10 Things We Love About The 4th Trimester: Episode 280
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We’ve covered the hard stuff: leaky everything, blinding exhaustion, night sweats. But the fourth trimester, or postpartum period, has its perks as well. In Episode 280 Meagan and Sarah take turns sharing their favorite memories of postpartum life with a newborn–without glossing over what we ALL know to be true: it’s not easy. Join us for the latest in our “10 Things We Love About…” series!
LINKS MENTIONED:
- Like this format? Check out 10 Things We Love About Toddlers and 10 Things We Love About Raising Siblings
- Meagan originated the idea for the series in a holiday episode where she talked about very specific gratitude journaling about being single in December
- Our episode Strong As A Mother with Kate Rope: Voices 26, all about postpartum mental health, is one of our most popular Voices interview episodes to date
- We talked about our episode Postpartum Symptoms & Surprises
- You might also like our LIVE Episode about how to REALLY help a new mom
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to |
| 0:05.7 | grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that |
| 0:10.5 | motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement. |
| 0:14.0 | And remind you that it's really all going to be okay. |
| 0:16.4 | We're not experts. We're parents who've been there. |
| 0:18.6 | We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome to the mom hour. |
| 0:23.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to episode 280 of the Mom Hour. |
| 0:26.0 | I am Megan Francis here as always with Sarah Powers. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey Sarah. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey Megan, how are you? |
| 0:31.0 | I am doing great because we are going to be doing |
| 0:34.8 | one of my favorite kinds of episodes, |
| 0:37.1 | which is when we talk about things we love |
| 0:39.7 | about a time or a stage or a phase |
| 0:42.4 | that maybe there are some things to not love about so kind of turn it a little bit on its on its head and today we are talking about the fourth trimester which also is known as postpartum which is such a terrible word isn't it it is well it sounds very clinical and yeah and there are some clinical things about it but there's so much more |
| 1:00.9 | yes yeah yeah you you were the inspiration for this loose series and it was I think about a year ago or almost a year ago you talked about how you were keeping a journal of things that you actually liked about being single over the holidays. |
| 1:16.0 | That's great. I thought that was the genesis of this. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, and it was very, I liked it because it was so actionable and so specific and you and I I think |
| 1:24.6 | longtime listeners know we are not one to just try to put on a smile and see the good |
| 1:30.7 | and silver linings like we want to acknowledge the hard when there is hard and I think this |
| 1:36.7 | leaves room to still do that but there's no there's no harm from like you said flipping the script a little bit and saying okay well this is really |
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