Parental Control – Détails, épisodes et analyse

This week on the podcast, Ellie Thompson is joined by Laura Guckian, motherhood coach, award-winning host of Momfessions, and ambassador for perinatal mental health charity Mothers for Mothers. Combining lived experience with expert insight, Laura has supported thousands of women to navigate the realities of motherhood with more confidence, compassion, and care.

In this conversation, we discuss the moments that matter most in early parenthood, from recognising when your mental health needs support to understanding how partners can truly help. Laura shares practical advice on navigating neurodiversity, setting boundaries around social media, and building a self-care plan that actually fits into real life. We also tackle tricky topics like postnatal depression, relationship dynamics, and how to support a friend who might be struggling.

If you're a new parent, a partner, or simply want to understand the messy, beautiful reality of life after birth, this episode is worth a listen.

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Host Ellie Thompson welcomes GP and certified paediatric sleep consultant Francesca Brewer, founder of The Baby Sleep GP, to answer a question every parent asks: why is my baby not sleeping?

Drawing on 15+ years of medical experience, Francesca shares safe sleep guidelines, how to manage baby sleep during illness and after vaccinations, and the medical causes of poor sleep in infants and toddlers. The conversation also explores the impact of sleep deprivation on the mental health of children and parents, with practical steps to build calmer nights and healthier routines.

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For more information or to contact Dr Francesca Brewer, head to thebabysleepgp.com. Follow on Instagram @thebabysleepgp.

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This podcast episode was sponsored by BIBS.

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My Baba founder invited parenting coach Katherine Sellery, founder of the Conscious Parenting Revolution to talk about a variety of topics, including when to stop praising your kids.

This episode covers many issues, but in particular children's self-esteem and how to help them listen to themselves and their feelings. Children and anxiety is also discussed in detail, as it's a topic that's so apt at the moment.

Show notes

Katherine has an online 90 Day Parenting Reset Program to get parents to the front side of their parenting 

You can access her free webinar on the 3 Common Mistakes Parents Make and How to Reverse them on her website at 

https://www.consciousparentingrevolution.com/courses/webinar

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In this episode of My Baba's podcast Parental Control, paediatrician Dr Sophie Niedermaier-Patramani from Little Tummy joins the show to talk about children's winter health.

We talk about everything from childhood illnesses, chickenpox and measles to if it's actually possible to be too sterile in the home. We spoke a lot about the microbiome and its job in fighting infection and whether children actually need vitamin supplements or not.  The only thing the jury is still out on is whether you will catch a cold if you go out with wet hair!

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Sam Barclay is a graphic designer, photographer and author of the book 'I Wonder What it's Like to be Dyslexic'.

Dyslexia is a subject very close to my heart, both my husband and I are dyslexic and have unsurprisingly passed it on to our children. This book absolutely gripped me from page one, mainly because Sam isn't a dyslexic specialist but he is, himself, dyslexic.

His book makes it really easy for people to understand what it's like to have dyslexia and in particular, what the difficulties associated with reading.

I was delighted to welcome Sam to the podcast to talk through what it's like to be dyslexic.

We touched on everything from graphics and typeface to the creativity and communication skills that many people with dyslexia have. There are so many resources for the subject, but ones that I particularly like are Helen Arkyll Dyslexia Centre, Do it Profiler.com, and Crested.org.uk.

I'll leave you with my favourite dyslexia quote from one of the most famous dyslexics, Albert Einstein. "Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid."

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We're joined in the hot seat this week by the one, the only Fireman Sam. 

Fireman Sam joins us ahead of Bonfire Night to share his tips on encouraging young children to understand the importance of fire safety at this time of year. 

With the majority of organised firework displays cancelled this year, Fireman Sam is on the case to ensure that our pets, kids and hedgehogs are kept safe on 5th November while some families choose to celebrate in their own back gardens. 

• Fireworks are exciting but they can be very dangerous. Listen to your grown-up about where is a safe place to stand
• Keep your sparkly sparkler safely away from other people and don't run with them
• Wear your gloves when you hold sparklers and keep them away from your body
• Once sparklers are finished, put them into a bucket of water, don't pick them back up
• Make sure you wrap up warm and don't wear dressing up clothes
• Stand at a safe distance from where fireworks are being let off and stay close to the grown ups
• Don't be tempted to throw anything into a bonfire or poke at it with sticks
• Be guided by your grown up this Bonfire Night and don't play in an area where fireworks are being let off.

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Amy Forbes-Robertson is co-founder of It Happens Education, the organisation set up to provide educational workshops on relationships and sex education.

They work with a range of ages and stages across the UK. Whether it's puberty or pornography, sexting or STIs, contraception or consent, festivals or freshers week you're worried about, It Happens Education is a great place to start. I listened to Amy at a sex and relationship seminar last year and immediately asked her to come on the podcast.  She made the whole subject matter so easy and unembarrassing and I read her book cover to cover the day it landed on my desk.  This is a must-read book for any parent.

Over the last 15 years, Amy Forbes-Robertson (BA, MPhil, PGCE, QTS) has worked in Education. During this time, Amy has interacted with young people and their parents, carers and teachers; as a volunteer, a project leader, a community outreach worker, in youth work, as a school governor and as a secondary-school classroom teacher (KS3 & KS4).

