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Holly Hagan-Blyth and Charlie Hedges have launched a parenting podcast (Image: CBeebies)<\/p>\nGeordie Shore\u2019s Holly Hagan-Blyth and Radio One DJ Charlie Hedges have teamed up to talk about babies, parenting and the \u2018fun\u2019 of potty training on CBeebies new podcast.<\/p>\n
06:00, 06 Jun 2025Updated 12:08, 06 Jun 2025<\/p>\n
Holly Hagan-Blyth and Charlie Hedges have launched a parenting podcast (Image: CBeebies)<\/p>\n
Holly Hagan-Blyth recently lifted the lid on one of motherhood’s biggest challenges as she admits she was scared of going to bed after welcoming her son Alpha-Jax.<\/p>\n
Geordie Shore<\/a> star Holly Hagan-Blyth<\/a> and BBC<\/a> Radio One DJ Charlie Hedges<\/a> may have become friends while recording a new CBeebies<\/a> Parenting podcast, but there is one subject the two mums disagree on.<\/p>\n \u201cI got a lot of advice from Charlie with regards to potty training, and she said it was really, really fun,\u201d says Holly, 32, who is mum to two year old son Alpha-Jax<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t think I am finding it as fun as she said it was!\u201d<\/p>\n She and Charlie, 38, have joined forces to host the Parenting Helpline podcast for CBeebies\u2019 new online parenting community, chatting to a different expert each week and helping parents answer those burning questions about pregnancy<\/a>, birth and raising young children.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s about supporting parents and carers from pregnancy right up to starting school, which is where me and Holly are right now,\u201d Charlie says.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is so much advice and stuff online, which is great, but I think as a new parent you kind of get lost in all of that. There\u2019s lots of information out there, but where? Where is the one solid place you can go to? I think the CBeebies parenting hub will be so helpful and I\u2019m so proud to be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n But there’s another piece of advice Holly wishes she’d had before motherhood. \u201cI wish somebody had warned me about the baby blues<\/a>, because oh my God, that hormone drop once I got home from hospital, I was crying for no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t realise I was going to feel all those emotions. It would get to 6pm, 7pm and I just burst into tears because I was scared of going to bed, I didn\u2019t want to be alone,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was very strange, but thankfully that passed after a week or so. But nobody warned me about that. I wish somebody had spoken to me about that, because that wasn\u2019t fun.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE: Luxury hotel offering Elemis spa treatment with a free \u00a3101 beauty gift<\/a> Holly has had her own experience of falling down the online advice rabbit hole and scaring herself as a new mum by reading stories about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).<\/p>\n \u201cI worried about febrile seizures and all of these things you didn\u2019t really know about before you had social media,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s great to get advice but it can be really bad for being able to see a lot of negative things.<\/p>\n It feels like SIDS is a really common thing and I was absolutely terrified. Thinking that one day a baby might just stop breathing is terrifying to me. I even had an Owlet sock for the first year of his life that tracked his breathing and oxygen and heart rate because I am an anxious person.\u201d<\/p>\n Charlie, whose daughter Summer Rose will be three in August,<\/a> is proud that she and Holly have shared their own experiences as mums of toddlers on the podcast, and have been joined by parents talking about their own challenges and triumphs.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has been beautiful to encourage people to ask questions and be open and honest, because that helps other people as well,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t wait to reach the point where my daughter is old enough to understand that this is something I have done, because it\u2019s myself and Holly talking about our own personal situations.\u201d<\/p>\n The pair have also given advice to each other, but Holly admits that her experience with raising her son has been poles apart from Charlie\u2019s life with her daughter. \u201cRaising sons and daughters is completely different, they have different brain chemistry, they have different teaching styles,\u201d Holly says.<\/p>\n \u201cI also think temperament is a big thing as well, every child has a different temperament. I\u2019ve got a very high temperament child, and I\u2019ve made no secret that it has been a difficult journey with him from being around four months old.<\/p>\n I\u2019m getting to the point now where we\u2019re two years in and I feel like I am finally in the swing of motherhood, but it has taken me a long time to get there and be comfortable with it, it just turns your whole life completely upside down.\u201d<\/p>\n Things have definitely improved as Alpha-Jax has approached his second birthday \u2013 the age many other parents dread. \u201cFor me, the \u2018terrible twos\u2019 have become the terrific twos,\u201d Holly says.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the best age I could ever imagine. So many people say \u2018Just wait,\u2019 but I think \u2018no, you don\u2019t realise what we have been through the last year and a half.\u2019<\/p>\n It\u2019s been really hard, he was very whingey, and nothing could please him. It was like he just hated being a baby. And now that he\u2019s able to communicate, he\u2019s speaking in full sentences, we\u2019re having conversations and he is just the best thing in the world<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Working together on the podcast, both Holly and Charlie have thought about the advice they themselves were given as new mothers. For Charlie, one of the best pieces of advice came from her own mum.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember my mum saying to me, that everything is a phase,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve heard that many times but it is important. Baby\u2019s not sleeping through the night, or you\u2019re at the weaning stage and things are really tough. It\u2019s something to have in the back of your mind that whatever it is, it isn\u2019t going to go on for a long, long time. Nothing lasts forever.\u201d<\/p>\n Follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok<\/a>, Snapchat<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, YouTube<\/a> and Threads<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Holly](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_JS370801143.jpg\")
Holly and Charlie disagree on potty training being ‘fun’<\/p>\n![\"Geordie](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3_holly-and-babyJPG.jpg\")
Geordie Shore’s Holly is mum to Alpha-Jax(Image: hollyhaganblyth\/instagram)![\"Charlie](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_BBC-Radio-One-DJ-Charlie-Hedges-for-speaking-honestly-about-mum-guilt-after-she-returned-to-work-j.webp\")
Radio One DJ Charlie has a daughter named Summer Rose(Image: @charliehedgesdj\/Instagram)<\/p>\n