Tell Me I'm a Good Mom with Lo Bosworth Natale

Surprise! This is Motherhood, lol ft. Cameron Oaks Rogers

This week, I'm joined by Cameron Oakes Rogers (aka Freckled Foodie) for a conversation that felt less like a podcast and more like the group chat every new mom wishes she had. We talk about the parts of motherhood nobody really prepares you for: postpartum depression, intrusive thoughts, identity shifts, medical trauma, the shock of pregnancy, and the reality of bringing a baby home when everyone seems focused on the baby—but not on you. Cam shares her experience with postpartum depression after her first child, why her second postpartum experience was completely different, and what changed. I open up about my own postpartum depression, the complications surrounding my delivery, and the lingering questions that come with medical trauma after birth. We also get into the massive gaps in postpartum care, why women are still left piecing together so much information on their own, and the pressure to have the "right" motherhood experience when the truth is that every journey looks different. And because no mom conversation is complete without it, we answer your questions about mom friendships, mom cliques, and the baby products we actually think are worth buying (and the ones we absolutely don't). If you've ever found yourself wondering, "Is this normal?"—this episode is for you. Topics include: * Postpartum depression and anxiety * Intrusive thoughts and maternal mental health * Pregnancy expectations vs. reality * Medical trauma after birth * Why postpartum care is still failing women * The identity shift of becoming a mother * Mom friendships and social pressure * Baby products worth the money (and what to skip) Because women deserve the truth about motherhood—and nobody should have to figure it out alone. Sponsors: Hatch: Visit www.hatch.co/baby [http://www.hatch.co/baby] to learn more about Hatch Baby, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target and Babylist registries. Cozyearth: Head to cozyearth.com [http://cozyearth.com/] and use my code GOODMOM for an exclusive 20% off, and if you see a post-purchase survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here. Right now, Merit Beauty is offering our listeners their Signature Makeup Bag with your first order at merit beauty dot com. Right now, Skylight is offering our listeners $30 off their 15 inch Calendars by going to My Skylight dot com slash GOODMOM. Grow Therapy: Visit GrowTherapy.com/GOODMOM [http://growtherapy.com/GOODMOM] today to get started. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth [https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth] 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth [https://substack.com/@lobosworth] 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com [https://lovewellness.com/] 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth [https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth] 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth [https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth] — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media [https://dearmedia.com/] podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Doing It Alone: Huda Mustafa on Single Motherhood, Fame, and Why You Get to Come First Too

Huda Mustafa is one of the most fun hangs I've had on the show. This week we get into all of it: becoming a mom young at 19 and single motherhood, the wild ride to fame, and what it's actually like to figure yourself out with the entire internet watching. It's honest and real — but mostly, it's just a blast. Then I open up The Group Chat to answer your questions about doing it alone in every sense. The literal kind, like how a new mom is even supposed to start dating again. And the sneaky kind — the mom who has a partner and somehow still feels like she's running the whole show solo. The thread tying it all together: making time for yourself isn't selfish. It's the whole point of how you make motherhood really work. — Sponsors: Rythm: Right now, Rythm is offering our listeners 15% off your first month and free shipping at https://rythm.health/goodmom [http://rythm.health/goodmom] Bon Charge: Go to https://boncharge.com [https://boncharge.com] and use code GOODMOM to save 15% 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth [https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth] 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth [https://substack.com/@lobosworth] 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com [https://lovewellness.com/] 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth [https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth] 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth [https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth] — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media [https://dearmedia.com/] podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Is Walking Away The Best Mom Move? ft. Hannah Bronfman

A few months postpartum with her daughter Claude, Hannah Bronfman folded a $40 million venture fund she'd spent two years raising. In this episode, she tells me exactly why, and the answer is not what I expected. We talk about what it means to walk away from something you spent two years on. About the moment your body starts telling you a job is wrong, and what it takes to actually listen. About fundraising as a woman investing in women's health in a market that quietly killed the girl boss. About being a wellness founder and not always feeling well, and the weird specific trap of selling health while privately falling apart. If you don't know Hannah, she's a wellness entrepreneur, investor, mom of two, and one of seven women starring in The CEO Club on Prime Video. She founded Beautified, has been creating on the internet for fifteen years, and is also one of my real life friends. We're both two-time IVF moms, so this one wanders. We get into peptides and the article that found lead in injectables. Progesterone shots and the hives she got on her butt. Whether you should put your kids on the internet, and what happens when one of them goes missing at preschool (it was a braid, not a child, relax). But the part I keep thinking about is the bigger question underneath all of it. Sometimes the version of success you've been chasing is the one quietly pulling you away from your kids. And walking away isn't failure. It's the mom move. Hit follow wherever you're listening, and I'll see you next week. — Sponsors: Hatch: Visit www.hatch.co/baby [http://www.hatch.co/baby] to learn more about Hatch Baby, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target and Babylist registries. Grow Therapy: Visit GrowTherapy.com/GOODMOM [http://growtherapy.com/GOODMOM] today to get started. Cozyearth: Head to cozyearth.com [http://cozyearth.com/] and use my code GOODMOM for an exclusive 20% off, and if you see a post-purchase survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here on Nuna: Nuna: Check out nunababy.com [http://nunababy.com/] or popping into your local Nordstrom to test it out — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth [https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth] 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth [https://substack.com/@lobosworth] 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com [https://lovewellness.com/] 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth [https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth] 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth [https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth] — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media [https://dearmedia.com/] podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

