Hey Karen Feeding listeners, it's Zach and Elizabeth.

As a parenting podcast, we get questions about all stages of raising a child, from pregnancy to the empty nest,

but we really love talking about babies. And we realized recently that there's so much about

having a baby that we've never talked about. So we're starting a series within a series

called Karen Feeding 101, where we're starting a series within a series called

Karen Feeding 101, where we're walking you through all things baby with the help of some

truly amazing experts. Think of it as like a baby book that we know you don't have time to read.

This week, we're starting with an interview from Zach. Yeah, I'm really excited about this one

because when I think about the newborn phase,

I think about how unprepared so many of us are, how unprepared I was in the way in which

our relationship, if we're in a relationship and we're parenting, how much that is going

to be just shaken to the core

once this new member of the family joins and everything, all your energy is like being poured

into the baby. So what happens to your relationship? So I wanted to do an interview about that.

And I found a great couple to talk to

about this. Genevieve Rudolph is a sexologist, so that means she studies sexuality, specifically

in couples, and she works with couples as a relationship coach. And her partner, Andy Meisenheimer,

he spent 20 years as a book editor, and he has two kids from a previous relationship. He spent some of those years as a stay-at-home dad, and now he's

moved into parenting coaching. And so he and Genevieve, they just had their own child, the two of them. And so he and Genevieve, they just had their own child, the two of them.

And so he and Genevieve, they just had their first kid together.

So they have a baby at home.

And they are like, you know, very much in the early stages of going through it,

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