I went through 10 years, five medication cycles, five IUIs, or in the metriosis surgeries,

six egg retrievals, three fresh embryo transfers, and three frozen embryo transfers to get my two

miracle babies. My name is Alan Ann, and I am a miraculous mother.

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

and we believe in empowering women through storytelling and education. And if you didn't listen

to last week's episode, we had the budget mom on, and she shared tons of amazing

tips and tricks to save money and to be financially free, break down your financial goals,

and it was such a great conversation. We're going to tap into saving money a little bit this week

because our guest is Monae Hambrick, and she's going to teach us how to travel as a family

and with kids. How many of you said, I'm going to keep traveling when I have kids, and then you

have them and you stopped, because it's really hard. And she and her husband take their two daughters

all over the world, and they do it on a budget, they do it cost effectively, they've done it

since they were kids, so she's going to talk to us about time zone changes and sleep, and all sorts

of stuff like that, the top mistakes that parents make, and even how to schedule it with your child's

school year. So she has a lot for us. Before we get into that, we are going over things to either

add to our birth plan or just education if you are giving birth anytime soon. Last week we talked

about group B-strup, and there was some tips and tricks in there as well, and some research and

studies done to show how to potentially prevent it, and that even though you may test positive,

it doesn't mean that you have an infection, but you still will most likely have to be on antibiotics.

So we touched on a bunch of different stuff with group B-strup last week, and this week we're

going to talk about something that is in my birth plan that I added to it, and that is delayed

bath. So a lot of people, it's been kind of a part of our old culture is to bathe the baby right

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