Secret Mum Club with Sophiena - We Have ANOTHER Announcement!

Episode Date: October 12, 2023

Two announcements in three weeks?! What could it be this time? Sophiena and Emma spill even more beans in this emergency episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Not another one. We're really spoiling them with all these emergency episodes, aren't we? I know. Bonus upon bonus. I take note how I feel about it though. I like it. Do you? Yeah.

Are your palms not sweating like mine? Yeah, my hands are really clammy actually. Bumhole going. Bumhole twitching. I'm so scared are you scared um i'm scared yeah yeah i'm scared i'm glad you're scared this time people should be scared people should be you should be frightened expect the Unexpected. I would say if you thought the last one was big. Yeah. We're about to get even bigger. Bigger. Baby.

Baby. Buckle up, babies. Buckle, buckle up, babies. How should we do this? Shall I go first? I feel like you took the lead on the last one okay you take the right you take the reins shall i take the range yeah should i go should i yeah do you feel like it's appropriate yeah you take the lead okay i'll take the lead let's go for it

so we're gonna um let's do this and because it's not actually my news to share Because it's yours. Yeah. We are going to roll over to you. So tell us, what is your exciting news? I'm having a baby! Another one! No, another one! I cannot tell you how fucking hard it has been to not talk about it but tell us all the gory detail can you bloody believe it she had itchy legs in her kitchen it actually wasn't oh uh i can't believe we're having a baby at the same time i'm absolutely

elated for you it's almost like we planned it for the podcast but do you know what the funny thing was is we actually said it as a joke do you remember that conversation how funny will it be if we just got pregnant if we've got a parenting podcast and we both get pregnant planned it planned it planned it timed it planned it i wouldn't say timed it maybe the boys were in cahoots maybe we don't know't know. We don't know. We'll have to get them on. We'll have to get them on, yeah. We've timed it perfectly. Unintentionally. Perfectly.

Because we are currently, without saying specific months. Yeah, we don't want to give our specific due dates. We are two weeks apart. Yeah. Is it just two weeks? Exactly two weeks. Oh my gosh. Exactly two weeks. There's something in the waters at the moment.

Because I know so many people who are pregnant. You do have lots of people around you. Oh my gosh. Exactly two weeks. There's something in the waters at the moment because I know so many people who are pregnant. You do have lots of people around you. It's catching. But how are you, talk to us how you're feeling. Well first of all like you say it's been so bloody hard keeping it a secret. You know how it is. Yes. This beginning bit is like so so so tricky and I've been feeling really sick.

Which has been because I didn't have any morning sickness with Joseph so I was like oh nothing at all didn't wouldn't have even known I was pregnant so I was like I'll just breeze through this again it'll be fine no no I felt so rough from like basically from finding out which is when you're like five weeks yes to about 10 weeks and in that period I didn't tell anyone so I was just coming in here going to work seeing my family feeling like shit my appetite was wild I was like how is nobody noticing that I'm eating seven meals a day like I just couldn't and she's diddy like when I tell you in real life Emma is a diddy little dot she's so tiny but I'm bumping along already she you bumped out so quickly so quickly so quick and it was so funny the moment that we shared us telling each other yeah so I come in and I was so ill you'd been

really ill as well yeah and I said to you didn't I I was like I've got to tell you something because uh if I need to run out and be sick it's because of this I was like I said I you, didn't I? I was like, I've got to tell you something because if I need to run out and be sick, it's because of this. I was like, I said, I'm pregnant. And you went, so am I. And I went, what? Yeah, it was just that split second, wasn't it? I just couldn't fathom it in my head.

I wasn't going to say anything then because we were both quite early on at that stage. Well, you were, yeah, you were a little bit. I must have been like 10, 11 weeks. I thought you were. Yeah, I hadn't had my scan. No. So I wasn't going to say anything yet. And then when you said something, I was like,

it will be weird now if I don't say something as well. So I was like, this is my opportunity. But when you said it, I was like, I cannot believe it. Like, so am I. What are the chances? It was such a special moment as well i because i kind of knew what you were gonna say because i'd seen on instagram that you'd been really ill and you'd like generally though that was nothing to do with it no i know but i was

thinking like once you'd ruled everything else out like it wasn't covid it wasn't this it wasn't that i was like i wonder if she's pregnant and then we had that weird bit at lunch didn't we when we were yeah because i was obviously i knew that i was we went for lunch weeks ago and you said if you were pregnant would you tell us because i was like would i do i tell them if i am so i was like i'm gonna just you were like put my little rod out yeah you were feeling it yeah i was and i was like i was really early and hadn't told anyone and i was like so weird it's like you were psychic and you went home and told stefan didn't you i was like so fast me today if i was pregnant would i tell them i was like she's a witch it was like you looked into my soul and you knew and also i was paranoid that like because i had a bump so early

on this night like basically from the start i was like everyone's gonna be able to tell because you're so ditty i think actually most people aren't even really looking at it but when it's you yeah and your clothes start getting tight everybody's just staring you think everyone's looking at you going wow what a bump and it's nothing probably to anyone else but i'm noticing that like my clothes don't fit me anymore i'm running out of stuff to wear like so when you tell people like it's just such a relief isn't it i'm like i can finally breathe out and relax so do were you trying or were you not trying we trying without trying we so it yeah it was planned but it literally happened so much more quickly than we thought

so i was like thinking it would be nice to have like a two and a half year gap between joseph and the next one so we thought with me with him it took about six months to get pregnant so we thought well maybe it might be the same again so we'll just start trying and just see what happens literally first month wham bam thank you ma'am that is super and we were like oh this is gonna be a really shit it's gonna be a really close age gap this is gonna be chaos it's actually a very common age gap for people to have it's gonna be like just over two years which which you've got that and so many people have and they're like it's fine it's lovely it's a wonderful age it is a really lovely age gap but like the thought to me of having a two-year-old and a newborn just seems

you're crazy you're gonna love it it's just the beginning bit just must be chaos i didn't find it as chaotic as i i maybe think others others may have found it i found definitely going from none to one harder than two to one a lot of people have said that one to two sorry and they're like actually any subsequent children that you've had on it just gets less and less yeah well i don't know i think my sister found it hard going the hardest probably from three to four yeah yeah four four is a lot but i don't know obviously i mine are older aren't they now so for me to go from two to three. Yeah.

