How to Help a New Mum

Nobody Panic

Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin

Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Friends having babies? Not sure what to take round when you go to meet the new baby? Stevie put a callout on Instagram and there was a real consistency with the answers. In fact there's essentially only one thing new mums want and let us tell you, it's not an ornate Victorian hot air balloon (this is what Tessa took round to her friend).

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0:00.0	Oh, wow. Easy. Are you okay? Yes. Perfect. That's it. It's so simple. I am. Today's one is all
0:21.0	about helping your friend not helping with the labor necessarily no
0:26.8	I ideally don't welcome to nobody panic welcome to nobody panic I'm here welcome I'm here.
0:33.0	Welcome.
0:34.0	Today's one is all about being a good friend to your friend who's a first time mom.
0:38.6	I've...
0:39.6	When I suggested this I was like, well I don't know, maybe we're too young to do this sort of things like
0:44.8	people have been having babies for 10 years by this point easily and comfortably.
0:49.4	Obviously long at 20 years for some people.
0:51.5	It's, if you do yourself don't have kids and your
0:53.6	friends suddenly start doing it. Sex. Sex? What are you doing?
0:58.3	Then and then the baby start arriving and you listen I listen, I've definitely, I don't know, I haven't been,
1:04.6	since we've asked this question to the internet,
1:06.3	I've also put it on my school WhatsApp thread
1:08.4	where only three of us don't have any babies
1:12.3	in this large group. And there was a tidal wave of
1:15.0	suggestions and ideas and things that were helpful and useful and me and the two
1:19.6	others messes each other being like I see that none of our gifts are coming up as things
1:25.4	that were helpful and actually one person put an antique hot air balloon that hangs from the ceiling.
1:34.9	So that was what she wanted to decorative. A friend to bring. Well no she put that and then the entire group
1:39.4	started going ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha can you imagine? And then after several people laughing,
1:43.7	I had to be like, that is what I bought her.
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