Episode 51: Q&A: Late Pregnancy Realness, Swollen Feet, & Setting Boundaries

Join Cally and Emily for a candid solo episode as they navigate the final weeks of pregnancy—swollen feet, sciatica, pregnancy rage, and all. They share sweet moments with their kids, from Kieran's first solo kitchen task shelling edamame to Nora's "butt" drawings during a church meeting.

The hosts tackle listener questions, including a powerful book recommendation (Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu), thoughts on unconditional love and advocating for your children, and advice for a mom dealing with critical in-laws. They discuss the importance of being on the same team with your partner, knowing when to set boundaries, and trusting your maternal compass when others judge your parenting choices.

Plus, practical reminders about checking your spam folder for their freebies and  updates on their Maternal Compass series with Caitlin Miller.

Topics covered:

• Late pregnancy symptoms and the emotional roller coaster
• Cherishing last moments before baby #2 arrives
• Book recommendation: Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu
• Navigating judgment and criticism from family members
• The "let them" theory and setting boundaries
• Advocating for yourself in medical settings

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Hosted by: Cally & Emily O’Leary

About the Hosts: We’re real moms and real sisters. We may look and sound alike, but our motherhood journeys are uniquely ours. We all do Motherhood differently, and thank goodness for that. Let’s learn and grow together.

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New? Yeah. No. That's nice. Oh, thank you. I just don't like this color on me. So frankly, don't. It's kind of nice actually. I think you're a little flushed with pregnancy. It's a nice.

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Flushed, flushed and so many other things.

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This is the week which like my feet just are swollen when I get out of bed in the morning. Oh, right away. Nothing like last pregnancy. Nothing like last pregnancy. Okay, cause that was a really concerning. They were like sausages. Like it looked like if you bumped them, they would explode.

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Yes, and my bones were always hurting because of the pressure.(...) All of this, I know it was really nasty.

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Anyways, wow.

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Hi everybody.

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So nice. We're here. So nice to see you. So nice to be with you.

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What are you loving this week, Callie?

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Okay, so this week my eldest is on a road trip with our mom, his gammy.

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And that is like the longest distance apart. I guess, okay, when he was one, we went up north with friends. So it happened one time before and I sobbed and I didn't sob this time. Wow. He's like, I know, I know. Thankfully it was very busy the day that he left. Okay, still. But he, yeah, he's on a road trip with gammy. So far he's loving it, it sounds like. Okay. So I'm just like very proud about all of that happening. I'm holding it together. But what I'm loving is a day, I had a morning of one-on-one with Nora, who has always been the second child. And always will be. He's like, "Chicha is, she sure is still right now." I was like, "Oh, you're so cute and funny today."

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She's like pretty typically cute and funny.

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Even when she's being so naughty. Oh, she's always cute. And such a disaster.(...) She's always cute. Okay, I'm an adjective. And often funny. She's always cute and funny.(...) She's not always pleasant. I feel like it's been cute and funny and pleasant.

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But I've just like had time. Like I let her push the stroller for far too long on her walk and she kept veering off the, into the grass. Why normally that would drive me crazy because I'll have a kid on the bike too. Right. You know, but now I'm not like making sure he doesn't get squished by a car. So it's fine. Like it's just me and her and the dog. Love it. Yeah, so that's great. How about you?

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Okay, two things. I'm gonna be greedy. Two things I'm loving.(...) First of all, Kieran completed his, I already told you this, but I have to say it again on the pod because it was so cute. That's so good. He completed his first solo kitchen task.

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Basically naps for Kieran. Flaps for Kieran. Basically unsupervised. Like this kid turned to just a little bit over a month ago(...) and I gave him a colander full of ademame pods,

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a bowl for the like little ademames

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and a bowl for the husks. And boy did that kid deliver. The whole time I made the whole rest of the dinner,

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which he just was there sorting these beans and pods with complete focus,

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so much pride.

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All of a sudden I took a video and he was just like, he knows who's being cute. Yes. Yeah, cool you please. Can we like post it with a little emoji over his face so people can see his little hands?

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(...) Just imagine his little hand ademame pods.

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It was precious. He's just the coolest guy. Ademame, I was just told that your two year old requests chopsticks.

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Well, yes.

