This week on the podcast we have YouTube mom Roxy Limon. She shares with us her tips and tricks on how to be a full time mom and keep up with her busy schedule as a Youtuber. We share new mom stories and talk husbands, shopping and try to remember what we used to do with our spare time pre-baby
This week we have our bravest super mama to date, Andrea Manzano - the mother of miracle baby Mathew. He was born with two rare heart conditions called heterotaxy syndrome and TAPVR. Mathew's resilience and Andreas faith guided her through this journey. Everyone told Andrea her baby would't make it and today baby Mathew is a three year old boy full of life. She is the true definition if a Super Mama and we hope she is an inspiration to all moms who may be going through similar situations. Her story has been featured on Univision and La Opinion. Click on the links below to read and watch more of Andrea and miracle baby Mathew.
A pesar de los pronósticos negativos, el pequeño Matthew Vázquez ha logrado sobrevivir gracias a la medicina moderna y al apoyo de su madre. Noticiero Univision: María Elena Salinas y Jorge Ramos te informan de los principales acontecimientos en tu ciudad, en tu país y en el mundo.
Matthew ha sido un niño afortunado o como su madre lo dice un "Milagro." Ella agradece en parte a la gran ayuda que ha recibido a través de la American Heart Association. Usted también puede ayudar haciendo pequeñas contribuciones o participando en las caminatas Heart Walk de la asociación.
This week on the podcast, you asked, and we answered! We decided to do a Q & A with you, our lovely listeners and tried to answer all of your questions as best as we could. You guys wanted to know our tips on flying with babies, dealing with unwanted advise, criticism and judgment from outsiders, how do we keep our traditions alive with the kids, how to really help a new mommy plus so much more!! Also, we catch up on our last crazy couple of weeks and Bricia shares with us her latest (and toughest) milestone with baby Eduardo Santiago.
#SUPERMAMAPICK OF THE WEEK:
Linda (@Luzwarrior)'s new Youtube Channel:
Pastor Holly's message on the Christmas Spirit:
This week we have Certified Midwife Lauren French better known as “Madre Luz” answering all of your questions. Lauren is a Certified Midwife that has a lot of experience in Traditional Midwifery. We cover a lot of subjects from Natural Induction, Natural Birth, C-Sections, Breastfeeding, 40 day care and the miracle of the placenta. She gives us a better understanding on this amazing miracle that is giving birth and hope that the views we have on labor can change. You can get in contact with her by clicking on the pictures below or emailing her info@madreluz.com
Childbirth Without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth by Grantly Dick-Read
Active Birth: The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally by Janet Balaskas
Learn how to breastfeed laying down
Medela Supplemental nursing system
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increasing supply of milk- drink atole de ajonjoli, dark beer, soak barley in water overnight and use that water to make fennel tea.
Make Fenugreek herb, passion flower & chamomile(to relax),
This week on the podcast we have our dear friend Melissa Garcia, also known as @chasingclothes Melissa is a fashion blogger who is going to talk about her early years when she used to work picking up blueberries on the fields during the summer. And how she dreamed so big that she later became personal assistant and stylist to different celebrities. She will also be sharing some fashion tips with us and we will be talking about, bullying, a very important subject for us parents.
Bricia’s Picks- Color Science: Loose mineral sunscreen SPF50 & bare essentials complexion rescue in ginger
Paulina’s Picks- Teddy Organics’s Rose water spray
Melissa’s Picks- Invest in a lipstick. Her favorites are from MAC cosmetics
This week we have another amazing guest, Marta Castro, better known as @MrsCastro on Instagram. Martha is a Big Social Media Mommy with a super stylish little boy and her second baby on the way. She comes in to share her point of view on the good things and the bad things Social Media brings and how sometimes it affects many people’s parenting style and choices. We also touch a little bit about infertility issues a lot of us have faced but no one talks about. Plus Bricia shares with us her painful yet fun weekend stories.
This week Paulina and Bricia sit down for a good old sister talk. Paulina talks about how exhausting October has been, from planning birthday parties, school functions, holidays, costumes, work, teething and visits to Disneyland. This month turned out to be a real challenge! Also, Bricia talks about how she has worked around not having help with her baby for some weeks. And they both share how they are trying to teach their kids about Halloween and “Dia de los Muertos” by celebrating both days with the different American and Mexican traditions.
This week we have yet another #MomBoss with us, our friend Evelyn Jimenez is here to share her story. Evelyn became a single teen mom when she was 17 years old but that didn’t stop her from achieving her dreams, and thanks to her focus and determination she is now an executive in the fashion industry. Evelyn found love again and became a mommy for the second time less than 2 years ago. She will tell us what is like to raise a pre-adult and a toddler at the same time and how different her experiences have been being a mom once as a teenager and again as an adult.
