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When co-founder Natasha Case of the wildly popular ice cream company, Coolhaus, found herself challenged by feeding her little ones, she took action.

She realized that as both she and her wife, Freya, were busy working professionals and entrepreneurs, they were solving their nutritional needs by ordering pre-made meals for themselves through a meal delivery service.

Standing over yet another uneaten lunch that her son had brought back home from school and feeling frustrated, Natasha had an aha moment:

Why don't we have meal delivery services for kids?

She got to researching and couldn't find any suitable options. She wondered why:

Was it too hard a market to get into? Or was it simply an untapped market that she needed to innovate?

She went with the latter, and a year after selling Coolhaus, Lunch Bunch began serving its first round of meals.

Today on the show, Natasha discusses how Coolhaus and parenting gave way to the birth of Lunch Bunch. Get ready to learn about entrepreneurship while also learning about how to invoke your children's curiosity and unlock the way to get them to eat truly nourishing food.

If you live in the LA area, use code LBMomFeed for 50% off your first week of lunches!

Visit https://lunch-bunch.com/ to order yours.

And bonus: The Mom Feed has partnered with Lunch Bunch to create two of their meals for the week: the Rainbow Roll and the Zoodles with Cauli-Fredo Sauce. Order yours today!

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I simply cannot believe that we’ve already come to the end of another year, but alas, here we are. And I think so many of us have some kind of health goal we’d like to carry out once the new year begins.

One of the things that seems to be super popular is intermittent fasting. I invited Functional Medicine Nutritionist, Erin Holt, on the show a few months ago to talk about nutrition for women in general, and we touched on intermittent fasting but we didn’t have time to dive deeper.

Well, that’s what we’re doing today. Because Erin is back and she’s talking all about intermittent fasting. What she has to say will surely surprise you, particularly if you’ve got female physiology and you’re in your reproductive years. We cannot talk about intermittent fasting without talking about blood sugar, which do today as well. And before you go thinking, “I don’t have diabetes or insulin resistance, so why should I care about blood sugar?” let me tell you: it’s in one of - if not the key to maintaining your health and a healthy weight.

Get prepared for a fast but furious lesson in nutrition that could very well liberate you and catapult you into crushing whatever health goal you’ve got for 2023.

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Do you have siblings? If so, do you get along? Do you ever remember a time where you did? What was your relationship like as children?

Sibling relationships can be tricky. As it says in the book - Siblings Without Rivalry - when another child comes along, it can feel like a roommate the first child never asked for and never wanted. While some children may gravitate toward their new sibling, others may not. And no matter how the relationship starts out, there will be times when siblings inevitably do not get along.

This can make for a very stressful situation for you as a parent. Of course we want our children to get along, but it would help to understand what's going on inside their heads so we could understand how to more easily help them get there.

Today I'm talking to parenting coach and mother of two, Danielle Bettmann. We're talking all about how to help siblings get along!

Today she explains just what our kids are feeling about each other, and she gives practical, easy to implement tools to help foster not just the relationship they have with their sibling(s), but also - and more importantly - the one that they have with themselves. We talk about the nuts and bolts of the sibling relationship and then we get into specific scenarios like what to do when your children are vying for your attention at the same time, what to do about hitting and kicking and other dangerous physical behavior, how to handle it when your child says really hurtful things about the other child, validating your child’s feelings even when you don’t like how they are expressing them, and so much more!

This is definitely going to be an episode you’ll want to take notes on, save, and also, listen to with your partner. It’s soooo important to be on the same parenting page as your partner. It can save a lot of headaches and frankly, cause much less confusion for your children.

So let's go!

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Talking about the birds and the bees has been depicted in so many ways throughout our lives. It's a conversation I naively thought didn't really have to happen until my kids were at least 15 or 16 years old.

That's why I was so surprised when my 6 year old daughter came to me at the end of a play date last month to tell me that her 6 year old male playmate had asked to touch her private parts (cue the panic, red flushed face, shaking with adrenaline Hulk-like creature I felt myself becoming as she delivered each word).

