But the Bombo-born performer discovered there was so much to be shared about stretch-marks, cheese toastie cravings and deciding whether sequinned bras are a sensible maternity choice.

“My second child will never get this sort of attention, either creatively or logistically, because I think you experience all of these things for the first time when you’re pregnant but by the time you have a second of third it’ll be old news,” Ryan said.

“[The show is] so time specific, I really don’t think i’ll be able to do it once I’m not pregnant. I don’t think it will work in the same way and I’d feel like a real fraud if I came on in a pregnancy suit.”

The Breast Is Yet To Come, at Wollongong Town Hall on July 21 and 22, pokes fun at all that comes with pregnancy via Ryan’s own experiences and stories of others going through the same thing.

“It’s amazing how many women are so keen to share their stories, so what people will hear in this show is ... a wide range of universal pregnancy musings,” she said.

“The biggest surprise for me was the shift that I felt in really feeling ready and wanting to be a mum.

“Those instincts kick in and really moving away from that career kind of party mode, into the motherhood domestic mode – and I’ll probably read back on this in 12 months and be craving my old life back.”

Ryan met her partner, theatre producer Zac Tyler, a few years ago in New York before relocating to Adelaide – a “less obvious choice” but a city home to the world’s biggest cabaret festival.

Musings with Tyler about the impending birth of their son feature throughout the show, such as likening her bump to a children’s character.

“I’ve got a really little frame so carrying an extra 10 kilos already, it’s sort of all on my front, Zac called me Humpty Dumpty the other night. The romance is real during pregnancy,” Ryan laughed

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Men will also get a kick out of the show as pregnancy is also a shift in lifestyle for them too.

“To me it’s the same question as ‘should a man be in the room at childbirth?’ or ‘is a man an active part of parenting?’,” she said.

“My shows are unapologetically honest so if a man’s needing a greater insight into that female psyche then he’s going to get it.

“But I need them too, I have a habit of picking on men for audience participation.”

Amelia Ryan: The Breast Is Yet To Come, July 21-22, The Music Lounge at Wollongong Town Hall.

For more information visit: www.merrigong.com.au 

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