Friday Q&A on Pre & Post Natal Fitness with Shape Pilates
Made by Mammas: The Podcast
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We've held off on the whole "New Year, New Me" content so far - but Zoe's chance encounter with today's guest recently meant we simply had to get up and start talking about moving our bodies once again. It's time to get back into it!
Today we're joined by Shape Pilates' Gemma Folkard, who answers all of your questions around pre and post natal health and fitness. Whether it's pelvic floor exercise tips or building the confidence to get into the gym after childbirth, we cover it all!
A great place to start your fitness journey this year is downloading Gemma's app Shape Pilates
And check out the personality test Gemma talked about here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Made My Mommas the podcast. I'm Zoe Hardman and I'm Georgie Dayton. |
| 0:05.2 | And this is your parenting safe space where no conversation is off limits. With five kids between |
| 0:10.8 | G and I, we have seen a lot. We really have. Each week, we'll be joined by some famous faces and |
| 0:16.0 | experts and we'll chat about the brands and products that have saved us along the way. |
| 0:20.2 | In short, we're the parenting podcast for you. Before we get started, hit subscribe or follow so you're the first to know when each episode lands. And they're on Tuesdays and Fridays. And it really helps if you leave a rating and a review. You can also find us in Instagram. We're on at Made by Mumas. But for now, George, should we get into it? |
| 0:38.1 | Hello and welcome to Friday's episode of the podcast. Obviously, January is one of those times a year where all these kind of, I don't know, turns of phrase arc sort of banded around, New Year, New Me, all that kind of stuff. We don't buy into that. At the same time, Georgia and I have done a bit of a reset this year. |
| 0:54.5 | We're quite enjoying January. |
| 0:55.8 | We're slowing down. |
| 0:56.8 | We're putting buy into that. At the same time, Georgia and I have done a bit of a reset this year. |
| 0:54.5 | We're quite enjoying January. We're slowing down. We're putting more into ourselves, into our |
| 0:58.7 | bodies, into our minds. So we thought we would kick off a really lovely kind of fitness |
| 1:04.1 | Q&A today. And it's gone down really well, George, hasn't it? Yeah. I think we wanted to leave you |
| 1:09.3 | for a few weeks to bed into January before we started bombarding you all with fitness messaging. But I think now's the right time, isn't it, to have a little bit of a catch-up. And there's been loads of questions. So, yeah, I'm excited for this chat. Me too. Before we get into the questions, we obviously need to introduce today's guest. I've only met today's guest about 10 days ago, but I just said to George off Mike, |
| 1:31.1 | you could see that she was quite threatened by the relationship. |
| 1:33.8 | Jealous. |
| 1:34.6 | Jealous. |
| 1:35.3 | That me and this lovely Gemma, we met about 10 days ago. |
| 1:38.4 | She is a certified Pilates instructor, a strength trainer. |
| 1:42.2 | She has an incredible Pilates app called Shape Pilates. |
| 1:45.0 | It's Gemma Falkard. Yay. |
| 1:48.7 | Oh my God. It's getting nostalgia, like thinking back to, I don't know, TV shows in the Nauties now. |
| 1:56.4 | It's me. It's Gemma Falkard. |
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