I had fought tooth and nail to experience. And I was weirdly elated. Elated to a) have had an original thought through the sleep deprivation, the love bomb that is our daughter and the relentless abnegation of self. And b) to have snatched the time between naps, feeding, cleaning, doctor visits, nappies and school pick-ups to explore this thought. And write my account of maternity service – live – as it was happening. The result is a book I am really proud (and still rather amazed) exists and lands on shelves on March 13. I have read so many powerful books about motherhood and parenting – esp as host of the mighty @bbcwomanshour – but never one expressly on maternity leave and what actually goes down in this love wilderness: mentally, physically and practically. Maternity service, unlike leave, also never ends. And this framing really helps me dig deep to this day with my mothering of a two and seven year old girl and boy. In the book I also share stories I have already forgotten or unwittingly erased from that period – having already happily let the rose-tinted glasses descend. More to come and to be discussed. But I would bloody love you to pick up a copy via the pre order #linkinbio and to hear your take. Genuinely. Or when it drops next month from your local bookshop if you have one. Rest assured- it’s deliberately short but packs a punch. Here are some parts of the book extract in the @sundaytimesmagazine @thetimes exclusively tomorrow. Big thanks to The Sunday Times for putting maternity leave on the front page. ✍🏼 @laurafpullman 📸 @saneseven 💄 @emmasleon 👖 @kate_barbour #maternity #maternityleave #maternityservice #idea #holdthefrontpage #sundaypaper #sunday #sundaytimes #newbook #bookstagram #preorder #women #newmum #motherhood
This interview drops tomorrow. It isn’t maternity leave. Not really. It’s service. Maternity Service. Somehow I realised this during the fog of my second tour of duty, that I had fought tooth and nail to experience. And I was weirdly elated. Elated to a) have had an original thought through the sleep deprivation, the love bomb that is our daughter and the relentless abnegation of self. And b) to have snatched the time between naps, feeding, cleaning, doctor visits, nappies and school pick-ups to explore this thought. And write my account of maternity service – live – as it was happening. The result is a book I am really proud (and still rather amazed) exists and lands on shelves on March 13. I have read so many powerful books about motherhood and parenting – esp as host of the mighty @bbcwomanshour – but never one expressly on maternity leave and what actually goes down in this love wilderness: mentally, physically and practically. Maternity service, unlike leave, also never ends. And this framing really helps me dig deep to this day with my mothering of a two and seven year old girl and boy. In the book I also share stories I have already forgotten or unwittingly erased from that period – having already happily let the rose-tinted glasses descend. More to come and to be discussed. But I would bloody love you to pick up a copy via the pre order #linkinbio and to hear your take. Genuinely. Or when it drops next month from your local bookshop if you have one. Rest assured- it’s deliberately short but packs a punch. Here are some parts of the book extract in the @sundaytimesmagazine @thetimes exclusively tomorrow. Big thanks to The Sunday Times for putting maternity leave on the front page. ✍🏼 @laurafpullman 📸 @saneseven 💄 @emmasleon 👖 @kate_barbour #maternity #maternityleave #maternityservice #idea #holdthefrontpage #sundaypaper #sunday #sundaytimes #newbook #bookstagram #preorder #women #newmum #motherhood
Ahead of starting my new job presenting the @bbctodayprogramme this Wednesday – I sat down Alice Thomson of @thetimes and we talked and talked. I’d love you to read the full piece – out tomorrow in print on the cover of the @thetimesmagazine and online today. Pain; politics; why I typically can’t make friends with those I interview; my need for playlists and a desire to go fishing – it’s all in there. And some. Drops tomorrow in print and online today. Huge thanks to: ⭐️ the mag queen @nicola_jeal for having me grace her glossy pages ⭐️ @hannahlouiserogers for finding a banging gold sparkly trouser suit ⭐️ @dankennedyphoto for the magical photography experience and atmosphere (and an awesome playlist) ⭐️ @juliawrenmakeup for the epic make-up skillz ⭐️ @johanjohn_ for the biggest blow dry – barnet skillz #mag #newjob #interview #journalism #letsgo #covergirl
Ahead of starting my new job presenting the @bbctodayprogramme this Wednesday – I sat down Alice Thomson of @thetimes and we talked and talked. I’d love you to read the full piece – out tomorrow in print on the cover of the @thetimesmagazine and online today. Pain; politics; why I typically can’t make friends with those I interview; my need for playlists and a desire to go fishing – it’s all in there. And some. Drops tomorrow in print and online today. Huge thanks to: ⭐️ the mag queen @nicola_jeal for having me grace her glossy pages ⭐️ @hannahlouiserogers for finding a banging gold sparkly trouser suit ⭐️ @dankennedyphoto for the magical photography experience and atmosphere (and an awesome playlist) ⭐️ @juliawrenmakeup for the epic make-up skillz ⭐️ @johanjohn_ for the biggest blow dry – barnet skillz #mag #newjob #interview #journalism #letsgo #covergirl
