I have spoken about weight and percentile anxiety many times both on my social media channels and on this podcast and now I am experiencing it. On this episode, I get candid about percentile anxiety and how it impacted my postpartum.

I discuss:

• How my percentile anxiety negatively impacted me postpartum
• How anxiety over my daughter’s weight led to her having temporary feeding aversions
• How to manage percentile and weight anxiety
• What it means to look at the big picture when it comes to weight gain

00:00:01:01 – 00:00:24:10

Dr. Mona

I someone who has put many parents through low percentiles or weight concerns immediately. Don’t worry. Wait, what? What’s wrong? She dropped from the 15th percentile to the third percentile. Panic mode. Since that two month visit, I have been in panic mode. The feeling of feeling that she was floored when everybody around me said she was perfect and cute.

 

00:00:24:10 – 00:00:50:21

Dr. Mona

This feeling that something was wrong with her. When my social media followers would tell me that she was so beautiful. My anxiety was in the front seat and I was losing joy. I was losing connection because I was panicking about her weight and feeling that she and I were not enough. Welcome back to the show. It feels so good to be back recording these solo episodes for you.

 

00:00:50:23 – 00:01:15:00

Dr. Mona

For those of you who don’t follow me on my social channels, I had a baby Vera, who is now five months at the time of this recording and she is such a joy and the last five months have been quite the adventure. I had a traumatic delivery with my son and postpartum complications, so I did have some anxiety leading up to her delivery.

 

00:01:15:05 – 00:01:42:08

Dr. Mona

But her C-section we had a scheduled one was so redemptive the C-section couldn’t have gone more perfectly. But I did develop the same postpartum complications I developed with my son, which is a rare condition. I was to find out after having it happen twice, but this episode isn’t my birth story. It’s more of a story about how I lost my joy postpartum as a second time mom.

 

00:01:42:10 – 00:02:06:20

Dr. Mona

As I dealt with weight, anxiety for my daughter. I spoken about percentile anxiety or weight anxiety many times before on my social media channel and also here on the podcast, but I finally experienced it. I finally had to listen to my own advice that I’ve given many parents before, which was easier said than done when I was on the receiving end.

 

00:02:06:22 – 00:02:32:20

Dr. Mona

And this episode is part of the finding Joy series of this podcast episodes where I discuss the real life things parents, especially mothers, because I am one, go through and offer some guidance. I believe so strongly that we can learn from each other’s experience and every struggle I’ve overcome in my professional, personal, and mother life I know can help motivate and help others.

 

00:02:32:22 – 00:02:51:18

Dr. Mona

So I developed percentile or weight anxiety around six weeks. And what is percentile and weighting society? This is an anxiety around your baby’s weight or where they land on a percentile curve. And it can be if your child is on the higher end, lower end, or some parents have anxiety, even if their child is smack in the middle.

 

00:02:51:18 – 00:03:12:19

Dr. Mona

And I want us to have more compassion for this. And this is what the episode is all about. The first six weeks with Veera was a fog of postpartum recovery in hospitalizations. For me, the entire breastfeeding and pumping journey in those early weeks felt like a blur given my health, but she latched immediately, an experience I did not get with my son, Ryan.

 

00:03:13:00 – 00:03:36:09

Dr. Mona

I was in the cardiac ICU and then discharged and then readmitted. So the weight of managing my health and triple feeding, which means taking her to the breast pumping and bottle feeding, was getting to be too much for me, and I decided to eliminate feeding at the breast. She was also a very, quote unquote lazy feeder, and I’ll discuss this term later.

 

00:03:36:11 – 00:04:10:12

Dr. Mona

And she would just snack and snack and fall asleep and snack and snack. She would latch. But we worked so hard with I even have a lactation consultant, even though I am one, and we just couldn’t figure out why she was just so tired and lazy at the breast. And maybe it was because she got a bottle. Maybe it’s because then there’s many different factors, but she just wasn’t a full feed kind of gal and she would snack and snack and snack, and my anxiety felt like pumping and measuring would provide me with a little bit more control, because I would be able to see how much she’s getting.

 

00:04:10:14 – 00:04:32:02

Dr. Mona

So I became an exclusive pumper and I really have actually enjoyed the experience. It’s provided me a little more flexibility. It’s provided me the ability to provide her breast milk because I was producing, and we supplemented formula until I could get my supply up with pumping and power pumping. And at one month of her age, she started being exclusively fed breast milk.

