Mum's The Word! The Parenting Podcast - WE'RE BACK AT THE BABY SHOW!

Episode Date: October 20, 2024

In this exciting new episode of Mum's The Word, Georgia Jones and Kelsey Parker are back with big news! 🎉 They announce their return to The Baby Show with Lidl GB, where they’ll be recording a li...ve episode full of fun, laughs, and real talk about motherhood. Want to join them in person? Stay tuned as they reveal how you can snag some free tickets to be part of the event!Kelsey also opens up about her new relationship, sharing what life has been like moving forward, while taking a heartfelt moment to pay tribute to her late friend Liam Payne, reflecting on their friendship and the impact he had on her life.As always, they answer your burning listener questions—from mum fails to hilarious parenting moments. Don’t miss this heartfelt, fun-filled episode!Tune in for all the exciting details and a touching tribute that you won’t want to miss. 💖A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:01:28 Hello, hello, hello. We're back people. Welcome to a brand new episode of Mum's Word. I'm Georgia Jones. And I'm Kelsey Parker. And do we have an episode in store for you today? Guys, we are back at the Baby Show and we've got an amazing opportunity for you to join us there. So if you go to www.thebabyshow.co.uk forward slash Olympia and enter the code PRMUMSTHEWORD
Starting point is 00:01:57 at the checkout you could win a free pair of tickets and it's PRMUMSTHEWORD all in capital letters. Someone has got some very exclusive news they're about to reveal. I've got a question I might have seen a few things in the news about somebody potentially having a new boyfriend. I have a boyfriend. She's got a boyfriend. I've got a boyfriend. And as ever we're going to jump into your listener questions. We are just givers, That's what we are givers. That sounds wrong. Ha ha ha ha!
Starting point is 00:02:29 We are givers. Kelsey's more of a taker. So go grab a cuppa. Get comfy. And let's jump into this brand new episode of Mums the Word. So before we start today's episode properly, something very, very sad woke us both up this morning, didn't it? And Kels, this is actually a very sad day for you, wasn't it? We've had a little cry. Well, you've had a little cry, haven't you?
Starting point is 00:02:56 I've had a cry. I've got it all out. Those that know me know that I hate crying so much. I made a cry. I forced it on her. I gave her a cuddle and she just couldn't resist a little sobbing to my shoulders. But we woke up to the sad news that Liam Payne's died. And you knew him, didn't you, Carol? She was friends and he was with you. Well, he, I mean, he was good friends with Tom. He was at Tom's funeral, was he?
Starting point is 00:03:19 Yeah. Well, I think there was this whole thing of like, one day and the wanted, and they did have beef back in the day. They did have beef back in the day. Oh my gosh. I mean, The Wanted, I thought they just went out and started on everyone. And to be fair, Tom was like one of the main culprits. I'd be like, why have you just got to put things out on Twitter? Just zip it.
Starting point is 00:03:37 If you've got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all. I literally used to be mortified. But do you know what? I think when Tom got sick, it really resonated with Liam. And he obviously reached out. He was really there for Tom. And we did this whole massive gig for Stand Up To Cancer, which we raised like over a million pounds.
Starting point is 00:03:59 And Liam actually came and performed at that. Oh, did he? Then when Tom passed, Liam came to Tom's funeral. And do you know what I mean? Do you know when you think to someone, you're a good soul. Like he did not, he didn't need to come to Tom's funeral. He felt that he needed to be there. He was so supportive.
Starting point is 00:04:18 And then he always used to reach out to me. He'd be like, Kel, so I can see that you're doing so well. He always checked in. Yeah, we were just saying as well before, weren't we? It's so sad, because you've seen that side of him, which is a lovely, caring human, right? Going through grief, how I have, you know, Liam's 31. We lost Tom at 33, it's no age for either of them.
Starting point is 00:04:42 It's no age, is it? He was still a young lad. Like that, it's just so sad. And you posted something today, didn't you? And it was like, and actually when I read it, I was like, oh God, I'm glad you posted that. Cause it was about grieving, even if you didn't really know the person.
