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Momma Knows Best · Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge

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Speaker 1: This is Teddy tea Pod with Cabin. Hi, guys, welcome
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Speaker 1: to this week's Teddy Teapod. I have missed you all
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Speaker 1: so much, and I figured what better way to start
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Speaker 1: than to talk all things mom I'm bringing on a
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Speaker 1: couple other moms with me. Terra Jolt. She's from Little
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Speaker 1: Women Atlanta, which is on Friday's on Lifetime Mina starsiak
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Speaker 1: Um which you guys have to order her book, it's
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Speaker 1: called Built Together. You can get it on Amazon. She's
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Speaker 1: also on nationally acclaimed hit renovation show Good Bones, and
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Speaker 1: also Elizabeth Joy. She just had a baby in September,
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Speaker 1: so she can answer a lot of those new mommy questions.
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Speaker 1: So let's bring them on and get going. All right,
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Speaker 1: now we're back, we can get into all things mom life,
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Speaker 1: the good, the bad, and the ugly. You had so
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Speaker 1: many questions and we can't wait to answer them. So you, guys,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me this week. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: And I know there's a bunch of us We're all
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Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of answers, um, but I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: just break it down by like each section of things
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Speaker 1: that people ask. So I'm starting out with birth because
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Speaker 1: a lot of people had a lot of nervousness when
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Speaker 1: it comes to childbirth. How many of us have recently
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Speaker 1: had a baby? I'm within a year all of us
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Speaker 1: was here. We're all crazy. Um ten months, ten months okay,
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Speaker 1: so mons four months? Five months? Wow uh and we
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Speaker 1: can all just kind of go around. For me, child
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Speaker 1: birth was like the least of the stressful of parts.
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Speaker 1: It was once the baby came, So don't even worry
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Speaker 1: about that part. Just go on, And what do you
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Speaker 1: guys think? I agree, I mean, having the baby is
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Speaker 1: the least of my especially with this pregnancy for me, Um,
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Speaker 1: if you knew my track record, but yeah, having the
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Speaker 1: baby is definitely the aftermath is the hardest part. And
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Speaker 1: also all three of my births were c sections, so
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Speaker 1: it was a recovery process for every single one, and
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Speaker 1: every single one was so different than the other, which
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Speaker 1: I'm sure as moms you all know, no two births
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Speaker 1: were the same. For sure, my second one, my first
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Speaker 1: one was a thirty five hours in C section, and
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Speaker 1: then Charlie, whose four months was a schedule a C section,
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Speaker 1: which is perfect for me. I'm super tight and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I know a time I'm gonna have my baby. I
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Speaker 1: walked into the l R, which is weird because you
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Speaker 1: just walk in, laid down, and then then you're asleep,
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Speaker 1: and then you know then well, actually I was awake.
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Speaker 1: I think I thought I was asleep because the first
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Speaker 1: time I was so out of it. But you know,
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Speaker 1: baby out done so But I don't think it's normal
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Speaker 1: necessarily to not be a little bit anxious about it.
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Speaker 1: Mm hmm um. I feel like for me, my, because
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Speaker 1: I work as a birth dueler, so I had this
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Speaker 1: whole plan of how I was going to have this
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Speaker 1: unmedicated birth, and then after like twenty hours of excruciating labor,
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Speaker 1: I got the epidergal and it was like the best
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Speaker 1: thing that ever happened to me. I remember just telling
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Speaker 1: my husband, like, you don't get why people don't do this,
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Speaker 1: Why don't people want do this? This is so amazing.
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Speaker 1: But I was so exhausted from labor that I felt
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Speaker 1: like I couldn't even really enjoy my daughter. Right when
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Speaker 1: she was born. It was hard for me to connect
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Speaker 1: with her because I was just I just wanted to
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Speaker 1: sleep at that point. Um. And and so I mean,
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Speaker 1: you said how people are really nervous about getting birth
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Speaker 1: and we're giving all these stories, probably making them more nervous,
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Speaker 1: but I think the ease nerves though, UM, talk to
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Speaker 1: your doctor. You just get to know your birth team,
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Speaker 1: the people who are surrounding you, build that trust with them,
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Speaker 1: build that relationship with them, and try to educate yourself
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Speaker 1: as much as possible so then you know, Hey, if
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Speaker 1: I end up getting in at the girl like this
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Speaker 1: is going to happen, or if I end up in
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Speaker 1: a C section, it's okay. At least I'm prepped and
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Speaker 1: I know what's going to happen, then it's not as
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Speaker 1: scary if if that is your circumstance, well, And I
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Speaker 1: think something that I did not mention that it was
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Speaker 1: super important um and unique to pandemic birth giving. The
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Speaker 1: hospital that I was set to go to my friends
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Speaker 1: delivered a week before and told me that the nursery
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Speaker 1: was closed, and I said, hey'll know, I'm not doing that,
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Speaker 1: And then we stuck after a C section for four
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Speaker 1: days with no help. So I called I you UM,
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Speaker 1: which is another hospital women's hospital. Sorry, no, I was
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Speaker 1: at at You. I called a different one in their
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Speaker 1: nursery was open. So I think being mentally prepared, whether
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Speaker 1: that you're sticking with your hospital and it's closed, or
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Speaker 1: you're trying to find one that's open. Just knowing that
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Speaker 1: because my first time baby making friends did not and
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Speaker 1: it was a really bad experience for that. And I
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Speaker 1: think also talking to your significant other and seeing yes,
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Speaker 1: really they're going to be when it's go time. Like
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Speaker 1: I have friends that were like, oh, my husband rubbing
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Speaker 1: my feet and like putting oils on me and like
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Speaker 1: how to playlist plant like mine like went across the
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Speaker 1: street to like go get food like three times for himself.