 

00:04:32:04 – 00:04:57:07

Dr. Mona

I came a long way and felt so happy. I was barely producing anything and was meeting her daily needs now and even at this point I’m able to produce even more than her daily needs, which is awesome. But then the anxiety set in, you know, those early weeks, it was this feeling of my breast milk causing her stomach upset because of the loads of antibiotics I was on.

 

00:04:57:13 – 00:05:19:00

Dr. Mona

Because of my complications, I was on I.V. antibiotics on and off for basically two weeks. And as we know, antibiotics can cause that change in you. But I noticed that she was just having really watery poops and just straining and so uncomfortable in her belly. She was also in that 4 to 7 week timeframe where colic is very common.

 

00:05:19:02 – 00:05:42:10

Dr. Mona

But that anxiety was real. And when I was on those antibiotics, I had anxiety that my breastmilk was harming her. And then when that started, it developed into this anxiety over her weight and how petite she is. I was on this big gun antibiotics for weeks and it truly did cause poop changes for Vera. She developed wicked diaper rashes and had a really bad gas.

 

00:05:42:12 – 00:05:59:11

Dr. Mona

And I made the decision to start her on probing sticks and it really did help. Side note if you’re going to be showing your child on probiotics, I always advise you to speak to your child’s clinician. And since I kind of m her clinician also, I decided to do it. And the hard thing was, is that I would just see this rash.

 

00:05:59:11 – 00:06:21:03

Dr. Mona

I was fixated on these rashes and she had a really bad gas, and I had so much stress over her rash. And I was trying every remedy under the sun. And it finally got better. I started developing this feeling that my breastmilk was a problem, which really meant to me that something I was providing for her wasn’t good enough.

 

00:06:21:05 – 00:06:40:01

Dr. Mona

And this is a horrible feeling, and one that I’ve seen other mothers feel. So mothers I see that are breastfeeding and whether their child is getting amazing weight or not gaining weight, whatever it is, they feel so bad about the breastfeeding and maybe it’s not enough. Or maybe my breastmilk is causing my child to be gassy or fussy.

 

00:06:40:01 – 00:07:05:09

Dr. Mona

And there’s just so much guilt when we’re providing something for our child. She was doing well at eight weeks, and I was happy. Things are better with the stomach stuff. And then I went to her two month checkup. And clinically, she was wonderful. Peeing, smiling, pooping, developing. But she wasn’t increasing the volume of breastmilk at feeds, but she was satisfied and sleeping, so I wasn’t too worried.

 

00:07:05:11 – 00:07:28:21

Dr. Mona

And then I saw a colleague, and since I wasn’t worried or had any symptoms, I saw whoever was available because I just needed a weight check and to get vaccines for a two month checkup. And then the colleague said a comment. Oh, mom, she’s dropping percentiles. And it wasn’t even the words. It was the way it was said with worry and sort of panic like, I don’t like it.

 

00:07:28:23 – 00:07:52:08

Dr. Mona

I someone who has put many parents through low percentiles or weight concerns immediately felt worry. Wait, what? What’s wrong? She dropped from the 15th percentile to the third percentile. Panic mode. Since that two month visit, I have been in panic mode. The feeling of feeling that she was floored when everybody around me said she was perfect and cute.

 

00:07:52:08 – 00:08:17:17

Dr. Mona

This feeling that something was wrong with her. When my social media followers were tell me that she was so beautiful, my anxiety was in the front seat and I was losing joy. I was losing connection because I was panicking about her weight and feeling that she and I were not enough. I was fortunate to have a therapist, and even more fortunate at this time, to find a nanny who has helped me with my anxiety.

 

00:08:17:17 – 00:08:40:23

Dr. Mona

Seeing and being with mirror to both her and my husband have been a source of calm. The calm I usually provide for other moms that I couldn’t find for myself. She was still drinking the same volume at the its content. Happy, playful and developing. So I assumed this because my breast milk composition was changing and she was fine.

 

00:08:40:23 – 00:09:11:18

Dr. Mona

She was nourished. And then I just started to search for issues. I went down a rabbit hole on social media. I follow feeding accounts, and some of them made it seem like every baby has pathology, that if they weren’t perfect, it was a problem. So I started thinking that there was a flaw and this compounded with guilt. And this became me going into my office on visits, in between visits and weighing her because I was so obsessed with her weight, my anxiety caused her to develop a feeding aversion around nine weeks.

