Gentle parenting sounds great in theory. Stay calm. Validate feelings. Don’t shout. In this episode we talk about the gap between what parenting looks like online and what it actually looks like in real life. The pressure to stay calm in public. The guilt when you lose your temper.

Gayle talks about giving behaviour advice as a health visitor while going home to two brothers battering lumps out of each other, and how nothing humbles you faster than your own children ignoring every strategy you’ve ever recommended.

We take the piss out of the perfection myth, talk about why staying regulated does help (when you can manage it), and wonder what the people of Glasgow would make of the gentle parenting movement!

In episode two we are talking about family who think they’re entitled to immediate access to your baby, partners who forget whose side they’re on when their mothers start making demands, and the friction between you and your partner that’s completely normal but nobody talks about.

Plus we’ve got thoughts on the Beckhams this week and some valuable advice for wee Vicky, a confession of the week that’ll make you feel better about your own family drama, and Gayle reveals something petty she did years ago to a senior midwife who crossed her. Let’s just say there’s a left shoe that’s never been seen again and if you’re thinking about being a cow to Gayle - don’t.

If you’re pregnant, postnatal, or just want to hear two midwives with zero filter talk about the reality of having a baby and family life, this one’s for you.

Two midwives with zero filter telling the REAL truth about pregnancy, birth and parenting - not the Instagram version.

This is Episode 1. Meet Gayle (chaos, ADHD, health visitor) and Eva (organised, runs a scan clinic in Glasgow). We're complete opposites but share the same dark sense of humour. Instead of seeking therapy like normal adults, we started a podcast.

In this episode:

​We introduce ourselves (and immediately overshare)

​Why Instagram's perfect pregnancy culture grates on us

​Confession of the Week: a mortifying membrane sweep story

We're sick of the polished "blessed journey" content. Pregnancy is hard. Birth can be traumatic. Parenting is relentless. Everyone's pretending they're fine when they're falling apart.

Here's the truth. No filter.

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