Dr Emily MacDonagh on why she and Peter Andre won’t have anymore children

Happy Mum Happy Baby

Giovanna Fletcher

Kids & Family

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

A couple of months ago we welcomed Peter Andre onto the podcast... and now his wife Dr Emily MacDonagh is here to set the record straight!

Emily opens up to Gi about becoming a mum at 24 whilst completing her doctor training, and discusses what being a step parent means to her.

Plus, Emily shares the story of her third birth for the first time, the complications of which led to the realisation that Belle would be her last child.

Emily also has a book coming out! Incredible Things Your Body Can Do is Emily's debut picture book that teaches children about their bodies from an early age. Aimed at children aged 3 and up, Incredible Things Your Body Can Do celebrates the human body and its amazing abilities. Make sure you preorder your copy here!

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0:00.0	Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby.
0:03.8	So I was crawling in.
0:06.5	And I just felt like saying to him just for once to say no to a photo.
0:09.8	He's always so lovely.
0:11.2	You know, people are so kind to him as well.
0:12.7	So he always obviously does pictures of people on this one occasion.
0:16.3	But your wife is crawling on the floor in Leibre.
0:18.6	Oh, God.
0:20.0	And that was the point where I was like, get me inside.
0:23.8	I'm about to die.
0:25.1	I hadn't even taken paracetamol.
0:26.6	I'd take him nothing.
0:28.1	He sort of would stop breathing when we were at home.
0:30.9	And I'd be feeding him and thinking he sort of was going a bit of a funny colour.
0:35.8	And it's so funny when it's your own child, even as a doctor,
0:39.3	it's really hard to like make decisions about, well, that doesn't seem quite right.
0:43.6	And I had to ask somebody else.
0:45.7	Really?
0:46.1	It's really, I can't really explain it, but you just become a mum.
0:49.6	Yeah.
0:49.9	Not a doctor.
0:51.2	Yeah, I haven't really spoken really about her birth and what happened afterwards
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