Navigating Your Motherhood Journey: Real Advice from Real Moms

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🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Stephanie shares advice for overwhelmed moms, emphasizing that feeling overstimulated is normal and temporary. Various moms share their own tips, including prioritizing self-care, maintaining routines, seeking outside help, communicating with partners, and more. Links Mentioned: My Essential Birth CourseMy Essential Birth Postpartum CourseMy Essential Birth InstagramGET IN TOUCH! 🤩 Reach out at any time to [email protected]. We love hearing from you! Looking for more info o...

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0:00.0	We have loads of advice, right? Some is going to be good. Some is going to be not useful. So I, it's like you take it with a grain of salt. You take what you like and leave the rest. You try something for a while and it works really well. That's great. And then you move on to the next thing because it's not always going to be perfect and it might not work that way. But I just want to tell you that I promise you you were doing better
0:21.8	than you think you are. In all of those ways that you feel overstimulated and overworked and
0:27.0	stressed out, it's because you are working on being a good mom. It is because you care so much
0:33.7	because you love those little spirits so much and you want them to be good and you want
0:38.7	them to have everything that they need. And that is a testament to every mom that is listening
0:43.3	here today. Getting pregnant and giving birth are two of the most exciting things you can
0:53.1	ever hope to experience in this life.
0:55.5	The moment you think you could be pregnant, you're frantically searching for all the best information,
1:00.3	which is why you're here today. I'm Stephanie King and with my many years of experience as a professional
1:05.7	childbirth educator, doula, and lover of all things, pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
1:11.2	I'm here to make preparing for your birth enjoyable, empowering, and totally easy.
1:16.8	Each week, I'll cover different topics, interview professionals, and get into the nitty-gritty
1:21.4	birth stories from Mamas just like you.
1:24.2	And when you're ready for more, you can join me in the My Essential Birth course at
1:28.3	MyEessentialbirth.com, where I take you step by step through exactly how to prepare your mind,
1:34.2	body, spirit, and partner for a birth you love. So let's get started.
1:50.5	Welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode was actually inspired by one of our My Essential Birth Mamas from the birth course. And she posted, without giving all of her information,
1:57.9	she posted in the Facebook group asking, you know, I just, I'm a young
2:03.4	mom. I've got a couple of children. I'm feeling overwhelmed and like touched out by the time
2:09.6	that my husband gets home. Is this normal? Like overstimulated, overwhelmed, just like, I want to
2:16.7	be nice to my kids. I want to be nice to my husband.
2:19.5	This is what is happening. Is it normal? And what was awesome about it was there was just a flood
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