Content Warning: Difficult birth

Pippa talks to Sophie about a tricky birth, body autonomy and uncovering health issues later in life that may have impacted those first six months.

TW: Miscarriage

In this episode, Pippa talks to Gemma about having a baby in a different country, sleep deprivation and the fear that comes when you have experienced multiple losses; how it can feel impossible to believe this pregnancy is going to make it. 
They also discuss, at length, piles and what to do about them.

CONTENT WARNING: Attempted suicide

In this episode, Pippa is talking to Carrie Carlisle about her First Six Months. Carrie’s husband tried to take his own life when she was six months pregnant, which meant her first six months was  dominated by trying to get her husband well.

She talks about the amazing care she received, the loneliness of people not knowing what to say and how life doesn’t have to be picture perfect to be perfect. It’s your perfect, not everyone else’s. 

www.clarkeandcarrie.com

#firstsixmonths #suicide #suicidalthoughts #gettingwell #amazingNHS #mum #mom

Pippa talks to Clare Bourne (@clarebournephysio), a pelvic health specialist and full time mum. She loved her first six months but her second six months was disrupted by covid, meaning her husband couldn’t come home as a GP in the NHS. Clare talks about navigating loneliness and anxiety but ultimately finding her way through. 

Being a Pelvic Health Specialist, we also talk A LOT about vaginas. So if you have any crotch concerns, this is the episode for you.  We decide, in fact, that Clare is the Bear Grylls of Vaginas.

#firstsixmonths #pelvichealth #vagina #vaginalhealth #changes #crotchchat 

Michelle talks to Pippa about her relatively easy pregnancy and birth experience (amazing what we count as easy, that's all I'll say), having a Lockdown Baby and many tales of trying to express milk. 

#mum #newmum #firstsixmonths #matrescence #express #lockdownbaby #SpritzForBits

"If you've waited so long for this, are you allowed not to enjoy it sometimes?"
In this episode, Pippa speaks with Prachi, a mother and sexual health doctor based in Edinburgh about her experiences of the first six months. After a difficult time with IVF, Prachi was determined to make the best of her first and (most likely) only six months. There is a lot of joy in this episode, as well as travel tips alongside the stresses of navigating fertility treatments.

#IVF #FirstSixMonths #Newmum #Mom #Stories #womensstories 

Two weeks late, double mastitis and a 27 hour labour. Anything else you want to throw at me?

Pippa talks to the delightful Cariad Lloyd about her first Six Months and how she managed to navigate the unbelievable number of challenges sent her way. 

We had to label this episode 'explicit' because of Cariad's potty mouth.

#hipdysplacia #mastitsis #csection #breastfeeding #hormones #brownies #phonescrolling 

Pippa talks to the delightful Roddie about becoming a dad for the first time and how he navigated supporting his partner, Natalie, through a difficult birth, in Covid conditions. 

Content Warning: We discuss the fear of cot death quite a lot, as something that played on our minds hugely for the first six months. 

Being a mum in the 80s. Has anything really changed?

I got the unusual privilege of interviewing my own mother, Trish Evans, about her four (yes, four) births. It was really lovely to talk about that experience with her and I had no idea of what a struggle it had been for her at times. 

Great episode if you have multiple children, are feeling blue or overwhelmed or are about to have a 'surprise' baby.

Last episode in this series. Athena talks to Pippa about suspected PTSD,  moving in with her mum and how Capitalism is telling us we need things we don't. 
Had to mark this one EXPLICIT but only for a couple of swears.