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Happy Monday! Come hang out and discuss John Mark Comer's The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. We think everyone has something to gain by reading this book. Don't miss this episode!

Are you creating habits now that will lead to chronic illness later? Looking into the connection between mind and body when it comes to chronic illness.

Happy Monday, let's hang out!!

Let's dive into the rest of the questions you all asked recently on Instagram. This week we are chatting about behavioral issues, cesarean births, the mental load of motherhood, and more! Happy Monday, let's hang out!!

Let's dive into the questions you all asked recently on Instagram. This week we are chatting morning routines, family friendly house layouts, potty training, connecting with our husbands through bedtime routines, and more!

Happy Monday, let's hang out!!

We have missed you oh, so much! Come catch up with us and chat about the ways we have been cleaning up our bodies and our minds.

‘THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.’

Join us this week as we discuss Jonathan Haidt's hit book The Anxious Generation.

Let's get deep and personal as we answer your anonymous questions. This episode is full of vulnerability, tips to be a better version of yourself, practical tips on caring for your sick/injured child, and ways to grow closer to your child.

Start your week by playing a lighthearted game with us and get to know us a bit better.

Join us this week while we chat about current events and the bigger purpose behind suffering. Don't worry- you'll also join us for quite a few laughs too!

Want to know the trick to hosting and cooking for a large group with ease? How about organizing your home in a way that feels peaceful and purposeful? What shows are we currently watching and what have we been up to? Join in our conversation for this week's episode!

This week we break down the main theme in our friend Eli Hardwood's new book "Raising Securely Attached Kids:" forming secure and deep attachments with our children.

Eli Hardwood is a licensed therapist who specializes in attachment therapy. "Raising Securely Attached Kids" is her second book and is available on Amazon and on Audible in audiobook format.

We each discuss 5 things that we just DO NOT care about as moms. You might be surprised! From cleaning and bedtime routines to second dinners and aesthetic children... we spill the tea, come chat!

Let's catch up! After a few weeks off to round out summer, we come back and chat about how we tackle birthday parties and what our days look like homeschooling our bigs!

Come chat with us while we answer questions from our listeners! We talk about handling picky eaters, our plan for multiple cesareans, moving past pregnancy loss, making our houses feel like home, and moving through the clingy baby phase.

We answer listeners' questions about discipline regarding our young children, reparenting ourselves to manage our own emotions. We chat about what we wished we would have said in episode 65, current reads, and what we are excited about in life right now.

This week we take a listener's suggestion and discuss raising our toddlers/preschoolers. We dive into their big emotions, discipline, spanking, and how to cope with the big feelings they may bring out in you.

We chat this week about creating summer nostalgia for our families, starting new traditions, limiting our social media use, current reads, favorite summer products, creating sacred spaces in our homes, and looking ahead to fall.

Join us and chat friendship this week. Flighty friends vs friends to fight for, how to confront, how to make friends and how to break up. No topic is off the table for this week's vulnerable conversation.

We are finishing last week's chat and talk about clogged ducts, mom guilt, leading your child in their faith, planning first birthday parties, Mother's Day, transitioning from 1 to 2 kids, and the hot topic in the mom world: nap time.

Come chat with us! We are covering toddler sleep, starting solids, postpartum anxiety, holistic healing from illness, and starting solids this week!

A casual episode where we get on IG Live and chat with our followers. We catch you up on our lives, chat favorite books and music, talk home projects, healing ear infections naturally, birthing more babies, breastfeeding, and more.

A little Q+A to start your week. Let's chat new borns, cleaning schedules, catheters during childbirth, where to shop for baby clothes, setting boundaries to spend less time on our phones, and car seat safety.

What are they? Why do we have them? How do we navigate the anxiety that comes along with them?

We share our personal experiences and give you tools to conquer the blight that is intrusive thoughts.

We hope after listening to this episode you feel a little more 'normal,' you have the tools to overcome the power they hold of you, and you rest assured that you are a good mom.

**No specific/graphic intrusive thoughts are shared in this episode. This episode is inspiring and not triggering.

Buckle up, let's have an uncomfy conversation.

What are the dangers of posting our children's faces on social media? What will their futures look like? What are the possible repercussions? Can there be a balance of sharing and protecting?

We let you guys into the very vulnerable thoughts in our heads surrounding this topic when it comes to our own children. We take you through our thought process, our decisions, and how we executed our plans.

