Vida de Madre con Mari Vega

Episode Releases on May 27. If you don’t see it on your favorite podcast platform right away give it a day to arrive. 

For episode 5, of season 2, I gave this mama anonymity to create a safe space for her to share her experience and insights. You see, this dear friend works in a hospital. Her husband and her struggled with infertility issues for two years, at the time it seemed to be caused by her polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). After a successful round of IUI, they conceived their son. Given her insight into the medical industry, after weighing her options, she decided to go with the midwifery model of care and selected to have a home birth. Tune in to learn more about the differences between OB care and midwifery care, maternal exhaustion, the emotional recovery of not getting the type of labor & delivery desired, and a surprise baby #2! Spoiler alert: She gave birth to her 2nd baby the day following this interview, and trust and believe I’ll be having her back to share that magical story with you all. 

Her closing remarks were so powerful, I decided to share it in the show notes! She shared:

“Everything in life has risks. From stepping outside our door in the morning to driving and putting on a seatbelt. It is your right as a woman to find and identify what risks you are willing to take and don’t let anyone else’s judgment deter you from the experience you want.”

Show notes on vocab discussed:

IUI: Intrauterine Insemination

PCOS: polycystic ovarian syndrome

The difference between midwifery and OB models of care

Chiropractic care: search for perinatal or webster certified providers for pelvic/sacral adjustments

Physiological birth 

Acronym for informed decision making: BRAIN

BENEFITS of this process/procedure

RISKS of this process/procedure

ALTERNATIVES to this approach 

INTUITION - what is your gut telling you?

NEGOTIATION - what agreements can we make to find a balance between your approach and my concerns?

Show notes are also available on https://www.marivega.me/blog/season2episode5

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What did you think of this episode? Want more like it? Have an amazing story you’d like to share? Want to be featured on the Vida de Madre podcast? Email [email protected] or visit www.marivega.me to learn more. Please support and subscribe! To follow the Mari Vega brand visit me on IG @Mari_Vega. 

Season 2, Ep4: Formula Researchin’ & DIY Baby Food Mommy 

Marisol and I could audition for the Netflix show “Workin Moms” because we would fit right into the storyline of being thirty-something working mothers who try to balance their jobs, family life, and love life in the 21st century! We met at our kid’s daycare and while you may consider that a hot spot to source some working mom friends -think again. Between rushing to drop off and bounce to the office, and the rush to pick up and head home for dinner, there isn’t much time to talk other than the usual “good morning, have a good night, take care, good seeing you!” pleasantries. When we kept running into each other around town we realized we had a few things in common - we work in the Banking industry, we love having our kids drink only water, and we love wine! When Marisol shared with me how much research went into her choice of formula’s I knew I wanted to have her on the show. She nursed for a few months and then needed to start supplementing. She took the same determination she had committed to pumping and applied it to learning about all the formula ingredients. She went on to make her own oatmeal and natural food and snacks for her son, who like my daughter, has a passion for drinking water! #Moms4ProperHydration ;) 

Read on to learn more about Marisol! 

I’m 42yrs old and a single mom, I work full-time and I am very fortunate to have my mom that helps me with my son. I was born and raised in the Bronx by a Puerto Rican single mother, she worked in a factory and did all she could to give me the best, with what little she had. I didn’t live in the best neighborhood so she decided that she would put me in catholic school and I think that was the best thing she did for me. She has always instilled in me to be a hard worker and to always go after my dreams. I now live in NJ and she lives with me. Being a full-time working mom and commuting into NYC is not easy at all, I feel like I miss the little things, and at times that makes me sad. So on the weekends, I try to do the most with him making sure that whatever I feel that I missed I make-up for...BUT I also give myself some adult time because as mom’s (whether working moms or stay at home moms) we need a mental break. I don’t think I have the answers to everything when it comes to raising him. I'm learning as I go but it’s a journey that I’m happy that I’m able to take. 

If you’d like to connect with Marisol, you can reach her at [email protected]. 

Discussed on the Show: 

>>Aeroflow: Visit their IG to learn more about their mission to increase the instance of breastfeeding through the best equipment, support, and education. 

>> Acronym for informed decision making: BRAIN 

BENEFITS of this process/procedure 

RISKS of this process/procedure 

ALTERNATIVES to this approach 

INTUITION - what is your gut telling you? 

NEGOTIATION - what agreements can we make to find a balance between your approach and my concerns? 

>>Marisol suggestions for recipes/products: 

https://weelicious.com/ 

www.parents.com 

Healthy living (app) 

Show notes are also available on https://www.marivega.me/blog/season2episode4 

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What did you think of this episode? Want more like it? Have an amazing story you’d like to share? Want to be featured on the Vida de Madre podcast? Email [email protected] or visit www.marivega.me to learn more. Please support and subscribe! To follow the Mari Vega brand visit me on IG @Mari_Vega.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Carla Belliard, a doula and current midwifery student. All I knew about her was that she had an amazing vibe and that I had been following her on Instagram for a while, even though she lives in Utah and I have no idea how I found her page or if she found me? It turns out that deciding to film our first conversation was the right move! Her sincerity about her journey to motherhood is 100% the reason I created this platform. She is working through her healing and recognizing there is no such thing as a perfect mom. In this episode, Carla explains how she made her way from the Dominican Republic over to Utah, and how her own strained relationship with her mother made her doubt her own desires for motherhood. We touch on perinatal mood disorder, and how she came to discover this self-diagnosed condition 3 years after giving birth. Carla also shares her reaction to a 20-week ultrasound revealing her daughter would have a cleft palate, and how that lead her to a life-altering water birth that revealed her life’s purpose. Tune in for a seriously raw, truthful, vulnerable conversation about the things no one tells you in motherhood! 

