Secret Mum Club with Sophiena - The Train Accident

Episode Date: August 1, 2024

Changing a baby can be stressful at the best of times, but doing it whilst on a moving train is a recipe for disaster! Now that we're officially into the summer holidays Sophiena shares her first Show & Tell activity, and we hear a few of yours too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

hello this is the secret mom club i'm safina and i'm emma and welcome to your thursday's episode where we get to squeeze in all the extra bits and bobs from the week all of your comments thoughts questions and fun stories and to hear what you're getting up to in the summer holidays shall we jump on in shall we shall we should you jump right in we'll give you a squeeze nipple let's squeeze a nipple okay i'm trying to feed this baby but it's becoming it's becoming a little bit challenging that she does is it ever off-putting when she looks at you while she's sucking on your boob no it's really cute like she's in this phase at the moment where like i've never obviously experienced him on either any of them on my well i didn't obviously boobie the other two but to have rendy i never put his actual face on my boobie yeah and not at the age where like they could they know what's

going on yeah no she's just got to this age where it is really cute like she really maintains eye contact while she's feeding but also she's very distracted by other noises yeah so as soon as she hears something else she's like a magpie pings off and leaves my nipple hanging out. Just floating in midair. So watch out for that. And if you want to see the videos, see it at MumPod on socials. At least we're not on OnlyPans. Gosh, put that in compliance.

As we mentioned last week, we want to hear all about your summer holidays. Yep, that's why we're launching our summer show and tell. Each week, Emma and I will be bringing in one new activity that we'll be doing with the children. So you can give it a go or tell us what you're doing instead. Think of it as a hub of ideas on how to keep the children entertained. All right, do you want to go first? Always. Right, I've got something I need to share with you.

Okay. It's truly a really big deal. Okay. Okay, so I have my Instagram. Right, I've got something I need to share with you. Okay. It's truly a really big deal. Okay. Okay? So I have my Instagram, my Safina official. Safina official, yeah. Fun fact, my surname isn't official.

I have that Instagram, but I also have my personal Instagram. Hang on. It's private. I'm not invited on the show. I don't want to be able to find it. It's basically just where I post things just for my family to see but also it's my page where I can watch people as in like accounts I really love to watch okay so I was scrolling through and I'm obsessed I speak about this on Instagram I'm obsessed with Stacey Solomon and her sister Gemma the label lady so I was on there on the weekend and I was like how weird I haven't seen Stacey Solomon and her sister Gemma, the label lady. So I was on there on the weekend and I was like,

how weird, I haven't seen Stacey all weekend. That's a little bit uncommon. And I thought, oh, just searching her name. I need to realise that Safina Official was on a follow back to Stacey Solomon. No bloody way. Yes, bloody way. So obviously I didn't notice it because i watched her on my other account so on my bigger account my safina official account stacy's it's following you

let's get her on what the i literally nearly shit my pants i need drop the phone smash my phone and the whole excitement of this i sent it to the family group chat and i was like we're basically besties now yeah so i have um i'm coming to the table this week with one of it's not mine i can't claim it as mine at all because it's stacy's but she's done a phenomenal one do you remember when we went did you go to park when you were little no right or i don't know when there was other activities but you remember doing all that colored sand activity yeah and you'd fill up the jar and all the sand would be different colors or the layers so she did it at home yeah with the babies and you basically grind down chalk right add in

salt you make loads of different colors and you can make your own sand jars at home with like a bottle of table salt yeah i am bottle of table salt and you know what i thought would be even to elevate that craft you know when people go to the beach and they take glue and they make a gluey handprint on a piece of paper. Yeah, on a piece of paper. They might be pissing at the beach, but not on the paper. You put your hand, gluey hand, and then you put sand on it. Yeah.

