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Geriatric Mamas

by Jessica Rizzieri and Sonia Tapley · 100 episodes

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Geriatric Mamas is the go-to podcast and online resource for women navigating fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood after 35. Whether you’re trying to conceive naturally, going through IVF, pregnant after 40, recovering postpartum, raising toddlers, or navigating perimenopause, you’ll find expert-backed articles, celebrity pregnancy stories, honest conversations, and a supportive community that understands this unique season of life. Hosted by best friends Sonia and Jessica, Geriatric Mamas combines practical advice, real-life experiences, and plenty of laughter to help women feel informed, encouraged, and never alone.

Latest episodes

  1. Macy’s Story, The Reality of Grief & Saying Her Name Out Loud

    Sonia and Jess continue their October campaign, The Babies We Carry With Us, with a conversation that is personal to Sonia and her longtime colleague Katie. Katie joins them to sha…

    49 min
  2. Pregnancy Loss, Stories in the Spotlight & Finding the Right Words

    This week, Sonia and Jess continue The Babies We Carry With Us, their October Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month series, with a conversation about the babies who are gone bu…

    46 min
  3. The Babies We Carry With us, Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support and Saying Their Names Out Loud

    This week, Sonia and Jess begin The Babies We Carry With Us, Geriatric Mamas’ campaign for October Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, in collaboration with Share Pregnancy…

    48 min
  4. Fairy Dust, Family Planning & Future Therapy Bills

    This week, Jess accidentally creates a full-time job for herself in the form of a tiny household fairy who monitors behaviors, leaves gifts, sprinkles suspicious amounts of glitter…

    52 min
  5. Don't Touch Chili Heeler, IVF Cozy Era & Full Moon Feral Energy

    This week, Sonia and Jess are breaking down why a man on the internet had the audacity to judge Chilli Heeler’s parenting style. Newsflash: Chilli isn’t "relaxed"—she just has a hu…

    53 min
  6. School Drop-Off, Sucralose Intolerance & A Surprising Amount of Neanderthals

    This week, Jess gets her first real taste of morning drop-off panic when her child decides schedules are merely a suggestion. Meanwhile, Sonia has spent the weekend conducting an u…

    59 min
  7. Pepe's Water Park, Hair Extensions for 5 Year Olds & The Courtroom TV Aesthetic

    This week, Sonia and Jess are officially operating on zero sleep, total brain rot, and whatever energy is left in their luteal phase. Between going to bed at 7:30 PM like senior ci…

    48 min
  8. Luteal Phase, Postpartum & a HOPEisode: Erin’s Story

    This week, Sonia and Jess are both deep in the luteal phase, going to bed at elderly hours, blaming their hormones for basically everything, and trying to understand why being a wo…

    48 min
  9. Loaded Questions, Kind of Chic to Have an L.L.Bean Backpack & Lo Bosworth’s Fertility Journey

    This week Sonia and Jess start with a very important discussion about luteal-phase personalities, accidentally discovering the secret to good hair, and a grocery-store experience s…

    59 min
  10. Preschool Drop-Offs, Frozen Eggs & the Water Buffalo Era

    This week Sonia and Jess talk first-day-of-school separation anxiety, prednisone induced water retention, the very serious business of kindergarten lunches, AOC publicly freezing h…

    56 min
  11. Postpartum Psychosis, Dating App Delusions & Why Jess Is Banned From the Grill

    This week, the Geriatric Mamas are covering the full spectrum of womanhood: questionable men, maternal mental health, and apparently a complete inability to safely operate a grill.…

    59 min
  12. MILF Chats, Hypothetical School Chicken Escapes & a Power Ranger Midlife Crisis

    This week, Sonia and Jessica begin with the highest form of female affirmation: “You look like a MILF.” Naturally, this leads to an aggressive midday smoky eye critique, a possible…

    46 min
  13. Facebook Dating Felons, the Titbit & Tiny Dictators On Carousels

    This week, Jessica and Sonia are accidentally dressed alike—again—and immediately dive into the very serious injustice of planning a perfect all weather outfit. Jessica shares her…

    55 min
  14. Mountainside Blast Offs, First Day Of School Prep & the Ohio House of Horrors

    This week, Jessica and Sonia spiral over the internet's latest girl's hiking trip gone wildly wrong (yes, it somehow involves diarrhea, wet wipes, and a $70,000 airlift), question…

    47 min
  15. Women's 'Health' Harvesting For $40 & Man Made Childbirth Rabbit Holes

    This week, Sonia and Jessica start by discussing color analysis because Jess looks good in mostly everything, then they recap one very full week of making summer memories with thei…

    47 min
  16. Heat Waves, Raising Gen Alpha & Why Men Make Everything Weird

    This week, Sonia and Jessica recap a wildly hot holiday weekend filled with fireworks, matching toddlers, snackle boxes, dads being dads at the park (it's called observational rese…

    46 min
  17. “I Fell Out of a Porta Potty”... and Other Completely Normal Mom Things

    This week on ‘Geriatric’ Mamas, Sonia and Jessica are back with one of those conversations that starts with a porta potty disaster and somehow ends with true crime, unsolicited Ins…

    58 min
  18. Netflix’s Maternal Instinct Deep Dive, & Why We’re Never Ignoring a Weird Vibe Ever Again

    Sonia and Jessica are diving straight into the dark side this week, and honestly, grab a massive glass of wine because it gets wild. They start with the mind-blowing Netflix true c…

    54 min
  19. Threenager Jumanji: Emotionally Unstable Since Breakfast

    If you've ever found yourself negotiating with a three-year-old about wearing pants, sprinting across a playground to prevent a five-year-old from catastrophe, or wondering how som…

    45 min
  20. Can We Talk About Postpartum for a Minute?

    Everyone talks about the baby. Nobody talks enough about what happens to you. This week, Sonia and Jessica are diving into the messy, emotional, hormonal, occasionally unhinged rea…

    57 min
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