Preggers Can Be Choosers

AfterBirth: A 4th and more Postpartum Support group  5/19/18 Boundaries and Pumping on a Plane Boundaries while postpartum, carving out personal time. laying it DOWN. Pumping while traveling. And guess what? A breast pump does not count against your carry one numbers! Shout out to Midwife in the Heights and Pat Greer's Kitchen for being our sponsors! Wanna join the FB group?  Text reminders right here. https://bit.ly/2CLXsRd As always, you can find us at www.Preggers.rocks in Houston Texas. Alert ~ Be wary, we are a little sweary. Get your earbuds if you are concerned about tender ears and sensibilities.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/support

AfterBirth: 1/09/19 Holiday Shenanigans  Mama D's baby projectile vomits, and then everybody gets the crud, kinda like that episode of the Office. So it wasn't the fireworks that kept everyone up, it was the vomiting.  Also processing grief while in a hunting blind (hey this is Texas). We get a Muslim cultural lesson on rituals of death, which helped us to support Mama D better. Paige is 4 weeks postpartum! Nipples are adjusting to "hungry fiend" Willow. Katelin tries to talk her through joining the group and navigating tech. And she had a birth center birth with local midwife Jackie Griggs, Midwife in the Heights. We talk sex reveal of Mama D's baby. This is a direct quote from Katelin, "The first time is the only time I am so excited to see a ball sack." Katelin flips out from the button pushing from her sister and rebounds back to strong mom decisions.  Tiff had a chill holiday, rode a Christmas train in the park. Hubs was home for two weeks. And then had to explain why Barry wasn't h

AfterBirth: 1/22/19  New Years Resolutions? NOPE. Stella lays all over Rowan's clean massage sheets. Rowan and Paige talk about the birth of Willow, and how labor is a transformative journey. We talk about personal development, addiction and alcoholism, and how to track what are the touchstones of crafting our best days. Dr.B eats a (vegan) taco from El Rey in front of a pt. cause she's been vegan for two days. Katelin is struggling with overwhelm and doesn't see a way to navigate the neediness.  As always, you can find us at WWW.Preggers.rocks Alert ~ Be wary, we are a little sweary. Get your earbuds if you are concerned about tender ears and sensibilities.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/support

AfterBirth: 3/5/19  What Ya the Proudest of? Because who you are goes beyond parenting, yes? Fill us in on your most hell yeah moments and achievements.  Also, PJ has some news! Adilah gets feedback on some Arabic names, and here is her birth crush, Angela Gallo. https://www.instagram.com/the_angela_gallo Dr.B and Rowan talk about their mother Susan because today is her birthday. Alert ~ Be wary, we are a little sweary. Get your earbuds if you are concerned about tender ears and sensibilities.  As always, you can find us at WWW.Preggers.rocks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/support

AfterBirth: 4th and More Trimester Support Group 03/19/19 Candy and Kids, welcome to Hell. Oh wait, what other food tips do you have? Well, that was fun. We talked about letting our kids eat candy till they puked. Only one of us has done it though. Tune in to see who! Midwife and overall badass Pati joined us from Trinidad, and we went over some of the more technical aspects of how and why this group is crafted. Check out the birth center where Pati works! http://mamatoto.net/ Alert ~ Be wary, we are a little sweary. Get your earbuds if you are concerned about tender ears and sensibilities.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/support

AfterBirth: 4th and More Trimester Support Group 04/02/19  Moving w/ Children It's a drag, and has to happen sometimes. So here are some hot tips to success and burmese tiger traps to avoid.  We had some crying, some hearts and some epic pissed off ness. And we are here for all of it. #solidarity Alert ~ Be wary, we are a little sweary. Get your earbuds if you are concerned about tender ears and sensibilities. www.preggers.rocks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/support

AfterBirth: 4th and More Trimester Support Group 04/16/19  Self Care.  Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it is divine. Either way, we gotta do it to maintain the body and the mind. We talk about the good, the glamorous and why self-care is beyond what is easy.  You gotta fight,  for your right, to (self-care) PAAAAARRRRTTTTTYYYYYY. The Beasties were right. Shout out to Katelin for showing some salty self care and setting the boundaries, and Mama Dee for her vulnerability over Notre Dame burning. Alert ~ Be wary, we are a little sweary. Get your earbuds if you are concerned about tender ears and sensibilities. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/support

Afterbirth: 4th and More Trimester Support Group 04/30/19   WEANING! Y'all!  This has all the makings of a tele novella. The drama, the guilt, and the second guessing!  Too soon, too early, too late and everything in between. Ultimately we came up with a strategy for Katelin, how weaning is the beginnings of teaching consent and body boundaries. Shout out to cabbage leaves! Mama D reveals her new postpartum offering. Lindsey brought new baby Elle, and Tiff wrote in afterward on the FB group that her kids were being brats and she missed it and she needs us so this one is for you honey! Alert ~ Be wary, we are a little sweary. Get your earbuds if you are concerned about tender ears and sensibilities.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/support

Today we talked about how shook up Rowan and Dr. Blythe were after attending "Death By Delivery," a documentary at the extreme statistic that ALL Black women in the US pretty much receive substandard care, and are 3-12 times more likely to die. Pj shared her rough AF postpartum journey, and the crew chimed in with never-ending laundry piles and time management overwhelm. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/support

It went down, and stayed down. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/support

How ya gonna feed your self, the littles, and whomever else that shows up without resorting to chicken nuggets and take out?* Hang out with us while we idea bounce and commiserate about calling poison control. *asking for a friend --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pcbc/support