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 mom.

Hey everybody welcome back to the miraculous mom's podcast. I'm your host Elizabeth Joy. I'm a certified birth doula and life coach and a podcaster.

I am so glad that you guys are here. We are a podcast that believes in empowering women through storytelling and education.

Today we're going to have some storytelling time. But I wanted to share with you so I am 27 weeks pregnant and pregnancy brain is a real thing.

They say that they like based on research they can't really tell why you get pregnancy brain but they think it's because like your body is doing a million different things and we're worried about baby in this and that and whatever.

Also, dude, maybe hormones, but it is a thing. I went to put sugar some stevia in my coffee yesterday and instead I put it in my water bottle.

And then I needed to put something in the cupboard and I opened the fridge and put it in there and it's just every single day.

It's like I picked something up and I put it down and then I have zero idea where that thing is. And I'm like I just had it and I was going to put it away.

But somehow it ended up somewhere else like.

And the thing is I wasn't very organized before this so I can be a little spacey sometimes you know like can't find my phone my keys whatever I actually haven't lost my keys in a very long time or my phone also I've been in quarantine and haven't been driving anywhere so that could be contributing to it.

But I you know can just kind of whatever be up in the clouds a little bit so I just feel like it is so much worse though like I will in the memory thing like I'm normally really good at math and the other day.

And you don't even have to be good at math to solve this the other day I was just trying to do like like adding trying to figure out something in my mind so I'm like okay so 24 divided by four.

And I could not think of it like obviously the answer six but I'm normally like really decent at math and I and then it was driving me crazy because I could not like rack my brain for the answer like I'm like how and then I was frustrated I'm like how is this not coming to me right now that I know that this is like the simplest math equation how is this not coming to me right now it's been it's been wild so

if I say the wrong word while I'm podcasting I'm going to blame pregnancy brain if there's something that doesn't make sense I'm going to go out and blame pregnancy brain because I realized in a couple episodes ago with dress just grown as I used the wrong word for I said side attack for an induction but it's servo deal as like listening back to the podcast and I'm like you don't use side attack for an induction.

You use servo deal. I just like I you know when like things just aren't coming to my mind as easily as they usually do so I feel for all the mom is out there I've also heard that mom brain is a thing looking forward to that as well just hoping that I don't you know forget my child somewhere but I think that we all have one of those experiences.

There are experiences at some point in our life like I got forgotten as a five year old at school I was in kindergarten and I still remember it it was very dramatic luckily we went to a super small school a private school everyone knew everyone my mom was a teacher there and she gave kids rides home from school so our car was always packed and my mom said they were driving home and then she's like why is the car so quiet wait where's Liz oh you have to go to school they knew I was going to get a car.

They knew I wasn't in the car because it was so quiet I talked a lot as a child and I've just realized in my adulthood that I talk a lot now as well but anyways I was so nervous to talk to the guests that's on today but she made the conversation so easy and it flowed so great we have Melissa Joan heart on today guys I was so excited to get her on and that she just agreed to take time out of her chaotic schedule to come on and I'm going to get a ride.

I'm just so grateful for her candidness with us she talks about growing up in the spotlight but then a lot of motherhood and marriage and how your relationship changes and grows and you learn to love each other in different seasons and she's just awesome and I just have so much respect for her and it was cool to talk to her because when you're younger you know we grew up with her basically watching her on TV.

And so it was great to be able to sit down and talk with her. So I'm going to go ahead and get her on but before I do if you are listening make sure you hit that subscribe button and share this podcast with somebody that you know would love it.

Also join our miraculous mom and Facebook group that community of women is so amazing. They've been a great resource for me and my pregnancy and

they're just so supportive and loving and I cannot say enough good things about them. They not everyone has the same views on there. Not everyone wants to birth the same or parent the same but they don't judge each other. They love on each other and accept each other and support each other and know that we're all doing the best that we can.

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