Rick Edwards and Emer Kenny on throwing out the birth plan

Happy Mum Happy Baby

Giovanna Fletcher

Kids & Family

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We love a couples interview on Happy Mum Happy Baby and this week is no exception as broadcaster Rick Edwards and actor & writer Emer Kenny join Gi in the studio.

They chat about getting engaged after six weeks(!), plus Rick shares how he tried to make himself useful during Emer's 40+ hour labour.

The couple also open up about navigating freelancing and family, with Emer explaining how she managed to juggle writing a tv show with having a baby. And you can check out Emer's incredible work for yourself - the second series of Karen Pirie returns to ITV1 and ITVX this Sunday 20th July!

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0:00.0	Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby.
0:03.5	We're walking home from our first date and he said,
0:05.8	so I've been dating quite a few girls, but I'm just going to date you now.
0:10.4	Which is very romantic.
0:11.9	And then he said, I'm going to get off the bus.
0:13.8	So you can either get off the bus and kiss me or you can stay on the bus.
0:17.7	Sometimes you're just going to give very clear choices to people.
0:20.8	When I had the miscarriage, I felt so scared to tell anyone I was working with.
0:26.3	I don't know why.
0:27.1	It still feels slightly...
0:28.7	Private, I suppose.
0:29.6	Private, slightly sort of taboo, no, but it's quite a lot.
0:33.3	You don't really want to necessarily go into detail.
0:35.8	I suppose I also didn't want anyone to say, oh, okay, well, when are you going to send us the next script?
0:40.6	I didn't want to have that reaction of I wanted to be in control of what was happening to me.
0:44.9	I'd written out the birth plan and I had it all printed.
0:48.3	There's a few things I can really clearly remember.
0:50.4	And one of them was quite a long, long way in, where I just kind of privately and quite sadly,
0:56.3	just folded the birth plan up,
0:58.2	just sort of tucked it into my pocket and thought,
1:00.3	I'm not going to be needing actually.
1:02.5	This episode of Happy Mum, Happy Baby,
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