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September 16, 2025 12 mins

Rach has hit a bad Mum low after not realising the breakfast she made was off! Sorry Gracie, the math exam was the least of your worries!

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apod Shape Production. Welcome back to another episode about My
Bad Mum podcast. I was talking to somebody the other day.

(00:30):
I don't like bringing this word up, but I think
it's something that when you're in your late thirties early
forties you have to start thinking about. And the word
is perimenopause.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Is that one word or two? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
If we broke it down into syllables, I'd probably be better,
but I think it's just one word. Menopause is one word,
perimenopause is the other.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
You know that when a female is in perimenopause.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, this is what they say. One of the signs are.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
They go inwards, so you start going into yourself, so
you start wanting to do more for yourself and kind
of flipping the whole. I've done everything for these fuckers
for so many years now, I'm it's almost like a
craving to do stuff for yourself and look after yourself again.
I don't know about you, Rach. I had a moment

(01:21):
this morning actually where I went and picked my kids
up and went out of my way, like started my
day late because I needed to pick them up, take
them somewhere else, and then they just had this attitude
with me, and I immediately went into resentment of going,
I fucking resent spending all of this time waiting to

(01:43):
run you around fifty cent buses in Queensland at the moment,
Get on the bus, ware, can.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I add on the bus? Just get on that bus.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
I know we don't want to sit in resentment because
we talk about that affair bit like the sitting and
resentment only causes you more emotional turmoil on your insides,
on your internals rather than anything.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
It doesn't make sense, so good.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, resentment, it's a horrible place to be in, but
we get there.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
I'm going to swing it though, because we did have
this conversation a bit on the weekend, Like perimenopause came
up quite a few times, and it makes me sort
of like I get edgy with it, like I get
a bit like, oh fuck, like it must be closed
or either that I've been going through it for the
last fucking.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Eight years, which is possible.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
But the whole thing of like where you say, you
start to go like inwards and you start to like
go into that place of going no, hang on a
sec I want this, I need this.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
What about me?

Speaker 3 (02:42):
It's not like that song what about Me? It's almost
like it's literally a song. Yeah, that's the song, isn't
isn't it?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
What about us?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
No? It's what about me? Channa Nol sang it not that? No?
What about me? It isn't fair. I've had enough Now
I want my share? Can't you see? Fuck? Sorry for
anyone listening?

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Can you?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Michael Jackson?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Going back? What about us? Oh? I'm thinking of earth song?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Oh? What about everything?

Speaker 2 (03:21):
What about us?

Speaker 3 (03:23):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, you have mushed up two songs? Are you ruin them? Both?
Fucking shut and all? Then we've got Michael Jackson. They're
two different people. Yeah, so I sort of got sidetrack
from perimenopause.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Oh, and going inwards, My question is do you think
it is perimenopause or has someone a lady.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Decided to just label it that.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
But really, what it is is that our children get
to an age where they don't require us as much anymore,
which then allows you some space and some availability within
yourself if you choose it to go, fuck what about me? Oh?

Speaker 2 (04:03):
What am I doing? What's my identity? You doing? Why
am I choosing?

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Like?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Why haven't I done exercise for eight years?

Speaker 3 (04:09):
You know? Like Does that make sense to you? Yes,
you can tell I've been overthinking this so much.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
But I don't necessarily think it's because your kids don't
need you as much anymore, because I think they still do,
but they shouldn't. And so it's little things like this morning.
As that example, right, I thought to myself, Oh, I'm
gonna be really nice mom today. It's gonna be really
nice to them that I'll go pick them up and
so they can get home and blah blah blah blah blah.

(04:37):
And then immediately I was like, what the fuck do
I bother?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, because they drive you to it.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
They are very capable. If it was a concept they
were going to they'd work out the public transport. And
so my thing was they are very capable. Yeah, I'm
just getting annoyed because they're acting like they're not capable.
And then I get attitude, and so I don't want
to do it.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Look, I'm not not at all looking forward to PERI metaphors.
I think I'm actually already there. I actually think you've
been there for eight years.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
I think I'm stuck.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
I think I'm idling and the car won't move fucking
forward or backwards.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
I'm stuck in perry menopause. I'm on bucking help.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Am I a bad mom for just keeping it to myself.
I'm gonna say I am giving it to myself for
now until my child listens.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Hopefully it's not today.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Gracie Girl says to me this morning, I've got my
mask exam this morning, and she said, I need protein
for breakfast because our chiropractor that we see as a family,
he always said to me, give the girls a high
protein breakfast, which you're all about to like, say I
mints and all of that stuff. So she was like,

(06:01):
I needed a protein breakfast. I've got my mask exam
this morning. So as a good mom, I go off
to the shop. I grab some like bacon and these
English muffin things that she likes, and we do eggs, eggs,
bacon all as well. Now as I'm fluffing about, she's
got everything about to bite into it. Now I'm not
close proximity to where she's standing. I need to put

(06:21):
this in because it all makes sense and she has
a big bite. In five minutes prior to this, I've
given her her school jacket.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Freshly washed, so clean, clean.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
As a whistle and she puts it on and she goes,
oh so nice, mum, thank you so much, washing it.
Fast forward five minutes biting into this big thing and
then the egg no, it goes down her sleeve, well
on the inside. I just turned around and just walked away.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Get some paper and wipe it up.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
And then I kainy again not close enough because I
had to walk away because I was like, I genuinely
twitch because I was like, fucking didn't want to do
on the weekend, let alone.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Now you just she's gone and she's out a bite,
she's eating it. She's white, just sleeve. That was all fine.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
And as I come back into close proximity, she goes, Mom,
she said, this egg has a smell. I don't think
it's okay mom, And I, as a true parent would
I said, they're fresh eggs, babe, I only got them
last week. And I said to her, you know eggs
have a smell. They've been boiled, like they were cooked.

