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Happy Mum Happy Baby

The ADHD Parenting Toolkit with Dr Mine Conkbayir

Happy Mum Happy Baby

Giovanna Fletcher

Kids & Family

4.85.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of Parenting SOS, we’re joined by Dr. Mine Conkbayir. Mine is an expert in neuroscience and has worked in early childhood education and care for 25 years. She's also an ADHD mum of one.


Mine and Gi discuss how hormonal changes during pregnancy and postpartum can impact ADHD behaviours, and the importance of honest, supportive conversation between ADHD and non-ADHD parents and children.


Plus Mine answers your questions on all things ADHD.


You can listen to ‘I’m ADHD! No You’re Not!' Mine's hit podcast with husband Paul Whitehouse here.


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0:00.0

Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby, Parenting SOS. All of this is about awareness, but also a willingness to be

0:08.7

gentle with yourself and not berate yourself. You've just been conditioned to believe that something is

0:13.8

wrong with you and wrong with your brain. Nothing is wrong with you and nothing is wrong with your brain. But it is different.

0:23.6

Getting those around you to also be honest and saying what frustrates them about how it shows up

0:29.1

and what you can do about it together. So my 12 year old, she will write me post-its to remind me.

0:35.3

She will send me text messages. We problem solved together instead of

0:39.3

staying focused on the, but you didn't do that, you did that wrong, because we can push past

0:44.6

these traits. During pregnancy, progesterone and estrogen levels rocket. When we have the baby,

0:51.6

they plummet. Estrogen inextricably linked to dopamine.

0:55.8

You know, it regulates its uptake.

0:58.0

It minimises the deterioration of dopamine.

1:01.5

So when these things change, immediately it affects our mood and our behaviour

1:06.0

and our ability to tap into our executive functioning skills.

1:09.8

This podcast is sponsored by LaRosch's new Effaclar AZ gel cream.

1:15.5

As a mum, I feel like I am constantly doing two things at once.

1:20.0

You're a chauffeur, you're a chef, you're an events organiser, you're a story reader.

1:24.5

If I can do two things at once, then so should my skincare. I shouldn't have to

1:28.8

choose to target either blemishes or ageing with my skincare or rely on a 10-step routine to be

1:34.4

effective. I want a product that can do both. For a lot of people, we never grow out of getting

1:39.5

blemishes and spots. It's part of being human. But now we also need to deal with the signs of

1:45.1

aging too. Apparently, 46% of millennial women are concerned with blemishes and aging at the

1:50.9

same time. We are not alone. La Roche Pose's new ephaclar-z gel cream works just as hard as we do,

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