Parenting is a Joke

Ophira Eisenberg

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Advancing the "Advanced Maternal Age” With Emily Walsh

12/16/2025 • 35 min

In this episode of Parenting Is a Joke, comedian Emily Walsh talks to Ophira Eisenberg about becoming a parent later in life and being labeled “advanced maternal age” by New York doctors while taking “nightly little baby aspirin” she was told “sometimes works” for reasons no one could explain. She describes meeting her tiny five-pound newborn who arrived a month… Play episode

Emily Walsh Redefines What “Ready" Means
Yes Day with Tweens: A Sticker Chart Success Story with Katy Strange
Katy Strange is Raising and Existentialist
Turning Perimenopause Into a Professional Pivot with Kerri Maher
Kerri Maher Hunts for Books Teens Will Actually Read Voluntarily
Julia Scotti Wins The Nobel Prize for Comedy
Andy Richter Redefines Modern Dad
From Travel Editor to Scary Mommy with Kate Auletta
Kate Auletta Makes Peace with Growing Kids and Growing Older
Haunted Houses, Healing Crystals, and Halloween Plans with Brooke MacKenzie
Brooke MacKenzie Knows The Horrors of Parenting
Mary Lynn Rajskub Masters the Parental Wind-Down
Jordan Klepper is an Emmy-Award Winning Dad
One Kid is The Right Number with Tony Deyo
Tony Deyo Wants to Bang A Drum All Day
Parenting as Jazz Improv with John Moe
John Moe Declares It's A 3 Kid Minimum in Minnesota
Rachel Dratch’s Psychic Predicted Her Child
Jordan Carlos is in The Simon & Garfunkel Phase of Parenting
The Smallest Hecklers with Danny Ricker
Danny Ricker is Living One Lego a Day
Moms Unhinged with Andrea Marie
Andrea Marie is Loving Her Empty Nest
Parent Math with Domenica Ruta
Best-Selling Author Domenica Ruta Still Laughs at the Hard Parts
Getting Slapped with Baloney with The Gaytriarchs
David and Gavin of The Gaytriarchs Went From Broadway Lights to Baby Monit…
Emily Oster Breaks Down the Myth of the “Right Way” to Parent
Laura Benanti Is Not Asking for Permission, Thanks
Why Dating Dads Is the New Hot with Erin Keating
Erin Keating is Constantly Buying Footballs and Shoes
Rachael Price Sings The Wheels on the Tourbus Go Round and Round
Nine-Year-Olds are Friendly Exterestials with Chris Duffy
Chris Duffy is a Large Baby With a Beard
Writing Novels on the Toilet (Literally) with Jo Piazza
Jo Piazza Knows Everyone is Lying to You
The Doula Is My Favorite Roommate with Vicky Kuperman
Jennifer Rawlings Parents 5 Kids and Performs in War-Zones
Raising a Feminist Boy with The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic
Microdosing, Menopause, and the Magic of Mushrooms with Tracey Tee
Moms on Mushrooms: How Tracey Tee Found Relief and a Calling
Tummy Time and The Tonight Show with Liz Glazer
Vicky Kuperman’s C-Section Came with a Chanel Gift Bag
Kid Jokes for the Kidless with Mike Cannon
Mike Cannon’s Fatherhood Survival Kit Includes Empathy and Edibles
College Kids Who Refuse to Party with Deborah Goldstein
Deborah Goldstein Has a Viable Womb
Snot Goblins with Rob Kutner
Rob Kutner Celebrates 5,000 Years and His Tween's Bar Mitzvah

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