Peppa Pig’s mummy is pregnant – how do we talk to little kids about this?

A a new ‘Peppa Pig’ episode airing this weekend will show her making a baby announcement to Peppa and George. It’s never an easy conversation to have, says Charlotte Cripps, a mum-of-two who was terrified of her eldest feeling left out Peppa Pig's family is about to get bigger. Photo: BBC/Peppa Pig Mummy Pig is pregnant.

That’s right – Peppa Pig’s mum is having a baby, and the long-running animated series will be forever changed. In an episode that will premiere – appropriately – on Mother’s Day on 30 March, Mummy and Daddy Pig will break the news to their children that a new baby is on the way, with the show’s forthcoming 11th season exploring, over time, the pregnancy and birth. The arrival of a new baby, or in this case, an anthropomorphic piglet, is never an easy conversation to have – as I can vouch for.



When I first told my daughter Lola, then 18 months old, that I was having another baby in 2018, I was terrified she’d feel left out. Nothing could have prepared me, her or Muggles, my giant golden retriever, for the reality of a new baby. It was as if we were all in suspended disbelief.

I’d even tried to back out of the elected C-section saying I wasn’t ready..