218: Our Different Experiences Growing Up In A Family Of 11 Kids: Pregnancy, Postpartum, Motherhood
Now That We're A Family
Elisha and Katie Voetberg
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Today we have a very fun episode for you! I have seven incredible sisters and today I’m here with two of them. These two are currently pregnant with me. Karaline is in her first trimester and Kyla is in her second trimester and I’m wrapping up my third trimester any day now. I thought it would be fun timing, because who knows when this will happen again, and talk about pregnancy, postpartum, big families, having a lot of kids and our vision for family size.
Kyla is 27 and lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her husband Adam. They have two children, ages 3 and 1 1/2 and currently 16 weeks pregnant. They have been married just under 5 years. She is a stay at home mom and also manages and runs Now That I’m A Mother Health.
Karaline is 22 and lives in Eagle, Idaho (just outside of Boise) with her husband Austin. They have a 9 month old baby girl and currently 8 weeks pregnant. They have been married almost 2 years. She is a stay at home mom and also has a home based business with Monat. She loves homemaking and organizing her house. Clean spaces are her thing.
Listen today so you can get a different perspective/response than just mine to some of these questions:
- Did you want a big family growing up? What were your husbands thoughts about it?
- What has been the hardest part for pregnancy, labor and postpartum? Anything catch you off guard?
- What are you most worried about regarding potentially having a lot of kids?
- Karaline, what was the hardest thing about being the middle child?
- How do you feel Mama prepared you for keeping a house and raising children?
- How do you practically do all the things in a day? Take care of kids, spend time with your husband, run a successful home based business, hospitality, etc.
- Have you ever felt unfulfilled in motherhood or like you’ve lost yourself?
Karaline’s quote - “Don’t live a life out of motivation, but out of commitment”
You can follow Kyla & Karaline through the links below:
- Karaline's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/__thelifeofagirl/
- Kyla at Now That I'm A Mother Health's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nowthatimamother.health/
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, you guys today. I have a very fun episode for you and I'm here with two of my sisters |
| 0:06.0 | So I have seven incredible sisters and these two are currently pregnant with me and |
| 0:14.0 | Yes, Caroline is in her first trimester Kyla's in her second trimester and I am raffing up my third trimester any day here |
| 0:22.9 | And so I thought it would be fun |
| 0:25.3 | Timing to just pop on who knows when this is gonna happen again and |
| 0:28.6 | And kind of talk about pregnancy postpartum big families having a lot of kids our |
| 0:35.0 | Vision for family size and you guys can get a different perspective than just mine because I'm the oldest of our family |
| 0:42.9 | Kyla's second and the Caroline smack dab in the middle and so I'm excited to hear everybody's different |
| 0:50.4 | Different responses to some of these questions and I'm getting really excited actually to hear from my sisters |
| 0:59.0 | The |
| 1:01.9 | Now that we're a family |
| 1:04.0 | So before we dive in Kyla will start with you because we'll just do everything in age order |
| 1:11.1 | Can you |
| 1:13.5 | Could you introduce yourself just kind of say what life looks like for you right now? |
| 1:18.3 | How long you've been married your kiddos all that stuff? |
| 1:21.1 | Yeah, so |
| 1:22.6 | Really excited to be here and when Katie had this idea, I was like I'm in I'm in let's do it |
| 1:27.9 | So I live in Kentucky with my husband Adam. We live in Lexington and we have two children ages three and one and a half and then the one on the way |
| 1:38.0 | And we've been married for just under five years |
| 1:42.2 | We are fifth anniversary is coming up in December and I |
| 1:45.8 | Stay at home all over all I do a little work from home |
| 1:49.0 | But other than that I am full time with the kiddos |
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