 

00:09:11:20 – 00:09:29:17

Dr. Mona

And I want to share this because I want to be honest, and I want you to know that sometimes we as parents can contribute, not cause issues. And I’m careful with the word choice here because I know anxiety is real. And the last thing you need to hear is that you caused your child to be a certain way.

 

00:09:29:19 – 00:09:54:01

Dr. Mona

But I also have self insight. I also know, and things that we do as parents may be contributing to an issue. And I contributed to her bottle refusal. She would scream and cry during feeds and only with me. It was because I was forcing that bottle. I was so obsessed with her weight and the need for her to gain weight, that I was forcing this bottle into her mouth.

 

00:09:54:01 – 00:10:13:05

Dr. Mona

And this is something I tell others never to do. And I was doing it. She would push away and I would push. I would get frustrated, and I would try to get that bottle in and she would cry and I would say, take the bottle, take the bottle. Feeding became stressful for me and for her, and she was only nine weeks old.

 

00:10:13:10 – 00:10:32:12

Dr. Mona

It became overwhelming. It became not enjoyable when my husband or our nanny would feed her. She would still cry when the bib went on. You know, she created this feeding association that, oh my gosh, this bib is going on and this person’s going to force food in my mouth. But it was better with them because they weren’t forcing.

 

00:10:32:14 – 00:10:56:21

Dr. Mona

I stopped forcing her and kept offering, kept talking to her. If you’re done, you’re done. And I even would verbalize. I’m going to respect your cues. And she went back to enjoying the feeding sessions again. At the time of this recording, my girl is happy, loved sleeping well, pooping and peeing, and playful and joyous. And she eats until she’s full and she gives a sign when she’s done.

 

00:10:56:21 – 00:11:21:02

Dr. Mona

And for her, it’s kicking the bottle out of her mouth. It’s dribbling a little bit more at the end of the feed. When she’s done, it’s looking away. It’s just not seeming interested. And yet I was pushing her and I started really focusing back in on the cues, which I’ve talked to so many parents about. But with all of this, she is currently on the first percentile for weight and the third percentile for head circumference.

 

00:11:21:04 – 00:11:47:00

Dr. Mona

She’s long, so she’s on the 50th percentile for height. I hate talking about percentiles, and I was, you know, hesitant to share these numbers, but I want to only because I want you to know that I am there. If you are dealing with that percentile anxiety. I have a petite young lady, and I was feeling overwhelmed because I started comparing her to Ryan and also to other babies in my office or on social media around the same age.

 

00:11:47:02 – 00:12:10:22

Dr. Mona

And I’ve spoken about comparison to you. And here I was doing it. Ryan was formula fed and down six ounces of formula when Vera, at the same age would take two ounces of breast milk. Both were satisfied. Both were developing in milestones. And yet I looked at her as feeling. I saw other babies of the same age on social media look chunky.

 

00:12:10:22 – 00:12:33:18

Dr. Mona

Or people say that, wow, that baby’s so well fed and thought to myself, if we put chubbier babies on a pedestal and see that they’re well fed, what about my daughter? She said, I’m providing her nourishment. She’s content, but she’s petite. She’s not perfect for her. If you look at the numbers, it can make any parent feel like their child is not enough.

 

00:12:33:20 – 00:12:52:16

Dr. Mona

But I know she is because like I’ve said time and time again, we have to look at the big picture for our kids, especially when it comes to weight. So if you are dealing with percentile anxiety, especially, let’s say your child is on the lower percentiles, I want to explain what that big picture means to me and what I want you to remember.

 

00:12:52:18 – 00:13:08:23

Dr. Mona

And if you’re a clinician is asking you to come in for weight checks and if that is actually adding more stress for you, I want you to think of what I’m saying and think if maybe you want to talk to your clinician about spacing out those weight checks, looking at the big picture and taking that step back. So what does this mean?

 

00:13:09:01 – 00:13:39:00

Dr. Mona

Number one, are they satisfied after feeds? Do they seem relaxed? Yes. This is amazing. Is feeding stressful for you and another caregiver? Because if yes, we may need to discuss and evaluate. Are you getting sleep stretches with your baby? Yes. This is amazing. Are they waking up after a feed? Hungry and ravenous? No. Awesome. So if you feed them and then they sleep for 20 minutes and then they’re hungry again, that may be a concern because they may not be getting full seats.