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Speaker 1: We can't can't eat in your labor Like there was
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Speaker 1: none of that. And then like when the doctor came
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Speaker 1: in to like actually deliver the baby, like we were
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Speaker 1: in time, he put on scrubs and was like just
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Speaker 1: so in the pic he looked like he was like
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Speaker 1: on and popping. I was like, listen to and I
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Speaker 1: you on phone calls so like talk and I didn't
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Speaker 1: really like for me, I was like, all right, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna just you know, listen to podcasts and do what
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Speaker 1: I wanted to do and then tell him when I
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Speaker 1: need him to step in. But I think having that
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Speaker 1: conversation so you're not blindsided by how your partner maybe
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Speaker 1: during a delivery is important. Also, even if you're having
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Speaker 1: a c section, like a scheduled c section, have a
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Speaker 1: birth plan. Like I went in thinking that I was
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Speaker 1: going to have a one touch final, which is for
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Speaker 1: my type of back, is much more safe and so
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Speaker 1: the needle won't ever break off with an epidural because
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Speaker 1: it's in there the whole time. And it was seriously,
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Speaker 1: my first pregnancy was like a scene out of Knocked Up.
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Speaker 1: It was like the doctor was like, no, you can't
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Speaker 1: have that, and I was like, well, what do you
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Speaker 1: mean I can't have that? And I was like, find
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Speaker 1: another thesiologist. And I never even knew that you could.
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Speaker 1: And so if the first thing a thesiologist doesn't give
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Speaker 1: you the answers that you want, all you have to
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Speaker 1: do is really get your husband in check and saying, go,
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Speaker 1: go do that make this happen for me because I'm
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Speaker 1: about to have this baby. That huge. Being your own
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Speaker 1: advocate is so huge, And you'll realize the same thing
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Speaker 1: when it comes to your kids. You have a gut
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Speaker 1: feeling about something, you have to say. You have to ask, oh,
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Speaker 1: look at we have a little cutie that joined as
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Speaker 1: I know you guys, are you supposed to be napping
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Speaker 1: but she is not well. That even takes me to
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Speaker 1: the next question, which is, once you have the baby,
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Speaker 1: do you do sleep schedules? How do you do it?
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Speaker 1: I see that your baby is currently wearing a sleep suit,
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Speaker 1: the Magic Merlin, which it is. Well, I'm obsessed with it. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it is is. Um before you have kids, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys all know everyone gives you so
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Speaker 1: much unsolicited advice. And of all the unsolicited advice, the
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Speaker 1: two that we're given that I again give is the
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Speaker 1: Magic Merlin sleepsuit and the snoo and twelve hours in
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Speaker 1: twelve weeks, because Jack and Charlie both slept through the night,
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Speaker 1: like twelve hours her when she was nine weeks in
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Speaker 1: Jack by the time he was twelve, And that's life saving.
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Speaker 1: Did you guys sleep train as well? I did. I
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Speaker 1: had to in order to be sane. But um, it
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Speaker 1: didn't always work as planned. Uh, we're currently like in
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Speaker 1: the middle of it. So my daughter's like four and
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Speaker 1: a half months, um, and she slept great as a baby,
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Speaker 1: and then right around three months we had like six
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Speaker 1: weeks of hell of just like waking up five to
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Speaker 1: seven times a night, and it just I didn't know
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Speaker 1: what I was gonna do. But it got to a
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Speaker 1: point where it was like my sanity or like because
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Speaker 1: I was getting angry. I felt like the emotion like
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Speaker 1: when she'd wake up for the third time that night
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Speaker 1: and it's only two o'clock in the morning, and I
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Speaker 1: know she's gonna wake up two more times, Like I
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Speaker 1: could feel myself like getting angry because I'm like, I'm
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Speaker 1: so exhausted, i feel like a horrible mom because I'm
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Speaker 1: pissed at you and you're just a baby, and I'm
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Speaker 1: mad that, you know, I feel like I'm I'm breastfeeding,
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Speaker 1: so you need me, and um, like why can't you
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Speaker 1: just sleep? You know? So I for me, I felt
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Speaker 1: like those emotions coming up and feeling triggered by her
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Speaker 1: waking up all the time, because when I sleep better,
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Speaker 1: I'm a happier mom. And um, I'm sure a lot
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Speaker 1: of people can relate to that. So we ended up
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Speaker 1: um doing sleep training and we're only like two weeks
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Speaker 1: into it, but already, like it's such a world of difference,
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Speaker 1: Like she wakes up once a night to eat and
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Speaker 1: we're still working on the naps, which can be like
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Speaker 1: a big struggle. They say, like the night's sleep comes
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Speaker 1: first and then the naps. But I haven't tried the
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Speaker 1: sleep suit yet and I've been wanting to, so I
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Speaker 1: might have to buy one of those. And that being said,
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Speaker 1: I did not breastfeed, and that makes a huge difference
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Speaker 1: because the formula with Jack I did for a little bit,
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Speaker 1: which is why I think it took him longer to
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Speaker 1: sleep through the night for various reasons. I mean, it
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Speaker 1: just it doesn't stick with them as long. So for her,
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Speaker 1: I think it was easier because it was formula from
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Speaker 1: the get go. Um, y'all are stronger women than me.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't do it again, and I think that's something
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Speaker 1: that we all have. You know, we could talk about
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Speaker 1: two is like breastfeeding, and we put so much pressure
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Speaker 1: on ourselves. And I've talked about this openly. But after
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Speaker 1: I had my first two kids, I went and got
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Speaker 1: my boots done, not assuming that I was going to
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Speaker 1: have any other kids. I never even asked the question
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Speaker 1: to the doctor, like, well, I'd be able to breastfeed
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Speaker 1: after this, Because I my first two it was IVF
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Speaker 1: and it's emanation. I didn't think I would naturally get
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Speaker 1: pregnant on my own with my third and then I
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Speaker 1: you know, after I had Dove, I went to breastfeed
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Speaker 1: and the ducks didn't match up. There was no milk
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Speaker 1: coming out. I tortured myself in the hospital having fortility
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Speaker 1: I mean not fortility uh lactational specialation. Yeah, like and
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Speaker 1: putting on the mega pomp, like doing everything we can
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Speaker 1: and just driving ourselves crazy. And us moms can do
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Speaker 1: that is best whatever, even if it's for your mental sanity,
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Speaker 1: if it's because of physically something that you can or
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Speaker 1: can't do. But like, we put so much pressure on
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Speaker 1: ourselves as moms to show up and be everything all
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Speaker 1: the time. But like feeding your kid and taking care
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Speaker 1: of your kid and figuring out the best way for
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Speaker 1: him or her to sleep, that's pretty darn good. So like,
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Speaker 1: you cut yourself some slack. I'm gonna have to tell
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Speaker 1: my husband your story, because, um, we we're told after
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Speaker 1: Jack Jack was a miracle, we were never gonna get
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Speaker 1: pregnant again. We'd have to use donor eggs. Did a
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Speaker 1: hail Mary I U I and got her and my
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Speaker 1: husband just had a vasectomy two weeks ago. And you
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Speaker 1: have to go back after eight weeks to make sure
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Speaker 1: it worked. And between them, they're like, use other methods
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Speaker 1: if you don't want to get pregnant, which I'm sure
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Speaker 1: you all can understand men don't typically like to do.
