Leila Battison
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The Science Baby Podcast is where parenthood meets science. Hosted by Leila and Kim, two first-time mums and science nerds, we dive into the messy, funny, and fascinating world of raising babies. Each episode mixes real talk about sleep, feeding, and daily chaos with evidence-based insights into the science behind it all. It’s relatable, reassuring, and packed with surprising facts to help you feel a little less alone (and a lot more curious) on your parenting journey.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kim and Leila make fertility, postpartum recovery and early parenthood easier to understand without separating the science from the emotional stakes.
The Science Baby Podcast turns questions about making and raising babies into lively conversations between Kim and Leila, with personal experience continually testing scientific explanations against life at home.
Before the IVF injection, a panic lie-down; you get the feelings alongside the facts.
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A small baby milestone turns into a thoughtful look at handedness, watchful parenting, and the cost of left-handed gear.
The episode opens with a small but loaded question: why a baby might seem to favor one hand, and what that could mean for genetics, upbringing, and family history. Leila and Kim keep the conversation grounded in parent life, then slide into the science without losing the thread.
A clear-eyed look at how parenting can strain even strong relationships.
An episode about children and relationship strain, it opens with an eye-catching online claim and then does the steadier work of testing it against the evidence.
A frank look at the practical and emotional strain around IVF.
This episode keeps close to the practical weirdness of IVF: the clinic routine, the strain of waiting to learn whether an embryo has survived, and the emotional whiplash of trying to keep up with ordinary life.
A blunt, useful IVF walkthrough that makes the process feel less like mystery and more like procedure.
The episode moves IVF from early testing to a point where the process feels less mysterious and more procedural. It is frank about how much of the testing falls on the woman, with blood draws for hormone checks and ovarian reserve, along with internal ultrasounds to examine the…
A clear, funny look at why baby resemblance can be hard to call, and why that uncertainty may matter.
Leila and Kim keep the conversation moving from a familiar joke about whether a baby looks like dad into evolution, genetics, and why resemblance is not always easy to read.
A plainspoken look at how the fourth trimester can be bodily, messy, and hard to predict.
The episode treats the fourth trimester as part of birth rather than a clean ending: the hormone crash, milk coming in, pain, and the low days of postpartum recovery all land in the same rough stretch, shaped by body, baby, and feeding.
A frank, humane mailbag on breastfeeding guilt and why good advice does not always quiet the feeling.
The Science Baby crew answers a note about breastfeeding guilt and stays with the harder truth at the center of it: even when a baby is healthy and the advice is scientifically sound, early feeding choices can still linger as something to forgive.
Calm guidance for birth, babies, and parenting.
Blunt maternal health, birth, and body wisdom.
A pregnancy, counted out loud one week at a time.
The Science Baby Podcast follows up its IVF explainer with Kim's account of the “emotional aftermath” she felt after treatment, including the “mental vertigo” she describes when looking back at the process.
The Science Baby team opens its listener messages and uses them to talk through breastfeeding guilt, parental pressure, and the gap between facts and feelings.
The hosts explore the evolutionary and psychological reasons behind why people often say babies look like their dads, examining research from the 1990s to present.
Hosts Leila and Kim explore the science and personal experiences of IVF, covering basics like acronyms, procedures such as egg collection and embryo transfer, and emotional aspects like failed attempts and success stories.
The Science Baby Podcast episode “What to Expect in the Fourth Trimester” argues that postpartum is not a clean three-month reset, because the hosts keep stressing “so much variability” across babies, bodies, breastfeeding, and hormones.
They start with Doug's upbringing and a family mystery about handedness.
Kim and Leila start with the internet's bleak claim that couples often break up after a baby arrives.