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The Irish singer-songwriter is the latest Irish star to step into the Mother podcast studio.
For Siobhán Lynch – AKA Baba – music has been a constant in her life.
On the latest episode of Mother, sponsored by Dairylea, the singer walked host Keelin Moncrieff through her musical education. As the granddaughter of one of the original Dubliners, music was coursing through her blood, and she grew up in a deeply musical household. Naturally enough, she joined choirs and took part in musicals as a child and a teenager. Adult life saw her join the singers of the Dublin Gospel Choir before stepping out on her own as a solo artist.
Baba’s latest album Truth is deeply personal. Many of the songs are dedicated and inspired by her beloved daughter Minnie, while one song, Apollo, is dedicated to her son who was born stillborn at 15 weeks. As she explains on the podcast, Baba experienced four miscarriages before welcoming Minnie, and music played an important role in the grief process. The singer told Keelin that after the stillbirth of her son, she realised the only way to navigate grief was to just go through it.
Elsewhere in the latest episode of Mother, Baba and Keelin swap breastfeeding stories. In Baba’s experience, her breastfeeding journey was hampered by not one, not two, but four cases of mastitis, the painful inflammation of the breasts. As anxiety about feeding her daughter became too difficult to handle, Baba found community, and, crucially, guidance from a midwife-led breastfeeding group in the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street. That support proved vital, and she encourages any Mother listeners experiencing issues with breast-feeding to seek it out.
Episode four of the latest season of Mother sponsored by Dairylea is now available on all podcast platforms. Listen wherever you get yours today.
