Solo sisters this week! Tez and Sarah are catching up on all things spooky season from Halloween plans to Sarah’s gas station mishap and the accidental F-bombs flying in front of the kids. They dive into velcro babies, the baby-vs-car-seat battle, solo parenting chaos, morning mayhem, bed sharing, chest sleeping, and celebrating another trip around the sun for our birthday babe, Sarah!
Resource links:
4moms Mamaroo Baby Swing
Skylight Smart Family Calendar
@happycosleeper
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More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Saying Her Name with Joy - Lindzi Scharf on Motherhood, Grief, and Evan’s Light
This week, we sit down with writer, producer, essayist and friend Lindzi Scharf (whose work has appeared in The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter no less!) Lindzi opens up about her journey through motherhood, grief, and joy. She shares the story of her daughter Evan, whose bright light continues to shape her family’s world, and her son Reed, who carries that light forward.
We talk about what it means to hold space for both heartbreak and happiness, the beautiful complexity of being a “medical mom,” and the lessons in presence that Evan left behind. From IVF and resilience to laughter and letting go of labels, Lindzi reminds us that people are not their diagnoses and that saying our children’s names with love keeps them alive in the most powerful way.
Resource links:
theretaility.com
joyfulgrief.substack.com
@lindzischarf
This episode is proudly sponsored by Wayfair!
www.wayfair.com
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DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20
More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The Postpartum Debrief - Boozies, Birth, and Bodily Love
Sarah and Teresa are flying solo this week for a bestie catch-up and postpartum debrief. Tez shares her first few weeks of newborn life from sexy adult diapers to having the biggest boozies in the land. Baby Lotus drops a bomb… literally, a live gift for the Dazeys (and her mum!) The girls talk newborn sleep, doing things differently this time around, the beauty of family-centered birth, A Discovery of Witches birth scene inspo, and the vulnerability of putting real, raw, family centered birth videos out into the world.
Resource links:
Bubba Bump
Solly Baby Wrap Carrier
Artipoppe Baby Carrier
BabyBjorn Baby Carrier
This episode is proudly sponsored by Wyzant and Branch Basics!
wyzant.com (use code Podcast15 to enjoy $15 off your first lesson)
branchbasics.com (save 15% off with code MOTHERDAZE)
Follow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen
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FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/
DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20
More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Pelvic Floor 101: Healing, Strength, and Support with Dr. Allison Oswald
In this episode, we’re diving deep (literally and figuratively!) into one of the most important yet often misunderstood parts of our bodies: the pelvic floor. Joining us is the incredible Dr. Allison Oswald, a pelvic health specialist who helps women reconnect to their bodies through every stage of pregnancy, birth, and beyond.
We unpack what the pelvic floor actually is, why it deserves your attention (hint: it does way more than just hold things in place), and how to support and strengthen it through mindful movement, breathwork, and awareness. We also talk about healing after birth, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, including ways to process and care for yourself after birth trauma.
This episode couldn’t have come at a better time it was recorded it just days before Teresa gave birth, and she ended up using many of Dr. Oswald’s techniques during her own postpartum recovery!
Resource links:
EPI-NO Childbirth Trainer
allisonoswald.com
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DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20
More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Birthing Lotus Bloom: Teresa’s 5th birth story
Lotus Bloom’s Birth Story
In this very special episode, Teresa recounts the homebirth of her 5th baby, Lotus Bloom. From the wild chaos in the days leading up to labour to a last-minute pivot (and then a re-pivot!) in her birth plans and then getting sick right before the big day (it was a faaar from smooth lead up!) She also recounts the long stretches of prodromal labour, the rituals and tools that carried her through contractions and the funny and unexpected moments along the way.
Tez also talks about getting into a super psychedelic state she as labour deepened, the profound joy of having all of her children present to witness their sister’s arrival and the magical moment she discovered her baby was a she!!
This is Teresa’s full, minute-by-minute retelling of Lotus’s birth, truly the birth of her dreams.
This episode is proudly sponsored by Hungryroot, Osea, Acorns Early and Boll & Branch!
Follow Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen
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FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/
DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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About The Mother Daze with Sarah Wright Olsen & Teresa Palmer
Sarah Wright Olsen (American Made, Parks and Recreation) and Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies, Hacksaw Ridge) are two moms, from opposite ends of the world, meeting for an hour every week to discuss the mayhem, magic and madness of raising their 8 children between them. Motherhood can feel overwhelming, exhausting and isolating but you don’t have to do it alone! Follow along as they attempt to navigate, ask questions, share stories, break down the everyday challenges and hopefully keep you from googling phrases like “What does it mean when my baby’s poop is green?” Grab your coffee, tea, Kombucha or favorite libation and join as they discuss mom fails, poop talk, pillow talk, and much more. These moms will engage in some brilliant interviews with celebrity friends, parenting experts and listeners like you! From the creators of the celebrated Your Zen Mama community, Sarah Wright Olsen and Teresa Palmer bring you “The Mother Daze”, a refreshing and real look in to the wild and wonderful days of Motherhood. Subscribe so you never miss an episode, whether you’re listening sitting in your minivan or taking some me time in the tub.
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