Baby Bonding, ASMR, Eimear McBride, BMX Freestyle

Some mums may take a while to bond with their baby after they're born. This can be for a variety of reasons and is in fact very common among new mothers. Journalist and writer Natasha Lunn decided to write about her experience of not falling in love with her daughter immediately. She joins Andrea along with Dr Karen Bateson, head of clinical strategy and development from the Parent Infant Foundation, to discuss the reasons why bonding may take a while for some women - and why that's very normal Coined in 2010, ASMR - or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response - is a relaxing, often sedative sensation that begins on the scalp and moves down the body. It's grown massively in the last few years, and particularly during lockdown. What is the appeal behind this internet sensation? And why do female voices perform particularly well? Dr Giulia Poerio is a lecturer at the department of psychology at the University of Essex. Sharon Shares is an ASMR artist from California. Eimear McBride burst onto the literary stage with her first novel, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, which won both the Women’s prize for fiction and the Goldsmith’s prize. Two more celebrated novels followed and she has now written her first non fiction book, Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust. Charlotte Worthington won gold for Team GB in the BMX Freestyle event at the Olympics – the first time BMX has ever been represented at the games. Not only that, but she also became the first woman to ever successfully land a 360 backflip in a competition, described as the ‘holy grail’ of BMX tricks. Fresh from returning from Tokyo, Charlotte joins Andrea live from UK National Cycling Centre in Manchester. Presented by Andrea Catherwood Produced by Frankie Tobi