Starting point is 00:04:59 Cause when I woke up this morning, I felt really sad. And yeah, like obviously we went around Australia with the 1D boys, because it was when McBusted were doing their thing and they were on tour with 1D. Oh really? Yeah, yeah. So we did the whole, a whole month in Australia with 1D.
Starting point is 00:05:17 And he came to our house before when they recorded a song for their album with the McFly boys. But I didn't know him well, but still this morning I was like, oh God, that's awful. Like it's just horrible, isn't it? When someone- It's horrible.
Starting point is 00:05:33 And for me this morning has really resonated because I'm, you know, when I had to put the news out about Tom, you know, it was just such a surreal experience for me because I had to actually come up with like basically a press release of what I was gonna say and what I was gonna do. And we were counting down like the hours
Starting point is 00:05:54 when this was gonna go out. And it was just so, I was so numb to the world. And obviously I didn't really wanna face it. But I remember, like even now people come up to me and go, oh, Tom's death really affected me, it really affected me. But I feel really affected by this because I feel like I'm on the outside. Yeah, you can see it from a different angle.
Starting point is 00:06:15 About how everyone felt towards Tom. Yeah, but at the time when everyone was like, you know, doing posts and things going, oh, like, you know, we're so sad Tom's died that didn't really know him. Did you, how did you feel towards those people at that time? Do you know what? I think in this world,
Starting point is 00:06:36 I think love can conquer anything. And I think it was that love. I felt so much love and I felt like, oh my God, everyone loved Tom as much as I did. Yeah, yeah. So it was was quite a comforting thing for you. And I think for Liam's family, it will be that. It's so tragic. And how do you get over it?
Starting point is 00:06:53 You don't. No. That is it. I'm living with grief. I am literally, you know, two and a, well, almost three years next year. Yeah. And I'm still here and I'm still living
Starting point is 00:07:03 and dealing with grief. Do you think you'll ever stop grieving? Do you think you're gonna be grieving forever? I think, yeah, ultimately I think I'll grieve forever because also it's, you're grieving the life that you once had. Yeah, of course. And those memories don't go.
Starting point is 00:07:19 Even for Liam's girlfriend, for Liam's mom, Liam's dad. Son. His son, like your grief is what would life had been if they stayed. And I think that's for me, it's my life was going in such a direction where, like I always say, it was like the perfect family,
Starting point is 00:07:42 2.4 family, like mom, dad, little girl, little boy, so perfect, married, met Tom at a young age, like it couldn't have been any better for me. Yeah, boom. Yeah, your world falls apart. And you know, even for Liam's family, it's so different for us because for me, obviously, now, I hated when people used to say this to me,
Starting point is 00:08:05 like, oh, well, you grieved Tom when he got diagnosed. No, I didn't grieve Tom then. I got a different Tom when he was diagnosed and I lost the Tom. So I guess I did have time. And it's, but when things happen so suddenly. And obviously he's left behind, I think his little boy bears seven.
Starting point is 00:08:24 And that got to me this morning. I was thinking, oh my God, I can't imagine telling Cooper at this age, your dad's dead. Your dad's died. Because obviously, Bodie and Aurelia were a lot younger and didn't necessarily understand at that time what that really, really meant. No, we're living it in a different way now.
Starting point is 00:08:45 Even last night she was asking me like, did dad want a girl or a boy when I was born? Like she asked me stuff all the time. We're just, we grieve, like that's, we're grieving Tom every day and they will grieve Liam every day. Yeah, yeah. But I imagine there's gonna be so many more questions.
Starting point is 00:09:02 Cause I imagine for earlier, cause obviously Birdie was baby, wasn't he? So he, I imagine he's not gonna have really any memory of Tom being alive. Does that make you sad? Yeah, cause he was only 18 months. Yeah. And then I just think like Bodie's gonna be four.
