So, you're growing a human inside you. Or you're thinking about it. Join us for the new season of Hello Bump, where Grace Rouvray (who is currently pregnant) and Jana Pittman (mum of six and training Obstetrician) walk you through pregnancy, week by week.
From peeing on a stick, to understanding the changes in your body and your growing baby, this is pregnancy real talk, where nothing is off limits.
Get the most honest, practical and often hilarious insights about what you’re not expecting, when you’re expecting.
A Lil' Treat: Jessie’s Ready To Tell Her Twin Birth Story
She’s 10 days on. She’s splitting her time and her heart between home and hospital, and she wants to share her story with you, Outlouders.
Our beloved co-host Jessie Stephens gave birth to her boy-girl twins last week, earlier than hoped, and became a mum all over again. There will be so many of you who’ll relate to this story of terror-tinged joy, who will recognise the awe and exhaustion in Jessie’s voice, and who will want to send her so much love as she and her little family find their way through a new normal.
Jessie’s rock, her twin sister Clare Stephens as well as Emily Vernem and Holly Wainwright are asking the questions:. How much time did she get “off” before the babies came? What was the first thing that happened when they did? How is Luna? How is Luca? Can she finally eat chocolate again? And how is she staying sane and hopeful? A very special episode.
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'I was home alone when I went into sudden labour. I'll never forget what happened 40 minutes later.' (https://www.mamamia.com.au/sudden-labour-signs/) (https://www.mamamia.com.au/clare-stephens-birth-story/)
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13 Feb 2026
SUBS: MAMAMIA OUT LOUD TASTER — Jessie and Clare Stephens' Weird Twin Shit Just Got Weirder
Enjoy this free bite of Mia Freedman exploring what we're (scientifically) calling 'weird twin shit' with resident Mamamia twins, Jessie (pregnant with twins) and Clare Stephens (she has news). Catch the full chaos of Jessie And Clare Stephens’ Weird Twin Shit Just Got Weirder by subscribing (https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/mamamia-out-loud/subs-preview-twin-intuition-jessie-clare-stephens/?utm_source=shownotes&utm_medium=message&utm_campaign=hello-bump). Not a subscriber yet? Honestly, why wait? (https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/mamamia-out-loud/subs-preview-twin-intuition-jessie-clare-stephens/?utm_source=shownotes&utm_medium=message&utm_campaign=hello-bump)
Jessie Stephens is pregnant with twins — which feels cosmically aggressive when you remember she is a twin (to Clare Stephens — keep up, people). Especially when you consider that Jessie and Clare were raised by a woman who had two sets of identical twins herself. And yes, Anne Stevens would like the universe to calm down.
On this subscriber episode, Mia Freedman gets Jessie and Clare in the studio to unpack eerie twin intuition (just one example: Clare knew Jessie had two heartbeats going on in her womb before Jessie even told her), and the very real logistics of carrying two babies at once.
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The science vs superstition of twins having twins
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Collapsed ribs, reflux, and the indignity of sleeping upright
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17 Sept 2025
Birth And The First Six Weeks
Welcome to Hello Bump, a podcast about what you’re not expecting when you’re expecting.
So, what does life actually look like six weeks into new motherhood? And what was it actually like giving birth? In this episode, host Grace Rouvray opens up about what it was like giving birth, as well as the identity shift, the joy, and the grief that came with becoming a parent. This episode originally aired on the Eat Sleep Repeat podcast.
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A Lil' Treat: Jessie’s Ready To Tell Her Twin Birth Story
Published 13 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Like someone had removed my leg and I'd finally found it. And so sat with him and gave him a cuddle and it's all pretty confronting because he had a mask on and this like kind of helmet-y thing on. He's got this big snorkel to help him breathe. He's got needles and cables and heart monitors and he is so small. Like he was 1.8 and Margot was 1.7 kilos. They're just tiny. And even now, like it's a week on, yeah, a week and a bit on, and Margot still has like a cannula in her hand. Like those babies have had more needles in a week than Luna has had in her whole life. Babe, does anyone tell you what to expect? […]
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