On the show today, you can hear the full story about what happened.

I was so shaken up by the event that I reached out to my friend, Dr. Sarah Bren, a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in parenting. Through many voice messages back and forth over Instagram, she was able to help me calm down and to see that what happened between my daughter and her playmate was actually very developmentally appropriate (huh?).

She talked me through it and did such a great job that I knew I needed to have her on the show to talk about it. Because as parents, we need to know how to talk to our kids about bodily autonomy, consent (wait until you hear what Sarah has to say about that!), body parts and all the things so that by the time we get to that quintessential birds and bees conversation, well, it will basically already have happened. And it won't be awkward. And our children will feel empowered around and informed about their bodies. That may sound idyllic, but after today's show, I think you'll see that that future is very possible. And I would argue, it is our responsibility to make sure that future comes to fruition (sorry, just add it to the ever growing list of your already too-many child rearing responsibilities).

So get ready to get comfortable with the uncomfortable, and set your children up for success around bodily autonomy!

For more on Dr. Bren, visit https://drsarahbren.com

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When Danica Thornberry, DAOM, found herself staring at her lab work at 31 years of age - lab work that confirmed she was headed into early menopause due to prematurely aging ovaries - she couldn't believe it.

She had spent the previous decade helping her patients in her practice in LA to overcome fertility challenges. How could this be?

At the time of her diagnosis, Danica was not in a place to begin trying for a family. She thought she had time, and she was determined to figure out how to create it.

She did just that, and she went on to have 2 children in her late 30s.

Danica's approach to fertility combines a unique combination of fertile foods and thoughts, and a deeper understanding of the 4 phases of a woman's cycle. Her program, The Seed Fertility Program, has been touted as life changing by Erin Foster of The World's First Podcast, and has been featured in Goop.

Tune in to hear how you can improve your fertility with Danica's unique program. You'll also learn more about endometriosis, PCOS, and what prematurely ages our ovaries (and what you can do about slowing that down).

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Learn more and/or book an appointment with Danica at https://www.danicathornberry.com/ 

Use code MOMFEED25 for 25% off any course at https://www.seedfertility.com/

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We’ve all been there. You’re at the park or on a playdate with your mom friends and their babes who are about the same age. You’re trying not to - you really are - but you can’t help but notice that your friend’s baby is crawling or walking or doing something that your child is not yet doing. And they are the same age.

You try not to panic. But the truth is, we’ve never done this before. We don’t know what is considered “normal” and what isn’t when it comes to so many things about our children, particularly their developmental milestones. I’m talking about things like rolling over, crawling, walking and other gross motor skills your pediatrician asks you about at every check up.

Today, Dr. Brita DeStefano helps take the guesswork out of those developmental skills. Dr. DeStefano is board certified as a pediatric specialist and focuses her work primarily on babies between 0 and 2 years old where much of these developmental motor skills occur.

We talk about lip ties and tongue ties as well, sleep positions, flat heads and helmets, and so much more.

Get ready to feel empowered and to truly understand what’s going on for your child in those very formative years so that you can work together to make this time enjoyable. Because it can be.

For more information about Dr. DeStefano and her work, visit https://www.ptpdenver.com/ 

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For full show notes, visit https://themomfeed.com/dr-brita-destefano-2/ 

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If you're a mama who is suffering from hormonal imbalances of any kind (night sweats and hot flashes, migraines, bloating, cramps, PMS, etc), autoimmune conditions, brain fog, a lack of energy - basically if you aren't feeling well, my guest today can probably help you figure out why.

Erin Holt AKA The Funktional Nutritionist is a board certified integrative and functional nutritionist who is on a mission to help women feel better in their bodies. With 15 years of experience as a clinician, Erin is constantly keeping up with the latest research and seeing how it plays out in the lives of the women she coaches.