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Speaker 1: So we haven't. He's like, you can't get pregnant anyways,
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Speaker 1: but her we got hurt, so we shall see. I
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Speaker 1: didn't even know I was pregnant until I was ten
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Speaker 1: weeks pregnant. Oh wow, I just got my boob job
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Speaker 1: in my tummy. Talk to I'm like eight weeks out.
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Speaker 1: You hold on, you have to tell us about that.
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Speaker 1: Has anybody else had so I've had my boobs done?
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Speaker 1: Has anyone had any mommy makeovers? Because a lot of
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Speaker 1: people are asking about those I feel during quarantine, I've
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Speaker 1: really played out any kind of doctor's office as much
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Speaker 1: as I possibly can, especially being in l A County
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Speaker 1: for myself, have a I risk daughter, and so I've
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Speaker 1: really tried to protect our family hands down in that sense.
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Speaker 1: So not for me, but I do miss a good
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Speaker 1: you know, botox lift and whatever. I haven't had that
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Speaker 1: done a job ten years ago, so um, I didn't
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Speaker 1: know work out for me and it's um. But I
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Speaker 1: think because of that too, I've already told my husband,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, when I'm when we're done having kids, I'm
12:29
Speaker 1: gonna have to fix this situation because they're just like
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Speaker 1: after like having I got a boob job when I
12:37
Speaker 1: was like twenty three years old or something, and um
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Speaker 1: and just after ten years and my body changing and
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Speaker 1: then breastfeeding and everything like that changing, I'm like this,
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Speaker 1: I don't I feel like my boobs are just going
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Speaker 1: to be like the implant and then my nipple down
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Speaker 1: here after I'm done with all of this. So I'm like,
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Speaker 1: we'll probably have to rearrange some things when we're done.
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Speaker 1: And then Mina, what was the tummy tuck like with
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Speaker 1: the recovery on that, I hadn't much to C sections,
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Speaker 1: so it was pretty comparable, but I also had like
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Speaker 1: light bone random places and that kind of feels like
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Speaker 1: you got ran over by a truck. And then I
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Speaker 1: think the hardest thing with the I feel like it
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Speaker 1: happened with my C section, but also with the tummy tech.
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Speaker 1: The pain was really like the nerve pain as it
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Speaker 1: was regenerating, feels like hot lightning bolts being stabbed in you.
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Speaker 1: So I got some nerve medication. Um ne rotten and
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Speaker 1: that helped with that ton But it hasn't been hasn't
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Speaker 1: been anything worse than I expected after having to C sections,
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Speaker 1: and my breast haven't hurt at all other than being sensitive,
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Speaker 1: like there's any other pain and that's nothing. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: probably didn't feel like it's everything else hurt. Well, I think,
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Speaker 1: and you know a lot of people ask about like
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Speaker 1: getting back into shape after having kids and all that
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and I think it's the biggest thing
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Speaker 1: that we can remember. It's like, you have to remember
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Speaker 1: what's mentally gonna make you feel your best and the
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Speaker 1: physical stuff that's going to change with time regardless, but
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Speaker 1: first to show, like for me, it was a huge
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Speaker 1: deal to like take my kids on walks in the stroller.
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Speaker 1: Just move my body, get outside, you know, not especially
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Speaker 1: during the pandemic, not around people, but just move and
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Speaker 1: walk once my body felt ready, because if not, you
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Speaker 1: can get into like a darker place and then you
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Speaker 1: and then if you spend your time scrolling on Instagram
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Speaker 1: looking at all of these you know, highlight reels, you
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Speaker 1: start comparing and thinking, why don't I look like that one?
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Speaker 1: We have to remember we all are completely different in general,
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Speaker 1: but like after having a baby. Remember, like it's hard,
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Speaker 1: but it's going to happen. Take care of the mental
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Speaker 1: first and the physical will come after. Is my biggest
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Speaker 1: piece of advice. What about you, guys? What are you?
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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts? Did you did you have a
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Speaker 1: hard time with comparis then after I have for sure, Um,
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's for me. So I haven't really
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Speaker 1: started like working out. I had like one week of
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'm working out, I'm doing awesome. Um. And
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Speaker 1: what I've found is it's just really hard for me
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Speaker 1: to balance being a mom working and then working out,
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Speaker 1: um and taking care of myself. So like I'm like, okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm having a hard time just even finding time to
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Speaker 1: go do a twenty minute workout, So like what can
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Speaker 1: I do? So just trying to nourish my body with
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Speaker 1: healthy foods and be as healthy as I can and
15:34
Speaker 1: getting fresh air. Um. I live outside Chicago. We had
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Speaker 1: a huge snowstorm this week, Like the week before that,
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Speaker 1: it was seventeen degrees outside. Um, so it's harder for
15:44
Speaker 1: me to like just take my daughter out that when
15:46
Speaker 1: it's like around thirty degrees or warmer, I'll bundle her
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Speaker 1: up and we'll go. But when it's so cold like this, um,
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Speaker 1: I found it really helpful. Just I'm so thankful that
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Speaker 1: I have family nearby, so I'll drive to my other laws.
