herniated disc four months after giving birth] I'd had a c-section and two and a half years of IVF and heavy steroids. I wasn't physically good going into the pregnancy or coming out of it. It was an unholy situation and one day I picked up my daughter and it went. It was agony trying to breastfeed, do the school run with my older son, hold my baby daughter through gritted teeth and put the car seat in. So I've also been doing months of physio, exercise and Pilates." - Meaning and context.">
Interviewed by Alice Thomson, as cited in "Emma Barnett: 'The pain was so bad, I was losing the will to live'", The Times (10 May 2024)
• Barnett's daughter was born in January 2023.
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[Barnett suffered a herniated disc four months after giving birth] I'd had a c-section and two and a half years of IVF and heavy steroids. I wasn't physically good going into the pregnancy or coming out of it. It was an unholy situation and one day I picked up my daughter and it went. It was agony trying to breastfeed, do the school run with my older son, hold my baby daughter through gritted teeth and put the car seat in. So I've also been doing months of physio, exercise and Pilates.

— Emma Barnett

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[Barnett suffered a herniated disc four months after giving birth] I'd had a c-section and two and a half years of IVF and heavy steroids. I wasn't physically good going into the pregnancy or coming out of it. It was an unholy situation and one day I picked up my daughter and it went. It was agony trying to breastfeed, do the school run with my older son, hold my baby daughter through gritted teeth and put the car seat in. So I've also been doing months of physio, exercise and Pilates." in the context of "Interviewed by Alice Thomson, as cited in "Emma Barnett: 'The pain was so bad, I was losing the will to live'", The Times (10 May 2024)
• Barnett's daughter was born in January 2023." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Emma Barnett" (Quotes, 2021–2024) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 19, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Emma Barnett

About Emma Barnett

Emma Barnett (born 5 February 1985) is a British broadcaster and journalist. In May 2024, she became a presenter of Today on BBC Radio 4.