222: Transitioning From One Kid to Two

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Motherhood, Cameronrogers, Freckledfoodie, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Parenting

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this solo episode, I share how maternity leave has been so far with a toddler and a newborn, and how we’re adjusting as a family of four. I discuss what it’s like being immersed back into a newborn’s schedule and the anticipatory anxiety I’ve been feeling around time, how I feel more prepared and confident as a mother this time around, and why we’re resisting the urge to compare the two newborn experiences. I talk about the difficulties I’ve had with not being able to give both children my full attention at once, why we’re starting the weaning process with our newborn now, and how prioritizing rest has been huge recently. Finally, I share what it’s been like to navigate work and comparison anxiety during maternity leave, and how different my mental health is now versus postpartum in 2021.

Key Takeaway / Points:

On being immersed back into a newborn’s schedule
On anticipatory anxiety and being hyper aware of time right now
Recapping my first child’s newborn experience
On feeling prepared and confident about the small things this time around
On resisting the impulse to compare the newborn experiences
On struggling with not being able to give both children your full attention at once
On starting the weaning process and why we’re forgoing breast-feeding
On trying not to blame anything on the baby in front of your toddler
On making room for one-on-one time with my toddler
On deciding to get nighttime help this time around and prioritizing rest
On navigating comparison anxiety during maternity leave
On the difference in my mental health now versus 2021 postpartum

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:03.3	Hi, I'm Pia Barangini, a creative director of LPA, an entrepreneur, a wife, and a dog mom based in Los Angeles.
0:09.9	This is my new podcast, Everything is the Best, where we basically ask interesting people, how did you go from zero to yacht?
0:15.7	I'm always curious how to help people became successful, and I figured you would be too.
0:19.8	Get on the internet with me.
0:21.1	Let's laugh, let's cry, let's overshare, and let's get inspired to live our best lives.
0:25.7	Check out new episodes every Wednesday. It's all for you, baby. Thanks for listening. Love you,
0:30.6	mean it.
0:35.8	Hello for maternity leave, and I mean, let's just dive right freaking into it because we are on a short timeline right now. It's like a very small window that I have baby October in a nap not on me. So there's like constantly the clock running in the back of my head
0:57.9	of how much time do we have, how much time do we have, how much time do we have? But I want to get
1:01.4	this episode out there. So I'm going to try to make this work. And honestly, before I even jump in,
1:07.5	that is something that like I really forgot about the newborn phase. And I felt we had finally
1:13.0	gotten out of when it came to, like, where we were before having October, like, where I was to
1:18.2	squash the timeline of all of this with having a toddler. It's like there was so much freedom in time
1:24.5	with a toddler. You've such large windows before the nap and then after the
1:28.1	nap and you can do so much. And I forgot how like tight windows are with newborns in the sense
1:35.0	of they eat so freaking often. And then by the time you feed them, and especially if you're
1:40.6	breastfeeding, by the time you feed them and then burp them and especially if they have reflux of sorts, and then you keep them up right, and then you change their
1:48.7	diaper, and then you potentially change their clothes, and then you play with them for a second,
1:53.0	and then it's time to go down for a nap. And by the time you actually get them down for a nap,
1:56.9	you have such a small window before you need to wake them up and do it all over again or they wake up
2:02.5	on their own. And it's that almost anticipatory anxiety, which I also feel, wow, I have so many
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