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The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy

EP67: Falling Up with Chelsea Ann Cruz

The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy

Elizabeth Presta

Education, Parenting, Kids & Family, Self-improvement

4.23.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

For this Memorial Day episode, Elizabeth brings on Chelsea Ann Cruz who is a Veteran of the Army National Guard. Chelsea shares her story of overcoming trials in her life. From being a teen mom, joining the military, becoming a single mom and overcoming an abusive relationship, Chelsea has continued to break the glass ceiling in her own life. This is a story of overcoming life's hardship, toxic relationships and learning how to fall forward.
* Trigger warning: this episode talks about abusive relationships and may not be suitable for children and may contain explicit language.*
Resources:
Abuse Hotline

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Miraculous Mamas.

0:09.4

It is military appreciation month.

0:12.0

And so we have a very special episode for you today with a woman named Chelsea who is

0:18.0

in the Army National Guard.

0:20.3

But before I get into that, I want to continue sharing the birth facts, pregnancy facts.

0:27.0

It is pregnancy awareness month.

0:28.8

May is all sorts of awareness is going on.

0:32.9

But for pregnancy awareness, I wanted to share interesting birth facts, a cultural

0:37.7

fact, and then an animal kingdom fact.

0:42.0

So a lot of people don't know that when from the second trimester onwards, babies actually

0:50.3

urinate in the uterus, then they drink it and they pee again and then they drink it.

0:56.7

So it's kind of this cycle and a lot of the amniotic fluid is actually made up of sterile

1:03.7

urine.

1:04.9

So that is an interesting fact that a lot of people don't know.

1:08.1

But the word, excuse me, the word amniotic fluid sounds a lot more graceful than sterile

1:18.3

urine.

1:19.7

So.

1:20.7

And then for a cultural fact, this one's really interesting.

1:26.7

Most of infants spend their time chilling and getting spoiled by their parents at a young

1:30.4

age.

1:31.4

But some Lithuanian babies have things a little bit different.

1:34.8

I found this article on listfirst.com.

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