Allie Schwartz is a mom to Aiden. Aiden is eight months old now. She's been married for two and a half years. She's just a normal mom trying to survive motherhood, & saving money for her kids' therapy.

In this episode, we talk about a "controversial topic". Hating being pregnant! A lot of people are afraid to talk about this topic in fear of being judged as a "bad mom". Allie dives right in and she is brutally honest. I think that we need a little bit more of that or just a safe place or person to be able to come to and talk about how you really feel.

Not liking being pregnant, doesn't make you not want your baby. It doesn't make you a bad mom.

She also talks about mourning her past life, her old life, pre-baby, and how she's adjusting to the new baby life. She shared with us her experience with her placenta pills, and how it helped her with postpartum and anxiety.

She shares advice about sleeping & going with your mama gut.

This is a great episode, especially if you are scared to get pregnant, not excited about pregnancy, or you're grieving the life before baby. It is real and honest.

Baby & Infant Sleep Schedules & Sleep Regressions w/ Baby Sleep Consultant Emma Purdue

Emma Purdue is a baby sleep consultant in New Zealand, babies, and their sleeping habits are her passion. After nearly 10 years of helping mothers get their babies off to sleep she has lost count of the number of people she has helped.

With three children of her own, she has lots of experience, and fully understands the conflict many parents feel – torn between exhaustion and the love you feel for your baby.

In this episode, she explains new born's sleeping patterns & how their brains are wired, placing a factor. We talk about a huge topic every mom stresses about & how we make it more stressful than it needs to be, by reading & downloading apps that tell us exactly how it should be... it's Sleep Regressions!

We also dive into the judgment of sleep training & self-soothing. She is even an expert in toddlers & how to prevent them from yo-yo-ing back and forth from the bed into the hallway. What I would have done to hear this episode 6 years ago when I was a new mom.

Overcoming Postpartum Salt by Seeing the Light in Motherhood w/ Lindsey Goodyear

Lindsey Goodyear is a wife, and a mama to a sweet, 2-year-old named Jackson with their second due in May! She is a part-time nurse practitioner and a full-time Southern mama born and raised in South Louisiana.

After giving birth to her son, she struggled with the transition into motherhood. She had significant postpartum anxiety. She set unrealistic expectations for herself & felt victimized by comparison. She was exhausted. Overwhelmed. & she had just lost her joy and felt like a complete failure as a mom.

She kept thinking, “I cannot be the only one struggling with this.” So she started reaching out to friends, talking openly about the challenges she was facing, and tackling issues head-on with therapy. The more she talked, the more she discovered that, in fact, she was NOT the only one. SO MANY of the women she talked to were struggling with the same issues and were feeling unfulfilled in motherhood as well.

She created the Salt & Light Motherhood Co. as a safe place to discuss motherhood- REAL motherhood- not the filtered version we usually see on social media. She values authenticity, vulnerability, and honesty and strives to celebrate the individual motherhood journey that each mama takes on. All while simultaneously providing her with the support, education & resources she needs to empower her to CONFIDENTLY make decisions, step into her role as a mother, & rest on the path she has chosen for herself and her family.

In this episode, we talk about her postpartum anxiety journey and how she is still working on it daily. She shares how marriage has changed after kids but how they still keep their marriage strong. She gives advice to the mamas struggling with postpartum, perfectionism & letting go of control.

This is a great REAL conversation!

The journey to motherhood was not easy for this mama. After 4 years of trying, getting pregnant & not being able to hold the pregnancy. Amanda searched high and low for answers.

After seeing serval OBs and receive no reason to as why she could not hold the pregnancy. She wanted answers. She was lead to a Holistic doctor.

After starting from scratch and reset your body. After cleaning up her lifestyle & letting go of the stress of wanting to be pregnant so badly, she was pregnant... & held this pregnancy.

From a mama trying to have a baby for over 4 years to having two babies within 366 days. Miracles do happen!

Listen to Amanda’s story of Hope! She has two under two. It’s hard most days but it’s a blessing everyday.

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