Ahead of starting my new job presenting the @bbctodayprogramme this Wednesday – I sat down Alice Thomson of @thetimes and we talked and talked. I’d love you to read the full piece – out tomorrow in print on the cover of the @thetimesmagazine and online today. Pain; politics; why I typically can’t make friends with those I interview; my need for playlists and a desire to go fishing – it’s all in there. And some. Drops tomorrow in print and online today. Huge thanks to: ⭐️ the mag queen @nicola_jeal for having me grace her glossy pages ⭐️ @hannahlouiserogers for finding a banging gold sparkly trouser suit ⭐️ @dankennedyphoto for the magical photography experience and atmosphere (and an awesome playlist) ⭐️ @juliawrenmakeup for the epic make-up skillz ⭐️ @johanjohn_ for the biggest blow dry – barnet skillz #mag #newjob #interview #journalism #letsgo #covergirl
Bye Manchester. Always have my ♥️ Until the next time… And to the person who decorated our Emmeline… 💪 What a night and what an audience at @mcrlitfest in the stunning Central Library. And thank you katefeld for your lovely interviewing of me. #deedsnotwords 🐝 #manchester #manc #women #emmelinepankhurst
Should maternity leave be renamed maternity service instead? That’s what broadcaster and journalist Emma Barnett thinks. She told us why maternity leave isn’t working.
All the fives… 5 years since I last stepped into a @bbc5live studio in Salford – my broadcasting home for 5 years. It felt bloody wonderful to be back with the mighty @bbc5live listeners and with the wonderful @skysarahjane for her first show standing in for brilliant @tvnaga All the feels. Nostalgia for a different time is dizzying isn’t it? Going back into the office I found myself missing a lot of great people I loved making a daily three hour programme with – but also revelling in the memories while making a brew in the very familiar kitchen (still kitted out with the same lethal instant hissing boiling hot water tap) before going on air to talk all things #maternityservice It was when I was hosting my 5live programme I actually went off on my first tour of loving duty – so it felt particularly appropriate to come back and talk about my observations from my second and final maternity service. The vibe outside the studio as the programme is made live and guests booked on the fly – is the same and it felt really special to go back in. Thank you for having me and congrats to Sarah bossing her first shift 💪 🖐️ to @bbc5live #bbc5live #oldjob #nostalgia #memories #liveradio #radio
All the fives… 5 years since I last stepped into a @bbc5live studio in Salford – my broadcasting home for 5 years. It felt bloody wonderful to be back with the mighty @bbc5live listeners and with the wonderful @skysarahjane for her first show standing in for brilliant @tvnaga All the feels. Nostalgia for a different time is dizzying isn’t it? Going back into the office I found myself missing a lot of great people I loved making a daily three hour programme with – but also revelling in the memories while making a brew in the very familiar kitchen (still kitted out with the same lethal instant hissing boiling hot water tap) before going on air to talk all things #maternityservice It was when I was hosting my 5live programme I actually went off on my first tour of loving duty – so it felt particularly appropriate to come back and talk about my observations from my second and final maternity service. The vibe outside the studio as the programme is made live and guests booked on the fly – is the same and it felt really special to go back in. Thank you for having me and congrats to Sarah bossing her first shift 💪 🖐️ to @bbc5live #bbc5live #oldjob #nostalgia #memories #liveradio #radio
All the fives… 5 years since I last stepped into a @bbc5live studio in Salford – my broadcasting home for 5 years. It felt bloody wonderful to be back with the mighty @bbc5live listeners and with the wonderful @skysarahjane for her first show standing in for brilliant @tvnaga All the feels. Nostalgia for a different time is dizzying isn’t it? Going back into the office I found myself missing a lot of great people I loved making a daily three hour programme with – but also revelling in the memories while making a brew in the very familiar kitchen (still kitted out with the same lethal instant hissing boiling hot water tap) before going on air to talk all things #maternityservice It was when I was hosting my 5live programme I actually went off on my first tour of loving duty – so it felt particularly appropriate to come back and talk about my observations from my second and final maternity service. The vibe outside the studio as the programme is made live and guests booked on the fly – is the same and it felt really special to go back in. Thank you for having me and congrats to Sarah bossing her first shift 💪 🖐️ to @bbc5live #bbc5live #oldjob #nostalgia #memories #liveradio #radio