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Speaker 1: My daughter will fall asleep, I'll leave her inside and
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Speaker 1: I'll go for a walk with my dog, like out back,
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Speaker 1: and just like getting that fresh air, even if it's
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Speaker 1: ten minutes or whatever is has been super beneficial to me.
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Speaker 1: My first pregnancy, I gained half of my body weight.
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Speaker 1: I weighed ninety pounds and I came out and I like,
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Speaker 1: when I went in, I was a hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: five pounds and I thought, oh, this is normal. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna totally lose it after it's gonna be great. And
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Speaker 1: it was horrible. It was the worst idea I ever had.
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Speaker 1: And I like, to this day, I have not lost
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Speaker 1: all of that weight, Like I haven't seen that nine
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Speaker 1: zero on a scale, and for a girl that's four
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Speaker 1: ft two, like I live for ninety pounds. And sometimes
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Speaker 1: you just have to say, you know, what is this
16:44
Speaker 1: your new look? Working out, you're doing yoga, You're actually
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Speaker 1: making that time. I'm waking up at five am so
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Speaker 1: that I can have two hours to myself meditating and exercising,
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Speaker 1: but then I lose out in sleep, and then I
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Speaker 1: take it out on my kids, and you know, it's
16:59
Speaker 1: that whole process. So what I've really discovered is that,
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Speaker 1: like there's a point where you say, I'm doing all
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Speaker 1: that I can and my best and right now this
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Speaker 1: is my best body, and I'm happy with this mob
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Speaker 1: body for sure, And like there's no sense and like
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Speaker 1: when people are like, how is everything so balanced? Is
17:20
Speaker 1: everything balanced? People like, no, it's not. It's like some
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Speaker 1: weeks are crazy work weeks, Like it's just NonStop work.
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Speaker 1: Some weeks I'm like, all right, I'm taking it, scaling
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Speaker 1: it back. It's gonna be about family. Some weeks I'm
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Speaker 1: just in a bad mood, you know, Like you have
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Speaker 1: to know that, like you are a human being and
17:41
Speaker 1: none of us are perfect, and like we can't take
17:43
Speaker 1: ourselves too seriously, Like we gotta put up, do the work,
17:48
Speaker 1: do the best that we can. But like when push
17:51
Speaker 1: comes to shove, like our kids are as long as
17:55
Speaker 1: we're showing up and doing the best we can, it's
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Speaker 1: probably as good as it's gonna get for have and
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Speaker 1: they and they're happy and if they're feeling love that's
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Speaker 1: what's most important. So whatever we gotta do to show
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Speaker 1: them love is key. The which brings me to the
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Speaker 1: next portion, which is a lot of people have questions
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Speaker 1: on discipline, disciplining their kids. What is so yours the
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Speaker 1: four month old? You know, you're not really there yet.
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Speaker 1: I'm not really like giving dove time outs, but like
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Speaker 1: for those of us with a little bit of older kids, UM,
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Speaker 1: what what about you guys? Um? I have a variation
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Speaker 1: of um things that we've tried, and I have found, uh,
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Speaker 1: bedroom time out without anyone else around has been the
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Speaker 1: most successful. And we start with five minutes, and then
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Speaker 1: if they do it again, it goes up to ten minutes.
18:50
Speaker 1: And so far I haven't had to go beyond ten
18:52
Speaker 1: minutes because all of my children, thank goodness, they yearned
18:56
Speaker 1: to be around me. I don't know why, but but
19:00
Speaker 1: at least it's working. Um, And that's as far as
19:05
Speaker 1: we've gotten. But it's I mean, you can hear. I'm
19:07
Speaker 1: having to mute myself because I can hear my kids.
19:09
Speaker 1: I don't even want to know what's going on in
19:11
Speaker 1: the next room and screaming upstairs. Yes, Uh, we have
19:18
Speaker 1: a nanny that we got, super super lucky. She actually
19:20
Speaker 1: lives with us. She's awesome, like early childhood development teacher
19:24
Speaker 1: that didn't want to teach yet, and so she's here
19:27
Speaker 1: all the time and works like eight to four usually,
19:31
Speaker 1: and even with her, it's still super hard. In Jack's
19:34
Speaker 1: just at the ages two and a half where he's
19:37
Speaker 1: testing the boundaries, so like he's done time out maybe
19:41
Speaker 1: three or four times now and he gets but it
19:45
Speaker 1: takes about three minutes and I'm like, okay, do you
19:47
Speaker 1: want to try again to help clean up? And then
19:51
Speaker 1: he'll help. So that's all we had to do so far.
19:54
Speaker 1: Too well, mine are a little bit older, some of them,
19:58
Speaker 1: so I definitely do time out, but then I also
20:01
Speaker 1: do reward so like example, if you do this for
20:06
Speaker 1: the entire week, or you know, like they have their
20:08
Speaker 1: checklist and if they complete it all, then I'll be like, great,
20:11
Speaker 1: then you can pick something that's eight dollars off of Amazon.
20:14
Speaker 1: So instead of giving them allowance, I do a reward
20:17
Speaker 1: chart for the things that I want them to do.
20:20
Speaker 1: So I because I don't want to wake up every morning,
20:23
Speaker 1: make your bed, like, get your stuff ready for zoom,
20:26
Speaker 1: brush your teeth, like I want them to check it
20:28
Speaker 1: off the list, and at the end of the week
20:29
Speaker 1: we can look at it and if it went well, great,
20:32
Speaker 1: If it didn't, sorry for your luck. You're not getting
20:34
Speaker 1: the Amazon. And then they're bummed when they're siblings. Amazon
20:38
Speaker 1: stuff come and they're sitting there like, wow, let me
20:41
Speaker 1: go kick rocks, and like my daughter's flute arrived today
20:45
Speaker 1: and my son was like, and I'm like, I'm not
20:50
Speaker 1: I'm not about bribery. We have a whole bag of
20:52
Speaker 1: jelly beans. Get a jelly bean whenever he does something
20:55
Speaker 1: that we ask them to. Oh my gosh, you guys,
20:58
Speaker 1: we have to take a quick break. I lost drag
21:00
Speaker 1: time because we were laughing. But um, we'll come right back,
21:12
Speaker 1: all right, perfect, So now that we're still let's let's
21:16
Speaker 1: let's not get off of discipline quite yet. How many
21:19
Speaker 1: of you have like kids that throw complete tantrums Like
21:23
Speaker 1: my daughter doves in the phase where when you try
21:25
Speaker 1: to put her into the high chair she screams like
21:29
Speaker 1: bloody murder. So I have to have the food already
21:33
Speaker 1: laid out so I can hold it like without its
21:35
Speaker 1: spilling over to the side. And then it's like one
21:37
Speaker 1: fell swoop to get her in get the snack, like
21:40
Speaker 1: get the whatever she's eating raspberries and then she's okay,
21:43
Speaker 1: But because she isn't using words yet, it's just like constant. Yeah, Jack,
21:51
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's always a toss up. People
21:54
Speaker 1: call the terrible twos, and everyone says three is the worst.