Why Emily Oster Breastfed When Her Data Says Formula Is Fine

If you read Crib Sheet during pregnancy or kept Expecting Better on your nightstand, you already know Emily Oster. She's the economist who reads the parenting studies the rest of us pretend to. The one who told a whole generation of women, with actual data, that we could relax about a lot of things we had been losing sleep over. I've been a fan for years. So when I got to sit down with her, I asked her every question I've had since I gave birth. We got into the breastfeeding thing. The part where she'll tell you formula is fine, and she'll also tell you she breastfed her own daughter and worked too hard at it because the pressure got to her too. We got into sleep training, and why a lot of the loudest voices yelling about it online happen to have a sleep course to sell. We got into the fact that one woman alone in a house with a newborn was never how this was supposed to work, and yet that's somehow the standard we're all being measured against. She also has a new book out called The Unexpected, about pregnancy after complications, which I have a lot of feelings about because that was my pregnancy too. If you've been quietly carrying guilt about how the early days went, or you're about to be in the early days, this one is for you. — Sponsors: Hatch: Visit www.hatch.co/baby [http://www.hatch.co/baby] to learn more about Hatch Baby, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target and Babylist registries. Nuna: Nuna: Check out nunababy.com [http://nunababy.com/] or popping into your local Nordstrom to test it out Cozyearth: Head to cozyearth.com [http://cozyearth.com/] and use my code GOODMOM for an exclusive 20% off, and if you see a post-purchase survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here on Rythm: Right now, Rythm is offering our listeners 15% off your first month and free shipping at rythm.health/goodmom [http://rythm.health/goodmom]. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth [https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth] 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth [https://substack.com/@lobosworth] 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com [https://lovewellness.com/] 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth [https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth] 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth [https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth] — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media [https://dearmedia.com/] podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

7 Kids, 4 Baby Daddies, And One Of Them Lives Next Door, With The OG Teen Mom Kailyn Lowry

I have one baby. Kailyn Lowry has seven. So obviously the first thing I asked her was how the f*ck her body has done that. I've been a Kailyn girly since the original Teen Mom days, so sitting across from her felt like a full circle moment from my own MTV era. Bonus: within thirty seconds we'd figured out she was a Laguna girly too. Match made in heaven. Kailyn has been a person in public since she was 17. Most of the women she came up with on MTV aren't here anymore. Kailyn is. She has millions of followers online, has built three podcasts, a podcast network, a book club, a publishing imprint, and a physical sports business in Delaware while raising seven kids with five different men. She also lives next door to one of her exes. They share a driveway. He can see into her kitchen window. Yes I asked her what that's like. We get into the baby daddy speed round (one word per ex, you're welcome), how she found out about the cheating on TikTok and turned the whole thing into a three-part Patreon special because everybody else was profiting off her pain so why wouldn't she, the c-section shelf, the beads she bought at Hobby Lobby because of her ADHD, and why she has to apply a full year in advance to move out of Delaware. Kailyn is one of the sharpest business minds I've sat across from. She also might be a little unhinged in the best possible way. Buckle up for a fantastic convo. Follow Tell Me I'm a Good Mom on Apple, subscribe on Spotify, and tell me your version in the YouTube comments. The longer read drops Sunday at lobosworth.substack.com. [http://lobosworth.substack.com/] Sponsors: Hatch: Visit www.hatch.co/baby [http://www.hatch.co/baby] to learn more about Hatch Baby, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target and Babylist registries. Nuna: Nuna: Check out nunababy.com [http://nunababy.com/] or popping into your local Nordstrom to test it out Cozyearth: Head to cozyearth.com [http://cozyearth.com] and use my code GOODMOM for an exclusive 20% off, and if you see a post-purchase survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here on Rythm: Right now, Rythm is offering our listeners 15% off your first month and free shipping at rythm.health/goodmom [http://rythm.health/goodmom]. — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth [https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth] 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth [https://substack.com/@lobosworth] 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com [https://lovewellness.com/] 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth [https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth] 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth [https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth] — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].