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Week By Week

Week By Week

Written by: Celeste Busa
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Week By Week is an insider's view of pregnancy and parenthood. Host Celeste shares personal stories and has candid conversations with experts and parents about all the messy, hard, lonely, joyful, and under-talked aspects of pregnancy and parenthood and by the end of it hopefully we feel a little less alone.© Gumption Pictures LLC Parenting Relationships Social Sciences
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  • 95. Fun Sized Minisode: Communicating Wants
    Aug 28 2024

    SHOW NOTES ✨

    Wants, needs, and laundry....oh my!

    In this fun, small-sized episode, host Celeste Busa, and her husband Dave Hill, get philisophical in this post-therapy discussion.

    • Queen of revenge bedtime [1:47]
    • Decompression versus bedtime [2:47]
    • Checking off the adult list [5:00]
    • Prioritizing wants over responsibility [7:52]
    • Wants as a parent and individual [9:56]
    • Letting go of selfish guilt for your wants [10:43]
    • Communicating wants with partner [14:45]
    • Keeping empathy with wants [15:53]
    • Maintaing personal choice around others [17:05]
    • Starting with small conversations [18:44]
    • Understanding partner history [19:12]
    • Wanting time to play with partner [21:00]
    • Picking a selfish want [22:02]
    • Honoring wants within parenting [24:00]

    We appreciate you stopping by, and we have LOTS more to come, so stay tuned, every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcast!

    THE SHOW 🎙️

    Leave a rate and review on iTunes, Spotify, or even just word of mouth! It helps the show grow and be discovered, and we LOVE our community!

    Follow WEEK BY WEEK on Instagram, @weekbyweekpodcast or our personal accounts for more related family content:

    Celeste Busa IG

    Dave Hill IG

    Check out our playlist on YouTube

    Browse our blog at weekbyweekpodcast.com

    Contact us at weekbyweekshow@gmail.com

    © 2022 Gumption Pictures

    THANKS FOR LISTENING 💛

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    27 mins
  • 94. Postpartum Anxiety, Letting Go of Breastfeeding, and Parenting a Toddler with Lizz Adams
    Aug 21 2024

    Breastfreeding expectations, philosophy on sharing with others, seeing ourselves in our children and much, much more!!

    Actress, comedian, writer, and returning guest, Lizz Adams, shares an engaging and insightful conversation with Celeste surrounding:

    • What to tell yourself in the 3rd trimester, post-birth [15:40]
    • Discovering and tackling postpartum anxiety [16:22]
    • Letting go of expectations of motherhood [20:32]
    • Importance of girl time and supportive friends [24:18]
    • Societal pressure to breastfeed [27:39]
    • Being the "perfect parent" [29:30]
    • Breaking generational trauma cycles in parenting tactics [31:44]
    • ADHD and intense emotions [35:35]
    • Teaching children emotional fluidity [38:06]
    • Parenting experts influencing parenting habits [41:50]
    • Sharing philosophy with children [44:01]
    • Growing oneself after becoming a parent [47:20]
    • Shifting priorities and finding identity [51:44]
    • The joys of parenting [55:23]
    • Book recommendations and their impact [58:26]

    We appreciate you stopping by, and we have LOTS more to come, so stay tuned, every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcast!

    SHOW NOTES ✨

    The conversation is a throwback with one of our previous guests! Check out more about Lizz and her story and helpful resources by veiwing the below links:

    Lizz Adams Twitter

    Lizz Adams IG

    Lizz Adams Website

    BOOK: There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather

    BOOK: No Bad Kids

    BOOK: Good Inside

    Join Celeste and her weekly guests as we dive into the real, vulnerable, honest conversations of motherhood, pregnancy, and all things parenting!

    THE SHOW 🎙️

    Leave a rate and review on iTunes, Spotify, or even just word of mouth! It helps the show grow and be discovered, and we LOVE our community!

    Follow WEEK BY WEEK on Instagram, @weekbyweekpodcast or our personal accounts for more related family content:

    Celeste Busa IG

    Dave Hill IG

    Check out our playlist on YouTube

    Browse our blog at weekbyweekpodcast.com

    Contact us at weekbyweekshow@gmail.com

    © 2024 Gumption Pictures

    THANKS FOR LISTENING 💛

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 93. Wet taps, Finding Humor, and Building Community with Sarah Bosignore
    Jul 31 2024

    Epidural wet tap, finding humor and play in parenting, building a supportive mom community and much, much more!!

    Actress, writer and improviser, Sarah Bonsignore, chats with Celeste in a fun and humourous surrounding:

    • 2:00 - benifits of being occupied
    • 3:46 - multitudes of motherhood
    • 6:18 - navigating self with child independence
    • 13:19 - growing up with a therapist mother
    • 16:51 - balancing instrinsic validation with appreciation
    • 21:24 - approaching other mother's feedback within pregnancy and parenting
    • 24:29 - undertalked about realities of breastfeeding
    • 28:55 - tips for creating mom friends
    • 34:37 - long labor birth story
    • 42:36 - finding safety post birth
    • 49:43 - expressing anger and personal grief
    • 57:18 - telling tough stories to children
    • 58:37 - finding humor and play
    • 1:00:38 - "this is a season" mantra

    We appreciate you stopping by, and we have LOTS more to come, so stay tuned, every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcast!

    SHOW NOTES ✨

    The conversation definitely flows between these two! Check out more about Sarah and her story and meaningful projects using the below links:

    Sarah IG

    Check out Sarah's work at: IMDb

    Join Celeste and her weekly guests as we dive into the real, vulnerable, honest conversations of motherhood, pregnancy, and all things parenting!

    THE SHOW 🎙️

    Leave a rate and review on iTunes, Spotify, or even just word of mouth! It helps the show grow and be discovered, and we LOVE our community!

    Follow WEEK BY WEEK on Instagram, @weekbyweekpodcast or our personal accounts for more related family content:

    Celeste Busa IG

    Dave Hill IG

    Check out our playlist on YouTube

    Browse our blog at weekbyweekpodcast.com

    Contact us at weekbyweekshow@gmail.com

    © 2024 Gumption Pictures

    THANKS FOR LISTENING 💛

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    1 hr and 8 mins
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