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Speaker 1: Dear Future Mama, A TMI guide to pregnancy, birth, a
Speaker 1: new motherhood from your bestie. Music has been a part
Speaker 1: of Meghan's life always. Her dad was the church organist
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Speaker 1: began writing songs when she was a kid. Throughout junior
Speaker 1: and senior high school, she learned to play a number
Speaker 1: of instruments. She sang in choirs and bands, and entered
Speaker 1: and won songwriting competitions. By the time she graduated from
Speaker 1: high school, she'd already recorded three albums of her own material,
Speaker 1: and that's about the same time she signed her first
Speaker 1: publishing deal. Her twenty fourteen smash hit All About That
Speaker 1: Bass went to number one around the world and was
Speaker 1: soon followed by Lipster Movin and Dear Future Husband. With
Speaker 1: this much talent, ambition, determination and success, just imagine how
Speaker 1: laughable it must have been when she was told that
Speaker 1: pregnancy and motherhood would damage her career. I am such
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Speaker 1: I love someone today is the beautiful and talented and
Speaker 1: young and sweet Megan Trainer.
Speaker 2: Good morning, my queen.
Speaker 1: Hi Meghan. How old were you? You were like a
Speaker 1: teenager when you started your own recordings, right, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2: I My albums were what seventeen eighteen or no. Fifteen,
Speaker 2: sixteen and seventeen.
Speaker 3: I wrote and recorded my own albums at my house,
Speaker 3: and I wanted to be like a Dell And I
Speaker 3: was like, only seventeen, How fun is that?
Speaker 2: It was great. My parents would take my pictures, my
Speaker 2: album pictures.
Speaker 1: And your dad built your studio, right yeah.
Speaker 3: He helped me build a studio in our house. Yeah,
Speaker 3: in the basement.
Speaker 1: And you started singing when you were a little kid
Speaker 1: at church, right yeah.
Speaker 3: My dad played the organ our church forever, and then
Speaker 3: I would like sit up next to him.
Speaker 2: That was like a reward. I was like, oh, I could.
Speaker 3: Sit with dad and then he would perform sometimes, and
Speaker 3: then I would start singing with him. And then when
Speaker 3: I was writing my songs, He's like, all right, awesome,
Speaker 3: You're going to sing this at church on someday, And
Speaker 3: I was like, okay.
Speaker 1: Fun fun. So you kind of feel like the Lord
Speaker 1: had his hand on you from the beginning, from day one,
Speaker 1: day one, day one, And what are you doing now?
Speaker 1: Because you are everywhere? First off, when do you sleep?
Speaker 2: It's not much, but it's great. We try to go
Speaker 2: to bed early.
Speaker 3: Once we put Riley to sleep at like seven, seven thirty.
Speaker 3: Then we my husband and I run to put pajamas
Speaker 3: on and go to sleep as fast as we can,
Speaker 3: and then we're.
Speaker 2: Up hit six again.
Speaker 1: How old's Riley?
Speaker 3: He's two now. He's so cute. He's in that room
Speaker 3: watching Blippy with my husband. And we've been doing promo
Speaker 3: for the Mother song that we released, and then for
Speaker 3: this book that we have out called Deer Free Jamama,
Speaker 3: which is all about, like my TMI experience with pregnancy,
Speaker 3: did you save eight kids?
Speaker 1: No? I have fifteen kids, but I have eight daughters. Yeah.
Speaker 2: See, I want four.
Speaker 1: People think I wanted four. I wanted four. My dream
Speaker 1: was four. That was maybe six. That was as big
Speaker 1: as a dream before people.
Speaker 2: I almost got this next one coming out of me.
Speaker 2: I'm super pregnant.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 2: It's another boy. And I want four because I want
Speaker 2: daughters too.
Speaker 1: You know, well, I gotta tell you each child has
Speaker 1: such a different personality.
