The First Six Months – Details, episodes & analysis

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The First Six Months

Pippa Evans

Kids & Family

Frequency: 1 episode/18d. Total Eps: 29

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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30/07/2025
#81
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Parenting
28/07/2025
#81
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Parenting
25/07/2025
#83
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Parenting
23/07/2025
#61
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16/07/2025
#67
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Parenting
15/07/2025
#65
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Parenting
03/09/2024
#81
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Parenting
02/09/2024
#42
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Parenting
01/09/2024
#49

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https://www.instagram.com/chine_mcdonald
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Unmasking Mary and The Highlighter Girls - Chine McDonald

Season 3 · Episode 10

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 • Duration 53:40

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' out there - the kinda of person who might be looking to get an A* in motherhood. We unpack the many mysteries around where our unconscious ideals might be coming from, as well as visiting Chine's first six months which included forceps, A&E, Bursitis, so much love and a poonami in a Board Meeting.

You can follow Chine on Instagram @chine_mcdonald and her book Unmaking Mary is on sale now. Her podcast Motherhood vs The Machine is also worth a listen.

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Helen Jukes - Mother Animal meets Improvisation

Thursday, April 17, 2025 • Duration 42:24

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 what the animal kingdom has to teach us about our still pretty victorian birth and parenting practises. We discuss everything from chaos and structure, baboons, the use of the phrase 'baby brain' and why we love bats.

You can find Helen on Instagram @helen.jukes and her book, Mother Animal, is out now in the UK.

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Mastitis, IV Drips and Vaginal Mesh (amongst other things)

Season 3 · Episode 7

Thursday, April 17, 2025 • Duration 46:10

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 pregnant with her next one. We talk about prolapses, mastitis, other cultures honouring new mothers rather than hiding them away and many, many other things.

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My Persona Has Been Entirely Consumed By My Physicality

Thursday, April 17, 2025 • Duration 23:52

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), the pros and cons of having a Midwife for a mother and missing that soft, soft baby.

Elizabeth is the host of @sacred_podcast - an exploration in talking to people different than ourselves.

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Relentless Enrichment

Season 3 · Episode 6

Friday, February 28, 2025 • Duration 47:44

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, having a fabulous birth despite bits of placenta being left inside and the realisation that despite being committed to breastfeeding, she just wanted her breasts to be hers again.

#birth #sixmonths #placenta #IVF #miraclebaby #Bristol #mums #instagrammums #life #mothering

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You Will Never Again Do Things You 'Quite' Want To Do

Season 3 · Episode 5

Monday, February 24, 2025 • Duration 46:41

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 Montgomery's names written down to remind her that people had had children and managed to have a career in comedy. We talk about the contradiction of how any minute spent with your child is not a wasted minute but also that there’s a lot of time to fill when you have a baby.

#mcs #crushed #Margaret #Sixmonths #baby #mama #lifelessons #fog #delights

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Forgetting to Feed Your Baby

Season 3 · Episode 4

Monday, February 17, 2025 • Duration 57:20

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. Always a pleasure to speak to one of my favourite Edinburgh comedy pals.

#bloodclots #firstsixmonths #baby #mum #backtowork #csection #IVF

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Love and Anxiety

Season 3 · Episode 1

Thursday, February 6, 2025 • Duration 44:57

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 panic at the sudden realisation that children are forever. She also opens up about her depression and the support she received from a Mental Health Midwife.
@thefunnymummyuk

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Breast Is Best Except When It's Not

Season 3 · Episode 2

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 • Duration 42:41

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 six months is so tricky. We also agree that Sleep When The Baby Sleeps is the most annoying advice.

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Pull A John And Yoko

Season 3 · Episode 3

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 • Duration 53:18

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 awake, you need to call Mary Poppins.

@melissajacques

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