 

00:13:39:02 – 00:13:58:06

Dr. Mona

Are they meeting developmental milestones and motor milestones? Yes. This is awesome. If they’re not right, like if they’re not lifting up their head and tummy time, if they seem a little bit stiff, you know, we’ll get into that as stuff that we would want to know. Do they seem content overall? This can be hard in that 4 to 7 eight week period when babies can be colicky.

 

00:13:58:10 – 00:14:25:20

Dr. Mona

But do you see periods of calm? Do you see content moments after feeds, or are they crying all the time? Are they upset all the time? Does their body seem stressed tight, or what we call hypertonic where they just seem so stuck? Because if that’s the concern, we also need to evaluate do they have digestive issues with their feeding, such as reflux, choking on feeds, coughing all the time with feeds?

 

00:14:25:22 – 00:14:54:23

Dr. Mona

Because and that is another reason we’d want to evaluate. And lastly, do they have feeding aversion. So what I mentioned with our she would cry when the baby goes on or crying at the breast or the bottle, meaning they just were creating an association that this was not enjoyable because if that’s happening, we need to figure out is this something mechanical where we need to evaluate and do some sort of feeding therapy, or is this something that’s behavioral where the way we’re approaching the feeding session is causing this?

 

00:14:55:01 – 00:15:31:09

Dr. Mona

If you are feeling percentile or weight anxiety and I know it exists, please know that you are not alone. The percentile anxiety can exist whether your baby’s on the lower percentile or higher percentiles, or smack dab in the middle. It is created out of a feeling of not enoughness or that you are not enough and I remember I actually recently had posted on my social channels about this trend going around where people would be sharing how their babies looked like after four months of breastfeeding or three months of breastfeeding, so would be a little newborn, and then 3 to 4 months later, the video would pan to a quote unquote chunky baby.

 

00:15:31:09 – 00:15:51:23

Dr. Mona

And some moms did that trend and their baby was not chunky. And then people in the comments section would be like, are you sure they’re breastfed or are you sure they’re getting it up? And I made a video on my page talking about the trend and the harms that I see of that trend. Right. We are putting weight on a pedestal for our babies from the beginning, and we know that that serves no purpose for adult with body image.

 

00:15:52:03 – 00:16:14:10

Dr. Mona

So we are already from the beginning saying my baby is chunky and that means they’re healthy. And then that looks somewhere down the line, right? Because society says then when you’re older, you can’t be on the higher percentiles. You should be lean. And if you’re on the higher percentiles, you’re overweight. And so we’re kind of all twisted here and saying, let me put this weight on a pedestal from the very beginning.

 

00:16:14:10 – 00:16:36:00

Dr. Mona

And we constantly are talking about weight and babies weight. And that really goes into childhood weight. That goes into adult weight, that goes into how we just view our children and again, putting weight on the pedestal and also for those of us who may be having babies on the smaller end of percentiles, it can make you feel like you’re lesser then.

 

00:16:36:02 – 00:17:01:09

Dr. Mona

And I’ve mentioned this before, I don’t think the trend that happened is mal intent. I don’t think people are posting that and saying haha, like I have this baby and you have a smaller baby and that means that you’re, you know, not adequate. But when you’re dealing with this sort of anxiety, this percentile anxiety, when you’re dealing with this sort of narrative that heavier babies are more healthy and more petite babies are not, it can cause a lot of self shame.

 

00:17:01:09 – 00:17:23:10

Dr. Mona

It can cause a lot of guilt that I don’t think is fair for parents. And so if you are dealing with that feeling of percentile or weight anxiety wherever your child is, I want you to remember the following. The first is look at the big picture. Like I mentioned, I don’t believe that we should dismiss significant drops or increases in percentiles, but sometimes it can truly be normal.

 

00:17:23:12 – 00:17:49:23

Dr. Mona

My daughter technically meets the criteria for failure to thrive because she’s under the third percentile for her weight, but that terminology in itself is so upsetting. Like in the OB world, failure to progress when you’re not dilating or progressing, labor failure is being built in right into the diagnoses when you’re not feeling, and when you start to look at your baby as feeling, all you will see is failure.

 

00:17:50:01 – 00:18:12:19

Dr. Mona

All you will see is stress. Nobody is failing your child. I wish that diagnosis would change. Or maybe we can say slow or rapid. We can second avoid comparison. The comparison can make us that are dealing with percentile anxiety feel worse. And we have two options here to block the sources of comparison or change the way we look at it.

