The unique pain of being a motherless mother – and why more women are talking about it Kelly Ford talks about her podcast, The Motherless, in which she speaks to women who are navigating parenthood without their own mothers 3 May 2021 • 11:30am Kelly Ford: 'I would love my mother to see me now with my lovely husband and our two babies' As Kelly Ford prepared for the arrival of her second child by c-section, there was one thing she wanted to do more than anything. “I knew I was a [caesarian-born] baby, but I realised I had never asked my mother about how it was for her, and how she healed from it,” she recalls.