I'm a teen mom, I'm a part-time student and a full-time employee, and I run my own business from home.

My name is Bethany, and I'm a miraculous mom.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Miraculous Mamas podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth Joy.

And we believe in empowering women through storytelling and education.

And today we have a very educational episode all about hormones.

I'm super excited, you guys know I love to talk about hormone health, absolutely love it.

And we have an expert on today, Candace Birch, and she's internationally recognized as a hormone health educator and media personality with over 25 years of experience in the field.

We have such an amazing conversation. I feel like my body is kind of, you know, it's different postpartum.

Obviously, your body goes through a lot of changes. I feel like since I got my period back, I've had two that my body kind of feels like it's leveled out.

I don't feel like my hormones are all over the place, but that doesn't mean that I still don't have mood swings and bad days and get cranky and grumpy because motherhood is amazing.

And it's also exhausting and can be draining emotionally, physically and mentally, you know, so there's obviously still days that I'm like, wow, I'm way over here today because I'm tired.

But I don't think that it's my hormones. I think it's just, you know, lack of sleep, things like that.

But I'm super excited to talk with her. If you missed last week's episode, we talk all we talked all about milk and not breast milk for once actual milk.

We talked about dairy milk milk alternatives, things to look out for, things to what what you should look for in a milk that you're going to buy and feed your family with, give to your kids.

So it's a very informational episode. Also, my birthday was yesterday, guys. I'm 34 years old. So I don't know why I just said so. I don't know what comes with that.

I'm 34, feeling great, feeling fabulous.

I would love to just say also women who are 35 and older who are in that category for having kids.

People call it a geriatric pregnancy, which is not a good term for it or like advanced maternal age.

And I would encourage you, if you're in that category to listen to the evidence based birth podcast episode on that, they have tons of amazing information on there.

But the number 35 is not like a cut off point. It's not like, oh, 35 and cut off and now fertility is more challenging.

And oh, you're going to have a high risk pregnancy like the fact that 35 and older women are automatically considered a high risk with some practices is just not evidence based at all.

So if you are 35 and older and having your first, especially your first kid or just still having children, just Google evidence based birth 35 and older.

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