The real highs and lows of motherhood don’t always get sufficient airtime—even in the pages of top parenting books and the chattiest mommy-and-me groups. Things like postpartum sexual awakenings, the loneliness of spending your days babbling to a diaper-clad human, or fantasies of a solo, Bluey-free vacation. For Amrit Tietz and Lauren Levinger, a New York City-based DJ (Tietz) and former creative director living in L.A. (Levinger), these were the “I wish I’d known” moments. The isolating aspects of motherhood that society deems too messy, strange, or unfiltered for open discussion.
While many moms are left to explore these feelings in anxiety-fueled late-night Reddit rabbit holes, anonymous posts on parenting forums, or by stumbling through them firsthand, Tietz and Levinger imagined a place where parents could find conversations on the good, bad, and yeah, ugly parts of parenting.
