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Pippa Evans collects stories from people about the first six months of parenthood.
For anyone in the middle of, about to go into or reminiscing about those wild times.
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Recent Episodes
S4E3 Five Days In The Bed, Five Days On The Bed, Five Day By The Bed - Mary
In this episode, we discuss Mary's experience as a new mother, sharing her journey from pregnancy through childbirth and the first 11 months with her baby. Mary, a psychotherapist who had long wanted…
S4E2 Two Months in the NICU - Shari
*Content Warning* We talk about premature birth and haemorrhaging so perhaps not an episode to listen to if you are anxious about birth. Great one to listen to if you are, yourself, in the midst of a…
S4E1 We Are Caterpillars - Helen Foster
A delicious conversation with Helen Foster about becoming a mother, rules we place on ourselves and failing. Accept the fail!
S3E10 Unmasking Mary and The Highlighter Girls - Chine McDonald
Chine McDonald has many hats and she wears them well. However, during those first six months, she had to figure out which hats to wear, when. This is a brilliant episode for any 'highlighter girls'…
My Persona Has Been Entirely Consumed By My Physicality
Elizabeth Oldfield is one of my wisest pals and I am so glad she agreed to come on The First Six Months. We talked about leading a ThinkTank whilst being secretly pregnant (spoiler:no one noticed),…
Helen Jukes - Mother Animal meets Improvisation
After reading Mother Animal by Helen Jukes I KNEW we would have such a fantastic conversation about all things pregnancy and matrescence. Helen was a wonderful guest and we get right into it about…
S3E7 Mastitis, IV Drips and Vaginal Mesh (amongst other things)
Helen Duff is a brilliant comedian (@duffmarvel) and VoiceOver artist (enjoy her dulcet tones) who brings to The First Six Months a vast array of topics as she shares her experiences, whilst heavily…
S3E6 Relentless Enrichment
Minia is a massage therapist who lives in Bristol with her partner and her six year old daughter. We talk about the joy of being surrounded by women, dislocating her arm within the first two weeks,…
S3E5 You Will Never Again Do Things You 'Quite' Want To Do
Margaret Cabourn Smith is a podcaster and actress and mother to two children. She talks about how she found the first six months really, really hard and how she kept Bridget Christie and Lucy…
S3E4 Forgetting to Feed Your Baby
Jay Lafferty discusses all things IVF, fear of a C-Section, going back to work almost immediately and how one of the less talked about aftereffects of birth can be blood clots in your vajayjay.…
S3E1 Love and Anxiety
Alyssa Kyria is a fantastic comic who performs as The Funny Mummy around the UK. Married to Will with one daughter Lola, Alyssa talks about the ups an downs of her first six months, including her…
S3E2 Breast Is Best Except When It's Not
Ali is the local Sing and Sign leader in Edinburgh, where Pippa lives. Ali is married with three children and talks all things mastitis, PND and deciding to have more children when the first-first…
S3E3 Pull A John And Yoko
Melissa Jacques is one of the UKs West End Royalty and also mum to two girls. She talks about juggling Mamma Mia and a new baby, the kindness of custard creams and how if they are the only person…
S2E10 The First Six Months - Cathrine Frost Bonus
Whilst at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Pippa went to see Good Luck, Cathrine Frost - a brilliant show about pregnancy, miscarriage and motherhood which somehow manages to talk about all these…
S2E8 The First Six Months- Gemma
TW: MiscarriageIn 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…
S2E9 The First Six Months - Sophie
Content Warning: Difficult birthPippa talks to Sophie about a tricky birth, body autonomy and uncovering health issues later in life that may have impacted those first six months.
S2E7 The First Six Months - Carrie Carlisle
CONTENT WARNING: Attempted suicideIn 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…
S2E5 The First Six Months - Michelle
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…
S2E6 The First Six Months - Clare Bourne
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…
S2E4 The First Six Months - Prachi
"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…
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The First Six Months has published 32 episodes since January 2024, covering topics in Kids & Family, Parenting.
The First Six Months is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 48m.
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