Speaker 2: I hear that. I'm so excited for that.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go, how did this happen? Like, how did
Speaker 1: I it came out of me? And yet it's nothing
Speaker 1: like the first one that came out of me? And
Speaker 1: is your first one? Pretty cool, pretty mellow, pretty pretty sweet.
Speaker 2: We call him our trick baby because he's so like chill.
Speaker 3: He never cried that much as a baby. He never
Speaker 3: he never threw up like when we would feed him.
Speaker 3: You know, he never burped up all of his food.
Speaker 3: He just kept it.
Speaker 1: And here's here's the crazy part for me. I'm so
Speaker 1: vain and I didn't know God back then that I
Speaker 1: thought it was all me. I was like, wow, I
Speaker 1: am such a good parent. I must be like mom
Speaker 1: of aseniony.
Speaker 3: I was like, dude, we're just good at this and
Speaker 3: we should make more. Wait till you see them the
Speaker 3: second one.
Speaker 1: So tell me about dear future Mama, because I love
Speaker 1: dear future husband. The song You caught crap for that,
Speaker 1: didn't you, like people were saying back in the day.
Speaker 2: Back in the day, I didn't even like personally hear it.
Speaker 2: I just remember being interviewed so much. And then they'd
Speaker 2: be like, so.
Speaker 3: Here's what everyone's saying online, and I was like, really,
Speaker 3: uh it was about Yeah, I don't even know specifically
Speaker 3: what they're saying, but I got a lot of heat
Speaker 3: for all my first songs, so I was just used
Speaker 3: to it, like in all by that bass, the skinny
Speaker 3: line and everything. Yeah, but I don't even think about
Speaker 3: that stuff now. I'm just like people will come up
Speaker 3: to me and be like, I love your future husband.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, thanks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why would you think about it when you are
Speaker 1: incredibly busy and everybody wants you. Yeah, that's the sweetest revenge,
Speaker 1: not saying a word, not buying into it, and not
Speaker 1: giving it an ounce of energy, but then just getting
Speaker 1: to bask in the glory of what God is doing
Speaker 1: in your life. That's all the sweetest.
Speaker 3: So I always knew like I wanted to write a
Speaker 3: book someday. I didn't know what it would be about,
Speaker 3: whether my career or but when I went through pregnancy,
Speaker 3: it was like so wild and so different, and I
Speaker 3: was so alone, and my best friends were strangers on
Speaker 3: YouTube giving me advice, and I had gestational diabetes and.
Speaker 2: There was like no YouTube videos on that.
Speaker 3: Like I was like, give me a recipe, give me
Speaker 3: like an idea of what I should do for a
Speaker 3: workout or anything, and there was like nothing in My
Speaker 3: first thought was, oh gosh, we need to make an
Speaker 3: app to like help other mamas out there, because there
Speaker 3: was no thing out here. I accidentally, I was so
Speaker 3: afraid of carbs that I put myself on a Keto
Speaker 3: flu on accident, and I just felt awful and I
Speaker 3: had to.
Speaker 2: Keep working and do a Christmas album and I was like.
Speaker 1: I'm tired, I'm sick, I've got a fever.
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm failing my blood tests every four
Speaker 3: hours and I I'm not.
Speaker 2: Doing this right. I need help. But then other crazy
Speaker 2: stuff happened with my birth.
Speaker 3: I had a C section and he didn't come out crying,
Speaker 3: and they went to the nick You for five days,
Speaker 3: which I'm lucky. A lot of people don't come out
Speaker 3: of there for five months. So mine felt like a
Speaker 3: breeze compared to the stories I've heard. But I wanted
Speaker 3: to talk about it so that other Nikki mamas didn't
Speaker 3: feel so alone. And then I was on my intied
Speaker 3: presidents during my pregnancy, so I talk about that and
Speaker 3: I have a dietitian in the book, a trainer who
Speaker 3: specializes in pregnant women, and my actual obgyn who did
Speaker 3: my surgery, and my husband all up in the book.
