In this episode, Nishma chats with Amee Shukla Kotecha, about training as a nurse to becoming a midwife, pregnancy, and giving birth. We also touch on the era of growing up in an extended family to the modern-day family structure and how motherhood is different for her compared to how it was for her mother.

All the key topics will be timestamped in the description so feel free to jump around.

Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:39 - Amee & Nishma reminisce on their childhood. 05:00 - Amee talks about what it's like to be a midwife but not have a child of her own. 8:36 - The full story of Amee's not so ordinary pregnancy, labour and aftercare. 23:57 - Are birth plans still a thing ? 31:45 - The trauma of Breastfeeding (& postnatal depression) 40:00 - The moment Amee realised she was a mom! 46:00 - Amee's parenting vs how she was brought up. 58:47 - Amee's 3 golden nuggets