We answer listener's questions about transitioning out of bedsharing this week. This episode is full of sound advice on listening to your intuition as a mama and practical advice on infant/toddler sleep!

We interview Kaite @thenotsotiredtoddler about toddler sleep. We ask her what's normal, how to navigate the hard, what to expect, and how to cope with our own unmet expectations and frustrations. It's a breath of fresh air to speak to a sleep consultant who openly co-sleeps and listens to any mama's intuition on what looks right for their own family.

This week we dive into one of our most requested topics: transitioning your child from co-sleeping into their own bed.

We each cover our personal experiences with our oldest children. We acknowledge that this is not a 'one-size-fits-all' situation and as always is not medical advice.

We hope this episode is uplifting and helpful.

It's a new week! We are diving back into episode 51. Improving Your Marriage After Kids to answer your questions.

We dive deeper into dating, sex, and connection and get a little more specific on the topics you wanted to explore more.

Welcome back to our February Q+A, where we finish answering your questions. This week we chat about our favorite activities to do with our kids, tips for starting your own business, how to handle people who get awkward talking about financial success, getting backlash from family about parenting, our plans for growing our families, getting things done when your baby only wants to be held, our opinions on baby led weaning and early introductions to allergens, breastfeeding, and leaving our kids with trusted caretakers.

Happy Valentine's Day! We chat this week about improving your marriage after having children. How do we communicate? How do we argue healthily? How important is intimacy? How do love languages play into our marriage? Why are my estrogen levels important?

Marriage is much deeper once having kids, so let's talk about how to make it healthy and happy.

The sex-ed episode we chat about is episode number 14, don't forget to check it out!

Let's dive into your questions. We chat about feeding your family healthy food on a budget, resources for a planned cesarean birth, spanking/punishing children, listening to your intuition as a mama, intimacy while co-sleeping, building your village of friends and care team professionals, milestones for your baby and how to cope with not hitting them, and more!

Episode resources:

Amanda's doula: https://www.instagram.com/madison.doula/

podcast and books for cesarean: https://www.thevbaclink.com/podcast/

https://www.amazon.com/My-Caesarean-Twenty-One-C-Section-Experience/dp/1615195521

https://www.amazon.com/Caesarean-Birth-Positive-Approach-Preparation/dp/0956848001

Resources for child development:

https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Child-Revolutionary-Strategies-Developing/dp/B0B94JC2TN/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=616990815596&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9052974&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=6029966386468944261&hvtargid=kwd-157712209039&hydadcr=24631_13611696&keywords=the+whole-brained+child&qid=1707084050&sr=8-1

https://www.thewonderweeks.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Danish-Way-Parenting-Happiest-Confident/dp/014311171X

https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Good-Humans-Parenting-Confident/dp/B08FW8M7WG/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=598727461883&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9052974&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=5567498540160021674&hvtargid=kwd-336026964205&hydadcr=8898_13572528&keywords=raising+good+humans&qid=1707084167&sr=8-1

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-preschool-podcast/id1134688873

https://pedsdoctalk.com/pedsdoctalk-podcast/

The Motherhood Collective Co episodes 10-15

We dive into your resolutions. We asked you: what are your resolutions? What do you need help with?

In this episode, we chat about adjusting to being a mother, yelling less at your kids, controlling your finances, decreasing screen time, turning back to Christ, distinguishing between fear and warnings from the Lord, and how to stop caring about what others are thinking of you.

Come sit with us and talk about everything our listeners want to change in 2024.

What's in an what is out this year according to Jessie and Amanda? We talk about ditching the crunchy community, taking steps to heal your marriage after having a baby, listening to the Lord before turning to Google, connecting with God and our families before connecting with our phones, and so much more...

We hope you enjoy one of our most revealing and inspiring episodes yet!

In this episode, we respond to listeners' assumptions about us. We talk about the reality of 1-1 time with our husbands as moms of littles, intuitive mothering, having patience with your children and others, mom guilt, and personal stories that should help you get to know us on a deeper level.

WARNING- we talk about Santa in the middle of this episode. Please be careful when listening around children who still believe. Come chat with us! We chat this week about the high expectations surrounding Christmas, how to handle people posting photos of your children, how to tackle those tricky sleep schedules when it comes to the holidays, Santa (how to participate in a healthy way and how to handle others input when you don't participate), how to handle family who don't respect your parenting choices, and seriously so much more. Please join us for the last episode of the year! We hope it leaves you more confident as you head into Christmas celebrations. Merry Christmas mamas!!