Starting point is 00:09:19 Child, four years of my life. Yeah. Like four years, like that is such a long time, but such a short time when there are only four. You're like my life for the past four years has changed so drastically. I mean massively so Cal's like in every sense of the word. Every sense, every aspect like it's just, it is crazy.
Starting point is 00:09:42 But bringing it back to bear, I mean, he's seven, it's how like Cheryl's gonna deal with it, how you deal with grief. And you know, I've had to learn really on the job. I am dreading the day when a grandparent dies because I have no idea. Like that's brand new. That's something that you don't,
Starting point is 00:10:05 you aside, don't often navigate in life in the parenting, on the parenting side of things until it eventually happens. But you have no idea how to deal with that. And also I think it is all age dependent too, which I know it shouldn't be, but when my grandma died, she was in her 90s. So I was like, she had a fantastic life in her nineties.
Starting point is 00:10:26 But we lost my granddad, so Tom died in the March, we lost my granddad in the December. But my family, obviously we all know, the listeners all know how close we all are. Like both of you suspend every Thursday with my granddad, at my nan and granddad's. So they had to deal with that the same year as losing their dad.
Starting point is 00:10:44 Yeah, it's a lot, isn't it? It's a hell of a lot. But yeah, well, our thoughts are obviously with, you know, Liam's family and- And Bear. And Bear, yeah. And I hope you're all right, Kelsey. So we are back at the baby show.
Starting point is 00:11:01 Well. They want us back. They want us back. We must have done such a good job. We must have done such a good job. We must have done so well on that stage. You ever watched us? Thanks for coming. Thanks for cheering us on.
Starting point is 00:11:09 I mean, me and Kelsey just sat up there and chatted nonsense really, but we had a great time. I feel like, but with me and you, we still actually have got more stories within us. I think when we did the baby show, you told me a story that I'd never heard before. I was like, oh, I didn't know that. Our stories are never ending.
Starting point is 00:11:24 You just gotta delve deep into the back of my memory to try and find them. Have I told you this story before? Yeah, do you know this one? Do you know this one? Before I told a million other people. So we are going to be back at the baby show on Saturday the 26th of October.
Starting point is 00:11:46 From 1.30 till 2.15. So make sure, put it in your diaries, set your alarms, make sure you are there. Don't miss us on that stage. Do not miss us. So we're gonna be talking all things pre and post baby health with Dr. Marta and Claire Bourne. Now Claire is a women's health physio.
Starting point is 00:12:05 Why are you laughing already before you say this? I know what it is. Cause I'm gonna say something really. She's fingered you. She's fingered me, okay. The one and only woman that's fingered me was a lady called Claire. And it was non-sexual.
Starting point is 00:12:19 Yeah, no, so she checked my bits after I'd had. I actually needed that. Did you? I never had it do that. I actually needed that. Did you? I never had it, I should have. You should, I mean, when you're, like the thought of it is slightly mortifying, like, and as well, like, I remember when Klai did it, she was like, right, okay, so can you stand up?
Starting point is 00:12:36 And then she put her fingers up, and then she got me to cough, and I was literally just stood in my room, I was like, wow, someone could see me now doing this. If they couldn't see me now. Yeah, but she was absolutely incredible. Like she just made me feel so comfortable. And it was actually quite interesting
Starting point is 00:12:56 because I did need to do some pelvic floor exercises, that was for sure. Well, I actually do have a prolapse, don't I? Oh, do you have a prolapse? I've got really bad prolapse. Well, you need to speak to Claire No, I know but I need surgery. Basically. I'm at the point where I need surgery. Are you? Yeah Oh, I am bad. But then I haven't got time. World exclusive. World exclusive. Kelsey has a prolapse It's my bowel has actually pushed forward. Is it? Yeah. Oh, right. But again George
Starting point is 00:13:23 I know we was trying to make it happy, but I think for me with Tom and he was my priority, this was after I had Bodin, he came out like a rocket. Yeah. I didn't think about myself. So I didn't think about myself for a good two years. So obviously we lost Tom 18 months later. And then I was sat in the bath and I thought,
Starting point is 00:13:43 it just doesn't feel right down there. Like when I'm sat in the bath and I thought, it just doesn't feel right down there. Like when I'm sat in the bath, it doesn't feel right. And I thought, do you know what, Kels? Take yourself to the hospital. So I booked a private appointment and she was like, yeah, you've prolapsed. And I was like. So there's nothing you can do
Starting point is 00:14:00 unless you get an operation. Unless you have surgery, because mine is so severe. Mate, you're gonna get surgery though. I don't know. Yeah, but. I feel like I'm gonna give her another exclusive away if I say anything more.
