Mom Rage

Edan and Amelia kick off season two by revisiting the word "mom" and how they're feeling about the role right now. Edan met with her son's new psychologist and Amelia found a new poetry collection to love. At minute 27:00, they talk to maternal and fetal medicine specialist Dr. Emiliano Chavira about his refreshing approach to high risk pregnancies, delivering breech babies, and what it's like to perform a C-section.

Amelia and Edan discuss childcare. Everyone who has a child needs some form of childcare, and yet it feels like people aren't talking about how they're getting it done. They also discuss Mom Lit as a book genre and read two poems. ("Mom" poems?) At minute 32:15, they're joined by lactation consultant and student midwife, Kimberly Durdin, who generously shares the number one thing she does to help mothers struggling with breastfeeding, why women need postpartum support, and so much more.

Amelia and Edan talk a little bit about parental judgment. Edan struggles to overcome being judgy about kids on screens, and Amelia talks about the judgment she sometimes feels between SAHMs and "working" moms. At 28:45, they talk to the incognito "Anony-Mom" about the struggles she's had with her older son's behavioral issues and the way things came to a head with other parents at the end of his first year of TK.

Amelia can't stop crying about the passing of time and the sweet cruelty of raising babies. Edan discusses her family's childrearing culture and shares the first thing she did as soon as she took Bean home from the hospital seven years ago. At minute 28:03, they talk to Angela Garbes, author of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy.

Edan and Amelia share their self-care methods. When is self-care a necessity for good parenting, and when can it slide into selfishness? Then, novelist and journalist Margaret Wappler comes on (32:00) to talk about doing "mini" IVF and what it's been like to care for a newborn while grieving her mother's death.

Amelia and Edan discuss the results of the Mom Rage sex survey that our intrepid listeners anonymously answered, covering everything from how often sex is happening, to how it feels to be sexual after becoming a parent, to what everyone's turn-ons are. At 58:00, they talk to therapist Camille Campbell about some of the struggles couples might face after having children, and how to best face and repair them.

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Amelia and Edan discuss some interesting feedback about how extended maternity leave affects women returning to the workforce. They then have an uncomfortable conversation about whiteness and identity. At 28:00, they talk with mother and computer programmer Louise Yang about hypnotizing herself during childbirth, stir-frying her placenta, and why she gets annoyed when people ask if her daughter's a tomboy.

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Edan talks about her enraging visit to the OB-Gyn and her quest to get menstruating again; Amelia's son Isaac can't stop crying in the mornings and her son Teddy can't wipe his butt properly. At 28:00, we interview writer Lydia Kiesling about her debut novel The Golden State and why she's writing about motherhood, the trauma that is yelling at your own child, and being a feminist on Weight Watchers.