Speaker 2: So it's just what I wish I had before I
Speaker 2: went through it alone.
Speaker 1: How sweet is that? Because I think about my mom
Speaker 1: back in her generation, like they would knock women out
Speaker 1: and four steps, you know, pull the baby out by
Speaker 1: the skull, and the moms wouldn't wake up for twenty
Speaker 1: four hours or whatever. It was like you had no
Speaker 1: say in the most profound experience of your life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wrote about that in the book. My nana
Speaker 3: was like that, they knocked her out and strapped her down.
Speaker 1: Yes, tie them down, but there's you're right, there's no information.
Speaker 1: And other members of my family had gestational diabetes, no information,
Speaker 1: no telling you what to expect afterwards, postpartum depression, no information.
Speaker 1: Thanks that helps a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like heads up, you might feel crazy and scary
Speaker 3: and like a terrible mom and they're.
Speaker 2: Like huh, and they're like good luck, you're on their own. Also,
Speaker 2: I thought it.
Speaker 3: Was baffling, how like I couldn't have certain types of
Speaker 3: food to the moment he came out of me. And
Speaker 3: then they were like, you want some pancakes and I
Speaker 3: was like what, Like I had desational diabetes and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: but it's out of you.
Speaker 2: You're good. I was like what I'm asking.
Speaker 3: Like cranberry juice. I was like, eh, I'll take another one.
Speaker 3: Like how is it just like fine? Now? It?
Speaker 2: I still have so many.
Speaker 1: Questions and how has this pregnancy been easier?
Speaker 3: This fun was wild. I had a lot of like
Speaker 3: bleeding in the beginning.
Speaker 2: I was confused.
Speaker 3: I didn't even think I was pregnant, but yeah, I
Speaker 3: like didn't think I was pregnant.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh no, I got my period.
Speaker 3: And then I took a test a month later because
Speaker 3: I was trying to have a baby and it said.
Speaker 2: Positive and I was like, let'k go.
Speaker 3: And I was so excited and I did all these
Speaker 3: interviews and then I started bleeding like a period again,
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 2: Was like, what's happening?
Speaker 3: And then like cried because I thought I was losing
Speaker 3: the baby. And then I kept testing for ten days
Speaker 3: straight after and they we're all positive and my doctor's like, well,
Speaker 3: it should be negative by now, and I was like, well,
Speaker 3: we're still here. And I did a blood test and
Speaker 3: it was like ninety thousand at it from zero and
Speaker 3: I was like, I have twins.
Speaker 2: That's what all this is. This is it's twins. I
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 3: I wasn't twins, but I was like, what a rocky
Speaker 3: start this one was emotionally, So.
Speaker 1: Will you still be like trying to keep up this
Speaker 1: crazy schedule because you're like everywhere.
Speaker 2: I did, yeah, I'm I'm done.
Speaker 3: I did like seven and a half months of just
Speaker 3: like go go, go, go go. I went to Australia,
Speaker 3: we did a whole Australian Idol TV show. We were
Speaker 3: just in New York the other day promoting the book.
Speaker 3: But I told them like, my brain is starting to
Speaker 3: shut down, and I like, women are my heroes, and
Speaker 3: pregnant people in general are my heroes that they can
Speaker 3: work to the moment their baby pops out.
Speaker 2: I can't do it. I can't do it.
Speaker 1: That's p really good for anyone to do that.
Speaker 3: And they're like, let's do interviews. I'm like, my brain
Speaker 3: is tired.
Speaker 1: I need rest.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was like, I'm starting to say things that
Speaker 2: don't make sense.
Speaker 3: You know. So I told them like, let me start
Speaker 3: nesting because I haven't begun that process and let me
Speaker 3: chill out, Like we worked NonStop for all.
Speaker 2: These years and we did good. We did great.
Speaker 1: So we did great. Take a break, take a break
Speaker 1: with the baby and how you and the other baby.