Jessie is back! We go over her birth with Ledger, talk about the hard truths of repeat cesareans, and chat about how to talk to a friend who just had a cesarean. We are so excited to both be here this week!

Let's get real. Amanda answers all of your questions from this week's q+a box. We chat about how to help your sick baby, when to get help when they are sick, dealing with being the primary parent, infant sleep schedules and regressions, screen time, tantrums, anxiety around leaving your child, healing your baby's gut, vaccines, chiropractic, how to prepare for baby number 2 AND MORE. Hopefully, you find this candid episode helpful and refreshing. If you want to submit questions for these episodes then please follow us on Instagram @themotherhoodcollectiveco

Amanda hosts holistic nutritionist Cait Crowell to chat and answer your questions about nutrition postpartum. What foods are best postpartum? What are the best snacks to keep bedside? Is losing weight postpartum realistic while breastfeeding? How should we detox from the medication birth sometimes requires? Are some foods harmful to eat while breastfeeding? How do we best support our hormones postpartum? We take a deep dive into making sure you know and understand how to be nourished and heal your body after you've just created and birthed your new best friend. Products Mentioned Minerals: https://www.quicksilverscientific.com/all-products/quintessential-isotonic-ampoules/, https://drinklmnt.com/ , https://www.amazon.com/REDMOND-Real-Sea-Salt-Unrefined/dp/B000R5PKD0?th=1 Quick Snacks: https://paleovalley.com/store/beef-sticks , https://chomps.com/collections/chomps , https://www.gomacro.com/ Postpartum Hormone Support Tinctures: https://www.amazon.com/Earthley-Wellness-Naturally-Multivitamin-Nutrition/dp/B085YDNPY3 , https://www.amazon.com/WishGarden-Herbs-ReBalance-Formula-Mothers/dp/B07LGBV1B9/ref=sr_1_2_pp?crid=1WQO316LUXKY1&keywords=wish+garden+postpartum&qid=1701054876&s=hpc&sprefix=wish+garden+postpartum+%2Chpc%2C117&sr=1-2 Books: https://www.amazon.com/Expecting-Better-Conventional-Pregnancy-Wrong/dp/0143125702 , https://www.amazon.com/First-Forty-Days-Essential-Nourishing/dp/1617691836

Amanda hosts Jetta who gives us the scoop on re-entering the corporate world after maternity leave. We chat about pumping at work, maintaining supply, healthy snacks to have with you, finding "balance," finding balance in responsibility with your husband, finding time for yourself, and re-entering workplace politics. Have a great Thanksgiving mamas! Show notes: the company we mentioned that will ship milk for you is Milk Stork https://www.milkstork.com/

Jessie's sister, Amanda joins your host Amanda for a chat on postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, and postpartum rage. Why do these things happen? How can we prevent or minimize our chances of struggling with them? How do you know that you are in fact struggling? Who can you talk to? What should you tell your husband while preparing for the birth of your child? We take a deep dive into the world of postpartum mood disorders in the hope that you won't have to suffer as we did.

Let's get to the rest of your questions! In this episode we talk about: How do I have a relationship with Christ as a new mom? What does co-sleeping actually LOOK like? Why doesn't my baby like being with her dad? Is this normal and how do I fix it? What is taboo with breastfeeding in public? is 13 months too old to breastfeed? Is it safe to bed share with my baby if I am bottle feeding? Can I bedshare with my baby if they are born before full term? I also respond to a mom who told us she feels as if she is drowning in motherhood and continually gets caught in comparison traps with other moms on Instagram. We have loved answering your questions, enjoy part two of our Q+A before we get back to our postpartum series next time!

Welcome Back! In part one of our latest q+a we answer your questions about pregnancy and breastfeeding safe beauty/body products, when to get rid of your baby's pacifier, dealing with postpartum anxiety, what you need and don't need on your baby registry, how to know when you're ready for baby number two, how to deal with pushy in-laws, what to do for a baby with colic, transitioning from bedsharing to a floor bed, maternity leave in America, pregnancy after miscarriage (when to try again and how to deal with fear), and what we are doing different between baby number one and number two. This episode was a ton of fun to record and we can't wait to get to the rest of the questions next week before diving back into our postpartum series!