21:56
Speaker 1: And he's two and a half. So he's right there
21:58
Speaker 1: in the thick of it, has like that sensory been
22:01
Speaker 1: with beans in it that he plays with and just
22:06
Speaker 1: chucked him everywhere, and then when I told him he
22:08
Speaker 1: needed to help clean up, he threw himself on the
22:10
Speaker 1: ground and then screaming and swimming in them and throwing
22:14
Speaker 1: them more. Um, So definitely we have a lot of
22:17
Speaker 1: that this at this stage. And are any of you
22:20
Speaker 1: guys on potty training yet? Yes? Any want to talk
22:24
Speaker 1: about that. Somebody's question was, how do I transition my
22:31
Speaker 1: daughter from not wetting her bed with pull ups at night?
22:34
Speaker 1: Anybody got any brilliant advice on this? When well, when
22:37
Speaker 1: I wake up to breastfeed is when I also take
22:40
Speaker 1: a door round a bathroom. My daughter, thank goodness, at five,
22:44
Speaker 1: she's completely potty trained, but my son still has night
22:47
Speaker 1: issues and he's four. So my niece, Um, we had
22:53
Speaker 1: custody and my niece for a year and when she
22:56
Speaker 1: was one and a half to two and a half,
22:58
Speaker 1: and so we did potty train her um. And she
23:01
Speaker 1: was way easier than Jack because as a girl you
23:04
Speaker 1: peete on yourself, which is uncomfortable, whereas boys just think
23:08
Speaker 1: it's funny because they have a fountain. Um. But with her,
23:12
Speaker 1: we did like the naked boot camp for a weekend,
23:14
Speaker 1: which she hated, like anytime she's gonna go to the bathroom,
23:17
Speaker 1: she'd scream bloody murder for two minutes, then run to
23:20
Speaker 1: her little toilet, go to the bathroom and move on.
23:22
Speaker 1: And we just had to be um aware of liquids.
23:27
Speaker 1: I don't want to like not give her water, but
23:29
Speaker 1: it was within a certain amount of time before bed
23:32
Speaker 1: she just didn't have like water or milk or anything. Um.
23:35
Speaker 1: And then just made her sit and try before laying
23:38
Speaker 1: her down for you know, fifteen minutes. Um. But I
23:41
Speaker 1: think some kids are just easier than others and is
23:45
Speaker 1: not one of them. He will look at me while
23:46
Speaker 1: he's pooping and say poop and won't do anything about it.
23:51
Speaker 1: We did a pretty underwear the Cute Underwear UM, which
23:56
Speaker 1: is the kids get to pick out their favorite underwear
23:59
Speaker 1: and when they are ready to wear these underwear but
24:03
Speaker 1: with no pot like no more mistakes and they can
24:06
Speaker 1: then they can get them. So we like they picked
24:09
Speaker 1: out there like Crews picked up a little big boy
24:12
Speaker 1: and these and he was like so excited to wear them.
24:14
Speaker 1: And then that night it would happened and be like, well,
24:17
Speaker 1: those paw patrols are gonna have to sit it out
24:19
Speaker 1: another week, buddy. And that's really that's how it happens.
24:22
Speaker 1: It was. I don't know if we just got lucky,
24:24
Speaker 1: but the kids are pretty pretty good with the potty training.
24:27
Speaker 1: I don't DEVI will probably throw me for a loop
24:29
Speaker 1: and be like I don't care about your pretty underwear, mom, Like,
24:32
Speaker 1: but so far we've been all right with the potty training.
24:36
Speaker 1: But sometimes it's easier when they have older siblings and
24:38
Speaker 1: they see it. Yeah, um, all right, getting kids to
24:44
Speaker 1: eat foods that aren't like, well, my son prefers only
24:48
Speaker 1: cheese products, how do you guys do it? I'm the same,
24:52
Speaker 1: My children are like my son will eat everything amazing,
24:56
Speaker 1: he's um, he's he eats meats and vegetables and fruits,
24:59
Speaker 1: and my 's like, I'll take being a cheese bowl please,
25:03
Speaker 1: or I'll take a cheese time, or I'll take a
25:05
Speaker 1: grilled cheese Like aren't you constipated? Yes you are. But
25:13
Speaker 1: even pizza now that comes in with cauliflower crust. There's
25:17
Speaker 1: ways that you can incorporate some vegetables without letting them know.
25:23
Speaker 1: And eventually, even if they're not a huge fan of it,
25:26
Speaker 1: I've noticed that if you don't give them anything else,
25:28
Speaker 1: if you don't give in that's what our pediatrician said.
