Labor of a Mother

Speaker 1: 0:10

Hey guys, welcome back to Freelance Podcast. This is Sarah and Whitney, and we have our favorite. Hi, jenny, we're Blacktation. You guys know our previous moms.

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Jenny comes in clutch so many times to get us ready for baby, to get us how to feed baby, either which way you choose, how to take care of yourself and babies. So we brought Jenny back today, because a constant theme we have been hearing from our moms is okay, what's happened to me? Where are we at? We're tidying this episode. Labor of a mother and when you're thinking about labor of a mother, think of this, emotionally, physically, transformatively, and no one better to talk about it than I mean hello we're delivering nurse to Jenny.

Speaker 1: 0:56

So happy to be back. Jenny, let's talk to I know we talked about this the mom who's saying what have I done? Yes, I told Jenny the other day. I said it. I remember specifically post baby J and will. But baby James the most okay, he was in his little strapped on carrier. I was walking in the neighborhood. I call him my best friend. She's in Boston, she's older kids, hysterical kind, what have I done?

Speaker 3: 1:22

What have I done?

Speaker 1: 1:23

Yeah, and I could only say to her but so many moms have that. What have I done? Yes, oh yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:33

And I think there's so much shame with that because these moms think I'm the only one that feels this way, like how could I have these feelings with this new baby? And you're not alone because this is something I hear on a weekly basis that I feel like I've ruined my life or what have I done my life was so great and now I've ruined it and I've wrecked it and that is a very common theme and thought that we hear and there should be no shame in that, because it's normal.

Speaker 3: 2:00

Yeah, it's normal, it makes you human, even if you went through infertility treatments to get your baby here and if you've experienced miscarriage and now you have this baby and you're like, oh, what have I done? What have I done? That's a really big point.

Speaker 1: 2:12

I've heard more previous moms who struggle with fertility and loss saying I don't think I can think anything other than gratefulness or like right, we shot. Every in the South we hear it. You're so blessed. You're highly favored.

Speaker 2: 2:26

At least you have a healthy baby. Exactly, I have to hear that Well, you didn't die.

Speaker 1: 2:31

Yeah, but if it's a baby and you're okay now like you know, or honey? I had it this way. I walked up the hill and snow in the middle of July.

Speaker 2: 2:40

I know we've talked about that. It's like the grandma, well-meaning or not, who's like. Well, we didn't have any of that and no one cared about my mental health and we survived. And I just want to say like I feel so bad for you.

Speaker 1: 2:53

I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2: 2:53

That doesn't make it okay, though, no.

Speaker 1: 2:55

I've actually said that to a family member. I'm so sorry that that was your experience and you probably do feel some kind of jealousy that now our generation. We're getting validation. I mean hello, there's terms post-partum depression, post-partum anxiety, it's a thing.

Speaker 3: 3:10

It's recognized and we can do more than survive, we can actually thrive.

Speaker 1: 3:14

Thank you, so, and there's resources. So, yeah, I'm sure that is triggering to you and that is kind of like, why did I suffer? And now this is an open platform. So what is some other things? Now you know listeners, jenny's in the homes, okay, of fresh mamas and babies, what are some other things? You're kind of like they're comfortable, they're crying, they're opening up to you. What are they saying?

Speaker 2: 3:38

Yeah, a lot of new moms, the first like six weeks especially, I would say it's they feel like my baby is the only one.

Speaker 1: 3:46

Yes.

Speaker 2: 3:47

My baby's the only one not sleeping.

Speaker 3: 3:48

Like.

Speaker 2: 3:48

I'm looking at the internet and my baby should be taking an hour and a half long nap or whatever it says for that age, and it's like my baby doesn't do that, or my baby wants to eat 20 times a day instead of every three hours, and I think there's like that mom guilt and that mom shame that we're just programmed to feel for some reason that I failed somehow, that my baby's not doing the robot things it's supposed to be doing, and so I hear that a lot, that I think there's something wrong with me or that I'm feeling this way

Speaker 2: 4:20

or there's something wrong with my baby, that it's not doing the normal baby things quote unquote normal baby things or that they're the only one that feels the way that they do that. I think I made a big mistake when I had a baby and I feel so guilty admitting that. But that is a very, very common thing. A lot of isolation, like mom's feeling like they can't leave the house Because my baby might cry or have a blowout. Or I'm breastfeeding and I'm not comfortable breastfeeding in public or whatever Is. Or maybe I'm bottle feeding and I'm not comfortable like pulling a bottle out. At this new mom support group, but you are not the only one that's feeling the way you feel. I guarantee that every other mom in the room has had some yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 5:01

I remember with will I I well anxiety here coming in play, but it felt impossible to go and do something alone with him.

