Coffee With Parents

Kari Anderson (she/her) is located in California. She has two children, and is happily married to her husband, Sam.

Jessica Arzate-Diaz (she/her) is located in California. She has two children, is happily married to her husband, and they're currently parenting in a multi-generational household with Grandparents. Jess is a baker and owns Flour Child Baking Company.

You can support by following @flourchildbakingcompany on Instagram and by ordering delicious baked goods from her website!

Cynthia Epstein (she/her) is located in California. She has two children and co-parents with their Father. She works in the veterinary field and absolutely loves what she does for a living.

Zoë Etkin (she/her) is located in Tennessee. She has one child and is happily married. In addition to her private doula practice, she also runs a doula training organization called Embodied Doula Trainings, AND a birth-pro specific website development company called Birthing Your Brand.

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Hey Human Beans! As a token of gratitude, I’d like to recite these love letters to everyone who helped me put together season 1 of Coffee With Parents.  Including you, the listeners, the Human Beans who make this podcast possible.

Dear Kay, Anna, Eugenia, Joy, Joseph, Birth Team, and Listeners,

Post-PAR-tum adj./n./v.

The final piece of my personal parenting journey, Part 3: My Postpartum Story, talks about how I define “Postpartum,” the wholistic care I received in early postpartum from my Doula, Anna, and my Midwife, Tema, and addresses the need for a better culture surrounding postpartum care in the US. At the end, Anna and Joseph help me answer some of your postpartum-related questions in the “Spill the Beans” segment. Listen in love. Hear with your heart. And enjoy part 3 of my personal parenting journey, My Postpartum Story!

This special release is a heart offering for the upcoming April 2021 new moon (4/11/2021), but can be listened to during any phase of the moon at any time. It's a poem meant to be received as a meditation. Sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes, and let this ode to the moon hold you for 11 minutes and 11 seconds. 

"Then, I felt like I needed to push.  This was it! The big moment! The second stage of labor! I was feeling all the things! Physically and emotionally.  I started pushing In several different positions, for several hours.  Spoiler alert: this ended up only being about two thirds of the way through my labor."

Here is part TWO of a three part series talking about my personal parenting journey - My Birth! My birth Mother, Joy, and my Partner, Joseph - both present at my birth - join in with their perspectives to talk about my Birth Story in this episode.