Starting point is 00:14:11 But I don't know. Also, I haven't really had the time. I'm so busy. You have to take like two, three weeks off work and you can't even peel a potato. My mum did laugh when I said that. What do you mean you can't peel a potato? You can't do anything.
Starting point is 00:14:23 You've literally got to do nothing. And we know that Kelsey Parker is not good at doing nothing. Oh my God, can you imagine if we do, mum's a word, coming live from Kelsey Parker, who's just had her prolapse fix and she's not peeling potatoes. She's not peeling potatoes.
Starting point is 00:14:39 She is resting. But also, where the kids were a little bit younger as well, like you can't pick the kids up, you can't do anything. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the thing. This is the thing with mums. We don't care about ourselves enough to get ourselves sorted out, so then we just fall to pieces. And then the men are like, oh, she let herself go a little bit. It's like, no, I have not got time to disaster myself. Yeah, I've not got time to sit around and do nothing. Can you imagine, I'd have to have someone live with me basically for the time
Starting point is 00:15:07 that I need off, so it's just not worth it right now. I think well... I'll just walk around with me and my prolapse. Anyway, I can talk about that, can't I? Yeah, we can. So, definitely come and watch us at 1.30. She might give me some exercises. Oh, she will. She'll do something for you. I'm too far gone.
Starting point is 00:15:23 No, never, never. I'll say, is there any going back? So we have got, sorry, not to distract from your prolapse, but we have got 10 pairs of tickets. Can we just talk about my prolapse, not about the 10 pairs of tickets? Yes, we have 10 pairs of tickets to give away. We do, woohoo!
Starting point is 00:15:44 Don't say a mum's word doesn't give you anything. No, do not say that. Also, I feel like I know so many pregnant people that they better get themselves down and get winning these tickets for- Yeah, do you know what? I know quite a lot of pregnant. It's like it comes in waves, pregnancy.
Starting point is 00:15:57 Yeah, loads of my friends have just had babies now. I feel like it's gonna be everyone getting pregnant again. There must be like a real prime shagging time, isn't there, where everyone goes out here. Yeah, summer. Yeah. Or like January, everyone's really depressed, so they just have sex.
Starting point is 00:16:10 Yeah, loads of sex. We're indoors. Yeah. We've got no money. We've got no money. We've got no money. Let's have water, fucks. So if you go to www.thebabyshow.co.uk
Starting point is 00:16:24 forward slash Olympia and enter the code PRMOMSTHERWORD at the checkout. You could win a free pair of tickets and it's PRMOMSTHERWORD all in capital letters. PRMOMSTHERWORD. That was my input to that. Thank you. I feel like your accent maybe
Starting point is 00:16:43 made it come across a little bit better. Why should you come to the baby show? Why should they come and watch us Kelz? Okay so if you come to the baby show you will get to see me and Georgia on stage. Yes. You will also see my best friend Kelsey there who walks around like she owns the baby show. Last year Kelsey's best friend Kelsey may as well have been on the stage with us. She did some kind of demonstration with like she owns the baby show. Last year, Kelsey's best friend, Kelsey, may as well have been on the stage with us. She did some kind of demonstration with a pram, didn't she, for us?
