Dear Wiggles: Can I Have A Baby Brother?

What do you say when your toddler asks for a baby brother or sister every single day… and you don’t actually have an answer? This week on Dear Wiggles, Simon and Lachy dive into one of the most tender parenting moments - when your child’s innocent questions bump up against your very adult reality.

From Simon’s own experience with Asher’s sibling questions to the emotional sting that can come with fertility uncertainty, the Wiggles unpack how to stay honest, calm and connected - even when your heart is doing its own gymnastics.

 

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Simon Pryce
Lachlan Gillespie

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Produced by The Wiggles and Mylk Media
Madeline Joannou
Nick Webb

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About The Wiggles' Podcast - Wiggle Talk

Think you’ve got parenting figured out? So do Simon and Lachy - until the toddler throws a curveball. On Wiggle Talk - a podcast for parents, Red Wiggle Simon Pryce and Purple Wiggle Lachy Gillespie tackle the tricky, funny, and unexpected moments of raising little humans.

Simon, dad to son Asher, and Lachy, father to twin daughters Lulu and Lottie and stepdad to Jasper, share the highs and lows of parenting in the early years. Alongside their own stories, they welcome guests - from parenting experts to well-known personalities - who bring fresh perspectives and practical wisdom to the table.

Each week also features Dear Wiggles - where listeners send in their questions, the things that keep them up at night, or the dilemmas they’d love another parent’s take on. Simon and Lachy talk it through with honesty, and when needed, they call in expert friends to help provide thoughtful advice and reassurance.

With decades of experience in children’s education and entertainment, The Wiggles bring their trademark warmth and playfulness to conversations on everything from sleep and routines to tantrums, play, and the big feelings that come with family life.

Two dads, no filter, figuring it out as they go.

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Wiggles acknowledge the traditional custodians of country throughout Australia
and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay
our respects to elders, past, present and emerging.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome to wiggle Talk, a podcast for parents. I'm Simon Price,
I'm from the Wiggles and I'm a red one.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hello, I am lucky. I am from the Wiggles. Can
I'm a purple one? And it's lovely to be here, Simon.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Here it always is, isn't it lucky?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Question? Yes, have you tried bulletproof coffee?

Speaker 4 (00:37):
No?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I never have. Now I know that you have been
a bulletproof fan for a while, but on and off
I believe. I don't think you haven't been consistent.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
On and off only because I'm drinking one at the
moment and I just made me think. I don't think
you ever have. But this one's a sashet sache and
on the back it says something about long lasting energy
and it says shred Really. Yes, I feel like I'm shredding.
But yeah, I tend not to have breaky, but I
have a coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Now, this is what Can you just talk through the bulletproof.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yes, it's black coffee with a bit of MCT oil, right,
which is I think a highly highly something.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
No idea what you're putting into your body?

Speaker 3 (01:15):
This is oils and well normally a bit of butter.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, well that's what I thought. If you put butter
and keep it? Do you put butter in it? Like
this is a sahetet all that stuff in it?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, it definitely has a powdered coconut oil.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Okay, it's quite good anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
It keeps you in the past. You've got your livy
little bit of coffee, you've got your little automout of things,
and you've got you a bit of butter and you
oil and you use it up and down.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
And yeah, yeah it's quite yummy.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
And do you feel like it sustains you?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
I think so? Yeah, mentally very shy.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Has it kicked in yet?

Speaker 4 (01:59):
I've tried the class? I hope it has. For our
next question, let's see make double weigle.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Talk Talk Talk weigle Talk.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's Dear Wiggles, authorized by Simon Locke.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Okay, ready, Simon, what's this. It's time for Dear Wiggles,
where we take your questions and parenting dilemmas, and together
we try to help. Now, today's question is one of
those classic questions that toddlers love to throw at you,
super easy for them to ask, but not actually so
easy for parents to answer. And Christine has written in
and she.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Says, you keep going Lock, You're doing very well.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Thank you, Simon, Hello, Simon and Lockey. My daughter who
is for has started asking for a baby brother or
sister every single day. The thing is, we've been trying
for a while and it just hasn't happened yet. Sometimes
I brush it off, but other times it really stings,
and I don't know what to say. How do you
talk to your children about siblings when you don't have
all the answers yourselves. Thank you for your help, Christine.