In this series, we chat through all things postpartum. In this episode, we tackle the six week benchmark. What does it really mean to be 6 weeks postpartum? Am I really ready for things like exercise and sex? What should I be aware of during this time and what has proven to be helpful/unhelpful? Join us for another week in our series: Postpartum!

In this series, we are chatting through the fourth and oftentimes most neglected trimester: postpartum. There are so many new decisions we have to make as parents, and a lot of them are not easy ones to make. Most of them don't even have a very clear "right" or "wrong" direction. Sleeping is no exception. What happens if I didn't plan on bed sharing and then when I get my baby home, I decide I want to? Is there a way to do it safely or is it inherently dangerous? Why is it so scrutinized? Join us for another episode of our newest series: Postpartum!

In this series, we talk through the in's and out's of the fourth trimester: postpartum. We share some basics of what to bring in your hospital bag, what to expect heading home from the hospital, and how that initial period of time can unfold. Postpartum is a huge adjustment: introducing pets and siblings, juggling expectations and boundaries with your newborn and others, and trying to figure out how to best care for yourself. We give some fun ideas of how to make the transition easier, as well as some things you can prep ahead of time to make postpartum as relaxing and enjoyable as possible. Join us for our first episode in our newest series: Postpartum!

We have missed Amanda over the course of the last couple months and in this episode we take the time to just catch up and see how she's doing after her birth and in her postpartum! We also talk through Jessie's pregnancy a bit, how it has all gone, as well as a little about her birth plans. We are so excited to announce our next event for September 30th, later afternoon/evening. We plan to have a cozy space to just come, have some yummy fall treats, sit around a fire, and just hang out! We will have more information as well as a sign up link coming soon so stay tuned!

In this series, we will be hearing from women about their experience with birth. We will be hearing the in’s and out’s of how their births felt for them, what they chose and why they chose that, and experience it alongside them as they relive it for themselves! In this episode, we chat with Paige about her journey to motherhood. She talks through her first pregnancy and loss, and how that affected her in her subsequent pregnancies. She shares about her first birth with her daughter, Chandler, and how that birth affected her postpartum. Then we get to hear about her birth with her Second daughter, Kori, and how different and redemptive that experience was for her. Paige encourages mamas in their seasons of “hard” and shares the kind of mindsets and heart postures that make all the difference! Join us for our newest episode in our series: Redemptive Birth Stories. 

In this series, we will be hearing from women about their experience with birth. We will be hearing the in’s and out’s of how their births felt for them, what they chose and why they chose that, and experience it alongside them as they relive it for themselves! In this episode, we chat with Emily about her first birth with her son. She knew she would have to be induced with him due to her preexisting diabetes. She chats through her anxieties going into birth, and how she helped herself combat that, as well as how she felt she was able to completely conquer her fear through the birth of her son. She process a bit about what she might do differently next time, through the lens of feeling empowered in the realm of knowledge and experience with child birth! Join us for our newest episode in our series: Redemptive Birth Stories. 

In this series, we will be hearing from women about their experience with birth. We will be hearing the in’s and out’s of how their births felt for them, what they chose and why they chose that, and experience it alongside them as they relive it for themselves! In this episode, we chat with Marin about her first birth with her son. She had been told he was a girl her whole pregnancy, and her birth turned chaotic when his heartbeat was lost during labor, which resulted in an emergency cesarean. She had attempted a VBAC with her second son, but he ended up having similar complications to her first birth, resulting in another cesarean. Her second birth was very different than her first, despite the similar circumstances. Marin chats through the reason she felt these two births were so different, and gives every mama the best advice when it comes to birth.  Book recommendation: “Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts” by Karen Kleiman  Join us for our newest episode in our series: Redemptive Birth Stories. 

In this series, we will be hearing from women about their experience with birth. We will be hearing the in’s and out’s of how their births felt for them, what they chose and why they chose that, and experience it alongside them as they relive it for themselves! In this episode, we chat with Anna about her first home birth with her daughter. We chat through how she decided to have a home birth, and how her pregnancy progressed under the care of her midwife. Anna also shares the mental and physical battles she fought throughout her labor experience, and how she best combatted those. She also processes through some of the things she would like to do differently in her next birth, as well as sharing some advice to those mamas who may be considering a home birth for the first time.  Join us for our newest episode in our series: Redemptive Birth Stories.