Parenting chaos, said out loud.
Beyond the Bump moves between loose group-chat episodes and guest conversations about motherhood, identity, parenting pressure, and family life. It is funny, practical, and emotionally candid, with room for both dummy-weaning chaos and serious questions about wills, anxiety, resilience, and matrescence.
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Beyond the Bump is a parenting podcast with one foot in group chat and the other in deeper family conversation. Its best moments start with ordinary domestic pressure. A school holiday brain fog becomes a case for a mental load holiday. A dummy habit turns into a full strategic dilemma. A running club, a dentist appointment, a kid’s birthday party, or a partner coming home from travel can all become material for bigger questions about guilt, identity, and what parents are expected to absorb. The show is especially sharp on the way motherhood changes the meaning of fun, rest, friendship, self-care, and competence. It does not sell perfect balance. It talks about surrendering, reassessing, whinging, laughing, and getting through the week. The Bumpie group chat episodes are brisk and familiar, full of side roads and comic complaint. They make parenting logistics feel less private and less embarrassing. The interview episodes add more shape without losing that lived-in tone. Claire Tonti’s matrescence conversation gives language to the loneliness and pressure of becoming a mother. Tess brings wills and estate planning into a space where parents can actually face it. Jess Urlichs discusses OCD, ADHD, intrusive thoughts, postnatal anxiety, and the strange strengths that can sit beside overwhelm. Dr. Billy Garvey speaks about resilience and child development with a parent’s stake in the conversation. Across the episodes, the show keeps returning to the same emotional territory: parents are tired, funny, loving, irritated, capable, and often unsure at the same time. It is not polished expert radio. That is part of the point. Beyond the Bump feels like hearing other parents say the thing out loud first, then staying long enough to find the useful bit inside it.
Made for: For mums, mums-to-be, women in general, and parents who want frank conversation about the emotional and practical load of family life. It also works for listeners drawn to casual parenting chats with occasional guest-led episodes.
What sets it apart: Beyond the Bump pairs loose, funny recurring group chats with grounded guest conversations, so everyday complaints and bigger parenting themes sit in the same room. It is domestic, candid, and allergic to pretending motherhood is neat.
Beyond the Bump is a podcast brought to you by Jayde Couldwell and Sophie Pearce. This podcast is targetted at mums, just like you. A place to have real discussions and ask real questions (no matter how hard) with honest and authentic people. The aim is to have you feeling lighter, more supported and more understood after each listen.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Beyond the Bump makes the mental load and identity shifts of motherhood easier to name through candid conversation, guest experience and lively humor.
Jade Caldwell and Sophie Pearce turn motherhood into an ongoing conversation between close friends, alternating loose "Bumpie Group Chat" episodes with guest interviews.
A dummy under the couch becomes a parenting summit, and you get to laugh before making another decision.
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A school-holiday catch-up that turns mental load and everyday fatigue into one very lived-in chat.
Jade Caldwell and Sophie Pearce turn a school-holiday catch-up into a candid run through parenting and life admin, with the petition for every parent to get a mental load holiday giving it a clear point of view.
A candid look at matrescence, the pressure of "super mum", and the loneliness that can sit inside parenting.
Beyond the Bump uses this conversation with Claire Tonti, a matrescence activist, podcaster and musician, to explore the pressure that lands on women who are told they should do everything.
A loose, honest parent chat that lands hardest on the ordinary bits.
Beyond the Bump stays with the messy middle of parenting: a week that swings up and down, anxiousness in the air, a 7.30 running club that becomes a small win, and the relief of a husband finally back home. Its appeal lies in how ordinary it allows itself to be.
OCD, ADHD, and postnatal anxiety are explored through a plainspoken account of motherhood.
Beyond the Bump offers a candid look at how OCD, ADHD, and postnatal anxiety can shape motherhood. Jess Ehrlich, a mum of three and author of motherhood poetry books and children's books about feelings and emotions, speaks plainly about intrusive thoughts, compulsive cleaning,…
A candid dummy-weaning chat folded into an exhausted, honest catch-up.
Beyond the Bump settles into the frazzled middle of mum life, with Jade Caldwell and Sophie Pearce sounding tired, scattered, and fixed on a problem that can take over a home: a child's dummy.
A surprise reunion turns everyday family chaos into a warm, loosely stitched year-end catch-up.
Beyond the Bump closes out the year with a surprise reunion that feels more like family life unfolding than a polished set piece. Sophie is back in town, Jade is expecting Claire at home for a meeting, and the episode starts with a nervous driveway stakeout before the welcome…
Comedy banter with the chat left open.
Motherhood, sisterhood, and life in motion.
Sisterly talk for life in transition.
Scripture, heart change, and lived discipleship.
Four mums share festive tips, tricks, and funny anecdotes to help reduce the mental load of Christmas.
Sophie surprises Jade by returning to town for their final recording of the year, leading to an emotional reunion.
The hosts discuss the concept of a mental load holiday for parents, adult gift etiquette, weaning a child off a dummy, and whether it's okay to discipline a friend's kids.
Claire Tonti discusses matrescence, the profound transition of becoming a mother, on the Beyond the Bump podcast.
Jade and Sophie discuss the ups and downs of parenting, including dentist mum guilt, crawling to the end of term, and signs of getting old, while acknowledging a general sense of anxiety in the air.
A wills and estate lawyer discusses the importance of having a will for parents, sharing personal and professional insights.
The hosts discuss solo parenting challenges and whether kids' birthday parties are overdone, with community support from listeners.
Jess Ehrlich tells Beyond the Bump how motherhood, school-age busyness, and a son’s diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and dyspraxia have shaped her daily life.
Jade Caldwell and Sophie Pearce turn a Simply Sing attempt into a “we are on tour” joke.
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Sophie and Nick discuss their feelings about their 11-month family trip around Australia coming to an end.
Clinical psychologist Dr Mel Taitimu discusses her 20 years of experience listening to women's stories and how they inform her work, on the Beyond the Bump podcast.
Loz from Ready or Not discusses her experience as a working mum of three and what it means to be 'not maternal' while still being a good mother.