Just like babies, every family and mama are unique! One of the biggest decisions you'll make in motherhood is deciding whether you will you be working outside of the home and get childcare or will you stay at home with baby? In this episode we will discuss the pros and cons to both options and what we imagined they would be like vs what it's actually like. There is no right or wrong path and both are equally important roles and only you and your family know what is best for y'all as a family! ❤️

Everyone struggles sometime in their life with mental health. It can become overwhelming and you may feel helpless. In this episode, we will discuss how we have dealt with our mental health over the years, but more specifically during and after pregnancy.

In this episode we talk about the reality that despite being cleared by your Dr at your 6/8 week, you may not be 100% back to "normal" and that's okay! We talk about the challenges that we faced, struggling to adjust to our new body still, finding our purpose in life again, still learning about baby and how to prepare for going back to work already plus tips on how to try and get ahead of your growing baby and those growth spurts.

Just when you think the hardest part of having a baby is finally done, the actual labor part, you are hit with the reality that you are now responsible for keeping a tiny little newborn baby alive while recovering and healing yourself. In this episode we will discuss what we did to manage and survive the first 3 weeks of coming home with a newborn. Our advice will range from caring for your baby to caring for yourself and your mental wellbeing to advice for family and friends and how they can be the best support system to a new Mama.

In this episode, we have 2 very special guests.  These guests are partially responsible for making us the TUFF Mamas that we are! They helped create our babies and have also helped us deliver them.  So we'd like to hear from them on how they felt throughout the labor and delivery process. Stay tuned as they describe labor and delivery through their eyes and what advice they have for any fathers preparing to go through this very exciting, yet nerve-racking experience.

Just like with everything else related to motherhood, there is no "one shoe fits all" regarding how labor & delivery goes nor the emotions we feel during and after the process. In this episode, Sara & Michel talk about their own personal experiences regarding L&D. One experienced a C-Section and the other a Vaginal Birth, both L&D experiences were not how they planned them at all, but that's the reality of motherhood! Rarely everything goes according to plan and that's okay! Stayed tuned until the end of the episode to hear the tips, tricks and things they wished they knew! (Also, apologies for the sound quality issues on this podcast, we were busy Mamas this week and were not able to meet in person to record this episode. We hope to not have this issue on the future podcasts, thank y'all for the support!)

Connect with us on Instagram @tuff-mamas and on our Facebook page @TUFF Mamas to see more posts regarding motherhood and to get more tips & tricks!

Everyone reacts to finding out they're pregnant differently. Some are fortunate to love everything about being pregnant, others take it day by day. Whatever you are feeling during that time of your life is normal. In this episode, we will discuss how we found out we were pregnant, how we told our families and discuss our feelings during pregnancy and how we coped. We will also be giving tips on how to make pregnancy a bit easier!

Welcome to the TUFF Mamas Podcast with Sara and Michel! Here we will give a brief background of ourselves, our babies and husband's as we explain why we decided to make a podcast, what our purpose is and every when we will be uploading a new podcast! Be sure to come back on June 1st to listen to our 1st full episode where we will discuss our pregnancies!