(03:02):
That is a tricky, very tricky question, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Is it on the Sashet packet? No, it's not. Unfortunately,
that is a really tricky one. We've had this recently
with Asher because a lot of his friends either have
little siblings. Now. Ash's turning five in January, so a
lot of his friends have sort of two year old
sort of brothers or sisters. So he's actually asking the

(03:26):
same thing about if he will have a brother or sister,
and we would love We're telling him we would love
for him to have a brother or sister, and we
hope that we can. But we love our family who
we are now with him as our child, and if
that's the family that we have for the rest of

(03:47):
our lives, and we are incredibly grateful and happy. So
we kind of frame it that way and let him
know that we understand what he's asking and that we
would like to have one ourselves, and it's something we're
thinking and talking about.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
I really love that. I think that's that's a really
nice point to make to him, is that how nice
the family is now and he gets all the time
with mummy, and of course they can't understand that difficulty
of what it would be like with a baby in
the house. He gets kind of they can't understand that.
Of course, they want someone to play with and you
can't play with a baby for quite a long time,
and there's all those things you probably don't need to explain.

(04:22):
I really like that that you this is what we've got.
And of course it's so many tricky questions from children
you just can't go too deep into them, but you
can also just be honest with them.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, I think sometimes we try to sugarcoat those answers
sometimes about where the babies come from or and sometimes
it's okay just to be quite matter of fact about it,
I think and actually give. Like Asher the other day
picked up a tampon of losses, what's this for? I
was like, okay, well, this is what it's for, and

(04:52):
I just went through this is what it's for, this
is this is why mummy has it, this is what
it's used for. He was like, oh okay, and he
was happy. Yeah, of trying to kind of work around it,
to work through it, And I know it's not always
that easy sometimes, especially when the question can be hurtful
for you too. If you're so desperately wanting a child
and it's not happening how you'd like it too, it

(05:15):
can sting, you know, and so it is quite tricky
to work through those emotions yourself.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
There's something in that though, too. Isn't there that exact
example for us parents going through fertility or timing or
relationship circumstances or financial realities of having a second child.
That child asking isn't thinking about any of those things.
You explained for him what a tampon's for. And it's
that simple. I know, you think in his head okay,

(05:41):
which is the same as saying it's not happening at
the moment, he doesn't have that sting in him. No,
for him, it's just a simple oh, okay, well that's
good for him. Yeah, you don't have to go into
the trickiness of certain situations.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
But I know, and I think it's important for parents
to as much as you're wanting to have it happen
your self, is not to feel guilty that you're not
able to do it for your other child you've got
nothing going on, to not layer all that on top
of it as well, because they're just like you're saying, look,
he's asking you a very simple question without understanding all

(06:15):
the repercussions of what that can be emotional for you,
and you know the knock on effect of all that.
How was it when Jasper, for you found out that
you and Danna were going to have well twins?

Speaker 3 (06:26):
That was a wild, wild one because that was during
COVID and so just Be didn't meet his siblings for
six weeks after because he was with his dad. So
that was a whole other you know, trying to FaceTime
with mummy with oh wow, someone else. It's like, here
we go have a look at that. So that was
that was wild. But he's all kids are different, but
he's very much now that the girls are a bit older,

(06:47):
loves it. Absolutely not when they were babies and that
was a big moment for him, but now that they're
older and can play, he can really he gets a
lot out of it. But yeah, that's a whole thing
when you bring someone else home and we got a puppy,
and I was quite surprised with the children's reaction with
a dolt and how much that kind of three things out. Yeah, okay,

(07:08):
there's always always fun little moments to work through.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, And look, I think overall, too, if you think
about the bigger picture, it's a chance for you to
open up and have a conversation with your child about
that families are different, families can look different. You can
have two mums, you're gonna have two dads. They could
be five children, there can be one child. It's actually
a really nice way to kind of open up that
conversation about the differences within families. But I think ultimately

(07:34):
keep bringing you back to how grateful we are for
the family that we have, and I think that's kind
of you know, it might not stop them asking every day,
and it might not stop the sting, but I think
it can be. If it's an open dialogue and open
conversation about all facets of what family life is and
how different it can be, maybe that helps. Well, Lucky,

(07:55):
I've got to say the old bulletproof coffee, you have
got fire? How you at it?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Thank you Christine for that question and we hope that
did help. But that is all for today's dear Wiggles.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yes, that's right. If you've got a question, Parrington dilemma
or even just something funny you want to want us
to mull over, send us a voice note at the
Wiggles dot com slash podcast or drop us an email
at podcasts at the Wiggles dot com dot au. As always,
we'd love to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yes, and if you've been enjoying the show, a quick
rating or review really helps us Outank you for you
start bye, Thank you, Simon, or you can share with
about the parent who might need a laugh or just
a little bit of company. So thank you for tuning
into wiggle took Locky.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yes, it's a podcast for parents.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Catch you next time, see you bye.