Always Bring Chocolate

A feature #documentary #film about the US #postpartum care crisis. In post-production, from writer/director @fritchbeetle. #alwaysbringchocdoc

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We are making progress. 🥰🥰

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"I really feel that women, especially in this American culture, have come to internalize a lot of guilt and shame and pressure about trying to be all these things and what that is in reality is the lack of support our society gives."
- Naethra Sreekrishna in @alwaysbringchoc

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Women are talking about what the postpartum journey is like more and more... Can't wait to see this!
https://t.co/Iol9wBMvvg

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HOT TAKE: If men were the ones to stay home with babies, there'd be a lot stronger legislation about parental leave in this country.

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

Funny how he couldn't spend a weekend with his infant but expects her to give up her career and do it.

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I just finished tallying up the numbers for each of my sequences in the new version of the film. The first string-out was 35 hours! You read that right.
My new version is only 15 hours! Major progress! Still a long way to go!

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Coming soon! A brand new baby fundraiser. 😍

[Gillian Fritzsche @fritchbeetle]

Okay… having won awards for my film #ReopeningShortDoc, and having just finished a rewrite of a feature documentary (for a non-struck company), I’m thinking it is time to fundraise to finish my feature doc @alwaysbringchoc! 🫣

#postpartum
#motherhood
#momsinfilm

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Hashtag facts.

[Shannon @ShannonJCurtin]

You do not fully become a parent until you have the moment where you think "I love this child with all of my being, and I absolutely need them to be away from me right now or I am going to walk into sea."

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Great reason!! 😂

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

"why do you support your tax dollars going to subsidized daycare if you don't have kids" because if other people can't afford to have kids the only staff at my nursing home when I'm old will be a pill organizer scotch-taped to a roomba

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We will implode, if we don’t improve things.

[Jena Friedman @JenaFriedman]

I think “postpartum depression” is a convenient label that allows policy makers to skirt responsibility for their role in creating an environment in our country that makes it impossible for new moms to thrive.

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Congratulations, Molly, on all the amazing things you produced. ❤️☺️

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@SahilBloom Experienced enough to share advice! 🙌🏼

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This is some excellent advice from an experienced father. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

When you find out you’re going to have a baby, you get a lot of advice.

Unfortunately, most of it sucks.

Here is the straight talk parenting advice I wish I had received:

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@SahilBloom This actually is some of the best advice we’ve seen and we’ve seen a lot of advice. 👍🏼👍🏼

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@AkanButNoJeezyy

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#FACTS

[Akan thee Doll, Esq. 💜🇳🇬⚖️ @AkanButNoJeezyy]

This entire switch over took me downnnnnnnnn 😂😂😂😂

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Will always share this until it changes.

[Gregor Kalinkat @[email protected] @gkalinkat]

@archivesdork @lildementid @Palle_Hoffstein

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😏

[Meg St-Esprit @MegStEsprit]

Those without babies any longer, remember the vague haze of terribleness where we just groggily would say “Maybe it’s teething?” for months on end because we aren’t allowed to say “Maybe my baby’s just an asshole.”

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🤦🏻‍♀️

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@WFKARS Isn’t that all newborns? 😆

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[Leah Konen @LeahKonen]

I'm getting a lot of reviews about how there is too much breastfeeding and it's not realistic in a book about a woman left alone with a 6-week-old baby, and it's just WILD to me how we as a society still don't realize how time-consuming nursing actually is.