Speaker 3: And it's like my last month ever, that two months
Speaker 3: I have left that it'll be just me and my
Speaker 3: husband and our baby Riley.
Speaker 2: You know, now it's going to be like four of us.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on all your success. I mean, you're phenomenal. You're talented,
Speaker 1: you're clever, you're funny, you're cute as all get out.
Speaker 1: You are a role model for young women who because
Speaker 1: you know, I've followed you since you were a kid,
Speaker 1: and you give such positive energy to young women who
Speaker 1: might not feel comfortable within themselves.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I do all this for my own therapy, you know,
Speaker 3: and then when it helps others, it's like, ah, cherry
Speaker 3: on top, you know, like that's amazing. I like how
Speaker 3: you're you're saying is how we could make the world
Speaker 3: a better place, one heart at a time.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: And also like brains heal other brains. Doctor Drew told
Speaker 3: me that, and I loved that. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: therapy is great, and I like I like sharing my
Speaker 3: brain for other people to be like, oh my brain
Speaker 3: works like that too.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what's so sweet about dear future mama. You
Speaker 1: know you're you're addressing something that every human being who's
Speaker 1: here on earth came here through birth, every one of us,
Speaker 1: and yet there is your right so little information.
Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 4: It is crazy.
Speaker 1: There's more information about a Ford car engine, literally there's
Speaker 1: there's there's far more information about how to make your
Speaker 1: your Chevy get better gas mileage.
Speaker 4: Then there is about what to do if you have
Speaker 4: gestational diabetes or or postpartum depression, or the baby won't
Speaker 4: latch rite or whatever.
Speaker 3: Man. Yeah, I looked up like breastfeeding too, and all
Speaker 3: it said was it's really hard. And I was like,
Speaker 3: which part, Like, tell me specifically, it's it's like so
Speaker 3: many levels to it.
Speaker 2: I had no idea. I had no like I guess
Speaker 2: I didn't because it was COVID too.
Speaker 3: I didn't do like the classes that you can.
Speaker 2: Do and learn all this stuff.
Speaker 3: But like, I didn't know you pump me in the hospital.
Speaker 3: I was like, what are you doing? I'm not ready yet.
Speaker 2: They were like it's time.
Speaker 1: Oh see, I didn't. I never did so, but I
Speaker 1: my lactation specialist was my mom. She had her four
Speaker 1: kids and so she's just like do this and she.
Speaker 2: That's so nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she she was hands on so to speak, and
Speaker 1: uh it worked.
Speaker 2: My mom My sweet mama.
Speaker 3: She like, she's like, I think I had, saytion some diabetes,
Speaker 3: but I think it is because I drank a bunch
Speaker 3: of orange jues that morning and failed to test. And
Speaker 3: I was like what and she's like, yeah, they didn't
Speaker 3: really care though, like it was only a one pargnancy
Speaker 3: and I didn't have to do anything.
Speaker 2: I was like, why do I.
Speaker 3: Have to prick my finger and test my blood four
Speaker 3: times a day? And if I fail? I I'd like,
Speaker 3: I'm in twelvele like why it's like homework now and
Speaker 3: she's like, I can't remember. And I was like, well
Speaker 3: what was this Like She's like I blocked it out.
Speaker 1: And I was like, mom, so you're going to take
Speaker 1: some time with the baby. If you picked a name,
Speaker 1: you know it's a boy, yeah.
Speaker 3: And I never I was so like, I want gender
Speaker 3: neutral names and I want I don't ever want to
Speaker 3: name it after someone. I want them to be their
Speaker 3: own person, and I don't want to lay them to
Speaker 3: someone else, but this baby for some reason, we love
Speaker 3: like b names.
Speaker 1: Like, what would your name be, Meghan if you got
Speaker 1: to choose it?
Speaker 3: Did you ever think, oh my god, I never thought
Speaker 3: of that. I just thought of how I never loved Megan.
