It’s just been announced: 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.
