Mum Talk Podcast

This week on the podcast you have me! I am catching up with you on life with a 2 1/2 year old toddler whilst 30 weeks pregnant. 

Trigger: please if you find listening to pregnancy chat at the moment difficult, look after yourself and switch off if you need to! I have done my very best to separate the chat during the podcast and at minute 33 I talk more about pregnancy so please do skip!

Topics I touch on are:

- Amandine 2.5 year review

- A's relationship building and language development

- Biking

- A's new bed sparked by my incredible need to nest during this pregnancy

- A's sleep environment and The Little Green Sheep Mattress and protector review: https://www.thelittlegreensheep.co.uk (kindly gifted)

- Potty progression

- Pregnancy at 30 weeks

Plus I answer all your questions!

Thank you so much for listening!

Please do leave a review, subscribe and rate - it really helps other mums to find the series and be supported by our wonderful community. 

Lots of love 

Emma xx

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This week on the podcast I am joined by Clare Bourne, a pelvic health physiotherapist with a passion to support women and men throughout their lives. She believes in talking openly about taboo topics and ensuring everyone feels comfortable to get support even for problems that may feel embarrassing.

Clare has a particular passion in supporting women during pregnancy and after birth, helping them to seek treatment for any pain or pelvic floor dysfunction they experience. Clare is also a mum of 2 and having lived pregnancy and the postnatal experience she knows what a precious but also vulnerable and sometimes lonely experience it can be. 

Clare joins me today to talk all about pelvic health, from pelvic floor exercises to painful sex. Plus answers all your questions!

If you had questions from my chat with Charlie from Bumps and Burpees that we didn’t answer they are answered within this podcast with Clare! 

General Topic: General pelvic health - what is it, what do we want, how do we want it to feel? 

Questions: 

Prenatal

Pelvic girdle pain

Had hip pain in last pregnancy and etc again - best ways to protect against this?

2nd pregnancy - need to do perineal massage?

Pain during sex - under discussed topic

Can a strong pelvic floor hinder pushing phase in labour?

Could I ask solutions for back pain? I heard the belt is not always the best option?

I’m rubbish at remembering - does doing a couple pelvic floor exercises here and there still have benefits?

I have pelvic floor pain quite bad at 29 weeks will me labour likely be worse because of this? Or after it?

Postnatal

Is there any way to minimise the c-section pouch of skin?

C- section exercises to get rid of lip over scar?

Diastasis recti: treated and is now less than 1cm but still looks awful what can I do?

Prolapse

Heavy dragging feeling?

Had third degree tear. Pregnant with 2nd. Chance it will happen again? Can I opt for a c section?

I have a pretty good pelvic floor my little boy is 9 months old but trampolines are a no go. Any tips or advice?

Get a dull ache in my vagina while on my period. I had a 3rd degree tear 1 year ago - still under a physio.

Post birth when I get up out of the bath I cant control the need to wee! No other issues, what to do.

Starting to leak urine, almost 3 years postnatal. Help!

Why is purple pushing coached so much when it can damage the pelvic floor?

Thank you so much for listening, next week on the podcast you actually have me!! I will be catching up with you all on all things Amandine and of course pregnancy and my unknown incredible nesting ability! If you are not already following head over to @mumtalkpodcast on instagram where I will be asking if you have any questions for next weeks episode. 

Have a lovely rest of your week! Please do leave a review, subscribe and rate - it really helps other mums to find the series and be supported by our wonderful community. 

Love Emma x

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Today I am speaking with Cat Gazzoli - founder of Piccolo, one of the UK’s fastest growing premium baby and toddler food brands. Before setting up Piccolo, Cat worked in the charitable sector of the food world. She began her career with the United Nations food agencies in Rome, where she created campaigns and programmes promoting sustainable livelihoods for farmers, as well as promoting female parity and equal opportunities. She then became the CEO of Slow Food UK, the global campaigning organisation for good, clean and fair food.

Cat a Mum of 2, birthing her second daughter in lockdown, joins me today to share her birth experience, growing a business in the pandemic with children and the importance of healthy eating as a family.

Specific topics include:

• Giving birth to her second daughter, just as lockdown was announced in London
• How her bond with her NHS midwife (who has her own little boy) made her birth that much easier on her
• Her tips for self-care and looking after newborns in lockdown
• Growing a business in a pandemic while raising a family
• Surviving lockdowns all in the same flat 
• The importance of healthy eating as a family & tips on how to do so 

I will catch up with you all next week, have a lovely week! Please do leave a review, subscribe and rate - it really helps other mums to find the series and be supported by our wonderful community.