Speaker 1: 5:12

Like I would worry even fixate like, am I gonna be able to carry the car seat right? Can I? Can I put this like I have a? Now looking back, I'm just like, oh my gosh, I really needed some help. But I Mean I've worried about that, like I was like it's somebody gonna judge me if I do this wrong, or what did he cries in the middle to store it and I can't get him to stop. Then I think it's a me thing, right, I mean I would just get like hot and even think about it and sweating, right, I mean I would just get like hot and even think about it and sweating right.

Speaker 1: 5:41

And I didn't feel like I could tell anybody that and they'd be like, well, you know, I feel he like what you doing today and I'd be like, oh, I was going to. He's like, well, why not? And I didn't want to say because I was already in my head, yeah, seeing how everything could go wrong right and me felling. That's how I felt. Yeah, I never said to anybody.

Speaker 2: 5:59

And it's like you see the baby and then you burp the baby and then you change them, and then they spit up and then you have to change and now they're hungry again and so you're like I'm caught in this cycle and I just yes, it is very daunting to feel like it is out the door yeah. That's me. I encourage new moms to do. What I tried to do with the newborn is get out of your house at least once a day, whether it's just walking around the block.

Speaker 2: 6:21

Yeah or going to the library, or going to get a cup of coffee to go. Yeah, just something that feels very attainable that I can make this quick trip with a baby. Yeah, I did it.

Speaker 3: 6:32

And he's like right, okay, it's not at the end of the world correct babies will cry right and it's they're supposed to.

Speaker 1: 6:38

Yeah it's what they remember having anxiety about being alone with will. For the first time, that is a very common oh yeah as well, and we've talked about this.

Speaker 2: 6:49

Lisa is going to be, doing CPR yeah, basic life support videos, which is amazing, because I think a lot of moms are just afraid that something bad is gonna happen.

Speaker 1: 6:58

And.

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I'm the only one here with my baby and the chances of that happening are very small. It's very unlikely, but I think just empowering yourself to know right if, god forbid, something does happen. You know what to do in that right moment. You know what to do if babies not breathing or choking, and so that's me. I recommend, you know, take a BLS class, take a CPR class. Just so you know, watch a YouTube video. I mean, there's yeah, resources all there resources to see you feel comfortable to be alone with your baby.

Speaker 1: 7:26

Yeah, I think I felt uncomfortable looking back, I was like I'm bored, what do I do? And like you don't want to say that. And then because then people like it's hard and people are like, well, but you feel bored and it's hard like it's contradicting right but sometimes you're just like, well, what am I gonna do? Because the people every slept right like and you're just sitting there and your maternity leaves ticking down and you're kind of like you're overstimulated but you're not getting any intellectual stimulation.

Speaker 3: 7:58

I think that's why we need a community.

Speaker 2: 8:00

So yeah, just to have an adult conversation.

Speaker 1: 8:03

I forgot what it was like to have adult conversations for a while, or bill would get home and I just be like I couldn't speak. I was like uh-huh yeah no, I did that.

Speaker 2: 8:10

You're like, I was so busy today but I can't even put the words.

Speaker 1: 8:14

What I did exactly yeah and then you just, and then people call and they check in, how's the baby? No one's saying how are you, and then, if they do, it's an afterthought, right, yeah? And you're just like well, I had that. I had almost a panic attack over this and I fixated on their sleep schedule.

Speaker 3: 8:31

And then I'm really tired, I'm gonna bubble guppies 24. Uh-huh.

Speaker 1: 8:35

Yep, and it felt like an act of God to walk outside right, and I'm here and I haven't showered yeah phone great.

Speaker 3: 8:42

It's doing. Great Thanks for asking Uh-huh.

Speaker 1: 8:44

And that is. I think it's the first child. That's like my hardest, oh yes but you've never done it before, like you're literally going blind into this yeah it's uncharted territory. It's your body, your mind, your relationship. Hello, here comes family. It's a whole thing, yeah, and I got a lot more comfortable, and Probably too comfortable, and baby James is post-farm period of just being like. This is how I feel right.

