Pandemic Babies & The Moms Who Love Them, Part 1: Episode 353

The Mom Hour

Mom Hour Media

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

News flash: the babies born at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic are turning two! Their little lives have been marked with fear, stress, sadness . . . and, undeniably, also joy. In today’s episode, Meagan and Sarah are joined by seven moms from our team sharing about their remarkable babies and this historic time they’ve entered the world. You’ll hear different perspectives on how real moms have handled situations like introducing their babies to other people, venturing out into the world, and the little moments that made them think, “Wow, this is a pandemic baby!” Even if you didn’t have a baby in the past two years, you’re sure to appreciate this reflective episode – the first in a two-part series – as we honor the hard and celebrate the specialness of pandemic babies. Join us!

LINKS MENTIONED:

Listen to our series on Pandemic Perspectives, and these related episodes: How Covid Complicates Parenting, Stage By Stage, and 10 Things We Love About Toddlers
Check out all our episodes and blog posts about toddlers
Read our Contributor Stacy’s birth story about having Pandemic Baby Nora on the side of a gravel road in Montana
Contributor Emily’s blog post: “She Only Knows Pandemic Mommy”
It’s almost time for a check-in on Our 2022 Intentions

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from
0:05.2	little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages
0:09.0	of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share
0:12.7	tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're
0:16.6	not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.
0:19.9	Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to episode three 53 of the
0:26.6	mom hour. I am Sarah powers here as always with Megan Francis. Hey, Megan. Hey,
0:31.6	Sarah, I feel like I'm here with you today, but also here with like seven
0:36.1	other amazing moms, sort of kind of. Yeah. And and all the millions and
0:41.1	millions of moms who found themselves in the same boat, right? I don't have that's
0:44.1	not a legit statistic. By the way, millions and millions of millions. I know.
0:48.4	gazillion gazillions of moms who have have had pandemic babies. Yeah, that is
0:54.4	what we're talking about today. I mean, this really came up because a couple
0:59.2	months ago, maybe I was looking ahead at the calendar and thinking, wow, we are
1:02.8	all gonna be kind of reflecting on two years of COVID. And at the time, I think
1:07.5	this is like back in December that we started talking about this. And we didn't
1:10.5	know what the pandemic picture would look like. But we knew that people would
1:14.4	be feeling kind of like holy cow. It's been two years. And the thing that popped
1:18.2	into my mind is that two years is enough time to grow a baby, have a baby,
1:24.7	grow your family, and then have a pandemic baby who's now like a walking talking
1:29.4	toddler. And that was really when it hit me that like, yeah, there are entire
1:32.7	children who have been born into this pandemic space. And we just wanted to like,
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