Twilight Sleep & Elephants: The Wild Truth About 70s Childbirth
Welcome back to Call Your Mom Friends, the motherhood podcast where we blend hilarious mom stories with honest conversations about birth, postpartum, and parenting. In this episode, we dive into birth history—from the dark era of Twilight Sleep in the 1950s, to the overly medicalized hospital births of the 1970s, to how those experiences still echo in our own motherhood journeys today. You’ll hear: The shocking reality of Twilight Sleep: women restrained, blindfolded, and left with no memory of their birth experience. How formula feeding was marketed as “modern and scientific,” leading to historic lows in breastfeeding. The generational impact of birth trauma—and why words like “deliver” vs. “give birth” matter. The importance of choosing your birth team wisely and knowing your birth rights. A surprising detour into elephants, dolphins, and what animals can teach us about intuition, birth, and postpartum support. 🐘🐬 Personal highs and lows from Lauren’s fertility journey, Charity’s bittersweet milestone as her son turns 4, and Amey’s reflections on friendship and motherhood. ✨ Fridays are for Call Waiting — our weekly mom-friend call-in segment where real moms share raw, hilarious, and relatable stories you won’t hear in the school pickup line. 🎧 Got a story? Leave us a voicemail. We might just play it on the show. Leave us a voicemail: Click Here! Find us on Instagram: @call.your.mom.friends.podcast And connect with us individually: Charity Spears | Cocoon to Bloom → @cocoon_to_bloom | cocoontobloom.com Lauren Murdock | Faith > Fear Birth™ → @labor.lauren | laborlauren.com Amey Fields | AZ Breastfed Babies → @az.breastfedbabies | azbreastfedbabies.com
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The Most Scripted We'll Ever Sound (Meet Your Mom Friends)
Welcome to the very first episode of Call Your Mom Friends, a motherhood podcast created for moms who crave honest conversations, relatable birth stories, and postpartum support. In this episode, Amey, Charity, and Lauren share how their friendship began, why they started this podcast, and the real-life motherhood moments that bonded them—awkward, funny, and everything in between. You’ll hear: Hilarious and relatable birth stories (yes, even one involving a Pandora condom ad in the delivery room 🤦♀️). Why moms don’t “deliver” babies (and why language matters in birth). A mentoring story that started with “you’re fired” and turned into lifelong friendship. The reality of juggling postpartum recovery, motherhood, and going back to work. Why every mom deserves a safe place for support, laughter, and encouragement. ✨ Coming up: we’ll dive into birth in the 1970s, what our moms went through, and how it shaped modern motherhood. If you’re a new mom, expectant mama, or simply looking for community and encouragement in motherhood, this is your place to laugh, learn, and feel less alone. 👉 Follow us on Instagram @call.your.mom.friends.podcast for behind-the-scenes laughs and updates. 👉 Subscribe to Call Your Mom Friends wherever you listen to podcasts and never miss an episode. ✨ Let’s stay connected! You can find each of us here: Amey | AZ Breastfed Babies Instagram: @az.breastfedbabies Website: azbreastfedbabies.com Charity | Cocoon to Bloom Instagram: @cocoon_to_bloom Website: cocoontobloom.com Lauren | Faith > Fear Birth™ Instagram: @labor.lauren Website: laborlauren.com
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Call Your Mom Friends: The Group Chat Just Opened
Welcome to Call Your Mom Friends — the unfiltered motherhood podcast for moms in every stage of parenting. In this trailer, meet Charity, Lauren, and Amey: three moms in different seasons of life, sharing raw, hilarious, and honest conversations about pregnancy, newborns, toddlers, teens, and everything in between. Whether you’re looking for mom humor, parenting advice, or just a reminder you’re not alone, you’re in the right place.
🎙️ Call Your Mom Friends
The podcast that feels like a group chat and a therapy session had a baby.
Motherhood is beautiful.
But also? It's messy, exhausting, lonely, ragey, hilarious, sacred, and completely unhinged sometimes.
We’re three moms, three professionals — a bodyworker and two labor & delivery nurses who also happen to be IBCLCs — and we’re done pretending we have it all together.
Call Your Mom Friends is the space we needed:
Where you can be tired and grateful.
Healed and healing.
Totally in love with your kids — and also dreaming of running away for 48 hours of silence and hot coffee.
We talk about the stuff no one warned you about:
Postpartum anxiety, generational trauma, mom rage, birth stories, identity loss, the sacred mess of starting over — and why none of it makes you broken.
If you’ve ever cried in the shower, laughed during a tantrum, or wondered “Is it just me?” — it’s not. It’s us. It’s all of us.
Call your mom friends — or let us be them. 💜
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