Starting point is 00:17:09 Do you remember? If it gets awkward again, we'll just pick on Kelsey. We'll just pick on Kelsey. So the baby show is with Lidl, GB, and it's the UK's largest and best loved pregnancy and baby event. I went when I'd had Cooper. I was gonna literally ask you this, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:25 Yeah, did you go with Tom? Oh, Tom loved life. Didn't he? Oh, so did Danny. You get such good deals at the baby show. Like, you're gonna get the best prices for your prams, your bundles, anything you want. It's show prices, so that is why it's worth going.
Starting point is 00:17:41 Yeah, it is. George is looking down at the piece of paper thinking, does she know this is on there? How, how, where are you getting all this information from? No, I'm just telling you. But yeah Yeah it is. George is looking down at the piece of paper thinking does she know this is on there? How? Where are you getting all this information from? No I'm just telling you. But yeah it is true really good deals. If you want deals get yourself to the baby show because it's fantastic. And it's returning to the Olympia, formerly Olympia London from Friday the 25th until Sunday the 27th but we don't care about Friday or Sunday because we're there on Saturday. Saturday is the day.
Starting point is 00:18:06 That is the day. George, do you know what Tom loved when we went? What? You know the buggy park that you go and test drive. What one you can test drive. I got it, he did. He loved it and he was like, oh, I don't know which one.
Starting point is 00:18:16 I like the silver cross. What did we end up, I think we ended up with the mamas and papas in the end. Did you? We got jewels. Ooh. Which I quite like. Yeah, I've got the jewels. I you? We got jewels. Ooh. Which I quite like. Yeah, I've got the jewels.
Starting point is 00:18:26 I mean, I meant to be done a post for this. I've got the jewels. Flip you on. You know, like the travel bugger. Yeah. So good, it's one of the best ones. Is it? Does it fall down nice and slow?
Starting point is 00:18:36 It falls down, goes onto the plane. But you know they try and like, when you now try and get them on the plane, they try and- They're like, no, it's not the right size. Yeah, or they try and say, you've got to pay. I'm like, no.
Starting point is 00:18:44 Yeah, no. Sorry, EasyJet, not doing it's not the right size. Yeah, or they try and say, you've got to pay. I'm like, no. Yeah, no. Sorry, EasyJet, not doing it. Not doing it, absolutely not. There is a breastfeeding cafe there, isn't there? And places like warm food up and change babies. It's catered for moms, dads, and babies. And those grandparents you wanna take with you to buy your bundles.
Starting point is 00:19:04 Yeah, yeah. That's what I've done. Get your grandparents in. Take your grandparents with you to buy your bundles. Yeah, yeah. Get your grandparents with you. There's going to be a Dads panel, which is hosted by Dadvengers. Is that how you say it? Nigel Clarke with Blue Star, Simon Webb. I used to quite fancy him, you know. Yeah, I loved Blue. Yeah, why do we love boy bands?
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Starting point is 00:22:21 Acast.com. Sir, cows. their podcasts everywhere, AKS.com. So, Kels. Oh, Jo! I've got a question. I've got a question. I might have seen a few things in the news about somebody potentially having a new boyfriend. I have a boyfriend.
Starting point is 00:22:40 She's got a boyfriend. I've got a boyfriend. And I couldn't be happier for you. Oh, thank you. I'm a boyfriend. And I couldn't be happier for you. Oh, thank you. I am so happy. You are? Oh, this is music to my ears. How have you found the world of dating
Starting point is 00:22:55 since Tom passed away? Because obviously you're going to have some people being dickheads and going, oh, it's too soon. Or, you know, being like, what about Tom? But we move on. You can't just be a sad little widow. No, and also, you know, I always said, I was 31 when obviously Tom died.
Starting point is 00:23:15 Like, that is so young with two babies. This is not the beginning of the podcast, what I said. This is not the life I thought I was gonna have. It's been quite scary. I think the world of dating has changed so much. Obviously, I was with Tom for 13 years. And you and Tom met, do you meet organic? Like where did you meet?
