Frogster Chronicles

  💡 The Magic of Shared Resources As a start, I’d like to say—I’m a huge fan of the sharing economy in many cases. Sharing resources helps us consume less and build stronger communities , since trust and care are at the heart of this system. Of course, not every form of “sharing” sits right with me. For instance: Selling breast milk to gym bros? 🚫 Stem cell treatments for eternal youth? 😬 Using pregnant women’s pee for weight loss? No thank you. But sharing a hormone to help create life ? Now that sounds magical. 👶 Meet Moeders voor Moeders When I heard about Moeders voor Moeders , I was eager to join. (Also: clever name, top-tier marketing.) Their concept? Brilliant in its simplicity: Collect urine from pregnant women, extract a hormone, and use it to help other women conceive. 🔬 The Famous Hormone You Don’t Know This hormone is well-known—yet many don’t know it by name. Some fear it: that second dash on a pregnancy test when the timing isn’t right. Others dr...

👶 So What Happens After the Baby Comes? One big change: I connected deeply to my other mom friends. There is so much uniting in the experience. And no matter my attempts to keep connected to the non-mom friends too, that became more and more difficult. I was quite tired and on a new schedule. Don’t look for me after 8 pm. I am sleeping—or wishing I was sleeping. Regular partying, cocktail evenings... just seemed completely useless and not in my list of ways to spend the little energy I felt I had. Quality control raised massively when choosing how to spend my time and where. And quite a few of my non-mom friends became a bit distant. There wasn’t a massive amount of interest to meet the baby I had just produced. Which is HUGE. I know it’s not a rarity and it happens to many people, but it is still HUGE. 💬 The Questions Shift When we would meet, the conversation often went like this: How long is your maternity? When does she go to daycare? When are you going ba...