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I have been very busy life-ing, particularly with two extremely active toddlers, and therefore my priorities have majorly shifted. I may return to this podcast once we're all settled into our new home and routine in Sweden in the fall, but I'm not going to commit to any definitive timeline or frequency.

In this episode, I discuss one of the major inspirations of the decision to take a step back, Michaeleen Doucleff's newest book Dopamine Kids, along with my desire to place more time and attention on fostering in-person relationships with my community right here.

I talk about which high-value activities I'd like to replace with some low-value activities I became accustomed to and what life will probably look like for at least the next few months.

While my goal is to be online less, particularly on instagram, I don't take for granted the meaningful connections I've made thanks to social media.

Best ways to stay in touch:

email: [email protected]

book a virtual potty training consult: https://www.katherinesigblad.com/book-potty-traning-consult

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Join the private community for support and resources across all anti-mainstream motherhood topics: https://motrcollective.mn.co/

Get a BRICK device for your smartphone: https://getbrick.com/?snowball=MOTR

How Erik and I met thanks to Tinder in 2020: https://katherine-sigblad.medium.com/how-my-husband-and-i-met-got-engaged-married-and-honeymooned-during-the-pandemic-a0cb848ee4cf

and if you're in Southwest Florida or the Stockholm metro area, email me so we can arrange a mom+kid meetup IRL!

I'd love to hear from you whether you took an extended social media break or a permanent one. What was it like? Drop a comment in the episode in Spotify or email me.

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Isabella Malbin is a former liberal feminist who helps women unpack the ideologies, industries, and medical technologies that seek to control women’s bodies through the Whose Body Is It podcast and instant access classes.

Welcoming Isabella Malbin of @whosebodyisit back after her initial episode three years ago, we discuss:

• why there is no such thing as "ethical" porn
• why it isn't normal to normalize porn in your marriage
• why porn is inherently harmful even if you think all adults are consenting
• how we can rewrite the script as parents when having conversations with our children about porn
• How porn subliminally infiltrates other aspects of our culture and society like body hair and body modification
• Boundaries and values around porn consumption in a marriage

You can take the masterclass Remove Porn From Your Relationship + Bedroom. Even if porn is not an issue in your marriage, like it is not for me, it's great to have clear and confident talking points especially when people claim "sex work is work" and "ethical porn is okay."

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Just over three years after airing our episode with chiropractor Dr. Madalyn Turner, I sit down with her twin sister Dr. Johanna Hartley, who is also a chiropractor, to learn about how she has been pulled between the highly medicalized hospital system and her family's holistic values after discovering her second son, born at home, had a congenital defect called Hypospadius in which the urethra is not where it is supposed to be. 

It turns out, he had the most severe version.

To give you an idea of where Dr. Johanna falls on the crunchy scale, she is a non-vaccinating chiropractor who prefers to use conventional, OTC medication as a last resort. In her story, it becomes apparent how humbling and earth shattering supporting your infant through three major surgeries is and how it rocks your world and forces you to exercise discernment with prioritizing your holistic values.

In this episode, you'll hear how Dr. Johanna and her husband ultimately find the right surgeons out-of-state for their son's procedure and how they knew the first opinion they received from a local "expert" was subpar. Dr. Johanna also walks us through her first two birth experiences and how this initiation into motherhood laid the foundation for how she shows up for her family and her worldview.

If you are grappling with making complex decisions, especially given your holistic values, in the face of medical necessity, then this episode is for you.

Johanna's Instagram

Johanna's Podcast

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Warning: If you are a member of the Ms. Rachel cult, this episode will be a tough listen. Please don't say I didn't warn you!

Andreina Rosales is also a Millennial toddler mom, and she is working towards her PhD. It wasn't until her own son was born at just 6 months gestation that her world was rocked when the doctor explained he likely will have autism as a result of being a premie.

From that point, Andreina became obsessed with researching the causes of autism, and we discussed the autism-screen time connection. Yes, there is a type of autism that presents as screen-induced. 

We would not do this conversation justice if we skirted around the topic of Ms. Rachel. Ms. Rachel is the archetype of a mainstream Millennial mom's idol, and the sad irony of her show is that children are not actually becoming better communicators despite this being the show's premise. Andreina explains the difference between verbalizing and communicating.

Andreina and I reminisce about the nostalgia of the low-stimulating, cozy classic shows of our early-to-mid 90s childhood and how stark the contrast is with today's over-stimulating, brain-rot slop children's programming.

There is a disturbing new finding that Andreina has recently uncovered in her research, and it's thematic across most modern young children's programming. Be sure to listen until the very end for it.

Please don't be hard on yourself if your kids have been exposed to addictive modern kids' tv. There is such a thing as neuroplasticity, and a screen-tox may be just the trick. Not all hope is lost.

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This episode is going to ruffle some feathers especially within the online motherhood realm, however it's one that needs to be shared. I understand the initial reaction some will have of defensiveness, however I appreciate you letting that initial feeling simmer and continuing to listen with an open mind.

It's never too late to change your mind! I did a few years back.

I sit down with journalist Fortesa Latifi who is the author of "Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online". She reveals what her interviews with famous mom influencers, their children and nannies have described about what actually goes on behind the cameras.