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Can

Milwaukee is constant. He can use

them. Okay, yeah, this was my question. Like real chopsticks or like the kid ones? I mean, either way it's impressive. They're wooden, so they're much easier than like the stainless steel ones, just from like a... Sanity. And we don't know how he manages to get the food repeatedly between the pinchers and his mouth. We don't know how it works, because we look at his hand and we're like,(...) we don't know how, like we think it's a fluke that you're controlling this, but it happens frequently. That is amazing. Like it's not a fluke. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

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He's the coolest kid. Like I just, I have a great time with him.

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The Irish boy. Little Irish boy.

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With his chopsticks. I know. And that was, yeah.

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Okay, here's my other one.(...) So, you know, like with my self-help development, reading and like podcast listening, et cetera, over the years that I've always done,

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there's this theme that keeps coming up about discovering unconditional love for yourself,

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or like truly loving yourself.

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And I've always kind of heard it and been like, okay. I mean, I like myself. I don't really understand what you're talking about. I mean, there's a lot of self-critiquing and criticizing that goes on in my brain also. Like there are a lot of things about myself I don't like. I'm not trying to be an egomaniac. But generally like I have positive feelings towards myself. I've never understood this love piece though, and how it can be so radical and life-changing for some people to experience.

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And I was in a mini therapy session yesterday with Caitlin Miller, and I realized that I just, always get that feeling from when I tap into my maternal compass, this mini series that we're doing. Wow.

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So since we've completed this mini series with her, I always-- We have, it's not released yet. Right, they're coming out. So next week you'll get the next installment. We're very excited for you to have it.

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Yeah, I try to tap into it when I'm journaling and doing gratitude practice in the morning.

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And I every time feel this unconditional love for myself

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from this part of me.(...) Like I'm picturing maternal ancestors,(...) so. Yeah.(...) I just had this breakthrough with her yesterday where I was like, oh, I think I think I get it. Did she love it? Oh, she loved it. She's like, tell me more. And I was like, honestly, Caitlin like asked me in six months, because I'm about to have a baby and I don't know how this is gonna, you know like-- That is fun. What is gonna happen to my gratitude journaling practice? Isn't that just, I just find it fascinating and cool. Yes,(...) I love it. So. Wait, thank you for saving it. So we could all listen to that together. Saving it? Like you hadn't told me. No. And I hadn't listened to that episode because you and Caitlin just did it. I saw your little faces on our like platform where we record and I was like, can't wait to listen. Well, I think we'll put it out on her platform probably because it's more like an actual therapy session. Sure.

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So fun.(...) I know.

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Okay, let's go downhill. What are, what's up for you this week?

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I'm good at, it's very physical. It's the sciatica. It's just a fish this week. It's just been bad.

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With all my pregnancy allergies, that one I've only gotten a tinge of and it was wildly unpleasant. And I just think about you because you'd really get it. Yeah, usually and like I'll go to, it'll get really bad by the night and then I'll go to bed. And then usually by the middle of the night when I inevitably get up to pee, it's like gone as long as I've been horizontal with my snooble for long enough. Oh right, yeah. But last night, I like got up assuming I'd be able to walk to the bathroom, like stumbled and used the wall to like crawl to the bathroom.

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Kelly. There's this like short story people read in high school called the yellow wallpaper.

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Stop it. Did you read it? That is one of the most horrifying pieces of milk. It's really bad. I hate it. I can't even think about it. And in the middle of the night, all I can think of is the yellow wallpaper lady. Stop it. I sound like a girl. Okay, this just took a, we're just going places with this, wow.(...) So there you go.

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That's crazy making, like literally.

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Is it gone or is it like what happened when you actually woke up in the morning? It was okay in the morning and now it's kind of back again and it's just pregnancy for me. But like if I could take physical pain over nausea, which I usually do, like whatever, I'm fine.

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Yeah, still bummer when you're trying to like play with your toddler and like paint my bedroom and yeah.(...) Yeah. Yeah.(...) How about you?

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The hormones, I can't. I just can't, I'm so like, I'm still on the edge.

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Finally, I honestly, for both pregnancies, I would say I've been very even-keeled and reasonable and attached to logic and reality. Like I think you could ask my husband and for the majority of the time that is the place I occupy.(...) Like I'm not crying more than I usually do. I'm not like, I'm whatever, pretty even-keeled.

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And when I get to this, like the last few weeks of pregnancy,

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I just have this like rage kind of like, it's like running right out of my skin, you know? Like it's just like right there. I'm just like one trigger and I'm like, oh, you wanna go?

