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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…
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…
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…
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…