Kate & Mandy are talking to super pea Alison. Alison speaks openly about her pregnancy with identical twins, twin-to-twin transfusion, the birth of the twins at 27.4 weeks, the very worrying weeks and months after, and a kidney transplant which left her husband with a brain injury.
Following a Facebook post in the Too Peas Hangout, Kate & Mandy share the most ridiculous, painful and downright rude rectum comments you peas have received. Prepare to be shocked!
Kate & Mandy are talking to pea friend Nicole, who has quite a story to tell. Her little boy was born a micro prem at 23 weeks and she talks with Kate & Mandy about living through the first days, weeks and months as a single mum, the endless therapies, school years and of course rectum comments. You’ll love her!
Mandy and Kate are back in iso and in the thick of remote learning, so that means snap peas are back! Your voices are
back!
Recommendations in this Snap Pea Ep:
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Kate & Mandy are talking to pea friend Jodie. Jodie was born with a rare genetic syndrome called Larsen syndrome. She talks about her journey through life living with this condition, including raising two children with the same genetic syndrome.
Kate cried watching The Project’s Carrie Bickmore talking about her Beanies for Brain Cancer project. You can watch the show here (until 14 October 2020) or read about it here.
Today Kate & Mandy talk with Tristram Peters about his various work including his podcast and work at Clickability, powerchair football and his love for his mother who advocated like a motherf***** all his life. Also, he is single peas!
Kate and Mandy talk with Brisbane Pea Lisa over Skype. Lisa is a pea-fessional talking about her pregnancy with fraternal twins Pinkie and Purple who turned out to be identical, her severe sickness during pregnancy, post-natal anxiety, and the journey through diagnosis and schools. And she has quite a few very powerful things to say.
Lisa suffered from Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG); severe sickness during pregnancy. Good information on HG including research (around genetic causes) and guidelines is found on Hyperemesis Education Resource Foundation
Today Kate and Mandy talk with Sydney Pea Viv over Skype, who talks about her incredible pea journey with her twin girls; Cystic Fibrosis diagnosis of one of her twin girls, other diagnosis following after that, how it was in those first few years through kinder and special school, and meeting the prime minister in her campaign to get a CF drug on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
