Yummy Mummies

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Yummy Mummies
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Genre Reality television
Country of origin Australia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes20
Production
Running time40 minutes
Production companySeven Productions
Original release
Network Seven Network (2017)
7plus (2018)
Release9 July 2017 (2017-07-09) 
2018 (2018)

Yummy Mummies is an Australian reality television series that premiered on 9 July 2017 on the Seven Network. [1] [2] The show follows wealthy, expectant mums who support each other through the challenges of pregnancy and motherhood. [3] [4]

Contents

Despite poor ratings and critical reception, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on 7plus in 2018. [5] The series is also available on Netflix, where it is presented as a Netflix Original outside of Australia. [6]

Episodes

Season 1

No. in
series
No. in
season
TitleOriginal air dateAustralian viewers
11"Episode 1"9 July 2017 (2017-07-09)755,000 [7]
After seeing the Melbourne Yum Mums’ Instagram feed, Maria invites them to her baby shower in Adelaide – a lavish affair with a luxury theme.
22"Episode 2"9 July 2017 (2017-07-09)428,000 [7]
The Melbourne mums arrive safely at Maria’s, where she shows off her designer baby gear and introduced the girls to her mother, Margherita.
33"Episode 3"11 July 2017 (2017-07-11)354,000 [8]
Maria celebrates her baby shower, with the Melbourne Yummy Mummies in attendance.
44"Episode 4"18 July 2017 (2017-07-18)289,000 [9]
Maria and Carlos indulge in a photoshoot on their 'babymoon'. Meanwhile, the girls get down and dirty trying to get Lorinska over her breastfeeding phobia.
55"Episode 5"25 July 2017 (2017-07-25)281,000 [10]
It's the Yummy Mummies event of the year, but there's news that's going to cause a huge shock, and an uninvited guest could spoil the big party.
66"Episode 6"25 July 2017 (2017-07-25)227,000 [10]
Jane and Lorinksa visit Rachel at the hospital. Maria starts having contractions.
77"Episode 7"1 August 2017 (2017-08-01)263,000 [11]
The Melbourne girls try to bring on labour for Lorinska who is overdue, and worrying over house renovations instead of nesting.
88"Episode 8"1 August 2017 (2017-08-01)207,000 [11]
Margherita persuades Maria to get a nanny and Lorinska hosts a sip and see.
99"Episode 9"TBATBD
Lorinska, Rachel and Maria take their babies to a casting call, and Margherita hosts her 60th birthday party.
1010"Episode 10"TBATBD
Jane has her baby, the casting call's winning baby is announced, and Maria has a holiday surprise.

Reception

Yummy Mummies was panned by critics.

Writing for news.com.au, Debbie Schipp was highly critical of the show. Schipp described it as "fabricated, contrived, vapid, vacuous, pointless tripe". Schipp wrote that she had watched the show so others don't have to. Schipp further attacked the show as "not even car-crash. It’s cringe-making". [12]

In The Sydney Morning Herald , Craig Mathieson wrote that "To call Yummy Mummies car-crash television is to understate how garish, stupid, weird, poorly executed, and dutifully offensive it is". [13]

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References

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