Community Episode: The Part Before The Baby
4/29/202645 min
Welcome to the first community episode of Tell Me I'm A Good Mom.
I read hundreds of stories that came in through the Q+A form, and the theme I couldn't stop reading was the part of motherhood that happens years before the baby arrives. The IVF cycles. The miscarriages. The diagnoses that blindside you. The appointments where a doctor asks you a question you don't have the vocabulary for yet.
In this episode I share three community stories with permission. Sherri, on seven IVF cycles and signing surrogacy papers in Mexico City at thirty-nine. Meghan, on a gestational diabetes diagnosis, a uterine infection after birth, and an OB phone call a week postpartum telling her half of her placenta was scar tissue. And Krystal, who miscarried alone in Cancún at a meditation retreat and chose radical openness on the other side of it.
I answer three listener questions, including one on vaginal microbiome health and fertility that is the reason I started Love Wellness ten years ago.
If you are in the middle of any of this, I hope this one finds you. Follow the show, and if you want to submit for the next one, the form is in my Instagram highlights.
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Lo Bosworth-Natoli· Host0:29
[upbeat music] Hi, I'm Lo Bosworth-Natoli, and I'm a first-time mom. Over the last decade, I have built wellness products for millions of women at my company Love Wellness, but nothing has rocked my world quite like having our miracle baby. Like, not even close. This is Tell Me I'm a Good Mom, a show about navigating modern motherhood in a culture that tracks our kids, but frankly, sidelines us, and [chuckles] I think it's time motherhood got a rebrand. Let's get into it. Seven IVF cycles, 38 eggs, zero embryos, a placenta that was half scar tissue, a miscarriage alone in Cancun while your husband is in Houston. Those are from four different women who recently wrote into this podcast. It's been on the air now for about six weeks. If you're trying to get pregnant right now, or you're in the middle of IVF, or you've lost