25:31
Speaker 1: She was like, when they're hungry, they'll eat, like, because
25:33
Speaker 1: my problem is not necessarily getting Jack to eat a
25:37
Speaker 1: certain thing, it's just to eat. He lives on milk
25:42
Speaker 1: all day, and I try to like, I don't want
25:43
Speaker 1: to not give him milk, like you don't want to
25:45
Speaker 1: not give him food, And our patricians like, if that's
25:47
Speaker 1: what he wants, that's what he wants. And he's in
25:49
Speaker 1: a phase right now where he really likes like breakfast
25:52
Speaker 1: sausage links. So we have a giant Costco bag of
25:56
Speaker 1: turkey breakfast sausage links, and that's what he eats for
25:58
Speaker 1: three meals a day. I feel like there's so many
26:02
Speaker 1: like there's so much information out there, Like I feel
26:05
Speaker 1: all of these camps that help you, like learn how
26:07
Speaker 1: to get your kids to eat, but then until you're
26:09
Speaker 1: in it, until you're going through it, then you're like,
26:12
Speaker 1: I've tried all these things, like every kid is so different,
26:15
Speaker 1: and um what what I've heard I have no experience
26:19
Speaker 1: in is just keep offering it, like even if they're
26:22
Speaker 1: not going to eat it, if they see it, like
26:24
Speaker 1: you're saying, Tara, like if you're you know, just keep
26:27
Speaker 1: offering it, like you see that they eventually like have
26:29
Speaker 1: a little bit or eventually try it. Yeah. I fully
26:34
Speaker 1: agree on that too. And then I think also if
26:36
Speaker 1: you continue putting it there, My rule is Okay, you
26:39
Speaker 1: don't have to finish it, but you have to try it.
26:41
Speaker 1: M So like you green beans, Yeah, I don't want to. Okay,
26:46
Speaker 1: you don't have to eat all that. You can eat
26:47
Speaker 1: all the other things on your plate, but I want
26:49
Speaker 1: one bite because like I didn't do that growing up,
26:52
Speaker 1: and like I had no idea. I liked things until
26:55
Speaker 1: I was like thirty years old, Like I honestly I
27:00
Speaker 1: the first time I tried sushi, like, I was like,
27:03
Speaker 1: what make me through this? Well? Jack the opposite, He
27:09
Speaker 1: would eat anything when he was little like six months
27:11
Speaker 1: on when he started eating salads, sushi and avocado and
27:15
Speaker 1: o hey, all kinds of stuff and then he kind
27:17
Speaker 1: of isn't. But I imagine they all go through phases.
27:23
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. Um, all right. Other parenting stuff that
27:27
Speaker 1: we can maybe dig into is overall moods. So like
27:32
Speaker 1: if your kid is having a bad day or a
27:36
Speaker 1: rough day, do you talk to them about it? Do
27:40
Speaker 1: you kind of just let it ride? Like what's your
27:42
Speaker 1: parenting style? So, um, my daughter is the most vocal.
27:47
Speaker 1: Um she's five years old, and um, A big mood
27:51
Speaker 1: that she will have is not understanding. Like we just
27:55
Speaker 1: started letting her play video games, and contrary to most
27:59
Speaker 1: parents feel things about playing video games, I find it
28:02
Speaker 1: to be a very great learning tool. And but the
28:06
Speaker 1: best learning tool that we have given her is that
28:08
Speaker 1: she has to read a book before she it's twenty
28:13
Speaker 1: or thirty minutes on a video game. And that has
28:16
Speaker 1: been her mood. She's like nah, like she does not
28:19
Speaker 1: want to read prior to playing a video game. And
28:21
Speaker 1: so we sit down and say, look, this is good.
28:24
Speaker 1: I want you to play. Like I'm almost in a
28:26
Speaker 1: negotiations standpoint, I want you to play this video game
28:30
Speaker 1: but all you have to do is read this one book.
28:33
Speaker 1: That's it, and eventually we come to an agreement. But
28:38
Speaker 1: I feel like talking to your children, even if they
28:40
Speaker 1: don't understand as much as you would hope that they
28:42
Speaker 1: understand there if there's an incentive involved, they eventually get it.
28:48
Speaker 1: That's my opinion. Yeah, for sure, And we have the
28:51
Speaker 1: same thing. Like my son's obsessed with playing Madden UM,
28:56
Speaker 1: but I think that for sure, I need to take
29:00
Speaker 1: that up, but I need to do the reading, sure,
29:02
Speaker 1: But I also know that I kind of have to
29:05
Speaker 1: embrace each kid's personality. Like Slate wants to do everything
29:10
Speaker 1: right all the time, like she's just like she's on it,
29:13
Speaker 1: and Cruise his goal in life is to make people
29:16
Speaker 1: laugh and be the class clown and so like you
29:19
Speaker 1: don't want to take away who they are because that's
29:22
Speaker 1: who that you know, but you also have to be like,
29:24
Speaker 1: all right, listen, we we can do those things, but
29:29
Speaker 1: we also need to do these things. And I think
29:31
Speaker 1: it's really just about explaining that like we don't always
29:35
Speaker 1: get what we want, that like sometimes I don't get
29:39
Speaker 1: to do what I want every single day, and they
29:41
Speaker 1: start to get it, and that it is about we
29:44
Speaker 1: got to do this to do that. So I think
29:46
Speaker 1: the reading is huge and such a good tip any
29:49
Speaker 1: other suggestions from y'all. And Jack's just kind of at
29:54
Speaker 1: the age where you can explain stuff to him, like
29:57
Speaker 1: if he's upset. But you know, sometimes I just way
30:00
Speaker 1: kept cranky and he needs a minute. He doesn't need
30:02
Speaker 1: me to talk to him about his feelings. I just
30:04
Speaker 1: annoy him. Um. But then like once I can get
30:07
Speaker 1: him kind of paying attention and like I understand and
30:09
Speaker 1: you're frustrated, right, you know, we go through that, UM,
30:15
Speaker 1: and he's starting to understand like how to communicate a
30:17
Speaker 1: little bit better, um, other than just being mad. So uh,
30:22
Speaker 1: that's at the beginning of that journey. I feel like
30:25
Speaker 1: when babies are so small, um, like my daughter Jovi, Um,
30:30
Speaker 1: like they're still going to have off days. Um. And
30:35
Speaker 1: a piece of advice that somebody gave me just even
30:37
Speaker 1: as they continue to grow is like, as an adult,
30:40
Speaker 1: we have days where we're off. We just have days
30:41
Speaker 1: where we're grumpy. We have days where we go through stuff,
30:44
Speaker 1: and you can't expect kids to not have the same,
30:46
Speaker 1: Like they're gonna have days where they're grumpy, where they're off. Um.
