Today it was so fun to chat with Kate Taylor, music therapist and birth doula and owner of Creative Childbirth Concepts. I was fascinated with how Kate used her music therapy background to provide support for family's in her work as a doula, and I think you will find this information so interesting and helpful.  We talked about so many different things but here are some highlights:

• How music can be incorporated into not only your birth but your postpartum experiences as well
• How music is used during a birth
• Helpful tips for choosing your birth playlist
• How to find a music therapist for your birth
• How she incorporated music into both of her birth experiences and how it also helped her deal with jaundice and her daughter having to stay at the hospital after she was discharged
• How to choose the best lullaby based on baby's brain development (so many things I hadn't thought of!)
• The importance of doulas! (a common topic on this show)
• Love Languages for helping out in postpartum

Learn more about Music Therapy for Childbirth and Kate here. 

The article I mentioned about Empathy Burn Out.

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Today is a special episode because I got to talk with another one of my dear friends here in Sacramento. Stephanie Dullanty is a birth doula, postpartum doula and birth photographer and mom to Rio. Stephanie and I met through Capital City Doulas and she is such a sweet and wonderful person. I am so happy to share her and her wife Martha's story of how they experienced conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum.  

In this episode we talk about:

• How she and Martha chose their sperm donor (They used Pacific Reproductive Services) and how complicated the process can be to conception
• How she came to birth work
• Ways that we can be more inclusive to queer families in birth education and parenting
• Her beautiful birth story with Rio
• The importance of finding community
• Struggling with Rio's colic
• Balancing going back to work when your baby or toddler has only had one primary caregiver

You can find out more about Stephanie at her website Rio City Birthworks

If you are local to Sacramento, please check out our calendar at Capital City Doulas to see when the next Mama Talks event is.

Also, check out  Capital City Music Together if you're local, or check out Music Together in your area if you're elsewhere. 

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I so enjoyed chatting with Sarah Homec, who is one of the cofounders of Mommy Mailbox and mom to 3 boys. Her youngest was just 4 months when we recorded this, and I so appreciated her willingness to talk about motherhood right while she's in the thick of it with her newest addition.  Mommy Mailbox also has generously offered to giveaway one of their June Mommy Mailboxes to one lucky listener! Be sure to enter the rafflecopter giveaway below. 

In this episode we chat about:

• How Mommy Mailbox got started and how it works
• Her C-Section Stories
• The importance of having a village of friends around you
• The challenges of going from one to two kids and two to three
• How good just a clean house can make you feel
• The illusive idea of balance in motherhood and how it's more like a pendulum

You can learn more about Mommy Mailbox here and be sure to enter the rafflecopter giveaway for a chance to win the June Mommy Mailbox!

As always, please consider subscribing and leaving a review on iTunes here. Your reviews really help the show out because they allow it to be more visible so that we can reach more moms. 

Do you shop on Amazon?  Use this link and do your shopping as you always would and the show will get a teeny tiny kickback. 

The podcast is also sponsored by Audible.com.  To get your FREE audiobook and 30-day trial, please go to http://www.audibletrial.com/postpartum  

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oday I chat with author, writing teacher and mama of 1, Kate Abbott.  Kate recently released her memoir Walking After Midnight: Into and Out of Postpartum Depression which I had the privilege of reading before our chat.  Her memoir is so beautifully written, and I could relate to her story so much.  I know that her story will resonate with so many moms and particularly those that have experienced Postpartum Depression/Anxiety. 

In her episode we chat about:

• Her experience with bed rest and her fast birth story
• Her new memoir & postpartum depression story
• The importance of knowing the signs of postpartum depression and sharing them with your family, partner and close friends so they know what to look for.
• Her journey to starting medication and how it changed her whole life when Henry was 8 months old.
• How we need to talk more about mental health
• A new postpartum idea of bringing a gift card to a food place for new families

Enjoy! 

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