Anna Whitehouse on baby news and maternity leave

It’s an extra special episode where we meet the newest member of the Dirty Mother Pukka family as Polly chats to Anna for the first time since baby Lola arrives and maternity leave begins.

Anna and Polly are joined by Jess Joy and Charlotte Mia co-authors of How Not to Fit In: An Unapologetic Guide to Autism and ADHD. They delve into everything from masking, diagnosis relief and grief plus the difficulties with official diagnosis.

As the pair hit the West-End in their first Live Nation show, Anna and Polly talk sex ed, pleasure and why it’s time to stop centering the peen. Oh and how platonic love has to be up there with romantic amour. Til death, indeed…

Anna and Polly share their wildest job experiences. From welding car parts to making weed-infused perfume, their unconventional careers unravel and they chat about how motherhood impacts it all.

Anna and Polly take a deep dive deep into the world of post-childbirth sex, orgasmic birth (yes, that’s a thing), and vibrators (Polly is never without hers). Joined by the brilliant minds behind the Somatica Institute, Danielle Harel and Celeste Hirschman. www.somaticainstitute.com & learnsomatica.com 

As Tory MP Kemi Badenoch describes maternity pay as ‘excessive’, Anna and Polly dig deep into a system set up for mothers and parents to fail.

Anna and Polly have reached the point in styling where wipe-clean and comfortable are key. But stylist ?Claire Hall lands on the podcast to shake up their wardrobes and say a few choice words to an ageist fashion industry.

With our new resident sexologist Polly Hazlewood in the building, the duo talk fantasies and how important they are in your relationship. Strap in for the ride team.

In this episode Anna and Polly open up about the rupture and repair of their friendship. Driven by numerous people saying they were ‘friendship goals’, the pair set the record straight on the reality of such a solid union and dig deep on the way they argue, rupture and repair. Love isn’t about always getting on. And it’s not about always agreeing. But the love is real and that’s because of the above.

Somewhere between the pandemic and extreme childcare costs, we stopped laughing. There’s a guilt in feeling joy in a cost of living crisis; An anxiety in laughing when the world is seemingly crumbling. Anna and Polly try to force a smile and question the importance of laughter and how to get it back.