Community Episode: The Part Before The Baby
From Tell Me I'm a Good Mom with Lo Bosworth Natale by Dear Media
April 29, 2026 · 45 min
About this episode
The episode explores the experiences of motherhood before the baby arrives, featuring community stories and listener questions.
Welcome to the first community episode of Tell Me I'm A Good Mom. I read hundreds of stories that came in through the Q+A form, and the theme I couldn't stop reading was the part of motherhood that happens years before the baby arrives. The IVF cycles. The miscarriages. The diagnoses that blindside you. The appointments where a doctor asks you a question you don't have the vocabulary for yet. In this episode I share three community stories with permission. Sherri, on seven IVF cycles and signing surrogacy papers in Mexico City at thirty-nine. Meghan, on a gestational diabetes diagnosis, a uterine infection after birth, and an OB phone call a week postpartum telling her half of her placenta was scar tissue. And Krystal, who miscarried alone in Cancún at a meditation retreat and chose radical openness on the other side of it. I answer three listener questions, including one on vaginal microbiome health and fertility that is the reason I started Love Wellness ten years ago. If you are in the middle of any of this, I hope this one finds you. Follow the show, and if you want to submit for the next one, the form is in my Instagram highlights. Sponsors: Nuna: Check out …
People in this episode
Host: Lo Bosworth Natale
Topics covered
- motherhood
- IVF
- miscarriage
- gestational diabetes
- fertility
- community stories
Keywords
- IVF cycles
- miscarriages
- gestational diabetes
- fertility
- motherhood
- community stories
Sponsors
Nuna, Hatch, Cozy Earth, Merit Beauty
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Love Wellness
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