Becoming Mama

This episode is slightly different and we think you guys are gonna love it. Anna and I answered some questions and said goodbye for the season, and we also gave the ‘advice’ that all other guests have given! Then @maxnaufel and @cgmperformance360 answered your questions about fatherhood, pressures and struggles as well as their advice to other dads.

We recorded our penultimate episode of the season this week with the gorgeous @samandninayoung and we can’t wait for you to listen to it! We spoke all about how she became a single mum at 24 before meeting the love of her life, her sons medical misdiagnosis, her mental health along with paternal maternal health and about how having two under two is “easier” than she imagined! Her episode has just gone live on Spotify, Apple podcasts and google podcasts🎙

We’re so excited to tell you that this weeks guest is the gorgeous @missnicki__ 😍She’s an all round supermama, looking after her twin boys Isaiah & Caden, working full time, managing to hit the gym and always being on top of her insta game! We loved talking to her about she juggles it all, newborn life with twins, her labour, the boys’ first day in nursery and how they climb out of their cots into her bed in the middle of the night! She also spoke about the awful statistics that black mothers in the UK are 5 times more likely to die during pregnancy and after childbirth than white women, along with her own experience of some prejudice she faced from midwives.

This weeks guest is @sophieloutaylor 😍She’s mama to her little boy Casper, she’s a personal trainer, YouTuber and she shares her honest motherhood journey on her instagram account. Sophie spoke about her positive emergency csection exeperience, combi feeding - which for anyone who doesn’t know is when you do a combination of breast and bottle feeding, caspers reflux and what’s helped, baby sleep, what she knows now and ways she wishes she could’ve helped her friends who had babies before her along with so much more.

This weeks guest is the amazing mama to be @annieramage 🤰We were so glad we managed to get her on before we had her little girl and we can’t wait for you to listen to the episode. Annie was she was told she’d never be able to have children but this miracle baby has proved the doctors wrong. We spoke about the tumour she suffers from which affected her fertility, about training during pregnancy and what exercise means to her, how she’s found being pregnant during lockdown, how she’s feeling about birth and lots more. 

This weeks guest is the gorgeous @laurenchella 😍 We spoke about mama and step mum life, how she’s navigated coparenting, fussy toddler eating habits, her Kylie Jenner pregnancy reveal, how she signed the biggest work contract of her life at 7 months pregnant along with so much more.

So excited to announce that this week’s guest is @_charlottegreen, superwoman and mama to Malachi and Layla. She was super honest with us about having two under two, her slightly traumatic labour, the struggles of going back to work with two kids and even gave some tips on how to get both kids to take the same nap! 

So excited to tell you that this weeks guest is @katiedshaw 👑 She’s mama to Mabel and Finley and she’s the mastermind behind her company @mabelsplayroom - an online subscription of play ideas for baby, toddler and beyond. We spoke about how she found having a baby before the rest of her friends did, what she wishes she knew then that she knows now, her 2 very different labours, all things playroom and the challenges she has faced with her mental health over the years

This week’s episode is all about Daisy’s cryptic pregnancy (finding out she was pregnant at 30 weeks). You guys sent in your questions and she spoke about everything from her first pregnancy symptom - kicking in her stomach, to those first feelings of being sure she wouldn’t bond with her baby. This episode is a very honest insight into the reality of what a surprise baby can do to your mental health - and how it also changed her life for the better.

This weeks guest is the gorgeous @jadedarl. She has a little boy called Theo and she’s currently pregnant with her second baby. She’s been very open about maternal mental health and she is also the most fashionable mama on insta! It was a very moving episode where Jade opened up about her miscarriage and the post natal depression she suffered with when Theo was a newborn. Our podcast is all about talking about parts of motherhood that aren’t discussed enough to hopefully make you feel less alone and I know Jade’s episode will bring comfort to a lot of mamas out there.