TAKE THIS PERSONALLY: You Are the Perfect Parent for Your Baby: Postpartum, Baby Instincts & Trusting Yourself
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What if new parents aren’t failing, but simply unsupported? Morgan sits down with Michelle Pool, nurse at Maven Clinic and the person behind One Minute Milk Bites, for an honest, deeply validating conversation about breastfeeding, postpartum mental health, and why modern parents feel so overwhelmed.
Michelle shares her own journey from struggling new mom to lactation expert, breaking down why breastfeeding can feel impossibly hard, how baby instincts actually work, and why the “breast is best” messaging has caused more harm than help. Together, they explore postpartum depression, the loss of the village, C-sections vs. vaginal birth, and the quiet identity shift that happens after a baby arrives.
This episode is for:
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New and expecting parents
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Partners who want to show up better
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Anyone who’s ever wondered, “Am I doing this right?”
If you’ve ever felt alone, unsure, or like you’re not enough, this conversation is your reminder: your best is good enough, and you are the perfect parent for your baby.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:21.8 | I've got Michelle Poole with me this with me this week, her Instagram, Take this personally. With Morgan Hewlesman. |
| 0:24.2 | I've got Michelle Poole with me this week. |
| 0:30.0 | Her Instagram, One Minute Milk Bites, is helping new parents everywhere with advice in quick one-minute videos. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm excited for you all to hear her drop some major family knowledge. |
| 0:33.4 | Here we go. |
| 0:42.8 | Michelle Poole is a nurse at the Maven Clinic and she is awesome about sharing so much information online about babies, motherhood, the boobies, all the things. So Michelle, |
| 0:48.0 | thanks for joining me today. Thanks so much for having me, Morgan, very excited to talk all |
| 0:53.0 | things, babies today. Yeah, I would love to know. |
| 0:56.7 | So you work at the Maven Clinic. You work in, you guys are family building, fertility, pregnancy, parenting, menopause, all the things that around this. |
| 1:04.4 | But talk to me about starting that and why you got into that line of work, but then also your social media page and why you're sharing the information that you are online. |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah. I mean, how much time do we have? I'm kidding. You can go as far as you want. We love to get deep on here. |
| 1:19.3 | The short version is that I have a master's degree in counseling. And before I even thought about having a baby, I was a counselor. And I helped |
| 1:29.0 | families with children with special needs and did that kind of behavior therapy. So I was in that |
| 1:36.4 | world when I became pregnant. I was told that breastfeeding was easy and natural. It's just like |
| 1:41.8 | breathing. And I was like, oh, cool that I don't need to take a class or |
| 1:45.7 | read any books. That sounds like a big waste of time. But when my baby came around, it was really, |
| 1:52.8 | really difficult for me. And I struggled. I was doing all of the things with the breasts and the pumps and the bottles and the |
| 2:03.1 | formula and the nipple shields and I started to lose it. And I didn't know what postpartum depression |
| 2:08.2 | was because I didn't take any of the classes. You see, it's good to take classes, guys. |
| 2:13.3 | And I just thought, I'm really bad at this. I'm not cut out to be doing this. And luckily, I did get some help from a visiting nurse. Things got into place. My little baby, God bless him, decided to participate and try to figure it out with me. Some babies don't, and that's okay, too, but it just worked. And it took a couple of weeks |
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