Zoe Pickburn (she/her)

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[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

✨hello✨

I'm a freelance writer & NCTJ-qualified journo, writing features, articles & essays, mostly on lifestyle topics like parenting, food, domesticity & wellness (& the ways those topics intersect with gender equity)

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[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

@hellobasak Is this in the atomic laundry book or something else? Happy to have a look through if you want?

[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

New story for @thisisinsider

https://t.co/4Yt9mjNj04

[Başak @hellobasak]

Atomic Laundry System featured on Apartment Therapy!

Obviously the model in the picture is not me 😅 but the system has been explained very well. Thanks @ZoePickburn

https://t.co/GwAqHNbfIg

[Rebecca Reid @RebeccaCNReid]

The fact that anyone can look at this study and think that it's because breastfed babies are smarter, rather than because people from a higher socio-economic background are more likely to breastfeed, is honestly fucking insane. https://t.co/IjMYK1Xpdx

[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

I know very few mums of pre-school kids who either aren't in any paid work at all OR are employed full-time.

Would love opinions!

What do the phrases stay-at-home-mum and working-mum mean in 2023? Have the lines blurred, or has it always been like this and I only just noticed?

[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

Answers on a postcard, please:

How do you define a stay-at-home-mum?

I used to think you either had a working mum or a stay-home mum but there are so many options in between!

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[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

>>I joked the other day about being a stay-home mum, even though I do paid work!

I work part-time & flexibly and I can rely on my husband and my mum to take my daughter when I need to get things done, so she isn't in nursery.

Does that make me a stay-home mum?

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[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

@RebeccaCNReid Have you tried dictation? Sometimes I go for a walk and just chat away my thoughts about whatever I need to write into my phone and some of that can be the start of a first draft!

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@G_AdrianaUrbano @hellolanemoore Yes! It's so bad.

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@shannonrmoyer Thank you!

[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

American friends! What do you call computer lessons at school? We had IT (Information Technology) but I'm struggling to find out what you call it (for a story)

[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

Lol @ me thinking I would get any work done when my husband was supposed to be watching the baby this morning

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Parents! Quick show of hands (for a story) if you have an ai voice assistant (Alexa, Google Home, etc.) - do you know what parental controls are available for your device?

[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

@J_owennuttall So sorry to hear that, it sounds really hard. Mine is 10 months old and I've been p much fine until now - this feels the same as non-pp depressive periods I've had before, so unsure whether it's ppd or not (or if there's even a definitive difference)

[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

Serious question: what's the difference between ppd and non-pp depression? Is it just that ppd starts in the year after birth and also you literally can't take time out to heal and recover?

[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

@irisgoldsztajn I'm a couple of years older than you and I've noticed this a lot recently! Also lip fillers.

[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

@KatrinaCliffe Woahhh that's wild! Chocolate?!

[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

I just had my daughter's ten-month check up and i need you to tell me the most unhinged thing a health visitor has told you

[Zoe Pickburn (she/her) @ZoePickburn]

@AndreaBarlien Woahhhh that's awful! Yeah doctors fo like to tell mothers that they don't know their own children. So glad they changed it eventually!