Today on the show, we talk about where to begin when it comes to balancing hormones and what she has to say may surprise you. We also get into intermittent fasting and why it may not be the best option for women who are still menstruating. We'll cover those details in this episode.

If you're looking to solve some health mysteries or just to feel better in your body - more energized, optimistic, a free of any pesky health challenges - you're going to love today's episode.

Be sure to check out Erin's podcast, The Funktional Nutritionist, and in particular, her episode about Intermittent Fasting where she takes a deep dive into the subject.

Also be sure to get your name on the waiting list for her upcoming course, Your Hormone Revival, a 3 month balancing program to revive adrenal, thyroid and hormone health through root cause restoration.

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On a scale of one to ten, where is your energy at right now? Do you feel positively jazzed up and ready to take on the world? Or do you just want to take a nap?

Do you wake up in the morning feeling rested or like you haven’t slept?

Do you have symptoms of PMS when you’re in your menstrual cycle? 

Did you know that you don’t have to feel any of those things?

Where men and women share a biological rhythm known as the circadian rhythm, women have a second one that is unique to them. It’s called the infradian rhythm, and instead of being ruled by the 24 hour clock like the circadian rhythm is, it’s actually ruled by the 4 phases of a woman’s cycle: follicular, ovulatory, luteal, and menstrual.

In today’s episode, Registered Nurse and cycle synching coach, Megan Rempel, talks about how synching with your infradian rhythm can quite literally unlock your nutrition, balance your hormones, increase your energy, and even help your mental health. 

Tune in and prepare to unlock your greatest success in nutrition, fitness and life! For full show notes and a list of the resources mentioned on today's episode, visit themomfeed.com 

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Have you ever noticed the power of your thoughts? Maybe you've had the experience where you were thinking about someone and they called, or you ended up seeing them at the store.

Or maybe you decided that you wanted to go to college and after much hard work, you got in and did it.

That is manifestation. We all do it, all the time. We manifest good things. We manifest not so good things.

Did you ever realize you could apply the power of manifestation to your journey into parenthood, imagining the family of your dreams before it ever becomes a reality?

The women behind the prenatal vitamin company, WeNatal, believe in mindset so wholeheartedly, that after creating the world's first prenatal vitamin company for both men and women, they adopted one final holistic tool: a journal to manifest the family of your dreams.

You've heard this before: thoughts become things. And how powerful that concept is when trying to conceive.

Today on the show, I'm joined by Lillian Cohanzad, the author of the premier journal for pregnancy "“WeNatal, A Guided Journal Manifesting Your Dream Family,” and passionate supporter of women through spiritual facilitation including manifestation sessions, moon circles and breath work.

Today we discuss some of what you'll find in the journal, like 50 questions to ask before becoming a parent, and 50 affirmations you can use in your conception journey. We discuss the power of manifestation, particularly when it comes to manifesting your family, and how you can use this journal in every aspect of your life.

Tune in and prepare to welcome in the changes your heart has been longing for.

For more about WeNatal, visit 

Prenatal Vitamins for Him + Her | WeNatal

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Do you feel like joy is on a never ending refill in your life? Do you seek pleasure with a sense of urgency and almost always put yourself and your own needs before anyone else's?

If you're a woman or a mama, my guess if that you're probably laughing as you read this. Because how many of us were taught to do that? Most of us were sold the model of martyrdom in motherhood: put yourself last. There isn't enough time or money (both or one or the other) to put yourself first, and besides, it's selfish, right?

Is it, though?

On the show today, you're going to be convinced that making joy and your own needs a priority is actually the best thing you can do not just for yourself, but also for your relationships, your kids, your work, and everywhere in your life.

Courtney Fae Long is an International Speaker, Best selling author, coach, and creator of Mariposa Sacred Sexuality, and today she's going to help us unlock the joy inside us all. She's going to show you just why it's so important, and by the end of the hour, you just might find yourself scheduling joy into your days. In fact, that is my wish for you.

Be prepared to be inspired, and to find your way back to yourself, mama.

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