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Alyssa Garrison is a feeler of feelings, lover of love - On the hunt for everyday magic, dreamy pastels and fairytale endings. With a degree in journalism, Alyssa launched her own website to give platform to her voice, sharing personal stories and honest musings with her audience from day one. On a mission to become a mom on her own terms, Alyssa found a donor and inseminated with the support of her doctor, family and friends. She expects her first baby February 2017!
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How Mama Made It - A new series where we chat with mompreneurs on how they build their business, their tips and tricks, and what inspired them. Alison Gordon is the Founder and Inventor of Dwypers - The grab and go solution to getting out the door, on your way, with only what you need: A diaper, a pack of wipes, and a changing pad. (8:25) Dwypers lightbulb moment (20:30) Mama Advice (22:20) Kids' benefitting from entrepreneur parents (28:10) Biz Advice for mompreneurs
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Happy Monday from Aminah + Bryce!
We chat about a lot in this episode. Like a lot.
HIGHLIGHTS:
1:40 Unapparently Fact of The Day
You produce more blood when you're pregnant (um ok)
"Your total volume of blood is 50% higher than usual and cardiac output (the amount of blood pumped out with each heartbeat) increases by 40%)" which is totally why Aminah hasn't been able to breathe. We found out that breathlessness during pregnancy could also mean you're anemic!
3:55 Finding the Right Pregnancy Care
Finding a midwife in our area was no easy task and because of our last miscarriage, we were armed with all of the things that were non-negotiables. We fired two midwives before we found one that we absolutely LOVED.
8:20 Contact every midwifery clinic
If at first you don't get a midwife, keep on trying because sooner or later you'll get one. We decided on our current midwife when we were around 10 weeks pregnant. All the tests that are usually done when you first learn you're pregnant were all done through a local walk-in clinic (most don't get referred to an obstetrician until they're 12 weeks anyway). Most of the clinics in our area were at capacity, so we were placed on waitlists. We started looking for midwives, knowing how busy they would be, when we found out we were pregnant at 4 weeks 1 day.
9:50 The most important question
The determining question for whether we would be comfortable with a midwife or not, was whether they would have handled our last miscarriage the same way. We needed every person who cared for us during this pregnancy to always order a follow up ultrasound if there was any hesitation on the findings. If the midwife wasn't prepared to do this, we couldn't trust them.
11:30 Find out what’s important to you
Whether you have an ideal birth plan in mind or something absolutely terrifies you, your ob/midwife/family doc need to be on the same page. Communicate your needs with them and be your own advocate. Having a doula on your side can also help you advocate during your pregnancy and birth.
19:42 Why we had a name reveal
After the first miscarriage, we still wanted a way to celebrate getting so far with this baby and wanted to celebrate something other than society's gender traditions. So instead of celebrating their genitalia, we celebrated baby's name!
21:00 Gender binary norms (spoiler: we hate them)
You can read all about why we hate them, here.
25:00 “What Gender Reveal Parties Reveal About Us” - Stuff Mom Never Told You Podcast
Your homework is to listen to this episode of the Stuff Mom Never Told You Podcast. Jk, but seriously, it's really eye opening.
33:00 Drag Queens Read to Kids
Can I sign up to have the Drag Queens read to me? Here's what's happening at the Toronto Public Library and the controversy behind it.
Follow Aminah tell her pregnancy story and follow Bryce tell his version of Aminah's pregnancy story.
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Aminah + Bryce are back! Listen along with us as we chat about whether the internet thinks we're ready to have a baby and other interesting internet parenting musings we came across this week, from facebook mom groups to the daddit reddit thread.
Highlights:
Taking a quiz on whether they're ready to be parents (6:00), discuss a Facebook "mom group" post on sex and the first trimester (37:00), and a case of papa post partum depression from reddit (43:00)
This episode of Unapparenthood is brought to you in part by Mom Friends. Mom Friends has shipped hundreds of kits across Canada. In addition to free shipping they're offering listeners of Unapparenthood $10 off your first order with discount code UNAPPARENT10. Visit momfriends.ca and enter UNAPPARENT10 at checkout. -
Aminah interviews doula and founder of Birth Boss, Rhiannon Langford to talk all things pregnancy support - support that doesn't end when pregnancy does. Whether a pregnancy ends in a loss (9:50) or you have a fantastic birth, Rhiannon speaks to how important support around the birthing person is. Learn how to take back your power during pregnancy (4:01), what the heck a birth vision board is (19:57), and why doulas are actually important to help support the dads/other moms/support person in the room (16:15)
Rhiannon is a full-spectrum doula and founder of Birth Boss Maternity Care. She is all about keeping it real with moms and dads by bringing judgement-free support, knowledge, and a bit of laughter into the birth & postpartum space. Her philosophy has been deeply influenced by her study of women’s health & birth justice during her postgraduate studies at Columbia University, and background in nutrition, aromatherapy, and crystal healing.
Learn more and get in touch with Rhiannon, the Birth Boss here:
thebirthboss.com | Instagram: @birthbossco | Twitter: @birthbossco | Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/birthboss
Follow Aminah tell her pregnancy story @aminahhaghighi
Follow Bryce tell his version of Aminah's pregnancy story here @bryceseto
Read along with our blog posts, reviews, and articles at unapparenthood.com
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Aminah + Bryce fill you in on everything that's happened in the past 18 months of their relationship. They swiped right, moved in, became pregnant, got engaged, had a miscarriage, and are somehow pregnant again. They share their story about how they met on Bumble, what pregnancy during the launch of their vegan taco pop-up was like, and how hard their miscarriage hit them.
A real, honest recollection of how they've spent the entirety of their very short relationship. -
Unapparenthood is your cool, relatable, and hilarious parent-friend that gives you actual advice you need.
Advice like "do we actually need to get wipe warmers?" or "can I peppermint oil for this killer pregnancy migraines even though I'm pregnant?". You know how our parents are always giving seriously outdated and unneeded advice? Yeah, we're not like that. We're the cool parent-friend.
We're not going to sugarcoat the hard stuff or sweat the small stuff. We're millennial, entrepreneurial, and even listen to our own playlists on spotify while we read step-by-step instructions on how to swaddle a baby. We're that friend.
So we met, moved in together, had a miscarriage, then got pregnant pretty soon after. And that brings us here, with you.