We examine:

• The ramifications of a child's digital footprint through multiple angles and what the future holds 
• Which current events were going on in 2023 that attributed to the trend of hiding children's faces online
• Is it true that AI can unveil a child's face behind an emoji placed over it?
• Which type of child content gets the most engagement from family vloggers? It might surprise you.
• How is being a minor showcased online different from being a minor on a tv show or in a movie?
• How does the law protect children online?
• Why do certain demographics tend to fall into the family vlogging world?

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If you are childcare-curious or actively seeking any type of childcare for your babies or toddlers, you need to listen to this solo episode. I leave no stone unturned.

I talk about just about every single variation of childcare from my personal and professional experience both on the receiving and giving end from pre-motherhood and currently as a mom of two toddlers.

In this solo I discuss:

• the challenges of full-time outsourcing childcare to grandparents
• the differences between preschool and daycare
• what exactly is a mother's helper and what is her function?
• why and when might you want a mother's helper vs. a sitter vs. a nanny?
• why might a stay-at-home mom want or need childcare assistance
• the challenges of trying to piecemeal the best care and support when we do not live in a hunter-gatherer society

Looking for a caretaker for your baby or toddler? I've created a guide full of the best questions you can ask your daycare, preschool, nanny, sitter or mother's helper to gauge if they're the right fit. 

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Whether your goal is to prevent or plan pregnancy, and better yet you want to avoid non-evidenced based, toxic, and synthetic methods, you NEED to listen to this.

Carly Hartwig (@cleanlivingwithcarly) and I discuss:

• Why is the fertility awareness method an evidence-based, effective way of preventing or planning for pregnancy? How does it differ from the rhythm method? What about Natural Family Planning?
• What's the difference between the Billings, Justisse, and Marquette methods, and why did Carly choose to become certified in Justisse?
• Why are women accidentally becoming pregnant when using the app Natural Cycles? What about when wearing condoms?
• Are vasectomies and "non-hormonal" IUDs really harmless?
• How do we want to introduce FAM to our daughters?
• Is perimenopause real? What are the symptoms?
• Is HRT (hormone-replacement therapy) always bad?)

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I sat down with Aaron Siri, Managing Partner of the NYC-based law-firm Siri & Glimstad specializing in vaccine injury, RFK Jr.s attorney during his presidential campaign, and the author of Vaccines, Amen the Religion of Vaccines.

We discuss

• the conflicts of interest between the nation's leading vaccinologists, vaccine manufacturers, and the United States government.
• how vaccine manufacturers were able to get away with administering medical products that have never been proven to be safe
• what is fundamentally wrong with the clinical trials performed for vaccines
• myths and lies we've been fed about how vaccines are responsible for saving lives
• the legal process that occurs when a parent sues for a vaccine injury

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Today I chat with my second-cousin Megan who is a younger yet ever so wise Millennial toddler mom and Renaissance woman. Our moms are first cousins. Megan has worked as a doula and now runs a doula placement agency in Southern California. She’s also a mom to a three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, an IBCLC, and a Nurse Practitioner. 

Have you heard of the company Carrot? Women who are not even adequately trained to be postpartum doulas are able to bypass the necessary time and in-person training it takes in order to become one in order to get their piece of the pie. Why is this problematic? When families hire a postpartum doula, the expectation is that the entire family unit will be cared for including the home. There is an expectation that breastfeeding support will be offered and that the postpartum doula is actually knowledgeable about breastfeeding. Instead, women are able to claim the title of postpartum doula while actually stepping into the misleading role of overnight nanny or newborn care specialist.

During this episode, I also ask Megan for her nuanced opinions on bottle and pacifier usage (it’s not so black-and-white!). We discuss what is really attributing to textbook low supply.

We delve into a breastfeeding technique I had never heard of before called “reverse cycling” and why we think it’s so seldom discussed. It’s typically used as a strategy for moms who must return to work and don’t want to affect their supply or offer formula, so they hold off on nursing all day and then nurse truly on-demand all throughout the night. It does require bedsharing in order to be successful.

I ask her what is the worst breastfeeding advice she’s ever heard as someone who is trained as an IBCLC, a Nurse Practitioner, a former doula and a toddler mom who is still nursing.

Despite having to return to work outside the home (part-time for 12 hour shifts!), Megan is still successfully nursing her 3.5 year old.

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In this solo, I discuss why I chose to nightwean each of my children when I did and how I returned to my "why" when staying committed to nightweaning felt hard in the middle of the night.

I explain which strategies worked vs. which didn't. Why I nightweaned my son at 21 months old vs. my daughter at 17 months old and what it meant for each of their breastfeeding relationships with me.

Each of my children, as I'm sure each of yours, have such different temperaments. There is no one-size-fits-all nightweaning blueprint. A lot of it is a mix of your maternal intuition coupled with some trial and error. There are general guidelines of definitive nos and yes's with the process, but there is no bypassing the hard parts. Like with any other challenging milestone, it must be met head on. This is something I kind of learned the hard way.

I explain when I believe it is developmentally inappropriate vs. appropriate to night wean and when the benefits of nightweaning outweigh the benefits of night nursing. I also talk about how and when your husband can get on board with helping.

For more support with nightweaning, join dozens of other women in the private Moms Off The Record community. We have an active nightweaning thread within the forum with other first-hand accounts and success stories!

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