This story is part of Amy Bell’s Parental Guidance column, which airs on CBC Radio One’s The Early Edition.
Advice on parenting begins the second you find out you’re expecting. From close friends and family to a random stranger on the street, it can be overwhelming.
While some of it is sweet and incredibly well intentioned, some of it is graphic and horrifying.
Take birth stories, for example. The more gruesome they are, the more people seem to want to share them.
Emma Devin, a doula who provides support before, during and after childbirth, cautions that while those stories are true to one person’s experience, it won’t be true for everyone.
“I think it’s really easy to get caught in
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