Starting point is 00:23:33 In a club. We met in a club. In a club, this is what we used to do when we were younger, meeting clubs on nights out. And that's what I was so scared of. I wanted to meet someone authentically. And you know, I'm of the age as well where people, my friends probably are gonna get like scared now,
Starting point is 00:23:49 but you know, of like breaking up divorces. Like we're in that. That new stage of life where people are actually getting divorced. Yeah, so I've got a friend and then she was telling me about all these dates that she went on, on was it hinge? I felt unhinged when she she was telling me about all these dates that she went on, on, was it, was it hinge? I felt unhinged when she was saying to me.
Starting point is 00:24:08 I was like, there's no way I can do that. She said she went out with someone who had ADHD and he must've had 30 phone calls whilst they were at dinner. Stop. That is, one of my friends went on a date from a dating website and she got, she went back to his house and there was
Starting point is 00:24:25 like why would you go back to the house well i think that maybe it wasn't i don't think it was their first date well that's what you do isn't it like at some point at some point you go back to the house i don't know what happens i don't know yeah i can't remember how i what happened with me and danny no yeah he took me on a date. But she'd gone back and to the ceiling above his bed and on the posts of his bed, there was like rings. Stop, stop. You know like that you would tie a horse up to? Like a proper solid ring.
Starting point is 00:24:57 And she was like, what are they for? And he's like, I just like to tie women up. She's like, okay, I need to go now. Can someone call me an Uber? Help! And then you must have like a password for all your friends to be like, right, I'm sending it. I'm sending it, please someone call me. Fine, my friends were securely on
Starting point is 00:25:15 when she was in her dating phase. Yeah, he's so lovely, I'm so happy. Oh, I'm so glad. We met authentically and that's what I wanted, so. Yeah, so you met and how long, and we met authentically and that's what I wanted. So. Yeah, so you met and how long, so how long have you been? I'm not gonna give too much away.
Starting point is 00:25:32 Don't give too much away. So has he met the kids? Yes, he's met the kids. He's met the kids. Oh, and what did they think? Yeah, they really like him. Did they? They really like him, but I knew they would.
Starting point is 00:25:43 And has he met mom? Yeah, I've met his parents. Oh, okay. Right, so it's all definitely going in the right direction. It's going in the right direction, and he just makes me really happy. And I think for me, I've been trying to find happiness for a little while now.
Starting point is 00:26:02 Yeah, of course. And I just, you know, I'm always gonna have that guilt, I guess that's like part of the grief process as well is having the guilt that I'm here and I've met someone. It will never take away the love that I had for Tom. And with Will, he would never try and take that away from me either and the kids. And also Will lost his dad too.
Starting point is 00:26:29 So he was 21 when his dad passed, so he can relate to the children as well. Yeah, of course he can. Well, that's actually quite comforting for you knowing that he kind of understands those emotions as well. Tom would want you to be happy as well. Ultimately, that's what I guess you've got to remember is he's not, he didn't say to you on his deathbed,
Starting point is 00:26:49 Kelsey, you were never allowed to get with anyone ever again. I will be your- Please don't move on from me. I will be your one and only forever. To be fair, you know that I love my whole spiritual side of things. And when I have seen people, psychics and mediums, they've all said to me,
Starting point is 00:27:04 he's going on saying, can you just put yourself out there? Can you go and meet someone? You know, and I think for this year as well, you know, in January I took my wedding rings off. I needed to do that. Yeah, of course. So I feel like it's taken little steps, but I've met someone who makes me really happy.
Starting point is 00:27:21 Well, if you're happy, I'm happy, Kelsey. So yay, yay to that. Yay to that. That's really brought up the mood of this week's episode. It really has. Well done for that. So we've got some listener questions. Now, the first question that we got in
Starting point is 00:27:42 confused me a little bit because it makes me think, listener, that you potentially haven't listened to every episode of Mum's The Word, because it said, IVF, why is it swerved? I've asked so many mum podcasts to cover this topic. We have covered this topic, so in a number of different ways, actually. So what I strongly suggest is you go and listen to
Starting point is 00:28:02 the episode with Gareth and Olly Lock. Which I absolutely love. Yeah, and they are gorgeous humans and they had a surrogate, Bex, listen to Bex's episode because she came on as well. And then not that long ago, we had Kerry Northcott who is Life with Ivor Coco on Instagram, who is the most gorgeous human.