But I thought, imagine doing everyone's gluey hand as like a family collage, but using the the colored sand you've just brought back a cool memory of doing that at school and then peeling the glue off your hand how satisfying so satisfying i used to love that i also like pouring hot wax on my hand that's dangerous don't do that but that feeling yeah when you peel that yeah or you poke your finger into a lit candle oh my god again don't try this at home don't try this at home. Don't try this at home. We don't. That's not a summer holiday craft, kids.

That isn't a summer holiday craft, but very satisfying. Yeah. It's that PVC, not PVC. What was it? PVA. PVA glue. And do you know what? Fun fact as well.

When I used to watch Art Attack, this is an Art Attack with... Neil Buchanan. Neil Buchanan. Didn't know his name. Glad you were there to pick me up. I got you. Every single week, my mum would never buy us PVA glue.

So every single week, we used to watch in anticipation for Neil Buchanan to be like this week's craft. He'd lay out all the stuff you need. Always the last thing. Ah, PVA glue. Fuck this! Smash the telly.

My mum, Neil said we need more PVA. She'd never buy us PVA glue. Pritt stick, that's all we were allowed. That was a load of crap. Dry up in two minutes, wouldn't it? Because we'd always buy us PVA clothes. Pritt Stick, that's all we were allowed. That was a load of crap. Dry up in two minutes, wouldn't it? Because we'd always leave the lid off it. All right. Well, Coloured Sand, Stacey.

Yeah, that's our first one. Your best pal, Stacey. Can't believe it. Stacey, I'm so incredibly... Stacey, if you're listening, we love you. I was going to send her a message and then I was like, is that too far? No, she follows you. Yeah, but she might not want me to reach out and message.

Oh, I don't know. I've followed her for years. Are you friends with her sister? Do you know what? I text, yeah, I am. I follow Gem. Okay. Yeah, so I text it to my mum.

Do you know what my mum texts back? Oh, I absolutely love Stacey Solomon so much. My mum doesn't even follow me. But she follows Stacey. So yeah, that's great. So yeah, I didn't message her. I thought that might be a bit too far. A bit too much. But thank you for the craft of the week. Yeah, thanks. She's good at that, isn't she, Stacey. So yeah, that's great. So yeah, I didn't message her. I thought that might be a bit too far. A bit too much.

But thank you for the craft of the week. Yeah, thanks. She's good at that, isn't she, Stacey? Do you know what? I didn't know she was such a crafty bugger. She's fantastic. Her Instagram is full of like, she's decorated her whole house, isn't she?

She grew a cucumber. She's grown a whole cucumber in her garden where she's got quite a few of them. She invited her family around to look at her cucumber that she grew. Honestly honestly when i tell you i cannot not watch this woman i literally adore her with my whole heart so i can't i literally i could sit here now i'm shitting my pants now the fact that she follows me yeah and that she might be listening she's potentially watched one of my videos or my story she probably has all right let's stop freaking

her out now sorry Sorry, Stacey. She's probably not listening to this. Obsessed with you. Why are you so obsessed with me? She's an incredible woman. That's why. All right. We've had a few of you get in touch with your summer holiday suggestions as well. Are you ready?

Yes. Hit me. This one is from Sandra in Vermont. Oh, hello, Sandra. USA. Oh, it is USA? Yeah. Yeah.

She says, hi, ladies. I'm like Soph. I love taking my children out for walks in the holidays. We've got loads of parks with hiking trails and it's a good way to get them tuckered out so they sleep through the night. Isn't that all we could hope for for summer activities? Oh, tuckered out.

Tuckered out. Maybe we need to go to Vermont, Sandra. I imagine your hiking trails are probably nicer than what I've got in South London. Yeah, and they're probably a bit better than where we are. In Southampton. I once took a walk like Christmas time with my friend on New Year's, well it was actually New Year's Day and we decided to take a walk. I come face to face with a cow and I've never looked back. Never looked back. I never did it again.

A field full of cows is very scary. My worst nightmare. Yeah it's actually a very daunting thing to come face to face with a cow. My sisters have been chased by a herd of cows through a park and it was um that's very scary. Very scary, yeah. Life-threatening, I would say. Could they kill you, a cow? I think so. I don't think they would. If they stampled on you, do you think?

