The Baby Bubble, hosted by twins Jessie and Clare Stephens (who had their first babies just 6 months apart), dives into the absurdity and hilarity of the first few months of newborn life. From the first post-birth poo, to the myth of schedules, and the absolute mayhem that comes with trying to leave the house.
If you’re looking for advice you’ve come to the wrong place, but if you want someone to crawl down into the chaos with you, we’re already here and the water is great!
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13 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
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 3 days postpartum and holding my son. Then a nurse said 5 words that broke me.' (https://www.mamamia.com.au/new-mum-postpartum-recovery/)
'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
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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=baby-bubble). 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=baby-bubble)
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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[…] What are the other bloods for? What do you need a blood test for? Well, the blood tests in early pregnancy are mostly an infectious diseases screen. Oh, yeah. So historically, some of the major problems in pregnancy were related to infectious diseases. And we don't see tons of those these days because of vaccination and because of improved living standards and nutrition. But we still check for those things because some of them can have a devastating impact on pregnancy. So what are we talking there? Well, we still check for syphilis. Oh, syphilis. I've never seen a positive syphilis test in pregnancy in all of the time I've been doing obstetrics, but it's still checked for because there is a little bit of syphilis around in our country and certainly... […]
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