Mum Brains Abroad

Summer in Copenhagen hits different when you've got a toddler and no clear routine. In this episode, Annika and Anjelli talk candidly about what summer actually looks like as expat moms in Denmark — from daycare closures and substitute pedagogues to summer houses, swimming spots, and the legendary Thomas Dambo giants hidden across the city. They also compare summer culture in Denmark with their ho...

Episode Summary: In this episode of Mom Brains Abroad , hosts Annika and Anjelli dive into a fun and candid Q&A using ChatGPT-generated questions about motherhood, parenting abroad, and chasing ambitions while raising little ones. Recording from a Copenhagen heatwave, they reflect on what it truly means to build a life — and a family — far from home. From cargo bikes and forest kindergartens t...

In this deeply honest episode, Anjelli and Annika — two expat moms living in Copenhagen — open up about what it's really like to raise children far from home and family. They share the emotional weight of missing milestones, the guilt of choosing a life abroad, and the grief that comes with aging parents living thousands of miles away — feelings that many expat parents carry quietly. Anjelli and A...

Episode Summary Hosts Annika and Anjelli open up about one of the most personal topics yet: their breastfeeding journeys. Two very different experiences, one honest and judgment-free conversation. Anjelli prepared thoroughly after her midwife's encouragement, but a post-birth infection sent her body into stress, tanking her milk supply. Despite over a month of triple feeding, pumping around the cl...

Episode Summary: The first days after birth are intense, emotional, and nothing like the Instagram version. Annika and Anjelli get honest about what those early days really looked like — the hospital stays, the pain, the sleepless nights, and the moments that caught them completely off guard. In this episode: What the first 24 hours felt like for each of them — C-section recovery vs. an unmedicate...

Episode Summary: In this episode of Mom Brains Podcast, hosts Anjelli and Annika go deep on their birth experiences in Denmark. They share how they each approached their birth plans — Anjelli hoping for a natural, unmedicated birth and Annika facing the reality of a planned C-section due to her daughter being breech. From birth prep classes (public vs. private, Danish vs. English) to the moment th...

Episode Decription: In Episode 3 of Mum Brains Abroad , hosts Annika and Anjelli take listeners through their full pregnancy journeys — from the shock of those first positive tests to the final weeks before birth. They share how and when they announced their pregnancies, compare their very different first trimester experiences (including Anjelli's severe Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG)), laugh about u...

Episode Description: Welcome to Mum Brains Abroad ! In their very first episode, Annika and Anjelli introduce themselves — two expat mums living in Copenhagen navigating first-time motherhood far from home. Annika is a German-Australian PhD researcher; Anjelli is a Filipina entrepreneur. Together they are rewriting what "mum brain" means. They share how they met through a pregnancy community brunc...

Episode description: Did you always know you wanted to be a mum? In this episode, the hosts get honest about where they each started — one who never felt the pull until her thirties, and one who always knew but let life lead the way. They share how their relationships shaped their paths to parenthood, what their fertility journeys looked like, and the very different (and very real) moments they fo...

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