“I look forward to making this my nightly read, and appreciate the thoughtful present..” BOOK FOUND! We love hearing from book finders, and this one is so special! This person found a copy of Emma Barnett’s Maternity Service at the perfect time. See the second pic for the most lovely message, which the finder was happy for us to share 🥰 About the book: When Emma Barnett began her second maternity leave, she realized that, despite having been there before, as soon as her first leave finished the rose-tinted lenses had descended and she immediately forgot what the experience was actually like when you’re in it. This collective forgetting, which leads to well-meaning comments such as ‘enjoy every minute’ and ‘treasure this special time’, is doing a disservice to women, leaving them unprepared for the more complicated reality of what it means to be on maternity service. In this warmly reassuring, refreshingly honest book, Emma sets out to capture this reality, in real time while on her latest tour of duty. She isn’t offering advice on sleep-training or weaning or helping your baby reach milestones. Instead, this book is a celebration and acknowledgement of the work of being on maternity leave, with its soaring highs and challenging lows, and its impact on how women feel about our purpose and ourselves. #iBelieveinBookFairies #TBFMaternity #TBFPenguin #MaternityServiceBook #EmmaBarnett #MaternityLeave #MaternityService #Journalist #StartingAFamily #Pregnancy #HavingABaby #BreastFeedingFriendly #BookFound #Baby #BabyBook #NewBaby
“I look forward to making this my nightly read, and appreciate the thoughtful present..” BOOK FOUND! We love hearing from book finders, and this one is so special! This person found a copy of Emma Barnett’s Maternity Service at the perfect time. See the second pic for the most lovely message, which the finder was happy for us to share 🥰 About the book: When Emma Barnett began her second maternity leave, she realized that, despite having been there before, as soon as her first leave finished the rose-tinted lenses had descended and she immediately forgot what the experience was actually like when you’re in it. This collective forgetting, which leads to well-meaning comments such as ‘enjoy every minute’ and ‘treasure this special time’, is doing a disservice to women, leaving them unprepared for the more complicated reality of what it means to be on maternity service. In this warmly reassuring, refreshingly honest book, Emma sets out to capture this reality, in real time while on her latest tour of duty. She isn’t offering advice on sleep-training or weaning or helping your baby reach milestones. Instead, this book is a celebration and acknowledgement of the work of being on maternity leave, with its soaring highs and challenging lows, and its impact on how women feel about our purpose and ourselves. #iBelieveinBookFairies #TBFMaternity #TBFPenguin #MaternityServiceBook #EmmaBarnett #MaternityLeave #MaternityService #Journalist #StartingAFamily #Pregnancy #HavingABaby #BreastFeedingFriendly #BookFound #Baby #BabyBook #NewBaby
I never knew you could eat more than one tangerine in one day! …a snippet from this week’s newsletter, Trying. Would love you to join me over on @substack for longer writing and thoughts…
I never knew you could eat more than one tangerine in one day! …a snippet from this week’s newsletter, Trying. Would love you to join me over on @substack for longer writing and thoughts…
I never knew you could eat more than one tangerine in one day! …a snippet from this week’s newsletter, Trying. Would love you to join me over on @substack for longer writing and thoughts…
Day. Made. Truly. You have an idea. You try to share it in the best way possible. Then it goes out into the world – free. From you and of you. Then a total stranger called Isabella writes this to you. And you know it was the right call. Big love to you and your mamma crew. Do the thing. ♥️ ❤️ ♥️ Thank you 🙏 #maternityservice – the book and the reframe – out now. 💪
“I remember waving off my partner [going to work], standing at the door, feeling like it was World War II in my body… and that was the first time we were really in a different space to one another.” Award-winning journalist and broadcaster @emmabarnett recalls the moment her partner returned to work after two weeks of paternity leave following the birth of her second child on this week’s Netmums Podcast. Who can relate? BBC Radio 4 presenter and author Emma swaps the interview chair for the hot seat as our guest to talk about the pressures of parenting, the idea of a picture-perfect motherhood and the realities of maternity leave. From navigating IVF to balancing work and family life, Emma shares her refreshingly honest take on what she thinks, it really means to be a mum and why she believes maternity leave should be rebranded ‘maternity service’. Discover more on this in her new book Maternity Service, out now. 🔗 Listen now via netmums.com, Apple podcasts, Spotify and other streamers. And while you’re there, catch up on all other previous episodes. #NetmumsPodcast #MotherhoodUnfiltered #ParentingJourney
I love this. Made by one of our @colouryourstreets colouring crew – it genuinely makes me smile seeing how differently we all colour in and create… the magenta squiggles for the sky would never have occurred to me. That’s how it looks in Carlisle right? 😜 never been but must! @helenskelton – loved meeting you this week- yours is in the post 😘 Check out our full range to find you or your mum’s perfect book- more than 150 titles… we are busy mapping! #colour #colouring #colouringbook #carlisle #mothersday #ideas #colouryourstreets #books
Can you guess what it is? There is a clue in the post… #newrelease #newrelease2025 #colouring #colouringbook