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Yeah, so that's my, it's just like,

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well,

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I just don't love feeling that way. Like I don't know, I live with a two year old. Like he's the coolest guy and I don't like to,

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he doesn't deserve to be on the other end of the hormones.

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Yeah.

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So. Yeah.

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I'm pretty good at managing it. You're having all the feels that like, these are the last moments with him as an only child and then you're over here being a rage basket. A rage basket. Honestly, like the last moments with him,

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they're just sweet. Like I'm so sad, but that means I just appreciate

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like whenever he does anything naughty, I'm just like, oh, you're just still so cool. So funny. Yeah. So charming. Yes. How clever you were to do that terrible thing that just wrecked the next 45 minutes of my life. Oh, here's a quick one. I was in a, I had Nora with me in a church meeting last night and I had like, I'm sitting on the floor with her so that I cannot disrupt the actual meeting that's going on. But I needed to be there, whatever, for my job. Cause I work for a church and we're like doodling in my notebook and she loves drawing hearts with me right now. Oh. Oh, just so we're drawing hearts. And then she points at it and she goes,

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but I mean,

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she's loudly cause I'm like heart. She's like no butt.(...) And she wants me to be drawing butts with her and keep saying it out loud.(...) So naughty. So funny. Yeah. That's pretty good.

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It's pretty good. It's like yesterday I was in my midwife appointment and I had to get some swabs. Why am I, I'm like already pregnancy brain. I'm already blanking on what I got swabbed for. Strepy.

No, it was like GDS, G, B, whatever. You sure it wasn't Strep B?

I don't, I don't know. I actually don't know. They call me something else. Oh. Causes sepsis and babies and a tiny tiny percentage of babies that they adopted. Yeah, did they swab both orifices? Yes. Yeah, that's tricky. I never had an anal swab before.

Oh.

Anyways. Cause it can be there or, you know. Anyways, Kieran thought it imperative to let the midwife know that I don't have a penis.

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(Laughing)

Before she went in.

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So.

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No penis. No, no, no, no penis.(...) She's like good. Cause I wasn't sure how I was going to get in there with this Q-tip. Yeah.

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That

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Oh

man. Okay, well obviously. All right. We're here for some updates people. We're here for an update. I'm probably going to be giving labor. Giving labor? Hello? I'm going to be hopefully in labor in a couple of weeks.

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So we wanted to do a little solo epi and answer some listener texts and questions(...) before we move on to some more experts for all y'all.

So Evelyn's about to have a baby.

Yeah. Truly about to have a baby. Right, I think we're probably gonna do this one. We've been neglecting, yeah,

we've been neglecting some listener questions. Not really neglecting, but we've just had guests lined up. So we're just getting to

questions.(...) But also I don't want us to forget to talk about the spam folder. And I feel like, okay, can I make the confession that I was like, hey, this thing is going to my spam folder. And you're like, yeah, we're having trouble with that. But long story short, I didn't really spam and junk were different.

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Yes.

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Yup.

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(Laughing)

Yup.

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So they are, they're just different. And sure are.

So if you've tried to download a freebie,

check your actual spam folder, please.(...) And also if you add us to your contacts, then we should no longer be going to your spam folder.

I think also I'm not sure what kind of update happened, but our newsletter has now started going to a lot of junk and spam folders as well. Which are different. They're different folders if you're looking for something. As Callie just discovered.

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And if you're not signed up for our newsletter, it's pretty fun. Every week we'll get a little snippet of life behind the scenes or musings or stories from our lives.

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And we're going to keep it that way for a little bit, but I think eventually would love to have listeners write in.(...) Either with your own thoughts or stories.

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Or if you have a mom in your circle who just did something absolutely heroic,(...) like potty train their two year old with

baby on the way, you know?

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Great place to write in and have us shout her out. Shout out. Yeah.

on the topic of, well, we're talking about freebies, spam folders, all of that good stuff. This came to light because we do have free resources as a reminder for a maternal compass series. There's a companion worksheet, like with journal prompts, et cetera, for you to basically have your own version of therapy and discovery along with us through these episodes. We're really, really, really grateful that Caitlin

a lot of time and effort and information into these resources for you.(...) In the maternal compass, I mean, we were talking a lot about matrescence(...) as the context for the maternal compass, but I mean, I'm four years in. We just talked to someone who loved that first maternal compass episode who has teenage children. So I think it's really applicable to just moms in general. Yeah. So give it a listen. It's fascinating. Yes. And if you have any issues accessing those worksheets, please check your spam, check your drunk, make sure that we are to your junk folder, Kelly,

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make sure we are added to your contact list. And if you have any issues at all, please email us, the realmomhub at gmail.com.