Yeah, I think they could. I don't know if they would, though. Is it one of them where it's like they're more scared of us than we're scared of them? Like spiders? No, I don't think they're scared of us in the slightest. Because they're massive. They're fucking huge.

They're in a field and they're just like, what the you doing i think joseph thinks he would like that but actually if he saw a cow in real life he would shit himself so at that time i queued to ride a horse and i queued for hours like two and a half hours for this horse and i got there the horse was fucking huge i said to my mom i'm not getting on that thing my mom's like you will no i will not you think i'm stupid i'm? I didn't get on it. My sister and brother went round. It was like a donkey ride kind of thing. Like a walk on the pony.

How old were you? 25? Yeah. 30? It was my 30th birthday, in fact. All right, we've got another one here from Lisa. She says, hi Soph and Emma. It's so hard to find the right thing to do with the children over the holidays.

Luckily, my children, Amelia, 11, and Liam, 7, have green fingers like their mama, so I get them involved in the usual garden upkeep, and after we prune the trees, we use the twigs and leaves to make art, a super cheap and super fun activity for you. I honestly adore that so much. How cute is that? I can't get Joseph out in the garden, though.

Because of the bees. Because of the bees, yeah. Have you thought about putting a hat on him to be inconspicuous? Oh, like a beekeeper? Yeah, maybe. Like a beehive hat. No, you thought about putting a hat on him to be like inconspicuous? Oh, like a beekeeper hat? Yeah, maybe. Like a beehive hat. No, but like just putting a little hat on him

so he can't sort of look above it. Yeah, he does wear a little beanie hat. Yeah, but he just, again, like he's traumatised. He's got PTSD from the bumblebee

that flew at him. He literally won't go in the garden. We're still working on it. Yeah. Wasn't he out there the other day I saw though? What was he doing

the other day? We got him a little water table. Yeah. And we get him to help daddy water the plants. So if you're with him, he's okay. But he won't go out and play on his own though. That's frustrating for you. Yeah.

God bless him. Do you leave the doors open? He just don't go out there? Yeah, he just doesn't go out there. Just says he'd rather be inside. Oh, that's literally the most saddest thing. I know. Were you going to say something about gardening?

Yeah, I love doing the hands and then you fill them in with leaves and twigs. Oh. Yeah, you know when the children draw around their hands and then they make colourful handprints. Artworks. God, you're so creative. Or do feet.

Yeah. You could do feet, couldn't you? Yeah. Bottoms. Get naked bums on the page. Bottoms up. Yeah, bottoms up. Twig art as well is a good one.

I've seen my friends do that. Or we do with with the you can make like the twig men and you use yarn and you fill them up yeah little stick man because you can get you can get is it yarn do we call it yarn here wool wool you do call it yarn i think i think yarn and wool is slightly different you can get some pretty cheap can't you for like a pound from like b&m yeah and you can wrap it around the twigs don't see loves to do that she does create like some blair witch product in the garden though because she wraps it around and then she hangs it off of the um climbing frame oh yeah it's given very blair witch yeah or voodoo doll yeah is it a voodoo doll yeah yeah it's a bit scary sometimes but you know if you can see past that that's great it's truly great thank you so much for

getting in touch with your show and tell suggestions if you have any summer holiday activities you'd like to share why not get in touch the email is hello at secretmumpod.com or with secretmumpod on tiktok and instagram next is time for one of your secrets emma hit us with it what is it all right this comes from amy hello amy she says hi both just listen to sophia her experience changing a nappy on the Emma, hit us with it. What is it? All right, this comes from Amy. Hello, Amy. She says, hi, both. Just listened to Soph share her experience changing a nappy on the train, and it reminded me of a story I wish I could forget. When my eldest was about seven months and I was pregnant with my second,

we just... Oh, that's a quite small age gap. Hold on, wait. Say it back again. My eldest was about seven months and I was pregnant with my second. Ooh. Irish 20s, are they? They know.