30:49
Speaker 1: And if if people listening or in the beginning phases
30:52
Speaker 1: of the motherhood journey, uh just seeing like staying curious
30:58
Speaker 1: of your still getting to know your daughter or your
31:00
Speaker 1: son their cues, um, their moods, and uh two figure
31:06
Speaker 1: out how how to respond to those um it is
31:10
Speaker 1: hard like learning you know what what they're trying to
31:14
Speaker 1: say when they can't communicate with you yet, but just
31:17
Speaker 1: kind of staying patient. Um. And I have twelve nieces
31:21
Speaker 1: and nephews, so I've seen the big moods and the
31:23
Speaker 1: big tantrum, so I know what's coming. And I don't
31:25
Speaker 1: know if there's anything that can prepare you until until
31:28
Speaker 1: you're in it, except for what exactly what you guys
31:30
Speaker 1: are saying. And I think also telling your kids about
31:33
Speaker 1: your own personal moods are huge. Like I know there's
31:37
Speaker 1: some days like where if I have press and then
31:40
Speaker 1: podcasting and filming and then also all my all in stuff,
31:43
Speaker 1: I know I'm going to be like a little more tense.
31:47
Speaker 1: And I feel like if I say to them, like, hey, guys,
31:49
Speaker 1: mommy has a really busy work day to day, I
31:51
Speaker 1: just want you to know if I see him a
31:52
Speaker 1: little like like I'm racing around or I'm stressed, it
31:55
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with you. Then they kind of know,
31:59
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, where if I don't say anything and
32:02
Speaker 1: I'm just like white knuckling it like everything's great, my
32:05
Speaker 1: daughter will be like you all right, And then they
32:07
Speaker 1: take it on them. So I think it is really
32:10
Speaker 1: important that like once they get older, that you just
32:12
Speaker 1: you kind of talk about things, and you talk about
32:15
Speaker 1: your goals and you talk about your dreams, but you
32:16
Speaker 1: also talk about the days that are harder, so they
32:19
Speaker 1: understand and they don't take things personally. M hm, that's good. Um.
32:26
Speaker 1: And then a lot of questions about nanny's and help
32:31
Speaker 1: and how much should you feel bad if you have it?
32:36
Speaker 1: Will there be in a different type of relationship with
32:39
Speaker 1: you if you have one all those type of things.
32:42
Speaker 1: What are your guys thoughts I personally with with like
32:47
Speaker 1: all my stuff, I was out there with my surgery.
32:50
Speaker 1: I have a nanny, you know, because it's really hard
32:54
Speaker 1: to see people that look like you're doing it all
32:57
Speaker 1: and you're like why, like why can I not man
32:59
Speaker 1: it just myself? And they probably have a lot of
33:02
Speaker 1: help and just aren't as like outward with with the information.
33:07
Speaker 1: And if they don't have it. I don't know how
33:09
Speaker 1: people survive. Like obviously we're all very busy women between
33:14
Speaker 1: various multiple works, kids, families. Um so I don't know
33:19
Speaker 1: how we wouldn't function. And we got super super lucky
33:22
Speaker 1: with who we have because she sees Jack and Charlie.
33:27
Speaker 1: I mean now that we're working from home more obviously
33:29
Speaker 1: around them, but pre pandemic, she spent more time with
33:32
Speaker 1: Jack in his awake period than we did. So, um,
33:36
Speaker 1: I get that fear of like, oh, like he'll he'll
33:40
Speaker 1: he'll go to dad, the last dad. Then I'll last
33:42
Speaker 1: for Hannah, and then I'll last for mom because I'm
33:44
Speaker 1: the tough one. So that happens, and that's fine. We
33:47
Speaker 1: had a full time nanny prior to the pandemic. Um
33:52
Speaker 1: since Penelopes Day one five years ago. This is the
33:56
Speaker 1: first time that we've ever not had help. And we're three.
34:00
Speaker 1: It's still working full time, still taking our kids to school.
34:04
Speaker 1: I have two children that are in school zooms, which
34:08
Speaker 1: everybody thinks, oh, well, since you're at home, it's no
34:10
Speaker 1: big deal. It's easy. It is not easy. I don't
34:14
Speaker 1: care who says that it's easy, because you really have
34:17
Speaker 1: to pick and choose like what you're focusing your time on.
34:21
Speaker 1: And I totally if you are financially able, or if
34:25
Speaker 1: you have family members or if you have anyone that
34:29
Speaker 1: cares about your world, I totally recommend having a nanny
34:33
Speaker 1: full time. Riven, I'm all about it. However, due to
34:37
Speaker 1: the pandemic, like with my daughter being high risk, we
34:41
Speaker 1: just have not risked it. And that's us. I think
34:45
Speaker 1: in motherhood there should be no shame with how with
34:48
Speaker 1: the decisions that you're making for you and your family
34:50
Speaker 1: and for at like hiring somebody to help out, that's awesome,
34:54
Speaker 1: Like if you're able to do that, um, there there
34:58
Speaker 1: shouldn't be any shame around that at all all. Yeah,
35:01
Speaker 1: And I think it depends where you are in your
35:03
Speaker 1: life and what you need. I mean with my with Slate,
35:05
Speaker 1: I didn't have help. I wasn't in the same place.
35:08
Speaker 1: I hadn't started my business yet and I had you know,
35:12
Speaker 1: I had ridden horses, so I couldn't do my current
35:15
Speaker 1: job with a new book, you know, like it just
35:18
Speaker 1: wasn't an option. And I stayed home and I I
35:21
Speaker 1: struggled with that as well, you know, like there's all
35:25
Speaker 1: different ways of kind of figuring out motherhood and figuring
35:30
Speaker 1: out what how to show up and how to be
35:33
Speaker 1: there and how to change your it's going to change
35:35
Speaker 1: your life and and coming to terms with that. And
35:39
Speaker 1: so then I remember when my life started, you know,
35:42
Speaker 1: I started working more and I wasn't able to do
35:45
Speaker 1: it full to be able to be full time mom.