We'll be able to share that journey now. Yeah. But it'll be nice. Like it's, I'm so, I feel so lucky that I get to do this with you. And it's been so hard because I obviously have put my announcement out. But obviously I keep saying to everybody, like, you feel like you're in another world, don't you? Yeah. But the fact that I get to come to work and do it with you as well.

I know. Hey. Hey. It's so sweet. And we'll be able to bring the babies in. I know. It just could have been more perfect. Like people were like, are you joking?

You got, like you're doing a parenting podcast and you're both pregnant. Like, was this a business decision? Well, actually. Well, actually. Yeah. It wasn't a complete accident. I'm joking.

How's Stefan feeling? He's buzzing. It took him a little while to get used to how quick it was. I think we just both weren't expecting that. Of course. And actually, I, so I missed my period. And on that day, I did a pregnancy test. Wow.

And the line just like lit up like a Christmas tree. And I was like, whoa. But he wasn't there. So I just texted him a picture. It was very cash. Last time, with the first baby, it was like this big, like, this big deal.

You filmed them, didn't you? Put it in a box. Yeah, took him out the test. Yeah, just sent him a picture. He was at work and he was like, holy shit, we're having another baby. So I think it took him a little while to get used to it. It's harder as well because it's not their body.

Yeah. It's so much harder for them to get their head around yeah and it takes a while for them to realize that anything's actually happening whereas for you it's instant you're like i'm feeling this every day yeah i feel like shit i'm getting bigger like i can't tell anyone so yeah the beginning 10 to 12 weeks i would say I didn't really enjoy them that much. No. I was quite anxious until I had a scan as well. Same with last time because I know so many people who have had issues.

I think that's normal. I can just never really enjoy it at the beginning. It's just such an anxious time. But yeah, I've had like my 12 week scan and everything now. And everything is really good. Everything's fine. Yes. It's completely normal completely normal I think to feel that way though I don't think I had time to think about that bit yeah apart from I had a little bit of a bleed but I went to the hospital and obviously we saw the baby early on just with no heartbeat because obviously it was so early yeah too early so we obviously waited a little bit to go and get a get a scan

um but i just didn't have time to think about it because i was just so busy with after school clubs school runs home dinner it wasn't till i sat down in the end of the evening i put my hands on my tummy and be like oh my god there's a baby in there i can't believe how much more quickly it's going this time around and actually how you realize like god with your first baby you get to be so self-indulgent when you're pregnant like if you're tired you can take a nap you can nap for two hours in the middle of the day you can do whatever you want can't do that now i'm like oh i'm tired i feel like shit but i've still got a toddler that wants playing and you've got all the washing to do and i've got the washing to do all these jobs oh he wants to go to the park okay go

to golf yeah stefan's stefan's got a golf weekend and a rugby world cup trip already booked in but he has to go on um so it's hard that life just carries on as normal and you're just trying to deal with all these symptoms and it's yeah it's hard but I'm in my glowing second trimester you are honestly glowing I can enjoy it now and your family took it all great they were so excited excited. But also like not that surprised. Again, I just feel like when you have a second baby, people are kind of expecting it. Yes. They're like, oh, you've got a toddler. You're probably going to have another baby soon.

Do you know what I mean? Yeah. A few people have just been like, oh, yeah, we thought so. Or like we were kind of expecting it. Oh, yeah. I still want you to be excited though. I know. Some people's reactions have been a bit underwhelming.

My mum cried. Did she? She's still even now is emotional, an emotional wreck. And it's her what grandchild? Seventh. Seventh. Seventh. So they range, yeah, 14 down to, well, dotty five now with a new one.

Wow. But it's nice, I think, like, it's nice. The parents love it, don't they? It is lovely. Oh, yeah. Obviously, they're so excited. Yeah. But they were kind of also just like, oh.

But weirdly, my family were like, we kind of had an inkling. I'm like, how did you know? I feel like your mum and dad just know. They just know. They just know. There were like no signs, really. Because when my dad said it, my dad was just like, oh, bloody hell, you'll be telling me you're pregnant next.

And I was like. Oh, well, actually. Actually, Dad. And he was like, oh, I had a funny feeling you was. I was like. No. I'm only eight weeks pregnant dad it was so random they just know they just know yeah my mom and my sisters

were like we had a feeling and i was like how did you how did you know did you see our in ring indoor camera have you been watching us so yes there you go. Massive, massive congratulations. I'm so excited. I'm so over the moon that we get to do this together. Next spring 2024. Share our little journey together. Big changes. And share it with everybody here as well. I know.

So many tricks, tips, hints. Oh, it's going to be fun. We're going to have the best time. Yeah. Congratulations. Thank you. Big love to you, Stefan, Joseph and all your family. Yeah.

Joseph doesn't care. Yeah, but yeah. Yeah, it's because I asked him how he felt. He doesn't give a shit. He just wants the cows. He just wants EIEIO. Yeah and don't forget to listen out because tomorrow's bonus episode will be going out as normal. Coming at you. Coming at you like Cleopatra. That you can listen. So you can grab Friday's bonus episode tomorrow. And then we're back with a full episode on Monday. We'll see you next time. On the Secret Mum Club.