WAP or Waters? (Sinead & Gemma Say TOO much)
The Sinead Says Podcast
Sinead Hegarty
5.0 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This weeks episode is very different… because Gemma’s waters unexpectedly broke early.
We’re recording in pyjamas, on bed rest, during an actual sleepover while navigating a real-life pregnancy plot twist.
Gemma shares the full story of being diagnosed with PPROM (Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes), the hospital visit, the moment everything changed, and what happens next as baby Murray may be arriving sooner than planned.
Between the chaos, tears, laughter, and hormone-fuelled hot takes, we talk honestly about pregnancy scares, motherhood realities, friendships showing up when it matters most, and how humour sometimes carries you through the hardest moments.
This episode is raw, unfiltered, emotional and very us.
If you’re pregnant and listening, this episode is your reminder that pregnancy doesn’t always follow the plan.
Information, support, and community matter more than perfection, please lean on professionals to get everything checked over don’t put off if you think you are making a big deal of something or unsure.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome back to Sheneid and Gemma. Say too much. |
| 0:06.1 | So, first of all, we're on our PJs. We are. We're on bed rest, guys. It is given bed rest. |
| 0:13.3 | And like, this isn't actually for show. Like, we're actually having a sleepover. |
| 0:16.4 | We're having a sleepover. Because Gemma is basically in hospital at her house. But, like, she could also, the mid said we could have a hospital at my house too. As long as I'm at my house for her. Yeah, okay, that's fine. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. So we're in hospital over at the Shanette Sanctuary. Sam's not here. So it's the sleepover club. Sleepover club. Good name for a podcast. Good name for a podcast. Maybe. Maybe. We have had a week. Honestly, I don't even know really where to start. No, do you know what I was going to say? What? I was going to say this podcast is happening because of Gemma's worth ethic and not mine. |
| 0:55.5 | Oh, yeah, that's true. |
| 0:59.1 | Like, this thought, she'll be on bed rest and I was like, oh, babe, like, you know what I mean? |
| 1:09.4 | Like, they'll understand because, you know, you had a week and like, we'll have a week off. And she's like, no, no, no, I'm coming over. We're going to do it tonight. And I was like, okay. yeah she's like right okay just let me eat food really quickly and then we'll do it but I was like we just need to keep it going because you know like once you get in the momentum and then everybody's me messages and all |
| 1:16.1 | like they all love it they're like oh my god I can't wait for my drive to put you on to listen to you |
| 1:20.8 | on the way to work or whatever it may be or the chores you know the chores we are your chores |
| 1:25.7 | podcast right now yeah like how good are chores when you have a good podcast? Buy podcast. Yeah. So I'm like, we can't let them down. You can't just, you know, we won't do that. We have to just keep us. Jamage is better worth ethic than me. So that's why we should work together more than the future. Yeah. |
| 1:46.0 | So guys, it's been a week. |
| 1:49.9 | It has been a week and a half to say the least. |
| 1:50.8 | Wow. |
| 1:51.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:55.0 | I actually was on my way over here to record the podcast, wasn't I? |
| 1:56.0 | Yes. |
| 2:00.0 | So we were going to record the podcast and that was what was happening. |
| 2:00.6 | Yeah. And I went for a walk and i was like right i'll go |
| 2:03.3 | and grab myself a little coffee decalf and i actually woke up that morning and it was the |
| 2:08.8 | first morning where i was like i need to cancel platoes i cannot go to platoz today my body felt so sore |
| 2:14.6 | and i was like oh my god that doesn't feel right i'm just going to cancel |
| 2:19.1 | that go for a wee walk get a coffee face time home and that'll just be my wee exercise for the |
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