Yeah.(...) Okay. Is that all? Yes.(...) Yay. Okay. We're both still pregnant.

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Yeah. Stay tuned. The OBI I was talking with today said, "Pregnesia."(...) And I was like, Oh, so real. That should be in the dictionary.(...) Yes.

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Yeah. Anyways. I love that.

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Okay. Guys, we're going to get to some listener texts. As a reminder, you can always text us with questions or suggestions(...) through your podcast app in the episode show notes.

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Also a reminder that we can't see who's sending us. It was anonymous. So the little city, the city that you live in will show up, but we can't respond and we, it is anonymous. So

we're going to get to some listener feedback. Cal, what is first up?

So this question,(...) what are your thoughts on the book? Drop the ball achieving more by doing less by Tiffany do foo. Do you know the food?

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Um, no, because I don't know who Tiffany is, which I feel like maybe I should know who she is. Yeah. In the last like 30 seconds reading about her, I'm like, how do I not know who she is? I was trying to find, okay. So like I was reading the forward just cause I got sucked in. I just noticed Gloria Steinem wrote that. Yes. Yes.

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So, okay. I'm going to read you this little snippet and then maybe we can talk, even though we haven't read the book, we can talk about this paragraph. Never even heard of it. I love the forward, not even by Tiffany, but okay. Ready? Yes. Are you sure?

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Dropping stuff over there. Okay. Having launched and shared in her work.

I also know that she succeeds because like Eleanor Roosevelt, she always draws a wider circle.

she not only shows that we all gain when women become part of, contribute our talents to, and are ourselves changed by the world outside the home,

but also how we will all gain when men become part of, contribute their talents to, and are themselves changed by the world inside the home.

(...) Oh yeah. It was a ding, ding, ding. Cause Eleanor Roosevelt came up, I think in one of our maternal compass episodes. Yeah. It's just being kind of like this like image of powerhouse mom. I mean, do we even need to like give her adjectives? It's Eleanor Roosevelt. Right? Yeah. I don't know. So like that paragraph sucked me in and then I read the rest of the forward and now I want to read the book. Yeah. I probably will not be in the next few months, specifically cause postpartum, but this is on my 2026 book list. So thank you so, so much for whoever wrote this in. Drop the ball, achieving more by doing less. Yeah. From Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Thank you so much. Also on her website, cause I will be listening to podcasts from her in the meantime, cause I'm really curious about Tiffany. Oh, she has a podcast. No, she's got to be in interviews though. Everyone gets interviewed. Oh, sure. Yeah.

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The leading line on her website is, she got to as many women as she could. That's what my tombstone will say. I love it.

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Yeah. Yeah. Incredible mission.(...) Good book rec. Thank you, Oshkosh. Yeah. Anybody else have any book recs? You send them our way.

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Okay.

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I wish we could talk more about that one, but we haven't read it. So onto the next.

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Okay.

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This one from Ashwavan on Wisconsin. Is that how you say that?(...) I've been wondering. I've never heard of it in my life. Oh,

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I'm so glad you read that, not me.

You're welcome.

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Would you consider doing an episode on unconditional love? Moms who love and advocate for their transitioning child. Moms who love and advocate for their LGBTQ plus children.

I love this question. These questions. Yeah. Thank you so much for writing in. I think

2025 in particular,

this topic just should be top of mind for everybody. The unconditional love part.

And also, yeah, like there are going to be more and more kids and families in our circle,

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hopefully who like safely can

who they are.(...) And as

members,

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absolutely we should all be

out unconditional love for our kids, for our children in particular.

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Yeah. And I wonder,(...) consider doing an episode on unconditional love. It's funny cause I feel like, you know, if you're a mom listening to this podcast, I'm sure you experienced this and you have it for your children, right? Like your mom trying to be your best mom. Like all of us are feeling that,

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but sometimes I'm not sure how to show it.

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Yeah.

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Like I just,

yeah.

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I don't know something I'd like to work on. Yeah. So I think maybe we slate that for an episode in 2026.

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Yeah. If anyone has any suggestions on people who would be good to take on that topic, shoot them our way.

I think this listener specifically because they're talking about loving and advocating for transitioning child.(...) I just want to call out that so far, all the work that Kelly and I've been doing are, is from our lived experience. So because our kids are small(...) and we don't have a lot of experience

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in our homes with that topic,

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I would have to do a lot of,

I think intentional,

just make sure that we were surveying that community well with whatever guest we had on to talk about it.

