Tough Transitions with Toddlers and Newborns :: Hailey Bain and Meredith Woodruff [Ep 287]

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🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the past two years, a lot has changed in the lives of my friends Hailey and Meredith. They came on episode 199 to talk about discipline and toddlers. Since that conversation their families have grown and changed.

Today we’re chatting about tough transitions with parenting young kids. Whether it’s a newborn who won’t stop screaming or the anticipation of being outnumbered by a third child, change is hard for both parents and kids.

Hailey and Meredith share how they’ve found hope in God during some difficult situations and how their community of friends have helped them not mom alone.

“They reminded me that God is working in this. He has not left you. He is working in this situation. And that gave me a lot of hope. One specific friend said: You are serving the Lord when you are holding your screaming baby, when you are in there trying to teach her how to go to sleep. That is service to the Lord.”

Links Mentioned:

Discipline & Toddlers :: Hailey Bain & Meredith Woodruff [Ep 199]

Meredith shared scripture from Lamentations 3:16-24

Foundations Book by Ruth and Troy Simons **

Meredith's business : Concrete Conversations

Hailey's business : Hey Honey Clothing Company and her Facebook Store

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.
0:11.4	I am your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside
0:16.9	you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.
0:23.0	And this episode number 287, I'm bringing back my friends, Haley Bain and Meredith Woodruff.
0:30.8	The best thing that they did for me is just they listened, they continued to listen like
0:36.4	every day, you know, because it wasn't getting better and they just gave me that space to
0:41.4	continue to suffer and not like feel like, okay, Meredith, like, we know this is hard for you.
0:48.6	You're obviously struggling, but they did that and then they just reminded me like, hey,
0:55.4	this will end and reminded me of what is true and that like, you really can make this because
1:02.7	God is working in this. Like, He has not left you. He is working in this situation.
1:08.7	That gave me a lot of hope. One thing, one specific friend said was like, you are serving the Lord
1:15.8	when you are holding your screaming baby, when you are in there trying to teach her how to go
1:21.4	to sleep. That is service to the Lord. It's been one of our most downloaded episodes. It was
1:27.3	episode 199. If you haven't heard it, it was the first time I brought Haley and Meredith on the show.
1:33.8	We talked about discipline and toddlers and they were both starting to have their second kids
1:40.2	and we wanted to talk about how do you manage this multi-kid thing. Well, now they're moving on.
1:45.0	It's been two years and they're starting to have their third kids and we thought we'd have
1:50.8	another conversation. There are some things they wanted to update y'all on. Some realities have
1:56.3	changed in their lives and I thought it would be just an encouragement to y'all that you are not
2:01.8	alone if your life is a little challenging and I wanted them to share what they have found helpful.
2:07.6	Let's get right to it. Here we go. Haley and Meredith, welcome to the Don't Want Alone Podcast.
2:14.3	Oh, hello. Hi. Hey. Okay, so Haley, you go first so we know your voice. Okay, this is Haley.
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