I Love My Baby, And...

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Motherhood is awesome. But not always. Holding space for the best parts of motherhood seems impossible when the challenging parts feel really heavy – and vice versa! Erin, licensed therapist, and Ruby, licensed therapist candidate, hold nothing back when talking about the dual realities associated with this chaotic, wonderful, hard, hilarious, sad, and undeniably happy part of life. This podcast is a place for community. Submit your thoughts, feelings, or wonderings to our voicemail box or email, and let’s talk about it! We can't wait to hear from you.

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I Love My Baby, And...Teamwork is Not Making the Dream Work Pt. 2

Apr 17 2024 35 mins

Postpartum partnership problems (say that 10 times fast): we know them, we hate them, we don’t know what to do about them. Your connection to your partner and the other important people in your world can suffer after having a baby, and while it’s totally common and normal, that doesn’t make it any less distressing. On this week’s episode, Erin and Ruby tackle an unconventio

I Love My Baby, and…Oops, I Hate my Mother-in-Law

Apr 10 2024 41 mins

Listen. The mother-in-law (MIL) drama has become this funny, stereotypically negative relationship according to pop culture. But it’s the reality for a LOT of people; it’s a deeply complex relationship! Boundaries are so necessary and can feel SO hard to enforce.This week, Erin and Ruby break down various components of the MIL relationship, validate the crap out of your feeling

Mom Brain Musings: Instagram Parenting Courses

Mar 27 2024 37 mins

Mom Brain: sometimes it means you’re unable to string together your thoughts, and other times it means you’re stringing together 900 thoughts at 2 o’clock in the morning!In this week’s episode, Erin and Ruby are chatting about Instagram parenting courses (as discussed in this Glamour article) and how to determine what’s right for YOU. And the most important question we as

I Love My Baby, and...I Hate Being the Default Parent (pt. 1)

Mar 20 2024 39 mins

The concept of the default parent is loaded with emotion - for good reason! Parenthood *is* loaded with emotion. There’s generally an association with this term and being the parent who “does it all.” But is there truly a one-size-fits-all definition to the term “default parent?” (Hint: there isn’t! We add our own meaning to things like this!) In the first installment o

REWIND: F*ck Your Bounceback

Mar 06 2024 37 mins

One of the most common things we hear both in our DMs and in the therapy room is that the pressure to “bounce back” to who you were before having feels like it’s hitting us from virtually every single corner of our lives. So we thought now might be a great time to re-visit this oldie-but-goodie episode from the vault. In this aptly titled episode, we dive into the pressures w

I Love My Baby, and...I'm Surrounded by Toxic Positivity

Feb 29 2024 32 mins

Have you ever paid close attention to the ways people respond to something you share that is pregnancy or motherhood-related? If not, after listening to this episode, you’re gonna. Because when you’re telling someone about the anxiety you have while your newborn is sleeping, it’s important to note that upwards of 0 people have been helped by hearing something to the effect of

I Love My Baby, and…SAHM Life has me Feelin’ all the Feels

Feb 21 2024 33 mins

We hear a lot about the “invisible load” of motherhood, and that’s almost always applied to stay-at-home moms. And what’s truly mind-blowing is that literally none of the work done by SAHMs is invisible!!! It’s constant! It’s ever-changing! You’re doing all the things everyone relies on! YOU. DON’T. STOP. Whether you knew all along that you wanted to be a SAHM, or i

I Love My Baby, and...I'm Unpacking the Decision to be Done Having Kids

Feb 14 2024 41 mins

“Family planning” is kind of a weird term. It encompasses so many different aspects of, well, planning for your family. But is there really a clear definition? What if you’re the world’s worst planner?! What then?!?!For some, they have a very clear idea of what family planning looks like. For others, they thought they had a clear idea, but something happens along their jour

I Love My Baby, and...I Never Imagined I'd Experience Gender Disappointment

Feb 06 2024 37 mins

Did you find out the gender of your baby? Did you keep it a secret or tell everyone? Did you start planning accordingly? Ok, now we have a harder question for you: did you experience disappointment after you found out?This is a common experience among tons of new moms (and their partners), and just like everything else related to the postpartum experience, it’s layered, and requi

I Love My Baby, and…the Overwhelm has Overhauled my Life

Jan 17 2024 29 mins

You know how when you have a baby, the little things suddenly feel really big and overpowering? What was once easy now feels insurmountable. What used to not faze you now makes you feel like you need to call in a lot of reinforcement. As with most of the postpartum experience, this is all totally normal. In this week’s episode, Ruby and Erin break down what it means to feel overw