Speaker 1: 9:14

And I have been open about this I had rage with baby James. Mm-hmm, hello, that was wild, yeah. And so then I was just like I wasn't anxious, I was just angry, yeah, which now we know it's a subset of those frustrating depression anxiety. But the time I even didn't know that and then to even admit like I'm feeling angry because, like I want to sleep in the baby's Crying, like no one's gonna say that or no one said you know, we hope now you're hearing this and if that's you, you're going. Okay, I'm not alone. But I think another thing I'm hearing from moms that they're saying can we talk about is the monotonous days that run into nights and no one really prepares you for like Groundhog Day, and what that does to you mentally and like how do you take that? Like?

Speaker 1: 10:05

because I think pre-baby right. Unless you're super pregnant, you're uncomfortable. You like, get your day done right check mark, I'm gonna go to sleep. Yeah, check mark, new day. Right Like we have these like start stops. Yeah hello newborn period and all just together Twilight zone. So what do we tell these moms? Yeah, how do we make this day a little bit better?

Speaker 2: 10:27

I think just you know, having those realistic goals, that you're not gonna renovate your house right now, like always when people are pregnant they tell me when I'm a maternity leave. I'm gonna get all these projects done. I'm like honey. No, you're no you're not to rest and recover.

Speaker 2: 10:41

Yeah, take care of your baby, and that's yeah, yeah, if you do that, you're winning. Yeah, I think, just to have those realistic expectations that you may not have a lot done in those first few months. And then also, just I always say, like, take those five minutes for yourself at the start of the day, feed your baby, lay them on their back. I think that's really hard as a first-time mom super. You don't want to hear your baby cry like you talking about sweating like I would hear my first baby cry and I would start sweating.

Speaker 1: 11:06

Like a body reaction.

Speaker 2: 11:07

stop, yeah, yeah real response, but just knowing you can lay them on their back in their crib for five minutes.

Speaker 3: 11:13

They will be okay.

Speaker 1: 11:14

Yes, they're they can't run away.

Speaker 2: 11:16

So it's actually the best time to just leave them there. I'm gonna take a big shower, get on some real clothes, whatever it is to make you feel like a person, have your cup of coffee and start your day, yeah, and then I think, just those little windows, that, okay, we'll try to have a nap today, we'll try to do your nap schedule, but it may not work out, we'll hold it very loosely right their routines, but just having I would do like a little checklist on my notes in my phone.

Speaker 2: 11:42

Yeah, made a video about this. That like for me something that was really important. I wanted to read my kids books every day and it's so silly to be like did I read to them today, or was it yesterday?

Speaker 2: 11:54

I mean you right and so literally it's just like okay, so today is Friday or whatever day it is like we're gonna read three little baby books and these books are so like Two words on each page, like they're very short. It's very good. Yeah, and so we might read a little story in between each hour, sing a nursery rhyme or Go outside for ten minutes and look at the birds and.

Speaker 2: 12:14

I think just kind of having it sounds silly to say like a checklist. We're just saying like these are five things I would like to accomplish. Goals are great that I want to take a five minute shower and I want to have a cup of coffee and I want to read this little baby book and I want to go outside for ten minutes. And so then, at the end of your day, when your husband gets home or your partner, you can say I did all of these things and yes.

Speaker 2: 12:33

Maybe like together it was 30 minutes, but it is such an accomplishment. It builds up yes, it builds your confidence does and then you're like okay, now I can go out to baby store time at the library right here there's my support group, because look at all these things I can do.

Speaker 1: 12:48

And you do, I will say, with the mom support group. It took me a while to get control because I thought everybody's gonna be judging me and they're not, and they're not, no one's not. No one's caring.

Speaker 2: 12:56

They're all all bad Battles like when you're a teenager and you think everyone's looking at you like they're not. They're all thinking about, thinking about what they're going through and their baby, like no one's looking at you and judging you just lost all that, whateverness as I it's as I've become more of a veteran mom per se, you know, and.

Speaker 1: 13:16

I remember like will taking him swim lessons when he was little and I was like, oh my gosh, like so stressful. I want to do everything perfect. I didn't want a mom to think I was unprepared, like I probably had ten different outfits for him. Okay, we don't need that.

Speaker 3: 13:29

I've got 20 towels, like I was psychotic.

Speaker 1: 13:32

And then now I'm very fly on the seat and I saw this new mom at swim and now I've got both boys down because you have I mean feel by far like you have no choice. You have to figure it out and she was like oh, I'm so embarrassed, I didn't, I forgot a swim diaper and she was just.

Speaker 1: 13:46

You could just tell her, you could just tell she was starting a cave, yeah you know, like you know when you're fixing a car and you feel it, what you're trying to hold it. Yeah, I got you, yeah, and she was like, oh, thank you, and I'm like no, no, no.

