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The day after I had the baby, I fainted in my hospital room. Blood pressure skyrocketing, doctors running in, a brain aneurysm fear I couldn't shake, a day-old baby at the foot of the bed. I was convinced that was how my story ended. It wasn't. And it turns out most new moms have some version of this story. Nobody warns us. This week I sit down with writer Meaghan O'Connell, author of And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready, the book that started telling the truth about new motherhood a decade before the rest of us were ready to hear it. We get into the C-section I elected, the C-section shelf nobody warned me about, the fear of leaving your baby that you don't tell anyone about, and the identity shift that is not about your kid even though everyone assumes it is. It's honest. It's specific. It's not light. You will recognize parts of yourself in it. Follow Tell Me I'm a Good Mom on Apple, Spotify, or subscribe to my channel on YouTube for video episodes. Find me on Substack where I go deeper on every episode. Sponsors: Nuna: Check out nunababy.com or popping into your local Nordstrom to test it out — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: 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 and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The number that broke my brain wasn't the birth cost. It was the daycare quote.Vivian Tu, finance expert, Your Rich BFF, and New York Times bestselling author, came on to talk about the actual financial reality of becoming a parent — not the "start a 529" version you've heard a hundred times. The version where even financially stable people feel underwater in year one, and why that doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.We got into the STRIP method (her framework for getting your money actually organized), why retirement has to come before your kid's college fund, what "net new costs" look like when you're a new parent, and how the money stories you inherited before age 7 are still running your financial life right now. No fluff. No shame. Just the honest conversation about money and motherhood most people aren't having. Tell Me I'm a Good Mom — new episodes every Wednesday hosted by Lo Bosworth Natale — first time mom and CEO of Love Wellness Sponsors: Hatch: Visit www.hatch.co/baby to learn more about Hatch Baby, or find Hatch Baby on Amazon, Target and Babylist registries. Nuna: Check out nunababy.com or popping into your local Nordstrom to test it out — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: 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 and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I went through three egg retrievals, an endo surgery, and one transfer to get my daughter. Here's everything I wish I'd known before I started. I sat down with Dr. Sheeva Talebian, reproductive endocrinologist at CCRM Fertility New York, to talk about what IVF actually looks like from the inside. The math nobody warns you about. The lifestyle changes that actually move the needle on egg quality. What NAD+ therapy does for fertility and why more western doctors are finally paying attention. And why the number of eggs you retrieve is almost never the number that matters when it comes to viable embryos. If you're navigating IVF, egg freezing, unexplained infertility, endometriosis, or just trying to understand your fertility before it becomes urgent — this episode is for you. Tell Me I'm a Good Mom — new episodes every Wednesday hosted by Lo Bosworth Natale — first time mom and CEO of Love Wellness — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: 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 and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I'm 8 weeks postpartum and I'm not okay. Not in a crisis — but not in the version of this that gets posted online either. I'm in the messy, unglamorous, nobody-talks-about-this middle of it. And I wanted to put it on record, in real time, because I genuinely could not find content that showed me what this actually looks like when you're living it. I have a retained placenta. A large ovarian cyst. Bleeding that won't stop. Hormones so destabilizing they feel, I'm not exaggerating, like a psychedelic experience. And on top of all of that, a body I don't recognize, clothes that don't fit, and a version of myself I'm still trying to locate somewhere underneath all of it. The six-week appointment comes and goes and the world acts like that's the end of the story. It is not the end of the story. For a lot of us it's barely the beginning of understanding what just happened to our bodies and who we are now inside them. I made this episode because I was desperate for it and it didn't exist. Nobody shows you this part. The books don't cover it. The instagram posts skip it. The doctors send you home with almost nothing. I have nearly 900,000 followers and when I asked for postpartum expert recommendations I got four responses. Four. Here's what I want you to know: the discomfort is not a sign that something is wrong with you. It is a side effect of what your body just did. The hormonal chaos, the physical recovery, the identity shift, the grief, the joy, the confusion of feeling all of it at once. This is postpartum. Very few women get to skip it. And because almost nobody talks about it honestly, so many of us move through it thinking we're alone or behind or broken. We are not. I'm sharing this because I think new moms deserve more than a six-week checkup and a pamphlet. You deserve to see what this actually looks like in real time, so that when you're in it, you feel less alone and more supported. I know I'm going to be okay. I really do. But right now I'm in it, and I want you to know that it is okay to be deeply uncomfortable. You are allowed to struggle. You are allowed to not have it together. That is not failure. That is postpartum. You are a good mom. Tell Me I'm a Good Mom — new episodes every Wednesday hosted by Lo Bosworth Natale — first time mom and CEO of Love Wellness — 📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lobosworth 📖 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth 🛍️ Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth 🎵 TikTok: 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 and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I've been sharing my life publicly since I was 17 — first on Laguna Beach, then The Hills, then a decade of building Love Wellness by being honest about my body and my health. So when I got pregnant, keeping it private was never really the question. And I get into my TV origin story on today's episode.. But being pregnant online is different. This episode is part manifesto, part cultural riff on why the instinct to share a moment this big has always existed — long before the internet gave it a new address. I get into my own fertility journey, the IVF and endometriosis surgery that I think actually got me here, and the women online whose stories gave me language for things I didn't know how to name yet. And the question every modern parent is quietly wrestling with: what's actually okay to share about your kid? No agenda. No lectures. Just honest conversation. —————————————————— Tell Me I'm a Good Mom — new episodes every Wednesday hosted by Lo Bosworth Natale — first time mom and CEO of Love Wellness —   Subscribe:   / @lobosworth   Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lobosworth  Love Wellness: https://lovewellness.com  Instagram:  d / lobosworth    TikTok:  c / lobosworth   — Tell Me I'm a Good Mom is part of the Dear Media podcast network.ed by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I had a plan. Birth had other ideas. I'm starting this podcast the only way that felt right — with the story that started everything. In this episode, I'm sharing the birth plan I made, the vaginal birth I hoped for, and the emergency C-section I didn't see coming. This is my birth trauma, my recovery, and the moment I realized motherhood was never going to go the way I expected. If your birth story didn't go according to plan, this one's for you. —————————————————— Newsletter— where I break down every episode and say what I wish I had said: https://substack.com/@lobosworth Follow me IG: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth Follow me TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@lobosworth GO SHOPPING, HONEY... NEW Quick Melt Strips: https://lovewellness.com/products/quick-melt-strips-sleep Viral Intimate Skin Support Spray: https://lovewellness.com/products/intimate-skin-support —————————————————— Produced by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Pregnancy and motherhood come with pressure, opinions, and plenty of advice, but very few honest conversations about how it actually feels to be a mom. “Tell Me I’m a Good Mom” speaks to the pressure to get it right and the fear of being judged when we don’t. Through her own transition into motherhood, Lo Bosworth Natale explores the identity shift, expectations, emotional plot twists, and educational hacks that make the journey lighter, all while navigating a culture that performs, posts, and rates motherhood online. This is not about perfect parenting. It is about becoming a mother, for real. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.