I am a mom to a two year old boy who was born four weeks early and a new born girl who was born one

week late. A wife and a full-time special education teacher. My name is Ashley and I am a miraculous mama.

Hey everybody, welcome to the miraculous mama's podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth Joy,

and we believe in empowering women through education and storytelling. I hope you guys got the chance

to listen this last week to the bonus episode with Civillum Morgan talking about childless not by

choice. She has an amazing story and also tons of resources for women struggling with whether it's

infertility or just not being able to have children and men too. And she's just an awesome,

awesome resource to reach out to. Happy Mother's Day to everyone out there and to your moms. I mean,

they brought you into this world. So I feel like being pregnant on Mother's Day is weird. I don't

know if anybody else feels that way or felt that way because it's like, I don't really feel like I'm a

mom yet. So when people tell me happy Mother's Day, I'm like, thanks. I just like have this alien

inside my body that kicks me a lot and you know, makes me crave weird things, but that's basically it.

So I would like to know if you guys felt weird on Mother's Day and any stories that you have with

that, if you guys celebrated it and what you did for me, just like I said, yeah, being pregnant,

I feel like I don't have an earned it yet. So that's all right. Next year, I'm sure I'll feel like a mom.

But so this week, so May is also we have pre-clampsia awareness. We have foster care awareness,

which we're going to talk about today. And it's also maternal mental health awareness. So

next week, we have Dr. Reem coming on. She's a psychologist and she does with perinatal mental health.

And she is just so awesome. She's so much fun to talk to her. I got so much out of the episode

because I had her counsel me a little bit on some things that I've been thinking and feeling

and going through. And I know a lot of people can relate. But she's an awesome resource. And she's

going to be on next week. So definitely look out for that. This week, we have Jen Lilly on. And

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