It’s A Poopcast w/Michaela McManus!
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Totally Mommy Podcast
Episode 21
Our fabulous guest co-host today is the gorgeous inside-and-out actress and new mommy Michaela McManus! We discuss our love bugs - two weeks apart in age - in the Good/Bad/Funny (Everything! Poopsplosions! Dog meets nipple shield!) then answer listener questions about the first… ahem… BM post giving birth and how to cope when normal worries of motherhood and pregnancy feel extra scary. Enjoy!
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Such a great episode! I have so many comments and identified so much with your discussion.
First, the Wonder Weeks are the real deal, at least in my experience. My baby boy, Wyatt, will be 9 months on the 31st, and I feel like the Wonder Weeks hit us particularly hard. We’ll have a few good weeks of awesome sleep and being in a routine, and then a Wonder Week will hit, and it’ll all go to hell. The last Wonder Week coincided with getting his first teeth, so as you can imagine, I hardly got any sleep. I’m the type of person that likes to have control and is a perfectionist, and I’ve had to learn to let that go. I kind of feel like maybe that’s what my baby is here to teach me: to let go as much as possible.
The poop discussion…let me tell you, the baby poop gets worse. When Wyatt was just eating breast milk, we had it made. Now, he’s eating breast milk and solids. Holy cow…it smells so much worse. I’ve found myself actually gagging. Plus, we cloth diaper, so I have to use the diaper sprayer. So, brace yourself for that.
Love the show! Keep it up!
Hey Elizabeth,
I loved today’s show! I identify with so many things Michaela said - overproduction especially. It’s crazy tough. I have always wanted to leave a good, bad, funny, but could never think of one until I listened this week.
Good - Taking my 7 month old into water (other than a bath) for the first time on Memorial Day. He absolutely loved it. He splashed and wiggled and laughed. So much joy on his little face!
Bad - The new solid food poops. Blugh. They are awful. Agree with Mandy totally. Also, my previously amazing supply becoming increasingly lower since I went back to work. (Can’t wait for next week to be over so I can be on summer vacation and nurse all day.)
Funny - My husband has gotten stuck changing most of those awful diapers by chance. The other day, he took him upstairs to change what we thought was just a small blowout diaper. About 30 seconds later I hear him screaming for me. I run up and find him covered in baby poop. “He needs a bath! It’s everywhere!” I look at my son and he has poop up his back, on his arms, on his forehead, all over his legs. It was just a disaster zone. Apparently, when my husband took off the diaper, it just spread. Then he asked if I would rather finish cleaning the kid or start the bath… Umm.. “Start the bath” was an easy answer. Ha. It was quite hilarious.
Anyway, love all 3 podcasts! Bring Michaela back for sure. She’s awesome.
I could really identify with your listener question. I spent my entire pregnancy feeling detached and depressed right up until the last few weeks (this was my second pregnancy). It wasn’t until my son was placed in my arms that the experience of having a second baby felt real and I immediately fell head over heels in love.
Had to share my funny this week.
Funny: My almost 2 year old and I were practicing his animal noises. Cow says moo, etc. I asked him, “What sound does Momma make?” He furrowed his brow and yelled sternly, “No!”
I guess I should work on that.
I had a fussy baby too Elizabeth. My son is 2.5 now and it does get better! I do remember feeling isolated and sometimes frustrated. At a moms group I was part of, while the other babies were happily sleeping or chilling out, I was always the one rocking my son, trying to calm him down, or anticipating the next meltdown. I also obsessed over what might be the answer to his fussiness. I tried chiropractic care, medication for possible reflux, special formula, etc. and ultimately what worked the best was waiting for him to get a little older. Your daughter sounds wonderful and I look forward to hearing about all the wonderful times ahead!
Hi Elizabeth,
I had to write, because you broke my heart a little bit in a couple of episodes, when you worried that Baby Oprah didn’t like you because she would laugh with others and then bawl when she saw you. It reminded me of an old Andy Griffith episode when Aunt Bea was babysitting an infant who wailed everytime she held her. Poor Aunt Bea was so paranoid, she had everyone feeding and holding the baby, the mailman, anyone. Then the kids fed her blueberries and she came in saw the blue around the mouth and grabbed her. The baby didn’t cry. Andy told her that she wasn’t nervous, just concerned and the baby picked up on that and not the nervous energy. Your baby loves you, and one of your guests was right about the 6p.m. meltdown in preschool. We experienced it with our daughter (and again now that she’s a teenager, I blogged about it) and the kids really do just let it all out when they feel overwhelmed and safe to let their hair down! As for her being collicky, it really will pass. If you haven’t tried wearing her in a baby bjorn, that might soothe her during the day, putting her in when she’s calm and going about your business just talking with her and staying calm yourself. My best friend (whose daughter is now in college) said her collicky daughter once cried for seven hours! So comfort yourself that it all really does pass. And my daughter’s pediatrician once assured me, “No baby has ever cried herself to death.” Even though my baby is now 15, I like hearing your podcast talking with other newbie moms. Your really will miss it when she’s a teen!
http://myearbaby.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-6-pm-meltdown-revisited.html?spref=tw