Speaker 3: When I hear my name, I feel like I'm in trouble.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1: See when I hear my name, my full name, Delilah,
Speaker 1: I am in trouble because that was only used. My
Speaker 1: mother only used my name I when I was in trouble.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's like I remember telling my label like
Speaker 3: they're like, what do you want the Grammy is to
Speaker 3: announce one day in the future, like dreaming. They're like,
Speaker 3: and the Grammy winner is And I was like, m
Speaker 3: Train and.
Speaker 2: They were like no, no, cool, cool cool. They're like,
Speaker 2: you will be Megan Trainer and I was like, okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll go with that. We'll run And now that
Speaker 1: would be it's a pretty famous name.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Got back to Megan's with the h is.
Speaker 1: Have you ever googled the most popular names and noticed
Speaker 1: that yours is like rising to the top? Now, no way, yes,
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Speaker 3: I'm setting up our bedroom, which I'm in a new house.
Speaker 2: Compared to when I had.
Speaker 3: Riley, it was all one floor, there was no stairs,
Speaker 3: and I had a sea section.
Speaker 2: I'm having a sea section this time, so I'm nervous.
Speaker 3: I gotta climb like a lot of stairs to get
Speaker 3: to my bedroom, so I think I'm gonna like stay there.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to like set camp up.
Speaker 1: You know, a little refrigerator.
Speaker 3: Yeah, te got dishwasher.
Speaker 2: I hope it works.
Speaker 3: I bought it on Amazon, a little dishwasher for all
Speaker 3: the bottles.
Speaker 2: So that was the worst part. It was just like
Speaker 2: staying up an extra hour to clean all the bottles.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to maneuver that and like learn from
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Speaker 3: There's so many great like if you type in like
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Speaker 2: You can have our arts and crafts.
Speaker 3: But they organize like all their pumps and all their
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Speaker 2: And I was like, and it's on wheels on like.
Speaker 1: You know, I had a big purse.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, if they want an extra uplifting, happy song. It's
Speaker 3: called mother And I wrote it when I was like
Speaker 3: three months pregnant. Nobody knew and I wanted something to
Speaker 3: follow me. You look, because that did so well and
Speaker 3: we were like, oh, oh, how do we follow that?
Speaker 2: And I have.
Speaker 3: Never sampled a song, and I sampled mister sammn. It
Speaker 3: sounds so good. And my little brother produced it with me.
Speaker 3: I'm a house with our buddy. And then for the
Speaker 3: music video, we we peaked. We did the best we
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Speaker 3: I love that song and I love the dance for
Speaker 3: it on TikTok and I love all the mamas having
Speaker 3: an anthem on TikTok too.
Speaker 2: They're so cute.
Speaker 1: I got to say when I watched it, and I went,
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Speaker 3: Like that? Oh?
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Speaker 1: Oh my gods, that's Chris Jenner.
Speaker 3: Did I played it for like heads of YouTube, like
Speaker 3: personally went to them and played it. They didn't move
Speaker 3: a muscle or react, and I went, oh my god,
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Speaker 3: didn't believe it too. I was like, that's really her?
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Speaker 1: How fun? How fun? Fun? The most fun thing you
Speaker 1: have got to do as a mama.
Speaker 3: As a mama is like take my kid to Australia
Speaker 3: and our hotel we could see the Opera House, which
Speaker 3: I haven't seen until I was an adult, and my
Speaker 3: little boy was like speech delayed, so we never talked.
Speaker 3: And then he was like, hi, opera House and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, you're gonna.
Speaker 2: Be so cool.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. So you must have showed him videos
Speaker 1: or pictures beforehand of the amazing architecture.
Speaker 3: You would have like little baby books that were like
Speaker 3: good Night Australia that our friend give us. And then yeah,
Speaker 3: we we would see it every morning. We were like
Speaker 3: opera House and he's like opera House.
