Becca is back to share her positive home birth story!

Carrie and Becca discuss the often polarizing topic of home births vs. hospital births. How do you know which is right for you? How do we love and support or girlfriends who choose differently? Carrie and Becca chose different paths, but share how they encouraged, prayed for, and supported each other throughout their pregnancies.

Becca had a very positive home birth experience and shares why she chose a home birth, how she and her husband grew together as a team in the months leading up to the birth, and how God met her in all of it.

Whether you're considering a home birth or are all about a hospital birth, we think you'll find this episode to be insightful and encouraging!!

Guest Becca Mokoulu is the founder of OT By The Sea, based in Santa Monica California.

Becca's Instagram: @otbythesea

Carrie's Instagram: @carriewampler

Finally sharing our full birth story!!

Host Carrie Alexander has her husband Connor Alexander back on the podcast to share the birth story of their first child. They reminisce on the moment they found out she was pregnant, discuss pregnancy from the husband and wife’s different perspectives and share the full birth story of their son Archie.

From Wizards of Waverly Place, to Camp Rock and beyond...Many of us New Moms grew up with Maria being the Disney Channel mom on our TV screens.

Host Carrie Alexander, sits down with actress Maria Canals-Barrera. Maria reminisces on her days working on Wizards, and shares how she balanced set life while raising two little ones. Maria is a wonderful mother to two beautiful young adult daughters, and has much wisdom to share to this generation of New Moms. From breast feeding, to screen time boundaries, to prioritizing your marriage, this episode covers a lot of ground. We hope you enjoy getting to know Maria!

Feel like you're failing? You're not. If you are in the trenches with breastfeeding this episode if for you.
Host Carrie Alexander invites her friend Brytnee Atkinson back on the show to have a heart to heart on the topic of breastfeeding. Both moms struggled with nursing their first babies and discuss the stress, disappointment, comparison and shame that came with it. From the dreaded weighted feeds, to exclusive pumping, they cover it all.
They share how God met both of them uniquely when they needed His peace the most, and lead them to make the right decisions for their families.

After unexpectedly losing her husband Lexi eleven years ago, Fiona became a single mother to her three young children.

In this episode of New Mom, Host Carrie Alexander invites Fiona Godschalk to share her story. Fiona is a woman of God, a mom to three now young adult children, and a widow of eleven years. She reminisces on the early days of growing her family alongside her husband and opens up about parenting her kids in the aftermath of devastating loss.

Fiona and Carrie also chat about the highs and lows of parenting adult children, and how to raise your kids to have a faith of their own. Moms of all ages will be inspired by Fiona's wisdom, strength and honesty.

We hope you enjoy this conversation!

In this episode, Carrie invites her husband to join her in sharing their love story. They reminisce on meeting, falling in love, getting married and their steps towards starting a family.

Host Carrie Alexander and her guest, Becca Mokuolu talk tongue ties, the importance of having a pregnancy buddy, and how to pray for your baby more intentionally. Becca is an Occupational Therapist and owner of the Southern California based company, OT By The Sea. She works daily with infants, and gives her take on the complex topic of tongue ties.

OT by the Sea Instagram: otbythesea_

Host Carrie Alexander sits down with her little sister and "New Aunt", Christina Wampler. The sisters share parts of their own testimonies and discuss how openly walking with God can encourage others who may be watching closer than you think. Carrie shares her heart and God story behind the New Mom podcast, how she is attempting to find a new version of Sabbath rest, and the importance of choosing community even in the midst of motherhood.