Spelade
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At 25 weeks pregnant, Hannah and Carl have made it to Australia but Hannah has come down with a cold post-long-haul flight and coronavirus is just starting to become a buzzword/epidemic. Inspired and full of facts from the home birth info session she attended, they also manage to discuss baby clothes, placenta rituals and the realisation they’ve had no doctors’ appointments.
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Our guest this week is a proper expert for all sorts of reasons… Monique Howie is a Child Psychotherapist and she also has the most children out of anyone we know (5. She has 5 kids). At 24 weeks pregnant, Hannah has had yet another scan and we talk to Monique about how different pregnancies and babies can be, aggressive shooshing techniques, baby name themes and how to be the most amazing birth partner.
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Sarah Niles is a brilliant British film, tv & stage actor and even though it's a few years since was pregnant, she still has plenty of advice for 23-week pregnant Hannah... mainly “do the pelvic floor exercises!” We also chat post-natal depression, the fact that having a caesarean is actually surgery and “push presents”.
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With no one else to talk to this week, Hannah and Carl get into a bit of deep chat. Now 22 weeks into the pregnancy, they’re still discovering that they don’t know anything and discuss ideas about parenting from their own experiences and the sort of parents they think they’d like to be…
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Now 21 weeks pregnant, Hannah and Carl are joined by comedian, and self-identifying “chav mum” Esther Manito for a very funny pregnancy chat. They cover Bob Marley birth playlists, pulling a whitey from gas and air, bad baby photos and Esther’s story about the kitchen utensil her husband was holding throughout her labour.
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Our guest is Hannah’s mum, Angela, who is in London to perform with Hannah at Soho Theatre. Now Hannah is 20 weeks pregnant it’s gender reveal time (no videos or pink/blue confetti cannons involved) and they surprise Angela with the news on this episode, along with conversations about rainbow babies, being geriatric mothers and the need for nursing chairs with biscuit pockets.
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A different IVF journey to 19-week pregnant Hannah and Carl, Sara shares her IVF experience and the anxieties she felt along the way. They also chat naked sleeping, co-sleeping, farting, how to try and be better than your parents and how not to raise a little c*nt! (Sara’s number one parenting goal.)
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It’s the year of the rat, Hannah is 18 weeks pregnant and Carl has caught the looking at prams bug. They discuss night poos, naked sleeping, kissing while giving birth and what names the new parents and grandparents will be called… with some bonus pick up tips for creeps.
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At 17 weeks pregnant, Hannah and Carl have had a tour of the birth centre at the same hospital where Caroline Mabey had her baby. After sharing hilarious stories of quitting smoking, irrational rage and more, Caroline opens up about her prior experience of miscarriage.
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Tania Edwards wants another baby, bad. Amongst warnings about home birth, pregnancy yoga and vegan formula, she attempts to lure 16-week pregnant Hannah and Carl into planning their second child.
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It’s our first Dad! And his wife Pauline, and their toddler son, Ronnie… this episode definitely gives you a sense of what’s to come in parenthood. Just 15 weeks pregnant, Hannah has been to the premature clinic and has a question for you – How long do you think your cervix is???
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It’s Christmas and they’ve barely left the house. Now 14 weeks pregnant, Hannah and Carl muse on this being their last childless Christmas, maternity jeans and trouser extenders (for men). And the question they’re not getting asked a lot… do you know if it’s a girl or a boy?
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Out of the first trimester! Hannah is 13 weeks pregnant, Carl is hungover and Jess tells us about her underwhelming birth announcements, the struggle of trying to agree on a baby name with a partner who wants to name them after an anime character and massive crabs in Japan.
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12-week pregnant Hannah introduces Carl to her musician friend, Nan – who opens up about the details of her birth story and how things went wrong… A gripping tale, but definitely not the experience she had wished for. We also talk self-employment, maternity fashion, telling your workmates and finding out you’re pregnant after you’ve been partying. A lot.
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11 weeks pregnant, Hannah and Carl are both a bit obsessed. Baby obsessed. They’re reading baby books, watching baby TV shows and reflecting on all of the baby things they’ve learned from their guest episodes. Balanced out with some thoughts about the financial flipside of it all - maternity pay and joint accounts.
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10 weeks pregnant, Hannah and Carl visit Bryony at her home. They try to keep her four-year-old son distracted with “Despicable Me 3” but he joins in the podcast every now and then while they talk about IVF vaginal pessaries, thrush, lotus birthing, hypnobirthing, mucus plugs and kiwi fruits. Yeah, normal pregnancy stuff.
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Wendy has three kids – aged 17, 15 and 8 - Hannah is 9 weeks pregnant. They chat geriatric pregnancies, haptonomy (a French thing where you tap on the tummy and the baby moves – or something), trial by scar and loads more. Wendy is a font of pregnancy knowledge.
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Carl is in Manchester having had a dodgy stomach the day before. He’s having an instant coconut latte and talks about watching ‘Goop Lab’
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Hannah is 8 weeks pregnant, and tired. Felicity is 38 weeks, and MASSIVE. And Carl is present in a support role. Felicity shares how much she loves being pregnant, how you’re supposed to sleep when you are and teaches us all about pregnancy pillow admin. Also the daily “honouring of her body” that has prevented stretch marks.
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