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And so I was very aware of my own struggle, and the struggle - her struggle as well. And if I ever put her down, she would scream. And I guess I didn't know at that point. This idea of like, sometimes parents bond with the child at birth, or before birth, or six months into the baby's life, or 12 months, or a year and a half, or whatever it is. Therese Madden directed today's show.
But I could feel it. And I usually had such strong, like, tabs on what's going on with Mike sleepwalking. And now you go into death (laughter). And - but you have a really beautiful poem about - it's called "Body, I Never Knew I Could Love You." And so that's reminded me, actually, of when I was 23 years old and I was driving my mom's station wagon around the country cold-calling comedy clubs and saying, hey, do you want to have me perform at your club and struggle and rejection of that.And so it's been hard, but I have to say, like, the silver lining of it - and I've heard other parents say this - is in this period from March through August, if it were not for the pandemic, I would have been on tour, and I would have missed some of these milestones from our daughter's age, 5, which are astonishing. This is FRESH AIR.GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I took swimming lessons there. A Patent Pending People Search Process. You know, it was terrifying.STEIN: I was. But the end is a letter to my daughter saying to her like, I - you know, this book is for you. Hope Stein, collaborated on his new memoir, contributing her side of the story through poems interspersed through the book. Hope Stein.The baby had trouble sleeping at first. Like, I feel like you get to this age where I'm 42 now, but, you know, they call middle age being over the hill, which I never understood until I got on the hill and then I looked around and I was like, oh, well, there's natural causes, you know?
I mean, I think they're hard for everybody.BIRBIGLIA: Yeah. It's just something - because, I think, it came to me so late in life, it was just kind of shocking. Our senior producer today is Roberta Shorrock. It's about all the reasons he did not want to become a father, how he became a father in spite of that and all the reasons why he felt he wasn't connecting to his baby daughter and feared his marriage was falling apart. Like, Oona's 5 now. And my mom - like, we called my parents. Mike Birbiglia also made and starred in the films "Sleepwalk With Me" and "Don't Think Twice." And then the idea that I could be food to another living thing is something I'll just, like, never get over. And so I think I went the other way, and I think that's part of us being in two different places in that time.GROSS: My guests are poet Jen Stein and comic, writer, filmmaker and actor Mike Birbiglia.
I hope you'll join us.FRESH AIR's executive producer is Danny Miller. And I said, which - by the way - gets you nothing. When we met and we got married, it was almost kind of a goof because we had been dating a while and had been pretty tumultuous. Copyright 2020 PeekYou.com. I sort of had this idea - I didn't have a lot of fantasies about having a child. I mean, I was really - I became a mother pretty late in life. Mike had to lock himself in the bedroom to protect the baby from his sleepwalking, which meant if the baby woke up, it's all on you.STEIN: Yeah.
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