 

00:18:12:21 – 00:18:37:01

Dr. Mona

And I hope we can focus on number two because like I said, using that trend, we can’t control what everyone else will say or do. We can only control ourselves. But when you’re deep in anxiety, it can be hard to change. So this may mean temporarily blocking accounts that are making you more anxious about your child’s weight for meals, muting accounts that would talk about their chubby babies or limiting blind scrolling on social media.

 

00:18:37:01 – 00:18:54:18

Dr. Mona

Because, you know, I was following some accounts that had babies the same age as Viera, and they would talk about their percentiles. They would talk about the way they would talk about my chubby, chubby baby. And I looked at my beautiful girl who is thriving. But yet I couldn’t see her as perfect because she wasn’t a certain weight.

 

00:18:54:18 – 00:19:16:21

Dr. Mona

And that is the hardest reality that I see. When you are seeing that, you have to mute those accounts, and this may mean muting them while you’re also working on reminding yourself every day that your baby is unique. They are on a different journey. Just like milestones. Weight is the same thing and I am the best mother or father for my babies.

 

00:19:16:23 – 00:19:43:19

Dr. Mona

Number three whenever you feel nervous or worried about your baby’s weight, say this mantra we are safe. We are loved. You are safe. You are loved. When anxiety about our kids get high about anything, whether it’s health anxiety, percent anxiety, milestone anxiety, anything that worries us as parents, saying this phrase can bring you back. Anxiety that spirals can come out of a feeling of not feeling safe or loved.

 

00:19:43:21 – 00:20:04:17

Dr. Mona

And by verbally saying this out loud, you are controlling the narrative and you are controlling your mind. Number four seek out clinicians and people who speak to you how you need it during your times of anxiety. I know you will get to a place where you will not need tiptoeing, and you will be able to watch trends and watch things and feel okay.

 

00:20:04:19 – 00:20:27:11

Dr. Mona

But we cannot control what other people say or do. Like I mentioned, we can only control ourselves, but as you’re dealing with it, I hope you can find a clinician that works with you and is not fear mongering and surround yourself with people who get it, who understand what you’re dealing with. An example here is both my husband and nanny have known that I have anxiety around years.

 

00:20:27:11 – 00:20:44:12

Dr. Mona

Wait, so they would comment on the things that she’s doing. Amazing! To remind myself about the positive. Remind myself that she is thriving because like I said, when you start to get into the label of my baby, it’s not enough. So let’s say you get the label of failure to thrive. Or let’s say you get the label of low waking.

 

00:20:44:12 – 00:21:06:21

Dr. Mona

Whatever it is, you can start to just feed that narrative and feel like there’s failure and failure and failure, and you need to look at the positives and work with what you need to work with to support your child’s needs. Number five get help if it helps your anxiety. At the time of this recording, I have decided to do a feeding evaluation only to appease my anxiety.

 

00:21:06:23 – 00:21:30:17

Dr. Mona

She is satisfied after feeds and still sleeps like a clock. Like everything is amazing but she eats very small amounts and plays with the nipple of the bottle when she’s full and she dribbles a little bit while she feeds. And I just want to make sure her feeding mechanisms are okay. This is a fine line, because sometimes some specialists or doctors can add more fear or make you feel even worse.

 

00:21:30:19 – 00:21:54:10

Dr. Mona

So it’s ideal to seek out calming forces in the field, and hopefully friend or your clinician can guide you in the right direction. And I want you to get positive planning. What positive planning is, is a plan that’s built in positivity, not negativity. So this means that we are going to look at an issue and just say, your child is losing weight and your doctor is concerned because yeah, they may be losing weight.

 

00:21:54:12 – 00:22:14:04

Dr. Mona

I want calm, positive reinforcement and a positive plan. Hey, I noticed that we’re trending down a little bit. Tell me more how feeding is going. Are you concerned with the development? How she’s doing with stomach upset? How is he doing with this? All of those questions I mentioned earlier. And if there is a concern, hey, why don’t we do a feeding evaluation?

 

00:22:14:04 – 00:22:32:18

Dr. Mona

I think it’s going to be in the best interest we can just make sure everything’s okay. I’m very happy with how things are going. These conversations and the way we approach these conversations can really help. And coming up with that plan, okay, things are going well. I think I’m happy. Why don’t I pull you back in another month for a weight check?

