The Mom Feed

Approximately 11% of children in the US between the age of 4 and 17 have been diagnosed with ADHD. With 3.5 million children currently prescribed Adderall and more than 42% of people aged 12 and over abusing the drug without a prescription, it is clearly one of the most pressing issues of our time.  My guest today, Audrey Stimpson, is a master photographer who overcame a 23 year Adderall addiction...

Do you know how many days you have from the moment your child is born until their 18th birthday? 6570 days. That's how many days you have to make an impact on them great enough that when they go out into the world, they are equipped with the tools they need to thrive. According to my guest today, Nellie Harden, your job as a parent is to help them develop self-led discipline and leadership. I...

Infant sleep. Sleep training. Sleep regressions. To swaddle or not to swaddle. Noise machines or not. Black out blinds or not. Teaching babies to self soothe. Putting babies down drowsy but awake. Co sleep or not? Feed and rock to sleep or let them do it on their own? There is not shortage of questions that new parents have when they come home from the hospital with their newborns.  Dr. Google can...

Working moms. Stay at home moms. Each role comes with its own set of rewards and challenges, and each role undoubtedly renders each mother completely exhausted by the end of the day. My guest today is Sarah Zapp, former TV host, journalist, reporter, and producer who earned multiple Telly awards and 8 Emmy nominations. Today we talk about her current role as CEO and founder of Beyond Board, as wel...

Do you ever have thoughts about your life as a mother that you feel like you need to keep private? Thoughts like oh my gosh, I don't want to play with my kids. Or I have no idea what I'm doing. Or I don't like my life right now. Life as a mom isn't for the faint of heart. And life as a stay-at-home mom comes with its own set of unique challenges including feelings around not ha...

It's safe to say that many of us go into motherhood with a plan. Heck, we go into labor with a plan. And it's also safe to say that almost none of it ever goes the way we want it to. Many of us envision a birth that isn't anything like the one we actually experience. And many of us think we're going to be one way as a mother, and then get a rude awakening once our child is in o...

Motherhood is perhaps one of the biggest balancing acts of our lives. How can we be present for our children, ourselves, our work, our partners, our everything? Is that even possible? If you've been struggling to find balance in your life as a mom, whether you work outside of the home or are a stay-at-home mom, today's episode is going to transform your life. Cherylanne Skolnicki is a me...

If you find yourself surviving but not thriving in your life both within and outside of motherhood, a deep dive into the mother wound might be what the doctor ordered. It can manifest in many ways, including martyrdom, perfectionism, a feeling of being unworthy, and much more. In today's episode, energetic healer, tarot reader, and pilates guru, Tandy Gutierrez of Unicorn Wellness Studio, tak...

If you're a mama with a baby on the way, or you have an infant or young child at home and you're struggling with sleep, today's episode is going to be extremely helpful to you. Lauren Heffernan is a certified pediatric sleep specialist and co-creator of the Baby-Led Sleep Approach. Essentially, Lauren teaches a holistic approach to improving infant sleep without using any sleep trai...

You're a mom, so we already know you're a superstar. But riddle me this: do you feel like you're thriving? Or do you feel like you're sort of just coasting through your days, surviving and just barely keeping all the balls up in the air? Unfortunately, most mothers feel like the latter, and that feeling of just getting by, of pushing ourselves and our needs to the side comes fr...

Are you trying to conceive or currently pregnant and wondering about the best foods and supplements to consume? Is it ok to eat sushi? Can I have caffeine? How about alcohol? Will oats increase my breast milk production? Will eating dates induce labor? There are so many questions around preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum nutrition. Today on the show, Ryann Kipping, AKA The Prenatal Nutrition...

Parenting in the best of times is hard enough. Add in a worldwide pandemic and you've essentially turned parenting into an extreme sport. As we shepherd these young souls into the future, we hope that they will be so many things: resilient, kind, successful, dependable. And also...not assholes! Today's guest, Melinda Wenner Moyer, is a parenting and science journalist whose new book, How...

