How to Be a Good Friend When Your BFF Has a Baby
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Your best friend, sibling, or coworker is pregnant or just had a baby—now what?! If you’ve ever wondered how to support a friend through pregnancy, postpartum, and the transition into parenthood (without being annoying), this episode is for you. I sit down with my friend Jamie, a new mom, to get the unfiltered scoop on what to say, what NOT to say, and how to actually show up for your friends in this life stage—even if you have zero experience with babies. We talk about the biggest mistakes people make, the things new moms secretly wish you’d do, and why your friendship doesn’t have to change (even if everything else does). Whether you’re single, dating, or just nowhere near parenthood, this is the ultimate guide to being a thoughtful, supportive, and not cringey friend during this huge life transition.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.9 | Hey guys, it's Alana and you're listening to seeing other people unfiltered. |
| 0:10.0 | It's Thursday, so that means real-life daters are coming on to share their real, sometimes shocking, and always unfiltered experiences. |
| 0:17.9 | Think you're alone out there? |
| 0:19.1 | Think you're the only one whose ex hooked up with your mom |
| 0:21.5 | or whose last date ended up being a catfish? Think again. Okay, listen up. If you are having a bad day, |
| 0:27.2 | I am going to tell you something that's going to make it so much better. Ready? In just a matter of |
| 0:32.1 | days, it is going to be light out until 7 p.m. You guys, we survived. We survived the hardest, toughest |
| 0:41.0 | stretch of the year. I know it's still cold in New York, and for many of you, wherever you're |
| 0:45.7 | listening from, it's still freezing out. We still have winter left, but we have made it |
| 0:51.4 | through the toughest part, and that is going to be such a game changer. I'm so |
| 0:56.8 | excited. If you're listening to this, not the day it comes out, then congratulations. It's light out |
| 1:02.1 | for longer at this point already. And that's something to celebrate no matter what, no matter what time |
| 1:08.8 | of year it is anyway. But I'm so excited for that. |
| 1:11.8 | I feel like it's just giving us time back. We can do things later in the day. So anyways, we are |
| 1:18.7 | through the toughest part of the year. And I'm excited for what's ahead. I cannot believe it's |
| 1:24.8 | March. It's actually insane. But I am really looking forward to |
| 1:28.7 | this episode and this conversation. And I wanted to take a minute to explain exactly why this is a |
| 1:35.0 | conversation I wanted to have on the podcast. I know a lot of you are going to see this title |
| 1:39.7 | about pregnancy and new moms and be like, okay, I don't relate to that at all. And I know, |
| 1:47.0 | neither do I. This isn't me being like, hey guys, surprise, babies coming. Me and Jake are pregnant. |
| 1:51.7 | Nope. We are not there yet. But I do recognize that many of us are in a stage of life where |
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