Me After You

No matter how it happens, motherhood changes you forever.
Me After You is the show that asks the question: So, what now?

Each episode, host Laura Byrne guides some very different women through their very different stories of life after birth. In this first episode, we’re talking Identity, and you’ll hear from women like Alex Nation, who got pregnant at 18 and wrestled with being a kid with a baby, Narelda Jacobs, who had a shotgun wedding before coming out as gay to her very conservative family and a blogging mum with a huge following who never thought she wanted to become a mother.

And all of them have struggled with the same thing - who the hell am I, now that I’m a mum?

C REDITS

Host: Laura Byrne @ladyandacat

Executive Producer: Elise Cooper @elisejcooper

Producer and Editor: Lem Zakharia

Head of Audio: Bridget Northeast

Thanks to all the mums who featured in this episode, for sharing their stories to make all mums feel like they’re not alone

• Marcia Leone - @notsomumsy Not So Mumsy Book https://www.booktopia.com.au/not-so-mumsy-marcia-leone/book/9781760525071.html
• Narelda Jacobs - @nareldajacobs
• Maria Paz Hartado
• Evie Farrell @mumpacktravel, book Backyard To Backpack https://bit.ly/eviefarrellbook
• Grace Bell
• Melanie Dimmitt, book Special: Antidotes to Obsessions That Come With A Child’s Disability https://bit.ly/melaniedimmittbook
• Alex Nation - @alexandranation
• Emilyeen Filardi

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No you're not losing it, your emotions have changed and science says that having a child changes your brain forever.

In latest episode of parenting podcast This Glorious Mess, Dr Golly breaks down the reason you may cry at the news. Or feel overcome by emotions at the smallest things.

It turns out that your amygdala, your brain’s emotional HQ, opens up a whole new range of emotions designed to help you care for your child. But it also starts to influence how you interact with the world around you... and guess what, its forever!

You can listen to more of This Glorious Mess here.

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CREDITS:

Host: Tegan Natoli, Annaliese Todd

With thanks to Dr Golly & Thom Lion

Producer: Grace Rouvray

Audio Producer: Lu Hill

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

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Its been a while since we checked with you here at Me After You.

Life can get hectic—between chores, work, and managing the mental load, it's easy for connection with your partner to slip down the priority list. Before you know it, you might find yourselves in the "roommate phase."

On a recent episode of our parenting podcast This Glorious Mess we explored the telltale signs of the roommate phase and shared tips on how to reconnect. We also had a dad, bring his own perspective on navigating the roommate dynamic in relationships.

And to wrap things up, we have a song that might just hit you right in the feels.

You can read Bek Day's Mamamia article 'I coach married parents through the "roommate phase". Here's the 2 day experiment I swear by.'

Like what you heard? You can listen to more of This Glorious Mess wherever you get your podcasts.

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CREDITS:

Hosts: Tegan Natoli, Annaliese Todd & Sarah Marie Fahd

With thanks to Thom Lion

Producer: Grace Rouvray

Audio Producer: Lu Hill

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

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A mum with a birth plan, and a baby with a very different idea...
Michelle Battersby’s birth was long, her baby got stuck and she was forced to pivot to a birth she had never considered.
The entrepreneur, marketing guru & founder of Sunroom shared her diary of a birth.
Diary Of A Birth features mums telling their miraculous stories of bringing life into the world, and we have all medical questions and concerns cleared up by one of Australia’s favourite paediatricians, Dr Golly.
If you’d like to share your birth story, we’d love to hear from you at [email protected] or send us a voice note here.

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CREDITS:
Host: Ksenija Lukich
Expert: Dr Golly
Executive Producer: Georgie Page
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach and Lu Hill
Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

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Going from one to two, you think it's going to be easy, right?

But then it happens and it's not at all what you anticipated.

No one tells you that each pregnancy, each birth and each kid is going to be different.

The second time around for Laura Byrne was a completely different ball game. Laura learnt that Marlie-Mae was an 'easy baby', pregnancy and postpartum was a whole lot harder and that adding another kid isn't double the work, it's triple.

Holly Wainwright sits down with Laura for a very honest conversation about her very busy year, going from one to two.

CREDITS

Host: Holly Wainwright

Guest: Laura Byrne

Producer: Mikayla Floriano

Audio Producer: Leah Porges

Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

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