This week’s guest Roxie Jimenez is the owner of one of the Fit4Mom franchises in LA, which houses Stroller Strides. Our episode started out being about health and staying active, but Roxie opened up and shared with us one of the hardest experiences she has lived. Miscarriage. A very hard subject to speak about in our community as it is surrounded with shame and pain for all involved. Roxie is extremely brave and wanted to share her story in hopes to reach anyone out there that has gone through this same situation and to let them know that they are not alone and how speaking out has helped her slowly heal.
This week on the show we have the #QueenMom that started it all, our beautiful Mother, Maria de Jesus. The backbone of the family, and our biggest example of sacrifice and love for her children. She shares with us her story on how she lived her 40 dias (40 days) when Paulina was born back in Oaxaca where she was taken care of by her mother and grandmother with all the rituals and very strict rules new mothers had when giving birth and how her experiences changed over time with each one of her children. She also shares a lot of “remedios tradicionales” (traditional remedies) that have been passed on by generations and that you can still try at home with your little ones. Oh! And the question of who is the favorite daughter is finally answered! You know you don’t want to miss that!!
Our dear friend Ariana Stein comes to the show this week to share her amazing story. Aside from holding a corporate job, Ariana is the Co-Founder of Lil Libros and Founder of 1800-PET TAXI. She gives us a glimpse into her busy life and how she balances being a mom and a wife while still kicking butt at what she does, teaching us once again that you can accomplish anything as long as you work hard and dream big. She also shares with us a very personal story about how finding out she had a fibroid made her look at having children in a totally different light. And thou her pregnancy was tough she would totally do it again.
Paulina’s Best Friend of 20 years, Jackie Bravo joins us this week for a comadre session. We talk babies, cars, sex and trying to make time not only for ourselves, but for our friends and husbands too. We know that making time may sometimes sound impossible, but we explore different things we can all try to get a couple of minutes alone, get it together and come back refreshed to tackle whatever life throws at us.
This week on the podcast, Bricia invites Erika Orosco Cruz to the studio so she can finally tell us what is this RIE thing Bricia is always talking about. Erica has been using this technique for over 19 years with her 3 sons and now runs a children’s school with this philosophy. Even though RIE sounds very unfamiliar to us. Learn a little more about this parenting philosophy along with Paulina and find out if she was convinced to change her traditional ways to the RIE ways.
This week on the podcast we touch on a very difficult subject that still remains very much a taboo in our culture, Post Partum Depression. Our dear friend Elena Smith (Nena) comes to share her story on how she is learning to deal with this situation while caring for her toddler and six month old baby girl. Also, Paulina goes deeper into her own personal journey with Postpartum depression and talks about how seeking for help and speaking out has changed her life completely.
Our Girlfriend Betsy Aimee Cardenas shares her intimate story and teaches us that happiness isn't about being happy when everything is going your way, but about being happy regardless of what is happening outside of you. We've linked each picture below to one of her published articles. We hope you all find her stories as inspiring as we have.
This week on our podcast, Paulina's husband is here! Ramiro stopped by to give us the insight on daddy-hood and his reaction to their three year old asking about daddy's 'package' for the first time. We also discuss our own personal experiences with the non-existent 'sex talk' as children with our parents and share other personal embarrassing stories of our own.
On this week’s episode we go into a subject that has come up again and again among our listeners and guests, what's the easiest way to keep our kids bilingual ?! We have invited a dear friend of ours, Rebecca Bernard Aguiar, Co-Founder of World City Center, a dual-language Preschool to help us put some light on this subject and other school related issues. We talk about the struggles of maintaining our language alive, and the craziness behind getting our kids into preschool, TK and Kinder (and you thought labor was hard!).
This week in our podcast Bricia talks about her Birth Story. She tells us how she “trained” for that special moment and how staying informed and learning about birth helped her be prepared and have the labor she wanted. After labor, things changed very quickly and unexpectedly so she, as many of us do had to roll with with the punches and accept that when it comes to having a baby the only perfect thing is the baby itself.
This week in our podcast we have our dear friend Melina Mata, Producer and director for Latino Music Entertainment Television, who is not just a #SuperMama, she is way more than that, she is a #SingleSuperMama, she shares with us her journey through this challenging yet rewarding adventure, how she has managed to still achieve her goals and dreams while doing it it all on her own and teach her daughter to balance life between two households. We hope her story inspires all you single Mamis out there!
This week in our podcast we have our #MomCrush Lily Martinez, Mom of 4 (plus two dogs), Creative Problem Solver, Designer, Illustrator, Pancake Ninja, Instagram sensation and overall down to earth #SuperMama. Lily tells us how she has grown in her Mommy journey and how she keeps her priorities straight to be able to take care of herself and therefore take care of her family. She inspires us to forgive ourselves, to avoid judgment and most important to enjoy life, have fun and live in the moment.