Speaker 3: 13:57

This is not a big deal.

Speaker 2: 13:57

It's not a deal, and we're here for each other like this we're here.

Speaker 1: 14:01

You forget a diaper. I got you exactly your toddler's running. I'll watch with your seven-year-old for a second, we'll be okay.

Speaker 3: 14:07

It's like the woman come rottering, yeah, and it starts in middle school when we have our periods and we need an extra tampon and some like I got you. Don't you worry about that? That carries into motherhood too.

Speaker 2: 14:17

When it's like I forget the swim diaper or I forgot wipes, or I forgot this or this I got you and I think that is, I mean this community, yeah so important and you need other moms and you need that support and we're just talking I mean I feel like we text all the time about yeah, it's like where is my village?

Speaker 1: 14:35

like who do I call? Yeah, they're not there.

Speaker 2: 14:38

You know we're talking about like showing up at your neighbor's house one day and I'm like that's actually like not that uncommon either. Yeah mom's tell me like I put out feelers in my neighborhood support group like hey, I need help breastfeeding. Can anyone help me? Yeah, I love that yeah that is how we build communities, that's absolutely live this life. We were never awkward, right awkward, and it's like even they could be your best friends.

Speaker 1: 15:02

Yeah, it still could be awkward in the beginning, but you gotta let that go oh yeah and if they're judging you, you're not gonna want them on this motherhood.

Speaker 2: 15:11

I wouldn't tell you that real quick, no and I call those on bleacher friends, mmm.

Speaker 1: 15:17

Okay, they don't need to be on the field with me.

Speaker 3: 15:19

They're not in my inner huddle, they're not a teammate.

Speaker 1: 15:22

They can watch me from afar.

Speaker 3: 15:23

Yeah, I like that I want people in my huddle.

Speaker 1: 15:27

That's gonna be like we gotta do this and that and I got you. Mm-hmm, and that's okay. And I think people, when you have a baby, you think maybe all your friends are gonna be your huddle friends. There's sometimes not, yeah, and that hurts, I think that it does in motherhood like cuz. I just thought everybody would just like rally around me. Yeah, and be the same type of Mother as me, which you? There's I friends who mother very differently, and that's fine.

Speaker 2: 15:53

But like we, support each other's choices Absolutely. Yeah, hard when you're not in the same stage together.

Speaker 1: 15:59

Oh yeah, you know now.

Speaker 2: 16:01

I feel like I'm kind of out of the thick of it because my baby is about the term to.

Speaker 1: 16:06

And so baby James's future. I like it set it up.

Speaker 2: 16:11

She's like I mean third baby, she's got two big brothers. She's literally potty, potty, training herself this week. So I feel like you know. I'm a new born stage. I'm kind of in the sweet spot.

Speaker 1: 16:21

You're getting there yeah.

Speaker 2: 16:23

I want to be that friend to my Friends of newborns, yeah, but also I'm just in a completely different stage now, like yeah swim team and dive team, and yeah, potty training and so it's very I get it. We're, you know you have, like you're, really close friends, but then when you're in different stages of life, it's hard to it is mutually support each other.

Speaker 3: 16:45

It is. But I also think when we are veteran moms we don't forget how hard the newborn stages and we kind of can meet those moms a little bit better where they're at, when we're like. This is what I'm doing for you. What time is better?

Speaker 1: 16:59

Like you don't get an opt out it's.

Speaker 3: 17:01

you can tell me when?

Speaker 2: 17:02

yes, my friend Elizabeth is really good at that. She's like I can drop off dinner either Monday night, wednesday night or Friday night, and would you prefer 5 pm or 6 pm? Like there's, yeah. Yeah, there's no way to know. It's okay, it's like it's happening. Yeah, you're here, yeah.

Speaker 1: 17:17

That's what I mean. I think that is right, because it's like I think we're all traumatized from some point of our births or newborn stage. Yeah, that we are always gonna see ourselves, and I would say that's my mom will always remember who was there for her yes, and her most vulnerable periods.

Speaker 1: 17:33

Oh, absolutely which is pregnancy, newborn Mm-hmm. If you're having postpartum mental health struggles, yeah, and I think this is something too. It's like you in pregnancy. We talked about this all the time in previous have to find these people. You find your safe places. You find the people who are gonna educate about how are we supporting mom during postpartum. You're having the conversation. What is postpartum anxiety? Look like, yeah. What is postpartum depression? Thoughts sound like Mm-hmm. She may say she's fine, mm-hmm. When she's not, you're right. You may see a beautiful picture of Jenny and you have no idea what's going on in Jenny's mind.

