Dear Mum

Content Note: This episode includes an honest conversation about OCD, intrusive thoughts and anxiety in pregnancy. Take care when listening 💛
Dear Mum… it’s the last episode of Series 2 - and it’s with the gorgeous soul that is Steph Elswood. After whispering to me at a friend’s wedding that she was pregnant, and I’ve wanted her on this podcast ever since.
We go back to the early days of Instagram, and she’s now mum to 18-month-old Elsie and the founder of Studio Glide Pilates. We talk about severe sickness in her pregnancy, the 25 packets of salt and vinegar crisps in her hen do suitcase, and living with OCD through pregnancy, including the intrusive thoughts she didn’t know were a thing - but how NHS therapy helped.
It’s funny, honest and very reassuring, and - I know I always say it butttt… her Post-it for the mums might be my favourite yet.
I can’t quite believe that’s a wrap on Series 2. Thank you for listening, for sharing these episodes, and for sending them to the mum who needed to hear them. Keep doing just that - and hopefully we’ll be back for Series 3 very soon 🎙️
Links
Follow Steph:
IG - www.instagram.com/stephelswood
TT - www.tiktok.com/@steph_elswood
YT - https://www.youtube.com/@StephElswood

Charlie:
IG - https://www.instagram.com/charlielaunder

TT - https://www.tiktok.com/@charlielaunder

YT - https://www.youtube.com/@charliebarkerr

💪 Bumps & Burpees:
https://www.instagram.com/bumpsandburpees
www.bumpsandburpees.com

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A gentle heads up: this episode includes an honest conversation about a traumatic birth and time in intensive care with a newborn, in case that's a hard topic for you to hear right now.
Dr Emily Jackman spends her days reassuring worried patients that their child's rash is probably fine…at 3am with her own kids?
She's just as lost as the rest of us.

Emily's mum to Madden and Romy, and this one's a proper mum chat. A traumatic first birth that ended in two weeks in intensive care with her newborn, and the single session of rewind therapy that finally helped her process it months later. The shock of going from one child to two, and the overstimulation nobody properly warns you about. Losing her sense of style so completely she calls it her "beige era", and finding her way back to it through colour analysis and a lot of supermarket shopping.

She happens to be a GP too, which gives her a brilliant, honest angle on the gap between knowing the medicine and surviving your own 3am panic,
…but this episode is about the mum bit, not the doctor bit.

Enjoy! And don’t forget to share with a mum who may need this, and hit FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE wherever you get your podcasts 💛

Links

Follow Emily
IG - https://www.instagram.com/emily.jackman_/
TT - https://www.tiktok.com/@emilyjackman_

Charlie:
IG - https://www.instagram.com/charlielaunder
TT - https://www.tiktok.com/@charlielaunder
YT - https://www.youtube.com/@charliebarkerr

💪 Bumps & Burpees:
https://www.instagram.com/bumpsandburpees

www.bumpsandburpees.com

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“The first thing she said to me was, can you pick me up now?" That's Giorgina Falcone on meeting her daughter Summer-Rae after her C-section.

She had to tell her no… not for six weeks.

Giorgina and I only met recently and talked for hours, so she had to come on. She's mum to Summer-Rae and Dylan, and this one is the full mum chat. Two emergency C-sections, including two days of labour before Dylan, how she was living with her sister, Giovanna, who she called her live-in midwife when she gave birth, and the NCT group that left her feeling worse - before the friendships that came later.

We also talk about mourning the life you had (not the person you were), the loneliness nobody warns you about, and perimenopause hitting so hard she couldn't remember her kids' names.

And along the way she tells me how her pregnancy underwear brand, MuthaProject, was born, and why we ALL need underwear like this!

I hope you love this episode of Dear Mum. We’re hoping to start production for Season 3 super soon, but can’t do it without your support - so please hit FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE wherever you’re listening or watching 💛

Links
Follow Giorge:
https://www.instagram.com/giorgina_falcone
The Mutha Project:
https://www.instagram.com/themuthaproject/
https://themuthaproject.com/
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Charlie:
IG - https://www.instagram.com/charlielaunder
TT - https://www.tiktok.com/@charlielaunder
YT - https://www.youtube.com/@charliebarkerr

💪 Bumps & Burpees:
https://www.instagram.com/bumpsandburpees
www.bumpsandburpees.com

Produced by Bear Lane Productions 🎙️Music licensed via PremiumBeat - 4WJJ2ROAVKXSJCGW

"You're too young to be going through perimenopause." That's what Kelly Taylor was told the first time she asked for help — so the second time, she didn't ask.

She walked in and said, "I have perimenopause. I want HRT."

Kelly's the comedy creator behind those painfully accurate class WhatsApp sketches (if you know, you know), and mum to two very different girls.

We talk about the early days of motherhood she spent "really, really good at masking", including the moment she broke down on a work Zoom call and had to shut it off entirely, and the years-long fight to get properly diagnosed with perimenopause (despite family history stacked against her).

We also get into "question your no": her simple, genuinely brilliant parenting reframe for catching yourself before an automatic "no," and why mum brain deserves way more credit than it gets. Kelly had me REALLY laughing - and I hope this makes you feel both entertained and seen.

Don’t forget to FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE wherever you’re listening or watching. It really helps us create this podcast for the mums who need it

Links

Kelly Taylor:
https://www.instagram.com/thisiskellytaylor

Charlie:IG - https://www.instagram.com/charlielaunderTT - https://www.tiktok.com/@charlielaunderYT - https://www.youtube.com/@charliebarkerr

💪 Bumps & Burpees:
https://www.instagram.com/bumpsandburpees
www.bumpsandburpees.com

Produced by Bear Lane Productions 🎙️Music licensed via PremiumBeat - 4WJJ2ROAVKXSJCGW

Content Warning: this episode includes conversation around a serious postpartum health scare (sepsis). Please listen with care.

"You can't let me die tonight."

That's what Aimee Vivian said to nurses four weeks after having her daughter — the night she genuinely didn't know if she'd make it through sepsis.

Aimee's a Capital Radio presenter, mum to 14-month-old Charlie, and one of the most refreshingly honest guests we've had on this show. We talk about her whirlwind route into radio, going back to work at four months postpartum out of financial necessity as a self-employed presenter, and the sepsis diagnosis that nearly took her life — and completely changed how she sees herself.

We also cover the stuff that makes this show what it is: judgment between mums, the pressure to be a "cool mum" online, and why she's started buying twenty pairs of jeans just to find the one that actually fits (and returning the rest).

Thank you SO much for being here - don't forget to follow or subscribe wherever you're listening to support the pod! 💛

Links:
Aimee:
@aimeevivian

Charlie:
IG - https://www.instagram.com/charlielaunder
TT - https://www.tiktok.com/@charlielaunder
YT - https://www.youtube.com/@charliebarkerr

💪 Bumps & Burpees:
https://www.instagram.com/bumpsandburpees
www.bumpsandburpees.com

Produced by Bear Lane Productions
🎙️Music licensed via PremiumBeat - 4WJJ2ROAVKXSJCGW