So, you had a baby. You went to that 6-week postpartum check-up at your OB's office and you got the "all clear" to begin working out again. Hooray! But wait! Do you feel ready to do that? For most women, the answer is no, at least not from a physical standpoint. This is where our current healthcare system fails new moms because, in a perfect world, part of her care team would includ...

So, you're a busy mom with a burning desire to do something more. Maybe you're a working mom with a job that you're feeling lukewarm about - or perhaps even despise outright. Or you're a stay-at-home mom with a business idea or a side hustle that you need help getting off the ground. There is just one problem, possibly two. The biggest one? You don't have enough time. And...

Do you find yourself in a standoff with your toddler too many days to count? Do you find yourself saying, "No!" so often that it's becoming the most used word in the house? Or maybe you are just looking for some new parenting tips to put into your toolbox to help you raise your infant, toddler or even preschooler with confidence. If you're looking to feel empowered while also r...

Are you a business owner? Or perhaps you work either as a stay-at-home mom or outside of the home, but you have a burning passion - a side hustle, real or imagined - that you wish could be your main source of income. In today's show, I sit down with Gina Bianchini, the CEO and founder of Mighty Networks, a SasS (Software as a Service) company. Mighty Networks prides itself on serving what the...

It's not easy to talk about, but as death doesn't discriminate, sometimes it comes for us far too early, and sometimes even when we least expect it. In the case of today's guest, fashion designer and founder of Spring Time in Brooklyn, Zoey Tzfanya, death came for her husband, Jacob, when their two boys were just 2 and 6 years old. It was sudden and tragic, and Zoey found herself re...

Parenting is for life. We come to this earth as children who are parented, and then we have children of our own and we realize we still have parenting to do...for ourselves! Many of us have discovered the tools of self-development in order to reparent ourselves in adulthood, but what if we could offer those same tools to our children, much earlier than we discovered them ourselves? That's the...

When was the first time any health care professional talked to you about your pelvic floor? Did you know it makes up part of your core, well beyond your abdominal muscles? Most women don't hear about their pelvic floor until they have a postpartum condition like prolapse or bladder leakage. Which is a shame, because with some conservative care and attention on the pelvic floor, we can possibl...

Being a mother is already one of the hardest jobs on the planet. Add in parenting in a pandemic and you've got a recipe for a whole lot of hard. My guest today is Success Coach & founder of The Future is Greater , Maxine Nwaneri, and her superpower is to help mothers create the life of their dreams. Yes, even in a pandemic. Yes, even when they don't have help with their kids. It IS p...

Dealing with infertility is a hard, lonely journey that no woman ever expects she'll have to go through. If you find yourself in those shoes and you are looking for some support, today's guest, Caitlin Strempel, might be just what you have been looking for. After dealing with infertility struggles herself, she decided to take a break from all the fertility treatments and work on herself....

Are you a stay-at-home mom looking to go back to work but you're worried about how it'll work with your kids? Or maybe you're working from home and trying to juggle your children, online school, and your job? Whether you're a stay-at-home mom looking to make a change or currently working and feeling like you need some support, today's episode will help. I sit down with #mo...

In today’s show, we have the privilege of getting an inside scoop into the world of motherhood with CEO and founder of Serenity Kids , Serenity Carr. The timing couldn’t be more perfect, given the report that came out last week finding many of the leading baby food companies had toxic levels of heavy metals in them. Thankfully, due to Serenity's and her husband and business partner, Joe’s, de...

Have you ever considered fostering, adopting, or fostering to adopt? Do you know someone who might be? Not every woman's path to motherhood is the same, and in today's episode, yoga & meditation teacher, Mary Beth LaRue, recounts her and her husband's road to parenthood. Three years ago, they fostered their son, Angel, when he was just 6 days old. In today's show, you'...

Are you in love with your body? Do you feel like you think and talk about your body the way you would want your daughter to think and talk about hers? It's no secret that us women are fed all kinds of subliminal messages from a very young age about what the "perfect" body "should" look like, and none of it is very productive or supportive. Rather than spend another minute...