35:49
Speaker 1: I remember like beating myself up over it, and then
35:52
Speaker 1: I realized I'd rather quality time than quantity time. And
35:59
Speaker 1: that is I you know, when you're trying to do
36:01
Speaker 1: it all, if if you have the means to be
36:03
Speaker 1: able to get help, or you have the family, your
36:06
Speaker 1: kids would rather be in a situation where they're in
36:10
Speaker 1: a relaxed setting, then you're raising them around, throwing the
36:12
Speaker 1: every like so you can get to every single appointment
36:16
Speaker 1: or client or whatever it may be. So if you
36:18
Speaker 1: can do it, great, And I don't judge anyway, Like
36:21
Speaker 1: I have a living since stuff. Um Maria, who we
36:24
Speaker 1: love because when the pandemic happened, I was like, I
36:27
Speaker 1: don't want somebody coming and going yeah, and so it
36:33
Speaker 1: was so you know so and honestly she's part of
36:35
Speaker 1: her family. She was like on one of our Christmas cards,
36:37
Speaker 1: like and the kids love her and um, we you know,
36:43
Speaker 1: we need that help, and I think there is no
36:46
Speaker 1: shame in that. I think the biggest shame is when parents,
36:49
Speaker 1: as you guys were saying, pretend, especially people in the
36:53
Speaker 1: public eye, give the illusion that they've done it all
36:57
Speaker 1: and it's effortless and it's this perfect healthy balance and
37:00
Speaker 1: that can be you know, that can be hard for others.
37:02
Speaker 1: But I think whether you know you're in it or
37:05
Speaker 1: you're not in it, with the nanny or no nanny,
37:08
Speaker 1: it's still a lot of work and there's a lot
37:11
Speaker 1: of love that comes at the end, but it's definitely
37:13
Speaker 1: a lot of work. All Right, guys, the time went
37:16
Speaker 1: by so fast. I wish we could ask you like
37:19
Speaker 1: a million more questions because um, kids, they are enlist
37:24
Speaker 1: Let's have our guests share what they're working on for
37:26
Speaker 1: our listeners. I'll start, Um, so I just discovered TikTok
37:30
Speaker 1: and oh my Atlanta, I love that thing. That is
37:34
Speaker 1: like a great channel for my brain. And um, you
37:38
Speaker 1: can find me a Tarra underscore jal. But like the
37:42
Speaker 1: only thing that I've been doing app since the pandemic
37:44
Speaker 1: started is producing more shows and so the fun side
37:48
Speaker 1: is finding me on social media but yeah, producing shows
37:52
Speaker 1: and find me a terror deal, Elizabeth. Yeah. So I'm
37:59
Speaker 1: actually working on a partner guide for birth. Um. I'm
38:03
Speaker 1: writing my first book because just with my husband being
38:08
Speaker 1: I think you're saying, like, you know, when to tell
38:11
Speaker 1: him he was like going to get food. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's hard for partners to know how to best help
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Speaker 1: you during those circumstances, and even as a birth duela, Like,
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Speaker 1: I've just noticed a lot of similar patterns at births,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of people not knowing what's normal. They
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Speaker 1: look at you after they have a baby and their
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Speaker 1: body is like convulsing and shaking, their terrified, Their partner's terrified,
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Speaker 1: and you and I'm there to remind them, this is
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Speaker 1: so normal your body, you have an exodus of hormones
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Speaker 1: going on right now. This is normal. But your partner
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Speaker 1: doesn't know that, You don't know that, and most people
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Speaker 1: don't have a dula there who's telling them that. So
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Speaker 1: it's just kind of a super easy to read picture
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Speaker 1: book that's not like this thick partner guide that nobody
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Speaker 1: wants to read. Um that I'm working on that hopefully
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Speaker 1: it will be up out when ready to go by
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Speaker 1: the end of the year. So I'm working on that,
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Speaker 1: and then I also have my podcast, Miraculous Mamas, that
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Speaker 1: is just a bunch of actually terribly You came on
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Speaker 1: my podcast last year. Um, we bring on a bunch
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Speaker 1: of moms, we bring on a lot of experts. Uh,
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Speaker 1: so it's kind of like a learning platform. I'm just
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Speaker 1: really passionate about educating and empowering women, um too as
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Speaker 1: versions of themselves as moms. I knew I knew your name.
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Speaker 1: I was one of the worst podcast I've ever done.
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Speaker 1: I was literally at a water park with two kids
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Speaker 1: in my arms trying to talk to you during the
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Speaker 1: It was such a nightmare, and I just remember feeling
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Speaker 1: so guilty, like I just do my career and I helped,
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Speaker 1: Like I knew I knew your name. I was like,
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Speaker 1: how do I know her? Uh yeah, it was like
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Speaker 1: a year, maybe even two years ago. It was a
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Speaker 1: while ago. Yeah, it was a while. But yeah. You
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Speaker 1: can follow me at East Sandos I post last up
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Speaker 1: there or at Miraculous Mamas. Um. I actually have been
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Speaker 1: working on a kid's book for the last two years
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Speaker 1: and it comes out on the second of February, so uh,
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Speaker 1: very exciting. It's called Built Together and my family is
40:09
Speaker 1: all kinds of hodgepodge and for this from like your mom, dad,
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Speaker 1: two and a half kids, So it's kind of just
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Speaker 1: a fun play on that. Um. Um you build your
40:18
Speaker 1: family like you build a house and and just fun
40:21
Speaker 1: because it makes it like from a young age you
40:24
Speaker 1: get to see something different. Um, because there's so many
40:27
Speaker 1: differentkinds of families now. So it's uh out on the second,
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Speaker 1: which is very exciting. Uh. We have we opened our
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Speaker 1: store in Indie two Chicks District Co. It's been open
40:37
Speaker 1: for about six months um and online which is exciting. UM.
40:42
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm gonna start filming season seven here hopefully
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Speaker 1: in a couple of months for Good Browns. So stay
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Speaker 1: I'm busy. I love you guys, Thank you so much.
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