Starting point is 00:28:21 And she's currently going through- Still in her IGF journey. We've spoken about Kerry before. Yeah. She is inspirational. She's putting it out there. You can literally watch her journey. Yeah, so we have got some episodes on that.
Starting point is 00:28:33 I mean, we can do more, by all means. So really, you need to go back and have a little listen. Go back and have a little listen. Goes around back catalog. We are the gift that keeps on giving, all right? We really are, we really are. If there's a topic you want us to cover it, we might have even done it, or we will do it for you.
Starting point is 00:28:49 Because that is the type of people me and Jodra are. We are just givers, that's what we are givers. That sounds wrong. Ha ha ha ha ha. We are givers. Kelsey's more of a taker. Yeah, I am. Right, so someone's asking,
Starting point is 00:29:02 please upload to your YouTube channel. Well, that was sent to me. But what we need to say is, we have a YouTube channel. This is new, isn't it? Well, I feel like you're really going against listeners in these. Guys, you're wrong.
Starting point is 00:29:15 I feel like this is producer Dom. He's going against the listeners. They're like, right, we want IVF yet, covered it. We want a YouTube, done it. Done it. No, but we have, we want IVF, yeah, covered it. We want a YouTube, done it. Done it. No, but we have, we've got, so our YouTube channel is up and running, isn't it, Kels? It's up and running, and it literally is.
Starting point is 00:29:33 Mom's the word. Just search that in the search bar, and you will find us. And you will find us on YouTube, and it will be videos of our podcasts. Us in the studio. And now you understand, if you watch on YouTube, why every guest comes in and goes, wow, you've In the studio. Of course. And now you understand if you watch on YouTube why every guest comes in and goes,
Starting point is 00:29:47 wow, you got a studio. Listen, our studio's pretty impressive and today Kelsey Parker is dressed to go along with the studio. She's blending. Well, I felt really sad this morning and for me, when you're feeling sad, you have to put a bright color on to cheer you up.
Starting point is 00:30:01 Yeah, she's dopamine dressing today to make her feel better. So that, Mrs, is the end of our show. Another wrap on another episode. And remember, we have got 10 pairs of tickets to give away to the baby show this weekend. Just use the code PR, mum's the word, all in capital letters, at the checkout at www.thebabyshow.co.uk forward slash Olympia and you could win a free pair of tickets.
Starting point is 00:30:31 And you could join us there and watch Mums the Word live. Yeah. Where we'll be on stage on Saturday the 26th of October from 1.30 till 2.15. We're talking all things health pre and post baby with Dr. Martha. Martha. Martha. Yeah, Martha.
Starting point is 00:30:52 Dr. Martha. Yeah, what's her last name? Go on, say it. Darius Collado. And Claire Boone. I don't think that's how you say it. Sorry, Martha. I know Martha.
Starting point is 00:31:00 We'll get the right surname on. She has actually been on Mum's the Word and when she came on I said, we did have a conversation about a surname, but I've forgotten how you say it, but we'll find out. That was about another boring story from Georgia Jones. I'm glad she actually said that. Please keep that in that she just said
Starting point is 00:31:21 another boring story from Georgia Jones. I don't know, producer Dom sat out there nodding his head. He's like, yep, another boring, another one. I liked you until now Dom. So we've spoken about Kelsey's exciting news and how she's navigated that new relationship with children. So guys, make sure you subscribe subscribe leave us a review and follow us on our socials at at mums the word underscore pod and check out our brand new YouTube channel just search mums the word so I've been Georgia Jones and I've been Kelsey Parker we'll see you at the baby show for a live episode next Saturday lunchtime but otherwise we'll be back with another episode
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