ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Pregnant or navigating life with a newborn? By Your Side is the podcast that gets it. Hosted by Katie Barron — educator, parent support advocate and big believer in honest conversations — each episode brings real talk, expert insight and emotional backup for the messy magic of early parenthood. From baby sleep to identity shifts, crying to co-regulation, this is the place to feel calmer, more connected, and a little more like yourself. Because no one should have to figure this out alone — and now, you don’t have to.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
32 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
15 episodes
since June 30, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this episode, Katie speaks with Lauren Seager-Smith, CEO of For Baby’s Sake, about something that can quietly emerge or escalate during pregnancy and early parenthood: domestic abuse, particularly coercive control.
Lauren explains why this period of huge transition can place strain on relations…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In this episode, I’m joined by Will Mauer, founder of the Children's Media Research and Reform Lab and a TEDx speaker.
We talk about something almost every parent wrestles with: screens.
Will explains how many children’s shows aren’t designed for development — they’re engineered for engagement. F…
New parenthood is full of shoulds.
You should find breastfeeding natural.
You shouldn’t hold your baby too much.
You should feel back to normal by six weeks.
But what if those stories were never true?
In this episode of By Your Side, researcher Emily Little, PhD joins us to gently dismantle some …
Why do dads often feel like the “plus one” in pregnancy and early parenting?
In this powerful conversation, Katie talks with Kieran Anders, National Lead for Dad Matters, powered by Home-Start, supporting dads in the perinatal period to build strong relationships with their babies. He’s passionate…
How our childhood experiences shape the way we parent isn’t always obvious — but it’s always powerful.
In this week’s episode, Katie talks with Suzanne Scott, founder of Trauma-Informed Parenting, about how childhood adversity (ACEs) can quietly influence our reactions, our patience, and even the …
Becoming a new parent changes EVERYTHING. Gareth, a single foster dad to three children, shares his unfiltered journey into parenting kids with early-life trauma and how it reshaped his life. He explains why trauma is relational, how healing happens through relationships, and why therapeutic paren…
In this episode, I sit down with Lucy Nicholson, a midwife with over 15 years’ experience, to talk about the very real pressures parents feel to be “perfect” — and why even the experts carry their own worries about pregnancy and early parenthood.
Lucy opens up about her own journey, from navigatin…
Becoming a parent is challenging - but imagine becoming a parent without a partner, in a country you didn't grow up in and feeling that you couldn't tell the people who raised you that you were pregnant.
In this truly inspirational episode I speak to Jill Samukimba, who shares her journey from orp…
Most people have never heard of postnatal psychosis — until it happens to them.
In this incredibly brave and honest conversation, Abbi shares her personal experience of postnatal psychosis after the birth of her first baby. From the early signs and terrifying thoughts, to seeking help, hospitalisa…
You don’t need a stack of books or a perfectly curated nursery to start your baby’s reading journey.
In this heartening and practical conversation, Katie is joined by Dr. Stephanie Montgomery — educator, early literacy advocate, and all-round story enthusiast — to explore how even the simplest mom…
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