Talk Like a Mother: Parenting Autism Podcast

We dive into those hard moments of balance between the head and the heart. When you know you have to make a logical decision but your heart is screaming.  Join us for an in-depth conversation on all the worry that is parenting.  We open up about the late-night thoughts and decisions that leave us wondering if we are making the right choice.  We would love to hear your feedback on th...

How do you find time for self-care when you are struggling with surviving day today? Join us as we talk about where we find little moments of self-care and what self-care really looks like for us. We also discuss our feelings on the word self-care in general.  It is a mixed bag of funny and truth talk here.  We would love to hear your feedback on the podcast. Feel free to leave us a mess...

Join us for a fun laugh as we answer some quick who questions. You will hear some fun facts such as, who has the most tattoos, who takes 20 showers a day, who is most likely to cry, and who is likely to take a nap and never be heard from again. Then we will dive into more open-ended questions. Join us for a filled episode with lots of laughs.  We would love to hear your feedback on the podcas...

You will either laugh with us or cry for us. What was the highlight of our week, and by highlight we mean those moments in the week that you look back on and are glad they are over. Navigating parenting is hard, hard, hard sometimes let's talk about it. We talk about travel, preparation for an outing out of the house, recovering from the trips that do or don't go well, all the things you need to r...

A life path that we all share is our children's autism diagnosis and what that path looked like. We have girl moms and boy moms, there are differences in each one of our children's qualities but we share many common threads.  Listen to what got us to our medical diagnosis and the feelings that come along with that. Things we didn't know at the time, some signs we missed, and the steep learnin...

Here are our stories about holding those sweet babies for the first time and what it took us to get there. This episode will keep you on the edge of your seat. We have a little of everything, scheduled c-section, an adoption story, extreme back labor, 10-pound babies, and an emergency that ended in a NICU stay. Beautiful, amazing, hard, scary, and sweet that all ended in taking babies home for the...

We talk about all the unsolicited advice we received and still receive about parenting. Baby shower cards and the sweet messages that don't include the pressure we feel as new parents. Breastfeeding, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Anxiety around taking a brand new baby home. The expectations that you have as a new parent and how we were blindsided about all the things not talked about.  Adv...

Jenn Dunn, Rachel Flanagan, Jaime Ramos, Kim McIsaac, and Tabitha Cabrera discuss what ideas they had before children came into the picture. What type of parent did you think you would be? How did you feel when you saw a parent out and about with a loud device or a frustrated Mother in the snack aisle at Target. Hear what we thought parenting was going to be like how our ideas changed dramatically...