157. Motherhood Mondays with Julia Berteletti and Laura Green
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
"I'm wearing these massive pads that are like six inches deep and waddling around the house. I think I thought the first week would be rough. But it was a month out and I'm still rocking these massive pads. I was never told about that."
Every week on these Motherhood Mondays episodes, I've asked my guests, "Who's in your village?" I feel so lucky to be able to say that the two women on today's show — Laura Green and Julia Berteletti — are in my village. Laura lives in Boston, and is mom to 10-month-old Jack. She's a part-time physical therapist and the "community boss" for November Project, and is "very creative" about how she gets her work hours in while Jack does a part-time nanny share. Julia lives in Denver, CO, is mom to 8-month-old Max, and works full-time in an office while Max is in daycare. On this episode, we talk like we do every day, sharing perhaps too much about everything from breastfeeding, identity loss, and body image, to giving birth, relationships, emotional labor, and that first postpartum poop. We also talk about schedule-related anxiety, postpartum running, and guilt.
Thank you to Sweaty Betty for sponsoring Motherhood Mondays on the Ali on the Run Show! Go to sweatybetty.com and use code ONTHERUN for 20 percent off your purchase.
What you'll get on this episode:
- Getting to know Laura (3:00)
- Getting to know Julia (8:20)
- Breastfeeding and boob stuff (13:20)
- How prepared did we feel for the postpartum period? (21:47)
- Relationship stuff (35:00)
- On postpartum running and body image (55:00)
What we mention on this episode:
Laura's childbirth story via Wisconsin Notes
Kristin Mallon on Episode 136 of the Ali on the Run Show
Lauren Fleshman on Episode 103 of the Ali on the Run Show
Work, Play, Love with Lauren Fleshman and Jesse Thomas
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood Mondays on the Alley on the Run Show are brought to you by Sweaty Betty. |
| 0:08.5 | All right, here we are, the 10th and final episode of Motherhood Mondays. |
| 0:13.5 | All right, let's be honest, I know I have to do this again, right? |
| 0:16.9 | I've loved having these conversations and I'm pretty committed to doing a second season at some point. |
| 0:22.8 | But for now, this is where it ends. |
| 0:25.6 | And I know I could not have gotten through these first nine months of my own motherhood |
| 0:30.7 | without two great friends. Laura McCloskey, Green, and Julia Bertoletti. |
| 0:35.9 | Fun fact, I didn't know either of them in real life when we became friends. |
| 0:40.5 | And I've only now met Laura like one time we hugged each other at the Boston live show with |
| 0:45.2 | Generation You Can. Look, that's Annie in the background you can hear. So that's fitting. |
| 0:50.4 | Laura lives in Boston by way of San Francisco. I'm in New Jersey and Julia is in Denver |
| 0:55.0 | Colorado. We all had babies within two months of each other and we have all at some point been |
| 1:00.4 | part of our local November project chapters. So that's what brings us all together. And they're |
| 1:05.1 | here today. I thought a fun way to wrap up Motherhood Mondays would be to have the same conversations |
| 1:10.0 | the three of us have every day, but to record it. So consider this in hour with your fellow new |
| 1:15.7 | mom girlfriends. Sit back, relax, laugh with us, and thanks for being a part of the Motherhood |
| 1:21.2 | Mondays community on the Alley on the Run Show. I have loved this. Let's go. |
| 1:31.6 | Julia, Laura, welcome to Motherhood Mondays on the Alley on the Run Show. This is the last |
| 1:37.2 | episode in the Motherhood Monday series. And I can think of no better way to close it out than with my |
| 1:42.6 | two favorite moms getting me through these crazy times. Welcome to the show. |
| 1:48.0 | Thanks, Ellie. Yeah, thanks for having us. So the three of us have been best friends for just as many |
| 1:54.0 | years now. We've all totally met in real life. But really, we, Laura, you connected the three of us |
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