Eva Wiseman calls for empathy classes for long-standing friends during pregnancy
When you’re pregnant you’re encouraged to go to NCT classes to prepare for childbirth and becoming a parent. I propose an NCT-adjacent class, for the friends of pregnant people, to prepare them, too. I mean, it would be fun. I promise, we’d not make it not fun. There’d be crisps, for example. This manifesto-worthy idea came to me yesterday, as I sat glumly with myself and wondered why the idea of Peanut – the new Tinder-like app for finding other “mum friends” – brought with it a heavy feeling of personal doom.
It makes sense. The app makes total, solid definitely-can’t-fault-it sense. “I felt quite isolated,” the founder, Michelle Kennedy explained. “When it’s 2am and your baby has been up for an hour, there are very few people who understand how scary and lonely that can be, but a mama who is on Peanut at the same time, she gets it.” The free app matches mothers with similar interests – users can choose from “Fitness Fiend,” “Wine Time” and “Music is my Medicine”, which I am dying to take the piss out of but I won’t. Even though I’m dying to. I won’t.
May 28, 2017 at 10:14AM
from Eva Wiseman
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