Speaker 1: No, did he get to see a kangaroo?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah. We went to the zoo twice. We were there
Speaker 2: for two months, so we had to fill up the time.
Speaker 1: So he saw lots of kangaroos. How about EMUs ostriches? Like,
Speaker 1: how about any of the scary animals of Australia. They've
Speaker 1: got the scariest spiders and the scary stuff, scary stuff.
Speaker 2: We were like we could skip the spider one. We're
Speaker 2: you know, we were like, move on. But he got
Speaker 2: to feed a giraffe twice. That was cool.
Speaker 3: He loved it. I thought he'd be scared, but he
Speaker 3: did good. And then you know those yeah, those big
Speaker 3: birds that look like dinosaurs. He looked at that one
Speaker 3: and was like dinosaur, and I was like, yeah, there's
Speaker 3: a dinosaur walking among us.
Speaker 1: You want to know something crazy? I have three baby
Speaker 1: dinosaurs those big bird eggs, those EMUs in my living
Speaker 1: room right now. What I have? I have a pair
Speaker 1: of EMUs. I've had them for about fifteen years, and
Speaker 1: every year they lay a clutch of eggs and and
Speaker 1: we hatched them. We hatched three of them out in
Speaker 1: an incubator in my kitchen and now they're living in
Speaker 1: the living room until they get big enough to go outside.
Speaker 1: They look like dinosaurs. They are dinosaurs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you literally live my dream life. Where do you live?
Speaker 1: I live on a fifty five acre farm in Washington State,
Speaker 1: and that's my dream.
Speaker 3: I always tell them. I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 3: run away and start my farm.
Speaker 1: I've got goats and chickens.
Speaker 2: I have fifteen children, and.
Speaker 1: Well I don't have that many children at home anymore.
Speaker 1: I've only got four kids at home. They've all grown
Speaker 1: and gone. But I've got twenty three grandkids and some
Speaker 1: of them live on the property. So there's goodness.
Speaker 2: But it's a party all the time, that's what.
Speaker 1: All the time, all the time, all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every day, every day it's something new, it's a baby listing.
Speaker 2: They're going to be like, oh, she's going to do
Speaker 2: this now.
Speaker 1: You know what, Megan, here's what you do? You say,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm got two months left. Are you in
Speaker 1: California for two Yeah? And I'm going to head up
Speaker 1: the coast. I'm going to go see my friend Elina.
Speaker 1: I'm going to meet her horses and her kids, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to find out where she got that baby
Speaker 1: zebra farm.
Speaker 2: It's excited.
Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna I'm gonna because I can hook
Speaker 1: you up with somebody I know where. There's some land
Speaker 1: in California.
Speaker 2: We love land.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you can have horses and I have miniature
Speaker 1: donkeys and I've got goats. Life is good.
Speaker 2: Life is good. Life is good, my idol. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: there's my husband. I can't just tell them the plan,
Speaker 2: uh huh yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, Megan Trainer, thank you for spending time with us.
Speaker 1: Congratulations again, and thank you for sharing with new mamas,
Speaker 1: young mamas all the information that I wish that we
Speaker 1: had all those years.
Speaker 2: Ago, and there's so much morese I gotta ride now.
Speaker 1: You have a fabulous day. Thank you, honey, thank you too,
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Speaker 1: It contains expert insights from those who supported Meghan through
Speaker 1: her first pregnancy, including her personal trainer, her registered dietitian,
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Speaker 1: to find the path the motherhood that's right for you
Speaker 1: and encourages you to ignore the judgment of others and
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Speaker 1: ever been a mom or plan to be a mom,
Speaker 1: one thing's for sure, you wouldn't be here without a mom.
Speaker 1: Let's celebrate her and the gifts she gave to this
Speaker 1: world you this month and all the year through. I
Speaker 1: hope spring has put a spring in your step and
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Speaker 1: ever been too busy to notice, I implore you to
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