Amy is also responsible for running the Beacons Project at The Hay Literature Festival. Furthermore, Amy has worked as an accredited trainer for Cambridge Assessment International Examinations delivering teacher training both in the UK and abroad.

Working alongside Alex Fryer, (formerly www.alexandrafryer.com), a nurse and medical practitioner. They have formed www.ithappens.education. Alex and Amy deliver gentle and age-appropriate messages about Relationships, Sex & Health Education (RSHE). Moreover, they provide friendly and accurate information answering the many questions young people have about bodies, babies, birth, puberty, body image, confidentiality, masturbation, pornography, pleasure, sexting, delaying the onset of sexual activity, healthy relationships, LGBTQ+ issues, consent, STIS, contraception, festivals, gap years and university. They pride themselves on honesty and a good sense of humour, and their 'straight-talking' has been well received by over 200 schools. They now have 4 speakers delivering their work in schools across the whole country. Amy is increasingly being asked to speak at educational conferences and the teacher-training element of the business is blossoming as Statutory RSE approaches.

It Happens Education LLP also worked closely with 'The Sex Education Forum' on their 2019 'Countdown to Statutory RSE Conference', as well as contributing to current research projects gleaning student opinions on Relationships and Sex Education. More recently, Alex and Amy have been carrying out advisory and consultancy work in television & media exploring the history of Sex Education in society with Spelthorne Community TV. 3 of these programmes; 'Let's talk about Sex', were shown on Channel 4 early in 2019 and were very well-received. Currently 'It Happens' is developing a strong connection with some of the big names in UK Events & Festivals and using their platform to increase knowledge and information around the party-scene so that young people are more informed and able to understand the sex/substances and 'harm-reduction' conversation.

Through her years of experience, Amy intrinsically understands the lives of children and teenagers lives. She has been closely involved in pastoral care and safeguarding issues and is familiar with the challenges that young people face as they experiment with their own identity, friendships and relationships.

Amy supports the view that providing young people with good information is vital. She believes that talking honestly about bodies, relationships, sex and their recreational lives is essential. Only then can we enable young people to feel more confident, make more-informed and safer choice...

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Amy's recommended reading list:

• UK government's 50-page document - The Guidance to Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education
• UK government's National Curriculum in England - Science Programmes of Study: Key Stages 1 and 2.
• Amy's book: Brilliant Questions About Growing UP: Simple Answers About Bodies and Boundaries

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"This month I was so happy to speak with Joanna Jensen, founder Childs Farm and consultant dermatologist, Dr Jennifer Crawley. It seemed very apt to be talking-to them during National Eczema Week.

I had so many questions for these two from how to look after a baby's skin all the way up to tween issues and sun damage throughout the ages.  I have been using Childs Farm products on my children from day one, and  I love the story behind the brand. Joanna is an absolute inspiration to women, and I always call on her for anything skin related.

During the pandemic, my hands have taken a real battering and that was one of the main reasons along with it being National Eczema week that I wanted to pick her brains.  I hope you find this podcast as interesting as I did. Do feel free to share it on the school run." Leonora Bamford, founder of My Baba.

How to maintain healthy skin in children - how sensitive is a newborn's skin?  

When and how you can start using Baby products in the bath?

Tips on baby massage/moisturiser application

Newborns/babies: what skin issues should I be looking out for? 

Freckles and moles? When to seek advice. 

What is eczema? How can I treat eczema?

When should sunscreen be applied? How much sunscreen should you apply? 

Vitamin D - is there a time when you shouldn't put on sunscreen?

Does a UVA swimsuit offer more protection?

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Craig is the head of community insight at Super Awesome, the company that's drafted in to help big-name companies engage safely with kids online and so much more. This is a space and topic I'm desperate to know more about as often it can be quite literally like banging your head against a brick wall.

I called on Craig to answer some of those all-important questions. Please do get in touch if you have questions I can pass on.

Craig Donaghy Bio

Craig Donaghy has over 15 years of experience as a producer, writer, editor and community manager working on kids products including magazines, books and apps. He's the Head of Community Insight and Child Safeguarding at SuperAwesome.

SuperAwesome powers the kids digital media ecosystem. Our kidtech is used by hundreds of brands and content-owners to enable safe digital engagement with the global kids audience.

Show notes

Craig Donaghy's recommended resources for updated advice and tips on how to stay safe: 

Super Awesome - https://www.superawesome.com

PopJam - https://web.popjam.com/home

NSPCC - https://www.nspcc.org.uk

Net Aware - https://www.net-aware.org.uk

Childnet - https://www.childnet.com Internet Matters

Parents Zone - https://parentzone.org.uk/home

Commonsense Media - https://www.commonsensemedia.org

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We're joined by the incredible Lucinda Miller, clinical lead and founder of NatureDoc Clinic. Lucinda joins the show this month to talk to about cows' milk protein intolerance (CMPA) and the role of probiotics, gut bacteria, nutrition, and how to climb the milk ladder.

Lucinda explains the differences between non-IgE, IgE allergies and lactose intolerance, how to test for allergies as well as exploring possible links between CMPA and Caesarians versus natural births.

This is a really helpful episode for new mothers in particular, as we discuss the tell-tale signs of a dairy intolerance, what to look out for and what you should do if you suspect your baby is suffering.

Show notes

Article: Cows' Milk Protein Allergy: The Low-Down On Substitute Milks & Nutrients - Lucinda Miller

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