Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.On Breaking Mum and Dad this week is the lovely actress Ali Bastian.Ali and Anna chat what it's like to have a baby just days before the pandemic, sleepless nights, thinking you've cracked parenting until another hurdle comes up, anxiety, co-parenting and always having a stash of chocolate in the cupboard.Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week on Breaking Mum and Dad Anna is speaking to Wilbroda Akuro from the brilliant mothers2mothers. Wilbroda talks to Anna all the way from Kenya about finding out she's HIV positive whilst pregnant, the support she found from mothers2mothers' Mentor Mothers, giving birth to an HIV negative son, the tragic baby loss she experienced with her first and how that impacted her mental health, giving birth to a second son, being a single mother as well as shedding light on the brilliant She's Got the Power campaign launching on the 28th September.Visit www.m2m.org/power to find out more. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! We're back at home, joined by Anna and her husband Alex. This week the topic of choice is holidays! Anna and Alex sit down to talk all about the anxieties and stresses around travel and holidays with little ones, planes, trains and RVs, the umming and aahing over travel post-lockdown, passport photos, culture differences, tips, stories and more.Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.On Breaking Mum and Dad this week is the founder of Down Syndrome UK and mum of two, Nicola Enoch. Nicola chats to Anna about her experience with having a child with Down syndrom, the ignorance around Down's, the importance of language, how far things have come for those with Downs, how far there is to go and embracing your child. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.On Breaking Mum and Dad this week is show business legend, Arlene Phillips! Arlene and Anna chat about Arlene's Damehood, having a ten day break in filming in which to give birth, being a working mum, the guilt that accompanies it, being an older mother to her second daughter and the stigma and comments that can come with that, whether she's a 'stage mum' or not and the joy in being a grandparent. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

!Trigger Warning! This episode touches on abusive relationships, so please protect your mental health and skip the episode, or seek help if you are affected. Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.On Breaking Mum and Dad this week is the fabulous, award winning blogger Hayley McLean!Hayley and Anna touch on three big topics, Hayley's experience in an abusive relationship and how that affected her, coming through that and meeting her partner, having three kids under three, and developing a fear of birth; body positivity and what thin privilege is; and raising her daughter who identifies as trans. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week Real Housewife Nicole Sealey joins Anna! Nicole talks to Anna about everythng from living on her own by 15, through a cancer diagnosis and IVF and now seeing her kids off to university, menopause and being a kickass business woman. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week Anna is joined by Rachel Brace, author and psychologist, specialising in support for stepparents and their partners. Rachel and Anna chat the challenges a step family can bring, introducing a new partner to children, dealing with behaviour that may flare up, learning to look beyond words and advice for anyone going through it, plus her new book 'Harriet's Expanding Heart'.Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week Anna is joined by comedian and tv personality Babatunde Aleshe. Baba talks to Anna about acting the part of the dad he didn't have, how hard parenting is, dealing with racial prejudice at his son's school, a hilarious birth story, sticking as a family unit in the weeks after baby arrived and dealing with hard parts in your relationship.Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week is a bit different on Breaking Mum and Dad. Anna invited two guests on the podcast. One, Catherine Hudson, Talent manager for NSPCC and Leanne, a lady who after giving birth to her son in 2016 really struggled with her mental health. The ladies chat about their births, the struggles they faced as parents following those births, feeling a lack of support and the need for it. Plus, the NSPCC's Fight For a Fair Start Campaign, urging the government to prioritise rebuilding the health visiting workforce to make sure that professionals have the time to identify parents experiencing, or at risk of, perinatal mental health problems. If you’d like to support the NSPCC’s Fight For a Fair Start campaign you can sign the petition by searching “NSPCC Fight for a Fair Start” on Google, clicking on the Fight for a Fair Start page where you can join the campaign and sign the petition where you live.Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week joining Anna is Financial Adviser and father of four, Emmanuel Asuquo. Emmanuel chats to Anna all about growing up providing for his family as the oldest sibling in an African family, teaching his kids the value of things, the conflict between wanting to give your kids everything you didn't have as a child but still wanting to instil a drive for success into them, and the key to successful family life. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week joining Anna on Breaking Mum and Dad, is author, ex teacher, podcaster, coach and one of the top parenting experts, Sue Atkins.Sue lets us in on the start of her career, gives some fab tips and insights and opens up about her experience of divorce, as well as chatting about how much kids pick up from parents, some advice on how to encourage a better environment in the home and we get an exclusive. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! TRIGGER: This episode contains very candid and open speech about mental health, intrusive thoughts and suicide. Please take care of yourself, reach out if you need help and if the episode become too much, there are plenty of others to choose from instead. This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week on Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast, is an author, illustrator, poet, podcaster and mum. It's the wonderful Laura Dockrill.Laura had never experienced poor mental health until she became a mum. She talks to Anna about loving her pregnancy, and the lovely period leading up to the birth of her son Jet, that came to an abrupt end with a 'casserole of nonsense' surrounding his birth, the traumatic week she spent on the ward afterwards, feeling like a broken oven, and the paranoia, intrusive thoughts and voices that led her to being hospitalised for psychosis. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week joining Anna on the podcast is blogging sensation, author, podcaster and mother of 3, Harriet Shearsmith, known online as tobyandroo!Harriet chats to Anna about haircare hacks for kids, body confidence and growing from having a toxic relationship with food to being more healthy and comfortable in her body than ever, the birth of TobyandRoo, making the move to an online career and a pretty horrible first birth, followed by two much better ones. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week on we have our first ever returner to Breaking Mum and Dad! Mum blogger and writer Alison Perry joined Anna way back in 2018 for an episode and now she's back for a big catch up, and so much has changed! Alison talks to Anna about going through IVF, the disappointment when a cycle doesn't work, the elation when it does, finding out she was having twins, the logistics that comes with that, the importance of being a team with your partner, childcare implications, and her experience of being perimenopausal. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week on Breaking Mum and Dad joining Anna is a lady who is an award winning and Sunday Times No 1 best-selling cookery author, and she has a cracking instagram to boot, it's Rebecca Wilson! Rebecca chats to Anna about tips and tricks for fussy eaters, where What Mummy Makes started, finding the confidence to follow her passion, how her daughter has influenced her life, a tricky birth and how it can affect you and her favourite recipes!Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! We're back at home, joined by Anna and her husband Alex. This week the topic of choice is holidays! Anna and Alex sit down to talk all about the anxieties and stresses around travel and holidays with little ones, planes, trains and RVs, the umming and aahing over travel post-lockdown, passport photos, culture differences, tips, stories and more.Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week on Breaking Mum and Dad, joining Anna is 1/4 of JLS, presenter and farmer, JB Gill!JB talks about life on the farm, becoming a Dad, the importance of working as a team, taking his family on tour and inspiring little people to eat good food.Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week on Breaking Mum and Dad, it's one of the OGs of YouTube, and all round internet sensation, Louise Pentland. Louise chats to Anna about where it all started, loving what she does, recovering from the PTSD surrounding her first birth to go on to have a home birth with her second, her love of hypnobirthing, her experiences in a blended family, the evolution of grief in her life, being a mum without a mum and confronting her past. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial

Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between.This week on Breaking Mum and Dad, it's long time friend of Anna's and the face of CBeeBies Nigel Clarke! Nigel goes back to when his kids were born and talks about how his mum helped birth his son, how the baby came as a surprise early on in his relationship and how they managed, the magic of two cells becoming a human, advice for those in the hazy early days of parenthood, managing his children's presence online, how his heritage and that of his partner affect the way they parent and so much more. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word. Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going.@annawilliamsonofficial