 

00:22:33:00 – 00:22:52:18

Dr. Mona

You know, I see that maybe there might be some issues with how we’re feeding. Why don’t we do a feeding evaluation, get away, check and see how we’re doing checkpoints. All of this can really help the anxious mind when you have a plan, even though there may not be an immediate solution or an issue, it can just help to know, okay, I know what I’m looking for.

 

00:22:52:20 – 00:23:22:21

Dr. Mona

I know what I need to be concerned so that you feel better supported. The next thing is block out the noise. So this ties into comparison, but you have to be in control of what is not serving you. And I want to use two examples. Unknowing that I was dealing with this anxiety. One of my best friends had a baby that was a month younger than Shira, but we’d weigh more than her at birth and continues to grow at a rate way higher than Hera, and she would send pictures to a friend group and say, oh, look at my chunky monkey.

 

00:23:22:21 – 00:23:47:11

Dr. Mona

She doesn’t fit in the clothes and this and that, and that’s wonderful for her to share. That has nothing to do for me. But because I was feeling bad about my own reality, I spoke to her and I said, I’m so happy that your baby is thriving. And I explained to her that what I was going through and what I was feeling, and that if she could maybe hold back on that commentary and like the best friend that she is, she understood.

 

00:23:47:13 – 00:24:11:15

Dr. Mona

She said, okay. And it wasn’t anything more than just understanding that it was me. It was my anxiety that I had to control. And seeing that and being exposed to that just fed that narrative. And as I’m working on getting through that anxiety, I put some boundaries there. And I respect having friends like that that understand. And even my mom, my mom would call me and we would chat and she’s like, how much is she eating now?

 

00:24:11:18 – 00:24:31:06

Dr. Mona

How much does she weigh? And I ask my mom, like, mom, why do you keep asking that? It’s not really important. She’s thriving and she’s wonderful. And I respectfully ask my mom to stop asking those questions. So it’s important to set boundaries for what you need, and it may not make sense to anybody else. Other people would be like, why do you care about that?

 

00:24:31:06 – 00:24:49:08

Dr. Mona

But you’re the one dealing with these feelings. And as you are working through these feelings, it is okay to set the boundaries. And my dream and hope is that you can get to a place where all of that noise, the comments and the commentary and the comparison that doesn’t even affect you because you feel confident knowing that you are doing the best thing for your child.

 

00:24:49:10 – 00:25:11:11

Dr. Mona

But the problem is, when you are dealing with weight anxiety or present anxiety, you can feel that feeling of not enoughness. You can feel that feeling of I am not giving my child what they need. And while you’re dealing with that, the boundaries can help you to get to a place that you need to go and that segways into the last reminder you are doing amazing.

 

00:25:11:13 – 00:25:37:19

Dr. Mona

Your concern is seen, but do not let it spiral. You do not let it consume you. And if it is, you need to speak to a clinician for your child and also a mental health provider for you. I did this and it helps. I would message colleagues I trusted to walk me through the thought process I was having when my rationality went out the window, when I was seeing that she was only taking two ounces and use that term only, I messaged my friend and she was like, that’s amazing.

 

00:25:37:19 – 00:26:03:09

Dr. Mona

She’s content, she’s happy, she’s feeling, that’s wonderful. I needed help channeling the rational part of my brain that was lost underneath the anxiety. Thought I needed help with a therapist to talk through things, which helps because our partners sometimes have their own worries or anxieties. We sometimes need that non-biased support, that third party support, that if anything, helps validate our experience.

 

00:26:03:09 – 00:26:28:14

Dr. Mona

And I hope this episode did that for you and also helps you feel that sigh of relief that you are enough for your child. Because when it comes to weight, when it comes to percentiles, that feeling of we are not providing for our child is a real thing. But you are. You are looking out for their well-being. We are looking at the big picture and if anything is not working, we are going to come up with a positive plan.

 

00:26:28:14 – 00:26:52:00

Dr. Mona

Like I mentioned, I can’t stress enough. Your child is enough. They are thriving. You are enough, you are thriving. And this episode is part of the finding Joy series. Because I don’t want this to take away from how you look at your child. I don’t want your mind to be so consumed by this feeling of not enoughness at a time where you can and should feel joy with your kid.

 

00:26:52:02 – 00:27:13:11

Dr. Mona

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00:27:13:11 – 00:27:22:21

Dr. Mona

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