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Unconditional love is easier in our wheelhouse just from our lived experience probably. Yeah. I mean, this is such a,

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this is a big topic that deserves a lot of care, I think.

Okay. And then either question that we wanted to get

to today is from Mom in New Jersey.

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Oh, this one is so hard. This is a long, this is a very long one. Big one. I don't think we can read the whole thing.(...) Yeah. Here's a pain point that maybe we could start. I'm gonna say that again. Here's a pain point that maybe we could start with.(...) Maintaining calm when I am under a microscope.(...) Oh yeah. Just feeling judged by others or feeling critiques from others.

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And as I was reading that, I'm like,(...) well, that is something I need to work on with this maternal compass work. Like that is a really good check-in probably for like I made this decision.

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It came out of this wise place.

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How do we tap into that more and hear the noise and then ignore the, not ignore it, right? We don't ignore the noise. We just don't let it control us. Sure.

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Yeah, no, that's a really good call out. I will say this listener goes on to set the stage for some, I struggle because I don't have the full context. There are multiple people involved in the situation beyond her.(...) And I don't have the full context of the situation, but from what she's describing, like definitely not some, not supportive or healthy family dynamics from her mother-in-law. She outlined some specific scenarios where her mother-in-law is being really critical of her and her parenting,

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which would be so hard.

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I think one thing that just reading this, it sounds like in the situation she laid out, her husband teamed up on her with his mom.

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Never move. In a pretty negative way.

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Yeah, so I'm just kind of like,

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what's going on with you and your husband? First of all, like we can't even get to the mother-in-law until you kind of know where you and your teammate are. And parenthood is an amazing call out. Totally, oh my gosh, a sur- For that team mentality. And like, we mess up, like all of us, right? Yeah. So not saying like, you're doomed. Like that looks like something that maybe needs to be addressed before the in-laws can be addressed is what I'm hearing you say.

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Yes, like,(...) yeah, I mean, I guess I'll go into the situation now that I've, I won't read the whole thing. Now that you've gone into the situation. No, like she just, she has a two-year-old, this listener.

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And apparently her mother-in-law has said that,(...) she had a two-year-old and a newborn and her two-year-old knew how to share.

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And basically it's told this mom that she's setting her kid up for failure and that she's not a good mom. Which first of all, red flags, like people who are saying those specific things to you in your life,(...) I think there should be a big question about whether, like how much access they are allowed to have to you.(...) And or sometimes I can project that people are saying things like that and they're not really. Right, so that's why I said specific. If they are saying those exact words to you and you know you're not manufacturing them in your head,

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that's something to think about.

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it sounds like her husband's not on board with her feelings or thoughts regarding his mom.(...) So that's just really hard.

You gotta be on the same team.

Yeah, I don't know what's going on there. Like if he's clueless or if he's-- Right, like maybe it just needs a conversation like that made me feel bad. Cause I mean, I think it's really easy to say like this woman raised me. Like this is my mother and have some rosy colored glasses

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about your parent, especially if you're just starting your own parenting journey.

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Yeah.(...) And that's totally understandable. So like really being clear about, yeah, that felt fishy.

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That was bad.

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Cause maybe he doesn't know. Yeah. Yup.

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Anyways, Wuff, best of luck to you. That's really difficult.

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But I just want to say if anyone is just straight up telling you that you're a failure and not a good mom,

that's a red flag for me to just, like someone directly saying that to your face,(...) they have their own issues.(...) Right. And that's the other thing you and I have recently been talking about is Mel Robbins, let them theory.(...) Oh yeah. If you listen to Mel Robbins, you can listen to her podcast. The let them theory is very simple, but she's powerful when she talks about it. And I usually think of it in like a kind of professional setting, but it can be really valid in a personal setting too. Just let them think that(...) as long as you can feel confident. And I think that's where your maternal compass can really come into and like trusting your wisdom because you're the best mom for your kid. Totally. And then working on that, let them.(...) Well, and this is where you and I are different. I think you're better at letting people

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do things in front of you and you being less reactive.

