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Elena Bridgers is a mother of two, science writer and researcher with a focus on maternal health and well-being, examined through the lens of evolutionary mismatch.

Her personal journey of finding motherhood challenging after choosing to have two-under-two and going through extreme sleep deprivation led her to ask why this is so hard. How did our ancestors do this?

While Elena is a big fan of Michaeleen Doucleff, author of "Hunt, Gather, Parent," she points out that Michaeleen's focus is on parenting strategies whereas Elena examines the social context in which our ancestors mothered.

In this episode we discuss, from a hunter-gatherer evolutionary perspective:

interpregnancy intervals
breastfeeding as birth control
weaning from nursing
tandem feeding
the tradwife movement and having very large families
Bedsharing vs. sleep training
Alloparenting, "free" childcare, and the nuance with daycare

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#81: Learning from Women in Hunter-Gatherer Societies with Elena Bridgers