Carla is passionate about supporting and empowering people that are navigating pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and parenting in general. She was born and raised in the sunny island of the Dominican Republic, and currently calls Utah her home state. Carla is a mom to a beautiful girl and a wife to her best friend. Although she holds a bachelor’s in Food Science with a focus on Business Administration and Psychology, her passion is birth work. When Carla became pregnant, she was told at 20 weeks that her daughter was going to be born with a cleft lip and palate. This diagnosis meant that her baby was going to need countless surgeries throughout her life starting at 3 months of age. This is why she reconsidered the way she was thinking of giving birth and helped her make a safe decision of birthing outside of a clinical setting because she wanted her daughter and her to work together, at a deeper and more comfortable level, through labor, while being supported by doulas and a midwife. Her birth experience, the support she felt, and the calming energy she received, ignited her passion for birth work. She felt like a goddess during her birth, and two years later she decided to help other women feel the same. 

Carla holds many titles, including public speaker and adult learning specialist, curriculum developer, DONA trained birth doula, childbirth educator, trained birth assistant, student midwife, and a yoga instructor. She has a certificate in Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy from LMU and loves working with all types of birthing people. 

If you’d like to connect with Carla, you can reach her on Instagram @motherly.goddess or via email at [email protected]. 

Show notes are also available on https://www.marivega.me/blog/season2episode3

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 What did you think of this episode? Want more like it? Have an amazing story you’d like to share? Want to be featured on the Vida de Madre podcast? Email [email protected] or visit www.marivega.me to learn more. Please support and subscribe! To follow the Mari Vega brand visit me on IG @Mari_Vega. 

Ammie and I met via Instagram and I found myself compelled to invite her to have a call and get to know more about each other. We got on a call and before we knew it an hour had passed and we couldn’t stop sharing our combined experiences! This episode touches on teenage pregnancy, manifesting the life you want, the “mother wound”, and building resilience. 

Ammie Salom has dedicated her career to healthcare, with 15 years of experience and over 7 years in administrative leadership positions at top healthcare organizations in the tri-state area, including Rutgers’Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Englewood Hospital, Montefiore, and Columbia Medical Center. She holds a B.A. in Business Administration and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration with a concentration in Community Health Education.

The daughter of Dominican immigrants, Ammie was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She possesses a strong commitment and dedication to the economic empowerment, health, and wellbeing of women and young girls. She is passionate about helping women break through glass ceilings in the workplace, in education, and at home.

Ammie has worked with community organizations to assist in fundraising efforts in support of young women and is also the founder of Femmenominal Women, a collaborative community organization dedicated to encouraging women to live productive, healthy, and fulfilling lives. Through this growing platform, she hosts local events bringing women together to share insight about health, careers, family life, as well as connecting them to a network of sisterhood and positive support.

A supportive partner to her husband, Gabriel Rodriguez an elected official serving the town of West New York as the Commissioner of Public Safety, Ammie is also a mother of two girls and works hard to model ambition, community volunteerism, healthy lifestyle, and work-life balance for her daughters.

Ammi serves on the board of the LUPE Fund, Inc. which is a 501c3 organization whose mission is to Educate, Empower, and Engage Latinas to Promote Leadership and Civic Engagement. She encourages anyone who wants to learn more, to please visit, www.Lupenj.org. They offer scholarships, amazing networking opportunities, and are now hosting several webinars to help keep much-needed conversations going! 

Ammie is supportive of collaborations with women who want to empower our young girls and  WOMEN who are seeking growth, connection, and all things FEMMENOMINAL! You can contact her at [email protected].

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What did you think of this episode? Want more like it? Have an amazing story you’d like to share? Want to be featured on the Vida de Madre podcast? Email [email protected] or visit www.marivega.me to learn more. Please support and subscribe! To follow the Mari Vega brand visit me on IG @Mari_Vega. 

Jeanelle and I went to college in the same city and thanks to the power of social media, we have stayed in touch all these years. Being that she is a Bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist, I was eager to ask her questions like, “Do boys, in fact, develop language at a slower pace than girls? Is a bilingual upbringing impacting our kids' abilities to progress verbally? What can I do to help my kids’ thrive verbally?”. Listen in to the first episode of Season 2 of my podcast, Vida de Madre con Mari Vega.

*If show note links below do not work please visit my blog post at http://www.marivega.me/blog/welcome-to-season-2

Jeanelle Canelo, M.S., CCC-SLP/TSSLD-BEA, is a NY State Licensed and Certified Bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist. Currently, she works with the pediatric population and is available for private clients of all ages. Jeanelle is from Dominican descent and grew up bilingual. She has always had an appreciation for vocabulary and has a passion for language. She is an advocate for communication as being a human right. She is the creative behind hearforher.com and IG: @hearforher which is a platform to raise the bar for being HEARD and for Honest, Effective, & Reliable communication.

Show notes:

>>Understanding babies cries - Priscilla (Dunstan Baby Theory)

Link to refer to: https://www.dunstanbaby.com

>>Child Directed Speech

Link to refer to: http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/cellpract_pract/infant/PGPrac_I_ChildDirSpch_WM.pdf

>>Milestone research about girls being ahead of boys in vocabulary

Link to refer to: https://www.asha.org/slp/schools/prof-consult/norms/

>>Late Language Emergence/Late Talkers

Link to refer to: https://www.asha.org/PRPSpecificTopic.aspx?folderid=8589935380§ion=Causes

>>The Advantages of Being Bilingual - Learning another language DOES NOT cause speech or language problems or make them worse

Link to refer to: https://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/The-Advantages-of-Being-Bilingual/

Jeanelle can be contacted at:

Email: [email protected] / jc@hearforher.com IG: @hearforher