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I like under the skin, I'm like, what? I'm not conflict averse. And someone says that to my face and I'm like, actually you don't get to talk about that. You don't get to talk that way to me. And you're actually not welcome in my life if that's how you're gonna talk to me. Like it doesn't matter if you're my husband's mother. And I am not suggesting that you, what is the trendy thing millennials are all doing? There's like no contact. Canceling. I am not suggesting that, but you can very clearly say

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these specific words that you've said to me are actually not tolerated by like people who have my best interest in mind. And therefore like you may not come over and say that to me or anything like that.(...) I mean, I don't think you have to say you can't come over. I think you could start with, you may not say that to me.

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Yeah, true. Sure.

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So that's a better tempered approach. Yeah, I would just get feisty.

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I mean, yeah, I deserve some feistiness, but like when that's grandma and that's your husband's mom, like there's some-- I'm like all the more reason for you to be like, cut that fish out. Right. Like, do you want your kid to see that? Do you want your kid to think that's okay?

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Like it sounds like it's a really good thing that maybe you're making different choices.

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We talk so much about like wanting this village mentality and I love it when it works. And then every now and then I'm like, but does it really worry? You know, like when everybody lived in the same house, were we just better communicators?(...) Or was it just like horrible?

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I think it's kind of like today. Sometimes it's luck of birth.

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Like I think sometimes you're just born into the family you're born into and all of their-- Every time you're just born into the family. Well, every time that is true. Sometimes it's, you get a really emotionally, mentally well family who works really hard to stay that way. And other times like you were born into a family that has really, really rough programming.

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So anyways, best of luck to you, Summerville, New Jersey. Man,

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you're a good mom. Yeah, that's a tough spot to be in and you're doing your best.

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Yeah.(...) Wow, all right, well we ended that on a big one. Yeah, I might still trigger.(...) Do you know, my heart rate's a little elevated.

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Well, the next time we tune in for a solo epi,(...) there will be another, oh Eric said baby.(...) Maybe we might do one more before I hit, I don't know.

baby, I'm just like, you never know. You never know, you never know. You never know.(...) Crazy, have you ever seen that meme where it's like, when you get to the point in your pregnancy when you could have a baby in two hours or two weeks and it's just like the trippiest time of your life? Because how could you not know?

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That's crazy. I mean, I think I will have the baby in two weeks because we're gonna induce for. Have you sat the day in multiple reasons?(...) I think I'm gonna email the midwives and see what they can do about that today because I just have my OB console for the diabetes.(...) The diabetes, it's getting real people. It's getting so real.

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Oh, also a quick shout out, this hospital that I'm in,(...) it's where we had Ciaran, we went, we chose to go back to this hospital because their team was so phenomenal. Their midwife team works really well with their OB team. We just had a great experience and I've had a really phenomenal experience for care

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with the exception of one OB that I had a virtual appointment with

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in regard to my diabetes and she just was awful.

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I got off that call and was like, I would have paid money to not talk to her and instead my insurance is, she will be billing my insurance. You know what I mean? It's just a nasty feeling. So today I was back in the same part of the hospital where she works and I was like, hey, I actually would prefer to never interface with this person ever again. Please put that in my file. I don't wanna talk to her. Amazing, you go girl. Into any of my appointments because I've had enough experience with so many members of your staff that are phenomenal and that's the kind of care I would like.(...) And they were like, what's going on? You know, please tell me more. They were super nice.

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Great. And they said, you shouldn't see her anymore. You're so close to delivery.(...) So sorry that happened to you.(...) And she said also, please be empowered if there's ever a provider who comes into your room and is trying to give you care and you don't want them, you absolutely can always just refuse care and ask for somebody else. There are always bodies in the hospital. There are always, there's always somebody else who can help you.(...) Wow. So she's like, yes, we're notating this on your file, but it's for listeners out there. Like if you've had a poor experience with a nurse or whatever,

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which I mean, the nurses have all just been so great. Nurses, yeah. They're great.(...) But you know, anyone,

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I just didn't even think about that. Yeah, brilliant. Like she couldn't walk into the room and I could be like, hey,

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I'd actually like to see somebody else. Yeah,(...) yeah.

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Which like some hospitals are small enough where that might not be the case, but. Sure, yeah. Definitely worth the, yeah.

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Way to advocate.

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Thanks. Good job. Also way to take care of your patient. Yeah. Aurora Sinai.

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Both of our children are bellowing for us. Sure are. So, I think I'm gonna rush. This has been fun.

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Tricky roller coaster, I don't even know. Yeah, motherhood, that's motherhood people. That's motherhood. And thanks for being here everyone. It's so good to be with you.

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Love you. Love you. Bye. Bye.

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