Pink Flamingo Podcast

Today on the podcast I am talking to Lucie, mother of two girls, Imani, 11 and Bibi, 4 & a cavalier king charles spaniel Cherry Pie who is 9 months old . Lucie is a Medical herbalist living in Glasgow and has specialised more recently in postpartum care and pediatric medicine. We talk about how non-negotiable and essential self care is in motherhood but how this doesn't happen overnight. 11 years...

In today's episode I am joined by my partner Harry as we share some of the highs and lows of our own postpartum journey. 🦩Our first year of parenthood revolved largely around my boobs...and not in a good way. We share a lot about my very painful breastfeeding journey and the endless quest to make it work including lactation consultants, health visitors, midwives, NHS feeding specialists, nipple s...

In todays episode i chat with Tortie, my own doula and mother to Inigo, 14, Phoebe,11 and Zelda who is nearly 8 months old. Tortie speaks to having a baby whilst mothering adolescents and while she felt nervous about this age gap during her pregnancy, in has turned out to be the biggest blessing and something Tortie feels so grateful for. Emotionally it provided Tortie the time to reflect and lear...

Today I speak to Polly, mother of Eben who is nine months old, a yoga facilitator and facial therapist. Polly moved from living on a house boat in London to the Gower in Wales just before Eben was born. Polly loved being pregnant, she felt firmly in her power and was planning a homebirth. Sadly homebirthing wasnt an option at the time of her birth and she got trapped in the cascade of intervention...

In today's episode I am talking to Emma about her postnatal journey with her son Oska who is 16 months old. Emma is single mother, a Medical Herbalist and currently living out in Bali. Emma had a homebirth with her Doula and best friend present and was looked after by friends and family in the first few weeks by dropping off lots of food to nourish her. She was physically forced to rest as she exp...

In today's episode I am joined by Laura, mother of Forrest who is 3.5 and Tanner who is 1. I just want to add a *TRIGGER WARNING* before i introduce her, as Laura shares a traumatic birth story during this episode around 21 minutes in. Laura shares her radically different births and postpartums first and second time around. Her first birth during covid was very traumatic and left her incredibly cr...

In todays episode I had the joy of speaking with Catrin @mama_lleud, mother of 5 children and many animals all living nestled between the mountains and the sea in Eryri, North Wales. Catrin has raised her children at home, opting to home educate and somehow manages to also have been a birth worker since 2017 and now specialising in postpartum support and providing nutritious food boxes to local wo...

In todays episode I had the honour of chatting with my best friend Deya about the last 6 months of postpartum life with her son, my godson, Woody. Deya had a restful start to motherhood which she credits to her Doula who encouraged her to spend time thinking and preparing for postpartum  when she was still pregnant and also reading the book The First Forty Days. As a very outdoorsy active person i...

      In todays episode I chatted with the lovely Sophia, a doula and mother to Elba, 9 and Wren, 7. Sophia experienced two very different postpartum with her daughters. As a young mum at 24 years old and the first of her friends to have a baby, she wanted to show the world and herself that this new chapter wouldn't drastically change her life but she quickly learnt that she was lying to herself a...

In todays episode I am speaking to Jessica about her mothering experience with her daughter River who is now nearly two. Jessica runs Mother Circle in Bristol, which came out of her own postpartum journey and the lonliness Jessica felt spending hours and hours alone with a baby at home each day, she missed the village, didnt understand what was happening to her and wanted a space to talk...and tha...

In todays episode I am joined by my freind Serena who shares how the last 15 months has been with her son Max. Serena shares how pink she has found postpartum and while not pretending its all been easy breasy she feels more herself that she did before Max. She shares with us 5 amazing reasons why she thinks her experience has been as such and there is so much to learn and take from all 5 of these...

In today's episode I am chatting with Katie about the last 19 months with baby Elliot. We focus on sleep deprivation today and navigating the realities and normality of a baby who continues to wake at night well into the 2nd year of life and beyond. We chat about the socially isolating aspects of this, the feeling of dashed hopes that tonight might be better, the clock watching at night, compariso...

In todays episode I am speaking to Mat, who is our first father on the podcast to Bowie, 3 and River 1. As mat reminds us, it is both flamingos that loose their pink during the early days of postpartum and is why i wanted this space to be about, and for, both mums and dads.  Following a homebirth with their first child they had a very slow and cosy early postpartum experience which Mat largely put...

In this weeks episode I spoke to Holly, mother to Jasper, 5 and Slyvie, 1. Holly had two somewhat similar but very different births of her children and went on to have two very different postpartum experiences too. We talk about why Holly thinks she found the transition from 1-2 childern a lot easier than having just one, why Holly consciously choose to wait and have a 4 year age gap and the pros...

This week on the podcast I am talking to Laura Gwilliam, mother to Rui who is nearly 3 years old now and soon to be brother to another baby on the way! Laura describes motherhood as the greatest spiritual journey she has ever be on. She shares how her their family have shifted the lifestyle to the needs of their growing family, birthing Rui in the depths of the Scottish highlands to quieten the no...

In todays episode I am speaking with Annie Clempner Clarke about the last 14 months with her son Marlowe. Despite being pretty clued up on the challenges of motherhood, Annie's postpartum experience still took her so far away from what she had anticipated and feeling like herself .Following a medically managed pregnancy and birth, Annie went on to face huge feeding challenges with Marlowe but with...

In today's episode I am talking to Sus Davy about her postpartum experience with her son Rennan who is now 18 months. Sus had a planned C-Section and shortly after the birth, Ren terrifyingly stopped breathing and was admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit where he spent 2 weeks being cared for and was diagnosed with a rare condition called panhypopituitarism. Sus had a really tough start to...

In this weeks episode Sophia Forrester is my guest. Sophia is a fellow medical herbalist and has a 8 month old daughter called Eden. Sophia planned for a homebirth but after a long and hard labour, lacking sleep and fuel and with meconium in her waters she delivered Eden by C-section. Sophia shares how painful her body was in the aftermath of this surgery and how the early days of postpartum at ho...

In today's episode I am speaking to Mary Flynn about her postpartum experience with her daughter Sofie, who is nearly 13. Mary had a wonderful pregnancy and gave birth in Austria where she was living at the time. Despite Mary's birth being far from what she had originally hoped and resulting in an unplanned c-section, it was actually the way she was treated in the early period after her birth that...

In this, the very first episode of the Pink Flamingo Podcast, I am joined by the gorgeous Sarah Malcolm who tells the story of her postpartum experience with her first son, Oscar, who was 15 months at the time of recording. Sarah didn't get the birth experience she wanted but did still describe her emergency C-section as a beautiful way for Oscar to arrive in this world. It was the post birth days...