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LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE! Season 2 of Pandemic Mama is here! Irina Gonzalez, journalist, toddler mom, and the host gives us an update on why the podcast disappeared for almost an entire year and what she’s been up to since. In this episode, Irina …
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 …
Irina talks with Latinx pop culture expert and dad Jesus Triviño about what it was like to adopt his daughter just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss his and his wife’s 9-year struggle to have a baby and how it all finally came together in just 9 weeks. They also get into his “dad self-care” and what it was like to be quarantined with a newborn inn New York City.
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LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE! Irina talks with freelance writer and mom of three Lauren Wellbank about what it is like to welcome her third baby in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss the positives of her high-risk pregnancy, how this postpartum period is different …
LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE! Journalist and new mom Irina Gonzalez shares her own pandemic birth and parenting story. She talks about her first-trimester miscarriage, the anxiety of her second pregnancy, and what it was like to suddenly find herself 36 weeks pregnant during the …