The Pressure of Parenting: Reflections from Sunrise Host Nat Barr

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Sunrise host Nat Barr reflects on the pressure she felt as a parent of two boys and the comments she received about having a girl.

Welcome to our regular column series written by some of your favourite Channel 7 stars. This week, Sunrise host Nat Barr reflects on the pressure she felt as a parent of two boys, Hunter, now 18, and Lachlan, 22. “Are you going to keep trying, you know, for a girl?” The first time someone said it, the thought didn’t hang around. Life was hectic and there were kind of two of me: from 3.30am to mid-morning I was a television newsreader; blow-dried, made up, up-to-date.

We had our birthday parties at home with jumping castles and water pistols, or in the park with little plastic roller coasters hired from the local toy library where they all sped down a grassy knoll at break-neck speed, falling off, the odd graze, always ending with homemade Women’s Weekly birthday cakes. The comments kept coming. “Every woman wants a girl, to talk with, to go shopping with.

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