Dear Mum

If Chaneen Saliee isn’t already on your radar, she should be, because this mum of three is a beautiful force!

Founder of breastfeeding-wear brand ‘Chic and Discreet’, Chaneen is also a content creator who just so happens to be our first guest to bring her baby, Dare, into the studio with her (fair warning: he steals the show).

We talk about the whiplash of going from free-spirited world traveller to mum of one, then two, then — after a seven-year gap — a surprise-announced third. Chaneen tandem breastfed her older daughters until they were three, and this time round she's doing things differently: setting boundaries, accepting help, and actually taking care of herself alongside the baby.

There's a beautiful thread running through the episode too… her youngest's middle name, Everest, chosen to honour her mum, who passed away before he arrived.

Honest, warm, and full of genuinely brilliant parenting hacks (all hail "lying down parenting").

Don’t forget to FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE wherever you’re listening so we can bring more amazing conversations to the mum group chat, and thank you for being here 💛

Links
Chaneen Saliee
IG - https://www.instagram.com/chaneensaliee/

Shop Chic and Discreet - https://www.chicanddiscreet.com/

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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Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussions around infertility and becoming parents through surrogacy.

"I walked into a room full of cots, and it was like a lightning bolt." That's the moment Louenna Hood describes as the turning point… the second she knew she was going to adopt.

Louenna's spent her whole career looking after other people's children, over 100 babies, a Norland nanny training, and now the app and book that's helped thousands of parents (myself included).

She chose to build her family on her own terms, no father, no partner, just her in her quest for motherhood. We talk about the trip to Ukraine that changed everything, the foster-to-adopt process, and the day Alice arrived — three days old, "dropped off by the stork."

Louenna's honest about what it's really like to parent through adoption: staying open with Alice about her story, meeting her birth parents, and why she pushes back on the idea that adopted children are simply "lucky."

This is truly a special episodes, so don’t forget to FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE wherever you’re listening so we can bring more amazing conversations to the mum group chat 💛

Links
Louenna Hood:
IG - https://www.instagram.com/nannylouenna
FB - https://www.facebook.com/nannylouenna

The app - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/nanny-louenna/id1508344643
Website - https://louenna.com/

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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Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussions around infertility and becoming parents through surrogacy.

"You're not going to be able to have kids." That's what Charlie Watson was told at 16, and it's the starting point for one of the most powerful conversations we've had on this show.

Charlie's a dietitian, a marathon runner, and mum to Bertie and Woody — both born via the same surrogate in the US, after Charlie was diagnosed with MRKH, a condition that meant her uterus never fully developed. We talk about keeping that diagnosis in a box for over a decade, the surrogacy process itself (which is nothing like most of us imagine), and what it actually felt like to become a mum in a way she never expected to.

We also get properly honest about the stuff nobody admits: finding it harder to bond with her second than her first, the guilt that followed, and why "I'm not juggling it well" might be the most relatable thing any of us can say out loud.

I hope you loved this chat as much as me. Please consider sharing this to your mum group chat, and don’t forget to FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE wherever you’re listening 💛

Links:

Charlie Watson on IG - https://www.instagram.com/therunnerbeans?igsh=MWl6Y3J2c21yazhvZg%3D%3D

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

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Trigger Warning: This episode includes an honest conversation about postnatal anxiety and depression, as well as weight loss, in case that's a hard topic for you to hear right now.This one's for anyone who's ever felt like motherhood cracked them open and left them wondering who they even are anymore. Alice Rickard's been there (further down than most of us talk about) and she's come back out the other side.Alice and I go way back through the fitness world, she's a personal trainer, life coach, and mum to six-year-old twins Willow and Jagger. If you've seen her online, you'll know her as pure motivation — but this episode is about what it took to get there, and the reality of juggling two at the same time!!We talk about the husband ultimatum that pushed her towards motherhood despite never wanting kids, a brutal twin pregnancy with hyperemesis, and postnatal anxiety so severe she describes it as "probably the darkest place I've ever been."
We get into the retreat that changed how she saw herself, and the years it took before she finally shifted her mindset — not just her actions.I hope you loved this chat as much as me. Please consider sharing this to your mum group chat, and don’t forget to FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE wherever you’re listening 💛Links:Charlie: IG - https://www.instagram.com/charlielaunderTT - https://www.tiktok.com/@charlielaunder YT -  @charliebarkerr  Alice: IG - www.instagram.com/alicerickard_Her app - www.danafit.ai 💪 Bumps & Burpees: https://www.instagram.com/bumpsandburpeeswww.bumpsandburpees.com
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(A gentle heads up: this one includes an honest chat about postnatal mental health, in case that's a hard topic for you to hear right now)
Dear Mum is BACK!! and Series 2 starts here, with the most incredible mum that I know so many of you already love… It’s Georgia Jones!
Georgia and I go way back - she was one of my pregnant clients before either of us knew what motherhood would actually throw at us.
Now she's mum to eight-year-old Cooper, a former model married to McFly’s Danny Jones, and one of the most honest voices I know on what early motherhood really feels like once the filter comes off.
We cover the school WhatsApp chaos (you'll relate, I promise), her lightning-fast 37-minute birth, and then the bit that matters most: the 18 months afterwards where she says she "wasn't in a good place mentally" and barely remembers.
We talk therapy, running as a form of processing, and how she found her way back to herself.
We also get into the question she's asked constantly — why she's stopped at one — and why she's done justifying it.
Links:
Charlie:
IG - https://www.instagram.com/charlielaunder
TT - https://www.tiktok.com/@charlielaunder
YT - https://www.youtube.com/@charliebarkerr
Georgia:
IG - https://www.instagram.com/thegeorgiaedit
YT - https://www.youtube.com/@TheGeorgiaEdit
Her Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@MumsTheWordPod
💪 Bumps & Burpees:
https://www.instagram.com/bumpsandburpees
www.bumpsandburpees.com

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