Love Emma xx

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This week on the podcast I am joined by Charlie Barker, founder of Bumps & Burpees, a community of mums and mums-to-be wanting to stay fit, happy and healthy during pregnancy and into motherhood. 

Charlie a former gymnast, later became a personal trainer and specialised in pre- and post-natal fitness and health.  Her goal is to help mothers build core strength and stamina so they can support their bodies through pregnancy and beyond.

Today Charlie joins me to talk about her personal experience of conceiving, pregnancy, her birth story and shares general advice for women around pre and post natal fitness and how to fit in time to exercise.

We also answer your listener questions which include:

Exercises for pelvic girdle pain 

Where to start with exercising again?

How do you set realistic fitness goals with a baby/babies?

How much standing is too much standing during pregnancy?

Is it possible to walk too much during pregnancy? Should there be a limit?

Any tips for exercise whilst wearing baby?

Post natal exercise that doesn’t feel like your bits are going to fall out?

Exercise for diastasis recti?

Are there any safe exercises for your core during pregnancy? Or just avoid all?

What ab exercise are safe in pregnancy please?

My core still feels like jelly 20 months pp. what can I do to strengthen it? I do insanity 3 times a week.

Should you stop exercises that cause that ‘heavy’ feeling down below or is that new normal? 

Exercises that are good for rebuilding pelvic floor?

Any advice on exercise POP, is running ever achievable again?

Working out around baby and older sibling?

There are a few questions we haven't answered which are better suited to physio advice. I will be chatting with a physio later in the series and will get answers for you!

Thank you so much for listening, I will catch up with you all next week, have a lovely week! Please do leave a review, subscribe and rate - it really helps other mums to find the series and be supported by our wonderful community. 

Emma xx 

To find out more go to bumpsandburpees.com

Instagram @bumpsandburpees

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This week on Mum Talk I am chatting with Rebecca Wilson founder of @whatmummymakes.

Rebecca is a mum, recipe developer and founder of the popular What Mummy Makes food channel. Sharing her easy, quick, fresh meal ideas, suitable for all the family, including babies reaching the weaning milestone as well as older siblings. Rebecca wants to show parents and carers that introducing solid foods can be fun, exciting, easy and delicious!

Today Rebecca shares with us where her passion for cooking came from, how what mummy makes came about, weaning and meal time tips plus answers all your weaning questions! 

Specific talking points include:

• Rebecca’s upbringing and where her love of food and cooking came from. 
• How WMM began and grown to over 400k followers on instagram in just a couple of years.

Weaning & Meal times

• How to cook just once for you and your baby (all of Rebecca’s recipes are suitable for babies from 6 months old, plus older children and parents too)
• Making the most of your family mealtimes - the benefits of eating with your little one
• Raising confident little eaters - tips and tricks 
• Tips for fussy eaters
• Weaning hacks and cooking for children 
• Favourite go to quick recipes
• How to plan and organise meals to take the stress out of feeding your family 
• Pantry staples to have in your cupboard

Followed by Listener questions.

Thank you so much for listening, please do leave a review, subscribe and rate - it really helps other mums, parents and carers to find the series and be supported by our wonderful community. 

Love Emma x

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This week on the podcast I am joined by Amanda Thompson, co-founder of Bundle London and Antenatal Teacher.

Amanda is a qualified antenatal teacher, having gained her qualification with the NCT. She is also a baby massage instructor and has supported new parents for over 12 years. Being a mother of 5 herself (2 sets of twins and 1 in the middle – now all in their teens), she completely understands how challenging and wonderful parenthood can be. Amanda’s passion stems from struggling in the early days with loneliness, feelings of being out of control and trying to sift through reams of conflicting information. 

Today Amanda shares with us her personal experience especially with two sets of twins and professional expertise of those newborn early days. We go on to talk about how important support for mum is, caring for your baby, newborn sleep, baby massage and touch on breastfeeding and when to seek help. 

Specific topics:

-Inspiration behind becoming an antenatal teacher

-Early days - support for you and your baby (fourth trimester)

-Caring for your baby 

-What to expect from newborn sleep 

-Benefits of baby massage 

-Breastfeeding - how to know you are doing it right for you and when to seek help?

You can reach out to the wonderful team at Bundle London here: www.bundlelondon.com 

Thank you so much for listening! I will catch up with you all next week, have a lovely week! Please do leave a review, subscribe and rate - it really helps other mums to find the series and be supported by our wonderful community. 