Speaker 1: 18:07

Yeah, right. So how do we dig deeper? How? Do we have that conversation and how, when someone asks you that you're open and honest, to tell them.

Speaker 3: 18:16

Well, as far as like that asking thing because I've been which therapist had over here it's like whenever someone's like oh, I'm fine, I'm like, are you? I'm like, are you sleeping at all, right, yes, are you eating? Are you getting a shower? At least once every 48 hours daily is great, but let's be real, newborn stage doesn't always lend to that.

Speaker 1: 18:35

So are you?

Speaker 3: 18:36

getting one once every 48 hours. Okay, do you prefer Ashley, max or tzikis for dinner, because I'm coming to bring that to you kind of thing yeah you know it's one of those you can say I'm a safe space. So if you're ever not doing well, you can genuinely tell me that, and it's okay to tell me that. Yeah, now for the person on the receiving end of it, for you to feel comfortable with that person, it needs to be a huddle person.

Speaker 3: 19:01

Yes you said, sarah, it doesn't need to be a bleacher person that you don't feel super comfortable Confident with. Maybe you just get that little internal red flag saying Tread lightly here, but if it's somebody that you do have that comfort with. So if, sarah, you're asking me that, and. I know that You're in my huddle. I can say you know what? It was a really hard night last night. Yeah or my baby is call a key, and so I have to hold them all the time for them to sleep.

Speaker 1: 19:26

But I can't sleep and hold them and I am telling you, those days when that baby's not sleeping, they're crying.

Speaker 3: 19:32

It's hard.

Speaker 1: 19:33

It's hard and you're gonna have some Thoughts and you're gonna have some feelings and you're gonna wonder and you won't saying it to someone who's like I get it, yeah, so so hard. They use it for terrorism.

Speaker 3: 19:47

I was about to say it's a torture tactic for a reason, and here we are, you feel, like there is no Light at the end of the tunnel, that's that I hear that from some of our moms.

Speaker 1: 19:57

I feel like it's never gonna get better. Sarah, I feel like this is my forever. I can't live like this forever.

Speaker 2: 20:02

Yes, and I remember for me like in the newborn stage, when I would feed them and put them down and then I would be like, okay, I need to go to sleep right now, because they could wake up at any minute.

Speaker 3: 20:11

And then we got out of the way right and then I'm like oh my god.

Speaker 2: 20:15

Yeah, counting down the minutes. Well, I've lost this many minutes.

Speaker 1: 20:17

I'm getting Sighty and I would just couldn't fall asleep and then I'd be fixated them. I feel like they're gonna cry or like I'd be like, as soon as I lay down there, gonna cry and know it.

Speaker 2: 20:25

Is it even work to go at rage? Because yes, why are you awake now?

Speaker 3: 20:29

Uh-huh I just fell asleep, or then the toddler wakes up with the baby.

Speaker 1: 20:33

finally, yes, and it makes the baby up, yeah, it's great. And then you're just crying and walking around your House like a zombie, right. And then your husband maybe snoring at that moment and you in your head think, can I smother him with a pillow? Maybe, you don't, but you it pops.

Speaker 3: 20:50

It pops for a second. That's what we call it a passive, intrusive thought. We don't act on it.

Speaker 1: 20:54

Thoughts or thoughts Is that what you tell me, thoughts or thoughts, they'll still very much alive. I never try to kill him, but you know, did it did it think, you know, because he was very loud snoring at that moment.

Speaker 3: 21:04

I'm like it's like he's bragging about. Well, yeah.

Speaker 2: 21:07

He's very hands-on and if I wake him up he'll help. But you know, some nights it's just like I'm gonna feed him, put him down. It's just easier to just do it, and the next morning he would say Maybe slept so great last night.

Speaker 3: 21:20

Oh my god.

Speaker 2: 21:22

They did not right. You slept great.

Speaker 1: 21:25

Yeah, you're just like oh, oh wow.

Speaker 3: 21:28

Yeah you.

Speaker 1: 21:29

I feel like still like this room Now.

Speaker 3: 21:34

Let's call it for what it is. 100% of moms feel that way about their sign.

Speaker 1: 21:39

Uh-huh, oh yeah, easily, even now. When boys get sick, they have our nights, whatever.

Speaker 2: 21:46

Mm-hmm, it's the mental, it's the mental.

Speaker 1: 21:50

Jenny, can you share a photo? As you found, jenny thought she had lost some really special what are probably all these pictures and thought I had lost them for years.

