515: Trusting Your Mom Gut with special guest Dr. Laura Bleekrode

Wire Talk with Karen Stubbs

Karen Stubbs

Christianity, Parenting, Parenting Advice, Kids & Family, Christian Parent, Religion & Spirituality, Faith, Motherhood

4.9 • 936 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Are you trusting your mom gut or Googling yourself into anxiety?

In this episode, pediatrician Dr. Laura Bleekrode shares wisdom from nearly 40 years of experience to help moms cut through the noise and parent with confidence. We talk about how social media and constant information can erode your instincts and how to get back to trusting yourself. You’ll be reminded that you know your child better than anyone and that matters!

Episode Recap:

Dr. Bleekrode is a mom of 8 who owns a pediatric practice and has been practicing medicine for 36 years (1:11)
How does Dr. Bleekrode “do it all”? (4:36)
What are you seeing in today’s families that moms didn’t face 20 years ago? (6:15)
Our “social networks” used to be personal (6:30)
God gave mom’s intuition for a reason! (8:53)
What symptoms require immediate medical or psychological attention? (12:13)
My toddler is not sleeping for hours at a time, multiple times a month (15:55)
What does a healthy sleep routine look like for a toddler? (20:06)
Have you noticed parents trying to control all outcomes for their children? (27:20)
How does your faith shape the way you counsel your patients? (28:13)

Scripture:
Isaiah 26:3 (NIV) "You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.”

Discussion Questions:

When you feel anxious about your child, where do you tend to turn first; your friends, your instincts, or Google?
Can you think of a time your “mom gut” was right? What helped you trust it (or ignore it)?
What outside influences (social media, advice, comparison) tend to shake your confidence as a mom?
How can you create stronger, real-life support systems instead of relying on online answers?
What is one area where you can release perfection and trust God more in your parenting this week?

Resources:

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Pick up Karen’s Prayer Journal in the BOAW Store

Want More of This Conversation?
WT+ Insiders will hear Dr. Bleekrode share 4 things she wishes all her patients knew!

Head HERE and join us for the full conversation.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wire Talk. Well, today we have a very special guest in the studio, and she is a pediatrician, Dr. Laura Bleak Road, and I am so excited she's here. You've been practicing for what? Over 30 years? About 36. Yeah. Closer to 40.
0:14.6	We have an expert in the house, ladies, and I'm so excited. So welcome.
0:22.6	Dr. Bleak Road, how are you?
0:24.6	Well, I'm doing well.
0:25.7	I'm so glad you're here and I'm so glad that and how I got to know you was my daughter, Kelsey,
0:31.4	works in your office as I guess a medical tech.
0:34.1	I don't know, but she wants to be a nurse one day.
0:36.1	But she would come home and tell me your
0:39.0	doctoring style and what your philosophy with the children and the parents. And I'm like, man,
0:44.4	this lady is amazing. I want to have her on the podcast because there's so many moms out there
0:49.6	that are not trusting their mom gut anymore. They're just sort of looking at everything on the internet
0:55.6	and all that. And I thought, we need to have an expert in the house that talks about just trusting
1:00.8	your own mom intuition, you know. So thank you for being here. Well, you're welcome. It's my pleasure.
1:06.5	Yes. So, Laura, tell us a little bit about yourself. Tell me how many kids you have, how you've been practicing for 36 years. Tell us all about you. Okay. Well, thank you very much for inviting me. I'm very excited. And I can talk about anything. Good. So I am the oldest of seven children. Okay. I went away to college in Rhode Island and then came back. I went to Emory Medical School. I got married during medical school and we had our first baby. So I can completely remember when I graduated from medical school. It was exactly 40 years ago because my oldest child just turned 40. We went to Minnesota, did a residency. Believe it or not, I used to be real shy. I was kind of taking it all in, figuring it all out. Came back here pretty quickly. I practiced there a little bit, but our family's here so we came back. And I've been here in Atlanta since
1:48.0	about 1991. Okay. Practicing. And eventually own my own practice and love that because I'm
1:55.4	kind of bossy and kind of independent. Yeah. And over time, we do have eight children. And so by the time
2:00.7	you have eight kids, you've made enough mistakes along the way that you think you kind of independent. And over time, we do have eight children. And so by the time you have eight kids,
2:01.5	you've made enough mistakes along the way that you think you kind of are starting to get it.
2:05.3	And that's kind of where we live now, you know, where I live in my head. In our practice, I love,
2:10.6	love, love our families. I have tons of confidence in them. Even though many, many people don't do
2:17.0	things exactly the way I would do
2:18.3	them. I cheer for them, and I give them all the strength and support I can. And I love the title,
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