BBW - Big, Beautiful & Winning

Jodi Smith-Meisner details her journey into motherhood, as a mother who welcomed a daughter into the world 4-months premature.

Introduction to Season 3 of Big, Beautiful & Winning. This episode includes a teaser for what listeners can expect this season.

This is the series finale of Big, Beautiful & Winning - the Pregnancy. This episode recaps what the first three months as a mother is like, referring to this time as the fourth trimester of pregnancy. This episode also explores how Patience integrates womanhood and motherhood as a single woman.

This episode details my labour and delivery experience, complete with medical complications, racist and sexist microaggressions and other facets of the mother-making transformation that is giving birth.

This episode is about the shame associated with single motherhood.

All about birth planning for a first-time mom.

This episode is about the village that supports mothers as they bring a new life into this world... and what that looks and feels like from a millennial perspective.

This episode is about maternity leave and the financial aspects of planning to be off work after you have a baby.

Listeners should be advised of mature materials in this episode. Might not be something you want to listen to with your kids.

In this episode I share a piece of a recent conversation with my mom about names, and Nigerian traditions around babies.