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Happy Mum Happy Baby

Sara Pascoe on trying to protect her comedy career from fertility struggles

Happy Mum Happy Baby

Giovanna Fletcher

Kids & Family

4.85.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week Giovanna sits down for a raw and hilarious conversation with comedian Sara Pascoe.


Sara speaks candidly about the highs and lows of her mental health during IVF and the experience of being manic after having her first child.


Plus Sara and Gi describe how their relationships evolved after becoming parents.


Sara Pascoe will tour the UK and Ireland with all new show, I Am A Strange Gloop in 2025/26, including the London Palladium on Sunday 1st March 2026. Tickets: sarapascoe.co.uk



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0:00.0

Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby.

0:03.9

It said to me in the hospital, like, when your milk comes in, you're going to feel this big sadness, and none of that happened.

0:08.1

And I remember thinking a few days in her, I don't need to sleep.

0:11.8

And I didn't know I was manic.

0:13.5

I remember thinking, because I was reading a novel a night.

0:16.3

Oh, no. The thing that had been putting me off about IVF, I was like, how will I go and do gigs if I've

0:21.3

just done a negative pregnancy test? Yeah, yeah. Hormones or like, how I'll be on TV and a panel

0:25.4

show going, oh yeah, that politician's got bad hair. So there was all these things where I was like

0:30.0

trying to protect my work from the emotions with Albi. I was like like trying not to do so many pregnancy tests because it's good. It's such a waste of single-used plastic as well as the other thing.

0:38.3

They're all still in my house.

0:40.3

Hundreds and hundreds of pregnancy tests, like just discolored.

0:44.3

Yes, used ones.

0:45.4

Because it felt superstitious to throw them away.

0:47.9

And at some point, I will have to throw them away or my kids are going to have to grow up in a house.

0:52.2

I'm a hoarder, but only for used pregnancy tests.

0:56.0

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0:59.2

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1:00.8

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1:02.6

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1:05.1

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1:08.3

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1:12.5

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