Lots of love

Emma x

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Hello and welcome to this weeks episode of Mum Talk. This week I have the absolute pleasure of chatting to Lesley Gilchrist, Registered midwife, Co-Founder and Clinical Director of My Expert Midwife. 

As a Registered midwife, Lesley has worked in some of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe and has extensive experience as a labour ward co-ordinator and community midwife. With over 16 years’ experience in bumps, births and babies, Lesley is an expert in pregnancy, childbirth and post-natal care, specialising in the effects and treatment of birth trauma. 

Lesley is extremely passionate about tackling pregnancy taboos and improving the experience of pregnancy and childbirth by empowering women with choices that will make a significant difference and that is exactly what she joins us here today to do! We talk through preparing for birth and answer all your questions! 

Talking points include:

• preparing for birth:
• • perineal massage - what it is and how to do it
  • preparing for a c-section
  • preparing for a hospital birth (including what and how to pack your hospital bag)
  • preparing for a home birth 
• how to protect your perineum during birth

Listener questions include:

- How is covid affecting the choices that labouring mums have?

- Traumatic 1st birth, are second births genuinely better or should I be prepping for forceps?

- Is there any way to avoid second baby being breech if first one was?

- Would it be possible to use a birthing pool for VBAC?

- Pros and cons of epidural 

- Taking baby aspirin when TTC?

- Is 2nd labour quicker? First was 2 hours!

- Best position for delivery with prolapse?

- Is it unlikely you can have an epidural with your second?

- Is it ever possible to have a home birth VBAC?

- Are there differences in care if giving birth age35+? 

- How common is it to delivery vaginally after having a c-section with first baby?

- Is a second c-section a good idea or more risky that attempting a VBAC?

- I had pain down there until 6m pp, saw a pelvic floor physio but never discovered the cause. I’m wondering if it could be from pushing when baby wasn’t in the right position?

- Are elective c-sections at 40 weeks or 38 weeks assuming everything good with mum and baby?

A huge thank you to Lesley for coming on the podcast and sharing all her extensive knowledge and expertise with us. You can find more over on the My Expert Midwife blog, head to https://myexpertmidwife.com/blogs/my-expert-midwife .

Thank you so much for listening, if you have enjoyed and haven't already please do leave a review and subscribe. 

See you next week

Emma xx

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Welcome to a brand new series of Mum Talk. Thank you for tuning in!

In this weeks episode I am catch up with you all on:

Amandines language development, sleep, potty regression, toddler testing and naughty words!

I talk through my current pregnancy, thoughts on having a home birth this time around and being pregnant with a toddler. 

I answer your questions around pregnancy, toddler beds, preparing for the new baby, our festive period, mum guilt and more. 

If pregnancy chat is a trigger for you at the moment (which I can completely understand) tune out between 41.65 -65 minutes. 

Thank you so much for listening, please do review and subscribe if you aren't already. 

Love Emma x 

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I can't quite believe we have come to the end of yet another series! 

On this weeks episode:

- I am sharing what we are up to, our Christmas activities and where we have hopefully reached a compromise on Father Christmas traditions! 

- Pregnancy (head to minute 29 if pregnancy is a trigger for you and you would like to avoid it). Within pregnancy I share the gender and emotions surrounding this, Pelvic Girdle pain, anxiety, 16 week midwife appointment and current thoughts on birth.

I then move on to your questions and share the wonderful advice and experiences from our listening mums! These include:

- child learning French when not spoken in household

- when to have baby no.2

- stopping driving 2 year old to sleep

- worries about 2nd baby pushing marriage over the edge

- how lockdown has affected babies

- dealing with sadness of stopping breastfeeding

- group B strep experiences

- coping with hyperemisis

- gender disappointment

- child care for baby no.1 when labouring with baby no.2

- sending 1 year old to nursery

- secondary infertility

A huge thank you to all of you who have listened through this series! I cannot wait to connect with you all through series 9! Make sure you are following @mumtalkpodcast on instagram for updates and the odd Q&A over the Christmas period and we will be back next year! 

Lots of love

Emma 

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Hello! This week covers such a broad range of topics once again all with wonderful advice and shared experiences from you!

This week we chatting about Christmas Traditions and how to start creating them for your little ones. We go on to talk about explaining Santa to children, stocking or Christmas Eve box and mixing traditions. 

I also talk through your requested topics and questions this week, sharing wonderful experiences, advice and tips from other mums who have been through similar. Topics include; tv, routine, toys, stopping breastfeeding, returning to work, colic, inlaws and so much more!

As always thank you so much for listening. Do subscribe if you haven't already and please do leave a review. 

Catch up next week

Emma x

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