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6. Being a Stay-at-Home Mom with a New Baby with Casey

Posted on October 21, 2020February 2, 2021 by Irina Gonzalez

LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE! Irina talks with Casey, a former professor and stay-at-home mom-of-3, about what it’s like to be welcome a new baby during the pandemic when you’ve already got two little ones running around. We discuss how giving birth during the pandemic unexpectedly brought her closer to her neighbors, making new and…

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Pandemic Mama with Kelly Fitzgerald Junco

4. Pregnancy Anxiety During the Pandemic with Kelly Fitzgerald Junco

Posted on October 7, 2020February 2, 2021 by Irina Gonzalez

LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE! Irina talks with writer and head of marketing at This Naked Mind, Kelly Fitzgerald Junco, about what it’s like to experience her first pregnancy during the pandemic. They talk all about her pregnancy anxiety after experiencing a miscarriage last year, the stress of figuring out how to celebrate milestones with…

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Quarter 1 of 2020 Writer’s Life

Posted on March 27, 2020August 31, 2020 by Irina Gonzalez

This has probably been the craziest working quarter of my entire life, and I can’t imagine that it’s about to get any easier. I was in my third trimester the entire time, which meant a LOT of sleepless nights due to pregnancy insomnia and a lot of anxiety. And that’s not even to mention the…

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50 Ways I tried to heal after a miscarriage

Posted on May 3, 2019January 22, 2020 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter: Self-Care For Writers. It’s never easy to admit to something difficult and painful in a public way but, here I am, admitting that I recently had a miscarriage. In fact, I wrote about it on Instagram (and my other social media channels) earlier this week, just after my doctor confirmed what I…

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Irina Gonzalez is a journalist, editor, and sober bisexual Latina mom with ADHD. She is the author of the Parenting in Hard Mode newsletter—for those of us who are raising social justice-minded families and getting real about mental health for parents navigating life on the difficult setting. She is also working on an upcoming book on impactful Latinx Americans with The Quarto Publishing Group.

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