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Planning a trip to Disney can be super intimidating. In this episode, Disney expert and travel agent Chelsea Runaas gives us the 101 on how to book a trip to Disney. She also answers the tough questions: 

• How much money should a family realistically budget for?
• Where to cut corners to save money
• How many parks should you aim to do in a visit?
• How far in advance you should book
• General tips for going to Disney with babies and toddlers

Connect with Chelsea: 

• Request a booking and a quote: https://calendly.com/chelsearunaas/client-meeting?month=2023-06
• customtravelprofessionals.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/howfarillgotraveling/ 

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Like any teenager in love, Londyn never thought the first time she was intimate with her boyfriend would get her pregnant. However, when Londyn found out she was pregnant at 17 years old, she began a journey through self-discovery and navigating relationships with her support system.  In this episode, she shares her journey through pregnancy to postpartum and offers up words of support for any other young moms going through the same thing.

Check out Londyn's blog: lovelaughmom.com

Connect with her on Instagram: @llondnn

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In this episode, Lina gets emotional on the mic (again) but this time talking about how her anxiety is getting worse as time goes on. She shares how she woke up with a panic attack the other night and what her intrusive thoughts were about. 

Lina talks about how although she feels lucky that she hasn't had any nausea or food aversions, she's been experiencing perinatal anxiety and pregnancy insomnia. She talks about she believes that sleep in the foundation to having good mental health and how the second sleep deteriorates, everything else seems to go too. 

Lina talks about why she's interested in hypnobirthing for her 2nd baby. For her first delivery, she suffered from a full body allergic reaction that her doctors and dermatologists couldn't diagnose. Through self-diagnosis, she suspects that it was PUPPP (pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy) that turned into a postpartum condition. She thinks the postpartum condition could have been caused by the amount of medication she was given between induction and the epidural and how her body was oversensitive and just started to attack itself. 

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In this episode, host Lina Forrestal has a chat with mom of 4 and author Amber Trueblood about the 5 anxiety styles and some practical tips for new moms to get unflustered and manage their anxiety.

Amber is a mom to four boys, an author, a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and married to a former Hollywood photographer. They traveled extensively across the country supporting their two oldest boys as they starred in the hit musical The School of Rock. She picked up some lessons on the road, from travel to homeschooling, that eventually made their way into her new book, The Unflustered Mom.

Read more about Amber and her book, The Unflustered Mom: How Understanding the Five Anxiety Styles Transforms the Way We Partner, Parent, Live, and Love at https://ambertrueblood.com/theunflusteredmom/ 

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In this episode of Just Chatting, Lina talks about her pregnancy and comparing her first trimester when she was pregnant with her first and how it's been different. 

She talks about her first few ultrasound appointments, how she felt, and how she wants to use this experience to reclaim the newborn stage. 

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You're a devoted mom who is doing her absolutely best. And if you're like Carly, then you tried ALL the things. But you still find yourself lying on the floor of your child's room at least a few times a week.   

In this episode, Carly and Lina talk all things toddler and preschooler sleep! Lina chats through her current challenge: her toddler sleeps in the bed and although it works for their family, she has concerns over what happens when baby number 2 comes along. Carly shares great tips, tricks, and facts that can help start new moms on their journey to better sleep.

When Carly's first child was born, she was exhausted and had no clue how to get the rest she desperately needed. So when her second daughter was born, she invested in a newborn sleep course and everything changed. This spearheaded a passion in Carly to learn everything about sleep. Now, she's a mom of two who both happily sleep 11-12 hours a night in their own beds. And now it's her passion to help you achieve the same!

Learn more about working with Carly: https://goodnightguide.com/toddlers
Connect with Carly on Instagram: @the.goodnight.guide

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In this episode, Jenna Hermans comes on the podcast to share with Lina and her listeners how a huge breakdown after her 4th child helped start a journey within herself in figuring out who she was again. This journey led her to discovering that there are 5 steps in dialing down the chaos of normal life:

• Efficiency, Habits, Communication, Community, and Self-Care

Jenna and Lina breakdown each of these and share tips from their different perspectives in how to make daily life more manageable for new parents. 

Buy her book: Chaos to Calm: 5 Ways Busy Parents Can Break Free from Overwhelm

Chaos to Calm is a guide for busy parents that will help them streamline the endless tasks they face every day. By creating more time and less stress, they can spend more hours appreciating their family, making sure they have what they need, and giving themselves the space they need to live their lives with intention and joy. 

Connect with Jenna: @jennazhermans

Learn more about Jenna: https://jennahermans.com/links/ 

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In this Just Chatting episode, it's just Lina on the mic overthinking kids birthday parties. She also sources listener feedback and shares what other moms think! 

She talks about:

• How she thinks all the pre-school moms hate her because she's bad at RSVPing and shows up late
• What is an appropriate kids birthday party gift?
• Listeners weigh in on gift ideas
• Do you invite the whole class or just the kids that your child plays with?
• All about RSVPing and NOT RSVPing
• What is the best time for a kids party?
• Is it okay to show up late?
• Listeners share their kids party pet peeves
• Listeners share what they love about kids parties (gotta keep it positive fam)
• Tips for hosting a 1st Birthday Party

Lina also shares a bit about her wedding anniversary (May 12) and how she's been happily married for 6 years but reflects on how she and her husband DIDN'T want to have a big wedding but ended up having one due to family pressure. 

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Julianna always dreamt of being a mom and was prepared for the sleep-less nights and all the challenges that comes with having a newborn. However, what she was never prepared for was the nearly 1 year battle she would face against life threatening postpartum depression (PPD) and postpartum anxiety (PPA). 

In this episode, Julianna shares her story with Lina and New Mamas Podcast listeners and shares valuable advice to anyone struggling. 

Connect with Julianna: https://www.instagram.com/juliannaj1992/ 

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In this Just Chatting episode, it's just Lina on the mic talking about her life lately:

• Her experience going to a Korean spa
• Being naked around your friend (lol)
• Having a male masseuse versus a female masseuse 
• How her 3 year old might be more like her husband in personality 
• How she hates labeling her son as "shy" 
• Her experience in oversharing with random moms (oops) 
• A hot take on potty training: why does it feel like a race? 
• Venting about the whole "milestone" thing
• The way Lina and her family chose to potty training
• Venting about mean comments Lina gets about her episodes 
• How Lina feels like it's great to disagree 
• How Lina is not sorry for having a different or unpopular opinion 
• How Lina feels about being called "privileged"
• How cancel culture is exhausting 

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