Would they be? I don't know. I'm not sure what the cutoff is. No, I don't. We decided to take a train to the beach. On the way home, she had a poo and I had to change her nappy. I'd laid her on the changing mat, took her nappy off, but it turned out she wasn't quite finished. Uh-oh.

Oh, look at Sadie. Sadie is invested. She's in on this. Are you ready? She shouted so hard it went in my face. I attempted to clean us both while on a very bumpy train and trying to hold back the feeling of needing to be sick. My partner is the only one I've ever told.

Oh, God. And everyone else that was on the train with you. That's human poo too, isn't it? Christ. It's not like baby poo. She might have been weaned by then. She might be on solids. Solids. Wow. That's proper like baby poo. She might have been weaned by then. She might be on solids. Solids.

Wow. That's proper shit, that. Do you know what? I shit you not, literally. When I do Renly's bum, because he's a little bit backed up, bless his heart, he does get a little bit constipated. We're on food now, aren't we? When I do his bum right and I put his legs up,

obviously their legs go into their tummy, which encourages them to take a fart. The amount of times I've generally screamed like because he's farted so quick and so fast that I'm like fuck

because it's so loud because he farts so quick and sometimes that's it poo just starts rocketing out. I find that

really satisfying. I find it so incredibly satisfying. Sade is a big fan of a live poo on the mat because like you say it's that movement

as soon as you push the legs back and then you stimulate the are you allowed to say that while you're that movement. As soon as you push the legs back. And then you stimulate the... Are you allowed to say that while you're wiping their bottom? Yeah, when you wipe their bum hole, it like stimulates them to carry on going. To carry on going, yeah.

I cannot tell you how much that... It's like a Play-Doh squeezer. Yeah. I'm like, wow, we got it. I think it's like lava coming out of a volcano is how I would describe it. Or a big pimple. Yeah, squeezing a big spot. I just love it.

I love that for her. I just love it. I love that for her. I just love it. It's normally in the morning. It's normally the first nappy I do. So I just lay her on the bed and I think, I know what's coming. I lift her legs up. I get really excited. We actually fight over who does the bum, me and Chris.

Because I'm like, I'm going for it. It's been a couple of days. He's backed up. Treat yourself. Has his poo consistency changed since he's been on food? Yes. Not really. Is it a bit more solid?

No, more loose. Oh, really? Because he a bit more solid? No, more loose. Oh, really? Because he has like sweet potato and banana now, which is keeping him more regular. Is it orange when he has sweet potato? Orangy? No, he just has like a brownie poo. It's like brownie and yellowy.

Love that for him. If you needed to know that, I can share pictures. Oh, well, Amy, I hope you recovered from that. Yeah, I hope you're okay now. It is a weird one on the train, isn't it? I think it's the motion of the train. It's hard. I nearly had to do one.

We came in a bit earlier this morning and the train was so busy with commuters because it was like peak commuting time. As soon as we got on the train, I was like, oh, no, I think she's done a poo and I can't leave her in it all journey because she'll be crying. So I just whip off her trousers in the bassinet. Like to me, it's not even a thing. No. But to all the commuters around me, they're probably thinking,

there's no way you're going to change that nappy in there in front of everyone but i think when you become a mum you're just like my my girl's not sitting in her shit yeah and you just lose all like i'm totally oblivious to what other people might think i breastfed her standing up this morning as well oh god bless you no one let you sit down there was no space it was so hectic but i think you just become, those things just become really normal. And people are probably looking at me being like, just take the seat and sit down. She's whipping off the nappy.

She's whipping out her tits. You know. Superwoman. No qualms. Have you had a shart on your face? Let us know. Email us. Hello at secretmumpod.com

or with Secret Mumpod oniktok and instagram and we'll be back first thing on sunday for a little snow and we'll have more of your show and tells in our next thursday episode and we'll see you next time on the secret mom club