A new chapter of New Mom in a new city and studio! Carrie and her husband Connor share life updates this week, including moving across the country as a family and finding their new home in Nashville!

The couple share stories from the past year, where they traveled a lot more than they expected, and lived in four different cities with their baby boy. Though they are not experts, Carrie and Connor share all the travel tips and they learned along the way. They also touch on how to stay united with your spouse while under stressful circumstances that traveling with kids can tend to bring. This is a great episode for new moms planning to road trip or fly with their baby for the first time!

Links to products they recommend in the episode:

Portable Noise Machine

Nuna Travel Crib

Teethers Crackers

Krista Breilh founded the Seattle women’s ministry, Live Salted, over ten years ago and since then has become a wife and mom to two precious girls. She and her husband live on mission, sharing a passion for building spaces of belonging around the person of Jesus. They recently launched Little Lights, a Christian daycare, out of their home in North Seattle.

Krista shares the ways God has met her in her seasons of trying to juggle it all, especially in her first years of motherhood.

Our first couples episode is here! Carrie and her husband Connor invite their friends Lexi and Jaecy Friesen onto the podcast to share their birth story and postpartum experience in real time.

Lexi, who gave birth to their daughter a few months ago, shares funny and memorable moments from her birth story.

The couples both touch on the relatable, humorous and hard moments in postpartum. Becoming parents brings many new challenges to a marriage but also so many blessings!

We're talking ALL things pregnancy fitness! How do we make ourselves move in the first trimester? How do we optimize our energy and strength in the second trimester and what should we do to prep for birth in the third?

Carrie sits down with Janelle Ahrens, founder of Phase Empowerment, who specializes in Pregnancy and Postpartum Fitness and Nutrition. She is also the host of the Podcast 'Fitness For Pregnancy and Beyond'. Janelle covers many topics, including trimester specific workouts, how to breathe through lifting while pregnant, and postpartum recovery.

If you are interested in learning more or trying one of her fitness programs, see the links below!

Website:
https://www.phasempowerment.com/thesustainablefatlosssolution

Pregnancy & Postpartum Program:
https://www.phasempowerment.com/pregnancyfitnessprogramming

Janelle's Podcast, Fitness For Pregnancy and Beyond:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7KycRdpOctYkQhWzOKpR8c?si=1SsTEgI7R5aUlD9k_YpZkQ

Janelle's Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/janelle.fatlosscoach?igsh=cWM0cDU0NGU0czlo

No one dreams of spending their first weeks with their baby in the NICU, but for some of us it’s a reality. Here’s a hopeful story for those who need it🫶🏼

Host Carrie Alexander invites her hometown friend Meredith Mckee on the show to share her beautiful testimony as a “NICU” mom. Meredith was 33 weeks pregnant when she unexpectedly went into labor, and she welcomed her daughter Scarlett into the world when she was 34 weeks pregnant. Due to being so early, Scarlett had to stay in the NICU for what ended up being 21 days. Though nothing went “to plan” Meredith shares the incredible ways God showed up in big and small places and answered SO many prayers. From amazing nurses, to miracle moments in Scarlett’s journey, to the pain that can come from not coming “home” with your baby, this episode covers a lot of ground.

If you, a sister or friend has walked through a time in the NICU, we hope this episode blesses and encourages you!

Actress, Writer, Producer, Wife and Mom of two (soon to be three!!) kiddos, Lauren Swickard wears many hats.

Host Carrie Alexander and guest Lauren Swickard discuss Lauren’s journey in motherhood. From meeting her husband, actor Josh Swickard, to growing their family, to life on their avocado ranch, she opens up about mom life, marriage and faith.

Lauren shares how she and Josh grew in their ability to balance raising little ones while both working, and emphasizes the importance of saying no to things so you can say YES to your family.

Follow Lauren on socials if you don’t already!

https://www.instagram.com/laurenswickard/

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.