Dad Still Standing on opening up, not manning up and navigating baby loss

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

TW: This episode contains detailed discussion around miscarriage and baby loss.

Liam and Matt from the award-winning podcast Dad Still Standing on the instinctive male need to man up around grief. And how they’ve broken those barriers down. The pair open up on what they wished they’d known in that grieving period and how to support your partner fully. A beautiful conversation with two incredible humans who have navigated the unnavigable.

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:10.0	Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker.
0:17.5	I'm your host Anna White House and I'm joined by Polly Hazelwood in the House.
0:22.4	Happy to be here.
0:23.6	The Dirty, Dirty House.
0:25.2	Well, is it?
0:26.4	Not really.
0:27.1	Coming up, we have the astonishing duo from Dad Still Standing, the award-winning, gold award-winning podcast.
0:34.3	Polly and I aren't bitter.
0:35.5	Bronze winners here.
0:37.0	But they're going to be coming on to talk about a dad's side of baby loss and miscarriage.
0:44.4	Because often the conversation anchors on the female side.
0:48.9	And this brilliant duo are here to help you, your partnership, your relationship, navigate one of Mother Nature's
0:56.5	toughest junctures.
0:58.6	So, big word this week, puberty.
1:01.2	Oh, ouch.
1:02.3	Yeah.
1:02.8	My elders came across a book I'd been sent about puberty, and she had snaffled it
1:08.2	away, taking upstairs, and came down when I was probably my most vulnerable to ask absolutely everything from what a wet dream is right the way through two periods.
1:16.8	Oh, good Lord.
1:17.5	I had to, whilst making a cottage pie for their tea, unpack wet dreams for a 10-year-old.
1:23.7	Okay, so talk me through the unpacking of wet dreams. Oh, God. You know when you're
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