Hey Mama, I have questions.

Well, this episode turned out to be a perfect representation of us and this podcast. :D Tune in to get the cliff notes on our past few months and a behind the scenes of producing this podcast. Here's to Season 2! Hanna's exciting new endeavor: Website: https://amanas.love Instagram: @amanas.love foot note: MonthS long course. Plural. It was a very extensive course. (The Human Design Studies) I felt the need to make that clear. H Subtitles available on YouTube. Website: https://heymamaihavequestions.com Instagram: @heymamaihavequestions Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXTYyGb4RZ4Y0AMauCJOeZw

We're excited to be back with Season 2 of our pregnancy and parenting podcast on September 2nd 2021! In this second season, we will have many interesting and inspiring guests for you! See you on September 2nd! Website: https://heymamaihavequestions.com Instagram: @heymamaihavequestions Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXTYyGb4RZ4Y0AMauCJOeZw

Planes, trains and automobiles! Megan is going all over the place this summer and talks through the mental gymnastics of preparing to travel with a baby. What do you take? Will they sleep? It's gonna be an adventure. And we announce a break! Hey Mama I have questions is going on a hiatus until we launch Season 2 in September! Come back Thursday, September 2nd for a whole new season! We'll have interviews, we'll have great chats, we'll have toddler stories - it's gonna be great and we'll see you then!! In the meantime, you can check in with us on Instagram! Subtitles available on YouTube. Website: https://heymamaihavequestions.com Instagram: @heymamaihavequestions Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXTYyGb4RZ4Y0AMauCJOeZw

It's hard to have hard conversations. In this episode, we talk about how it's still hard to navigate relationships with your children's grandparents even when they're wonderful! How do we set boundaries and strike a balance? How do we stand up for ourselves and our child without pushing away the people we love and want to embrace in our wider family? If you've figured it out - let us know!! Subtitles available on YouTube. Website: https://heymamaihavequestions.com Instagram: @heymamaihavequestions Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXTYyGb4RZ4Y0AMauCJOeZw

We talk about how toxic masculinity is more than a buzz word today - it's emotional. We wade through the small and pervasive pieces of socialization that create a value filter through which we see even tiny adorable babies, and how we try as parents and just generally to work against our instincts and stop perpetuating that s***. And also about how Megan is dyeing shirts. Subtitles available on YouTube. Website: https://heymamaihavequestions.com Instagram: @heymamaihavequestions Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXTYyGb4RZ4Y0AMauCJOeZw

Hanna brings us her dilemma today. She wants to throw the plans out the window and have a baby NOW. We talk planning vs winging it and trusting your instincts. We talk about the many reasons not to have a baby, give advice no one should follow, and contradict ourselves a bunch in an effort to figure out what she should do! Subtitles available on YouTube. Website: https://heymamaihavequestions.com Instagram: @heymamaihavequestions Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXTYyGb4RZ4Y0AMauCJOeZw

We needed a minute to process last week's conversation on emotion coaching this week (if you haven't listened - do it! It's an awesome conversation with an ECE veteran!) We talk about how we use it with children and with adults - even ourselves, and talk about respecting our own emotions and setting boundaries with our children. Subtitles available on YouTube. Website: https://heymamaihavequestions.com Instagram: @heymamaihavequestions Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXTYyGb4RZ4Y0AMauCJOeZw

Beth Frook joins us this week! She is an early childhood educator, teacher trainer, and parent coach. (And by an amazing stroke of luck, also Megan's mom!) She shares beautiful insights into emotion coaching and drops some serious knowledge and resources for parenting in all of our ears. We get deep into the real work of emotion coaching - dealing with our own emotional reality as parents. (Buckle in!) Emotion Coaching course by Drs. John and Julie Gottman https://www.instagram.com/gottmaninstitute/ Dr. Jane Healy: Endangered Minds: https://amzn.to/3wMfyeu* David Elkind: The Hurried Child: https://amzn.to/3x69rSH* Dr. Becky Bailey: Conscious Discipline: https://amzn.to/3vNwvoL* Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline: https://amzn.to/3gkENyb* https://www.instagram.com/consciousdiscipline/ Janet Lansbury: No Bad Kids - Toddler Discipline without Shame: https://amzn.to/2RYWGue* https://www.instagram.com/janetlansbury/ Brené Brown: All the places and all the books, especially: The Gifts of Imperfection: https://amzn.to/2SPZji3* https://www.instagram.com/brenebrown/ Dr. Becky Kennedy: https://www.instagram.com/drbeckyatgoodinside/ Drs. Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson: The Whole Brain Child: https://amzn.to/2RfyBie* Beth Frook: https://www.instagram.com/bluechairbeth/ https://www.instagram.com/musicbylittlehands/ www.littlehands.com Subtitles available on YouTube. Website: https://heymamaihavequestions.com Instagram: @heymamaihavequestions Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXTYyGb4RZ4Y0AMauCJOeZw *Affiliate Link

Well, we're a mess this week, and instead of trying to force it we're just popping in your feed to say hello and catch you up on a few life things. We talk the search for mom-friends, our hopes for interviews coming up, human design, and how the good stuff is still good even if it doesn't make the hard stuff easier. Subtitles available on YouTube. Website: https://heymamaihavequestions.com Instagram: @heymamaihavequestions Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXTYyGb4RZ4Y0AMauCJOeZw

Disclaimer: I advise to not use ear phones for this episode. (Sorry) (There are some spikes in the microphone once in a while. I edited as best I could, but couldn't get rid of all of them without losing context. So please, listen to this one on speaker, as to protect your ear drums. Love, Hanna.) Megan and Hanna talk "reduce, reuse, recycle" around babies and how we attempt to navigate the mental load of parenting sustainably, and feeling like we're not doing enough. It can be such an overwhelming topic, but it's one we both find important, and sometimes even fun! Subtitles available on YouTube Webseite: https://heymamaihavequestions.com Instagram: @heymamaihavequestions Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXTYyGb4RZ4Y0AMauCJOeZw