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The question that I love to ask moms who come on the podcast is what their transition into motherhood was like. Like, what do you

remember about those early days and kind of like what your expectations were in early postpartum

versus what it actually was? Yeah. You know, I had two dogs before I had my daughter.

Me too. And I was like had my daughter. Me too.

And I was like a dog mom.

Me too.

So I felt, I thought the transition to motherhood was going to be easy because

my dogs were, they're about four years apart.

So, you know, anyway, so I felt like I was, I was like one of those dog moms.

Transition to motherhood, very different because you can't just put your baby down and, like,

feed it twice a day. There's a lot more hands-on things that happen. But, you know, I'll just go back to the beginning, which I think everything about

becoming a mom didn't go to plan.

So I basically spent my whole life trying to not get pregnant.

Right.

And then when I tried to get pregnant, very quickly learned that it's really hard to get

pregnant, that there's really only like a couple of

days in a month that you actually can't get pregnant. It took seven years, eventually did IVF.

And so NARA was an IVF baby. I took hypno birthing classes because I was going to have a natural

birth. I didn't want to do any epidural. because I was going to have a natural birth.

I didn't want to do any epidural.

I was just going to like meditate and breathe this baby out of the body.

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