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I mean, it really was. And so you write that after she was born, you were not immediately in love with her. Hope Stein, collaborated on his new memoir, contributing her side of the story through poems interspersed through the book.
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Like, I think - I don't know a better way to put that. You were so thrilled to be pregnant, but you had - in your second trimester, you had a bleeding placenta, which at first you thought was a miscarriage. It seems so obvious to me now, but I really wasn't really connected to my body. Let's get back to my interview with comic, actor, director and contributor to "This American Life," Mike Birbiglia, author of the new memoir "The New One: Painfully True Stories From A Reluctant Dad." It was just kind of like, let's get married; this is kind of fun. Like, she'll do a five-minute monologue to me about dinosaurs, facts about dinosaurs that I do not know and monologues about rocks and insects. So we really feel it, her not being in school. Hope Michelle Stein, age 40, Flourtown, PA 19031 View Full Report Known Locations: Flourtown PA, 19031, Fort Washington PA 19034, Independence KS 67301 Possible Relatives: Berta V Stein, Deena B Stein, Dena F Stein
This is this person who I love and trust and who I'm going to spend the rest of my life with, and this is really what she wants to do, and I know she'd be a great mom.
And then we just had our anniversary. He - it seemed like he was so bound, he was so restricted in this way that I just didn't want to be.And at one point, I said to Joe, what's it like having a kid?
And it was a dilemma.But then just to come full circle, it's so funny.
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So describe what you had to do to protect the baby from your sleepwalking.BIRBIGLIA: This is something that Jen and I (laughter) spent a lot of time gaming out because, yeah, my last book, "Sleepwalk With Me," I talk about how I sleepwalked through - to be clear to the listeners - through a second-story window of a La Quinta Inn in Walla Walla, Wash., almost 15 years ago. And then, you know, he was shooting a film. Now that I have the upper hand, I've really taken over.GROSS: Let me reintroduce you both.
Yes. And Mike hadn't really caught up to the sort of basics of how to sort of raise a baby, you know? I think Jen can speak to this better than I can, but I feel like the first and second trimester were so challenging. Age.
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Sign-in to download and listen to this audiobook today! But it was - I definitely - it occurred to me. So I knew he didn't want to. It didn't fall apart.His wife Jen Stein, who writes under the name J. I have these capabilities that I didn't even know I had. "After months of conversation, Birbiglia's outlook began to shift: "I just felt like, well, [Jen] is my life partner.
We really appreciate it.GROSS: Mike Birbiglia's new memoir, "The New One," includes poems by his wife, Jen Stein, who writes under the name J. "I felt like [parenthood] was the kind of challenge that we were ready for," she says. But, you know, and what the poem's about, too, is just, like, the closeness I was starting to feel with the unborn child because I was so day-to-day. Hope Stein.So it's interesting. It was a scary moment in my life. She publishes under the name J. Hope Stein. So during the day, he was gone all day.And so I feel like, in those months, Oona and I, you know, got very close. But we really did have, like, a bonding period in the third trimester, but - where I feel like, in some ways - Jen's pointed this out before - in some ways, we were as close in that third trimester as we've ever been. We just sort of were living this beautiful life, and I felt like Mike would be this amazing dad.
So, Jen, what changed your mind and made you think you did want to become a mother?STEIN: I don't know if I can put that into words. You know, you had cancer when you were 19. And then he said, I'm not worried about you 'cause if you have a kid, it's not going to be better or worse; it's just going to be new.