Speaker 2: 21:58

And they popped up all of us at the beach, so I Texted. Sarah, this picture of me and baby Charlie. So baby Charlie was my second baby. He was my really traumatic delivery that I've talked about it took me like a full nine months to recover and not be in terrible Pain every day from this delivery, and it was awful. So, anyway, my husband was traveling a lot during that time. I had a toddler at a newborn. I was also working. I had mastitis.

Speaker 2: 22:24

No four times in the first year. It was just a tough, tough time and I see this picture of me and baby Charlie and it's just pure joy and I don't even remember where we were or the context of it, but I can just like feel the joy looking at the picture. And that brought so much joy to my heart, because when I think of that time I just think like that was the hardest time of my life.

Speaker 1: 22:46

Yes.

Speaker 2: 22:47

Everything that we were going through was just very hard because physically I was in so much pain and postpartum recovering.

Speaker 2: 22:53

And then the anxiety I also share that we had had multiple losses, and so the whole time I was pregnant with baby Charlie and even during his delivery I was just waiting for that other shoe to drop. So going through all of that his first few months of life, it was physically hard, but mentally I was constantly thinking something was going to happen to him and going out of my way to prevent any bad thing that could possibly happen. And you can't prevent everything. That's just not how life works.

Speaker 2: 23:24

So, yeah, just talking about how, like, joy and anxiety can coexist like one doesn't have to outshine the other in both the room at the same time. Yeah, I love that picture. That picture, I just feel the joy in it.

Speaker 1: 23:38

It is We'll share it when we promote this episode. We'll share it with Jenny's words with it. I think it's a important reminder for moms. I think we're breaking this generational thought that, like you, can only feel X and you can't feel Y.

Speaker 1: 23:52

Yeah, you can feel both. So, jenny, leave our listeners. So what would you want to hear? Let's go back to Jenny. First baby, second baby what would you wish you would have heard during that time? What would have helped you that you're now telling these moms and it can be anything from pressure off for yourself to what the recovery is going to be like, to who you're going to become, or you know that it's kind of BS when they just sleep in the baby's sleep sometimes.

Speaker 2: 24:16

Yeah, I mean all the things, but you are the perfect mom for this baby and I think just having that confidence to know that you are a great mom, and you are exactly what this baby needs and to take care of yourself, put yourself first, and I think that's so counterintuitive.

Speaker 3: 24:34

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 24:34

But you have to. It's like putting on your oxygen mask first, because you can't take care of anyone else if you're not taking care of you, and that's very hard. It looks different for everyone in the newborn stage because it is so physically emotionally demanding, but just knowing there is that light at the end of the tunnel and you're an amazing mom and, I think, just prioritizing five minutes a day for yourself.

Speaker 1: 24:56

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 24:57

Hopefully more but five minutes and setting those small, attainable goals, because you are a great mom and you do have the capacity to go for a walk around the block and take five minutes for yourself and do a lot of things, and if you've done that and you survived the day, you are thriving. Yes, you are meeting your goals.

Speaker 1: 25:18

I love that. You're a great mom. You can always send in questions for Jenny and we love to live time, make content. These two know I will text them and say, hey, we need to make a video.

Speaker 2: 25:27

Hey, we need to talk about it so you guys can.

Speaker 1: 25:30

If you're a premium mom, you know how to access that. If you're a podcast listeners, shoot us a DM, shoot us a message and just say hey, let's talk about it.

Speaker 2: 25:37

We'll talk about it. Yeah, because if you're feeling a certain way, I guarantee you that there are multiple other moms doing the same way who may just not want to speak up because they're worried that they'll be judged for it. And there is no judgment here. This is your safe space. We want to be your safe people.

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We're your online village. We wish we could be your neighbors. We do the food drop off, take the older kid for you when you need a break, all these things, but we're here, so tune into us every week, jenny, we love you, I love you, guys. You're not going anywhere. Bye, so until next time, guys, see ya, bye. Maternal mental health is as important as physical health. The previous podcast was created for and by moms dealing with postpartum depression and all its variables, like anxiety, anger and even athlete. Posted by CEO founder Sarah Parkers and licensed clinical social worker Whitney Gay. Each episode focus on specific issues relevant to pregnancy and postpartum. Join us and hear how other moms have overcome mental health challenges, as well as access to tips and suggestions on dealing with your own challenges as moms. You can also browse our podcast library and listen to previous episodes at any time. Please know you're not alone on this journey. We're here to help.