(07:32):
She goes, okay, yep, continues eating it, fast forward.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Finishes it. We get in the car.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Everything was fine traveling down the road to school, which
is going to take up approximately thirty five minutes from
the maps and she pulls her sleeve up and she said, Mom,
I'm telling you, I don't think that that egg was okay.
Like the smell of my sleeve is just so bad, Katie.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
I'm now in fucking very close proximity. In my head,
I was like, smells like egg. She's mom, just can
you please just smell it? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh no, And you know, like you in your head
you're like, oh, it's not fucking off, it's fine. I
put my nose to the side of her sleeve and
I took the biggest whiff.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
I genuinely was like, oh, you've given her a rotten egg.
She's eating a rotten egg.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'm trying to drive, and then in my head like,
shut the fuck up, don't make any noise, because she
will be the kid that'll start vomiting just in the
car if I tell her that she's in a rotten egg.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
So I'm trying to hold back my dry reaching and
I'm going like, smell, smells fine. I smelled and I
was like, oh, yeah, it just smells like egg.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
I'm driving.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
I know you won't see the car round and I
was like, it's fine. Literally, I'm putting the window.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Down I was like, just need some fresh air, because
I was like, all can smell is rotten egg.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
And I was like, oh, She's like, you're right. I
was like, yeah, no, oh, got a bug in my eye.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
She's sprayed the sanitiser, scrubbed her things, sprayed the sanitizer,
the thing, and then we chatted away and I had
to change the subject hard and fast because I was
in a state i'd worked myself into which I can do,
and we're cruising down and I still got probably if
I was say, maybe eight minutes with her in the car,
and I'd even said to it, perhaps to take your

(09:22):
jacket off.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I'll leave it in the car, I'll wash it.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Take it off now, though, Take it off now, because
in my head, I'm like, I'm going to chuck it
right to the back of.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
The girl, smelling like rotten egg. I'll just wash it
during a day, babe, Just take it off.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Take it off.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
No, no, no, I'll get cold. Take it off. You
don't want to be wearing that. And trying again not
to say it fucking stinks like rotten eggs. It don't,
because in.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
My head, she's already sitting there. She because mom, I'm
so nervous about my mass exam, and she's like really
going through some really big feelings about this mass exam.
So I'm trying to like, don't worry about it, babe.
We want a positive mind, strong mind, positive mind, think positive,
that's what will happen.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
We're going through what we could do different things.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Some of the stuff's been working with a tutor, and
at the same time, you know, I would chime in
and out and then I'd all of a sudden catch
a whiff of it and I just go oh.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
And then she'd go, are you all right?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
And I was like, oh, that fucking bug again. She goes,
can we put up the windows and something? I said, no,
it's just so much warmer outside, Perry menopause, so much
warmer outside.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's freezing. I was like, so much, it's just kneading air. Anyway,
when she got out of the car.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
At school, and I was like, babe, and I'm trying
to stay positive on the mask talk and not catch
the whiff of the egg. And I was trying to
get it to take a jacket off even though she's freezing.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
I said, just take jack off. I'll wash it for you.
Don't worry about it. You'll be fine. You're gonna be
cold today. He'd want my jacket. Take my jacket, Mom,
I can't.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
I was like, okay, yeah, that's a bad okay, yep,
have a good day, bye, darling, love you, good luck.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Have you had a phone call from the I've been waiting.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
I don't want to say it, Katie, because you know
I don't cope with this. But I was like, I
rang straight away. I'm ringing Sam the fuck. Why couldn't
you fucking smell the egg was rotten? The egg was rotten.
You gave her a rotten egg? And he's like what
And I was like the egg, I said, I smelt it.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
On a jacket. It's rotten.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
It's not just a bit of an egg. And he's going, oh,
slow down, you don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
And I was like, what's wrong with you? Who couldn't
have smelled that?

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Like I just start spraying him. We need to google now?
Is she going to die from this eating rotten egg?
And he's like, well, I hope you didn't say anything
to it.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
I said, of course not. I said, but I've just
drove forty minutes in the car dry reaching to a
rotten egg down her sleeve. You could hear him. He's
like he wanted to laugh, but at the same time
he's like.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
This bitch is, oh my god, Katie. I let her
a rotten egg and then off she goes to school,
not knowing that it's rotten, and she's worried about the
mass exam.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
So well I would see you.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
I was fuck.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
I hope you don't vomit all through your mass exam.
This is gonna be rough

Speaker 1 (12:05):
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