Sleeping Kitty w/ Morgan Walsh!
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Totally Mommy Podcast
Episode 20
She’s baaaack! Elizabeth’s own personal Oprah-esque quote giver and confidence booster, the fabulous Morgan Walsh is back with her sage advice and calming presence. She and Elizabeth share their Good/Bad/Funnies (School Plays! Car Troubles! Spanx Fails!) before answering listener questions about exercise during pregnancy and social media as a parent. Enjoy!
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This episode was excellent!Morgan is so awesome, please have her back as soon as she’s able to. I really love how every time you started to get a bit hard on yourself Elizabeth, she reminded you that you gave birth to your beautiful baby just 8 weeks ago! And Morgan is right, it takes about two years for your body to get back to normal. I have three kids myself.. My youngest is 10 and my body is forever changed and it took me so long to accept that my body will be like this forever, but honestly, when I look at my sweet handsome boys and I’m watching them turn into such cool young men.. All my stretch marks and flab is well worth it!
Oh! P.s. I am a huge fan of all your podcasts and I think you and Andy are truly amazing people! I always look so forward to your podcast in a week. Thank you so much for your hard work and getting them out to us(your die hard fans) you’re seriously the best Elizabeth!
I’m just saying that with Mo Gaffney away performing for several more weeks, there’s either an opening on the MoMo Show or an availability in Morgan’s schedule… I’m just saying that Elizabeth and Morgan are wonderful together and should do more shows.
The discussion of social media was interesting - were I famous in any way (and I’m really not) I wouldn’t know how to feel about it. I get uncomfortable when my wife wants to take a photo of me with the kids, much less if some complete stranger came running at me with a giant camera after I parked the car to go to dinner. If somebody tried to get a picture of my kids (even though they are adorable and wonderful children) I’d go ballistic.
Let me ask Elizabeth - is it uncomfortable to have strangers viewing your photos and whatnot and sending praises your way? I know you paste the link to your instagram, but I’d imagine it’s a little weird to have some complete anonymous stranger say even nice things.
Anyway, another great episode. Morgan is the best.
My fiance and I had a long discussion about how we wanted to handle social media when our now 9month old son was born. we personally decided to not post pictures of our child on fb/twitter etc, just because you don’t know how your child will feel about that down the road. we still send out pictures to relatives that we can’t see as much on christmas cards and then we just visit the relatives that we can as often as we can and try to spend as much time with them as possible. We personally feel (enter social media site) exploits children though. before social media people sent pictures of their kids or showed pic books to family when family was gathered and it was more than acceptable. there is no reason that it can’t be that way now. no one, family included, NEEDS to see your kids every single minute of every day.
I’m curious if you decided to apply the same logic to circumcision. We make countless choices the profoundly shape a child’s life by where we choose to live, who we socialize with, our religion, our diet, etc.. Your child may not feel great about some of those choices down the road either and it’s impossible to be 100% on point with their future feelings. It is a social norm to post pictures of your children to an audience of friends on social media. Being tasteful and appropriate is important but I don’t think the argument of exploitation applies here, especially if it isn’t something that you make money from.
No one NEEDS to see your kids but some may enjoy it and may ultimately feel closer to your family when they can’t be around regularly.
As for stranger danger it’s all about permissions.
By the way, I love your shows liz! gets me through work every week! if only you had one for each day of the week
jk. thanks for doing an awesome job!
I just had my baby 8 weeks ago too, and I found a couple of good prenatal yoga videos online, ones that aren’t just meditative but also really work you out (and include squats, which helped a lot for my labor, I did a lot of pushing in the squat position). Here’s a link to my favorite one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCSFobwvQTg
and here are some short ones that I also found to be helpful:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B87FpWtkIKA
hope that helps the prego writer in-er!
loved this episode!
On a recent episode, you mentioned that you might be lactose intolerant. PSA: I’m a lactose intolerant vegetarian and I couldn’t live without my cheese! In case you haven’t already heard this, apparently some cheeses have very little lactose. I eat parmesan, cheddar, and goat cheese all the time with no problem. http://www.thekitchn.com/lactose-and-cheese-are-you-rea-91917
When it comes to eating ice cream, Lactaid pills can work wonders. And if you’re a yogurt person, Green Valley makes lactose free yogurt.
I don’t know if any of these ideas will help with Baby Oprah’s tummy issues, but at the very least, you’ll be able to enjoy delicious cheese after you’re done breastfeeding.
Loved this episode! You and Morgan make a great duo!
Agreed! Love Morgan!
Morgan is such a great cohost! Compassionate, empathetic, wise, apparently also completely gorgeous; you two seem to work so well together too!
I’m so glad you brought up Megan’s comment about breastfeeding in public. I’m not a mother and I don’t know if I ever will be, but I SO admire mothers and appreciate how many capabilities and how much strength a woman seems to find within herself when she becomes a parent.
Megan, please remember that we all share this planet. We all have the right to live our lives. If you always worry about making others uncomfortable, you will end up wasting a lot of your own life and your own potential happiness.
Personally I don’t care where people feed their kids. But your one statement that every kid was breast feed growing up isn’t exactly true. Historically yes this is true (the majority were) but in the 20th century at various points it was considered bad to breast feed and that formula was better and that only poor people breast feed. So the stigma is there left over from that thinking.
Loved this episode! I just wanted to say that you need to cut yourself and your body a little slack, Elizabeth. It takes a while to get back your body and it’s not going to fully happen until you’re done breastfeeding. Your body needs all the calories it can get to continue to nourish your little one. Hang in there!
Also, for the mom looking for fitness ideas, I took prenatal pilates- it was great because it was still a pretty decent workout and you’re in a room with other pregnant women. I felt much more comfortable there than at the gym.
Morgan is a great guest! I’m hoping that all of the super encouraging things she said to you can still apply to me even though my baby is now 9 months old…
I wanted to respond to what you said about how it’s weird that people have a problem with breastfeeding in public, given that they were breastfed as children. I think that a lot of the issues that people have with public breastfeeding is actually due to the fact that many people were NOT breastfed. I don’t know the exact statistics, but breastfeeding was (as you probably know) discouraged by even medical professionals for a long time, and even now, many years past the rise of breastfeeding that happened in the 1970s, formula feeding is still incredibly widespread. I grew up in a breastfeeding family-as a child I remember my mom nursing my little sister, and aunts nursing cousins-so breastfeeding wherever always seemed normal and natural to me, but I would guess that many people didn’t have that experience.
My hope is that as more and more women feel comfortable breastfeeding in public, children growing up today will just see it as a part of everyday life and it will eventually no longer be a divisive social issue.
NPR had a story on this morning about social media/moms/pics. Heres the link. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/05/23/314241722/what-those-baby-photos-on-social-media-can-teach-us-about-moms
Another amazing episode! I felt so relieved when Morgan mentioned the terrible J. Crew lighting- I just almost had a breakdown in a dressing room there this weekend!
Keep up the great work! I always enjoy your honesty, humor, and insight.