Parent Tell

It's been a while since the last Babysode (that's just what we call a shorter, mini episode around here, for what we think are obvious reasons) but it's back and with a super relevant topic that new …

This week on Parent Tell, Kaila tackles how isolating it can feel when you become a parent but live far from your best and most supportive friends and family members. Speaking with fellow military sp…

This week on Parent Tell, Kaila had the privilege of talking with Marjorie Aunos, a single mother by choice who became wheelchair bound only 16 months after the birth of her son. Majorie and Kaila ha…

Being a new parent can be overwhelming, confusing, and exhausting.

Oh yeah and obviously wonderful, definitely wonderful to stare at that sweet baby angel face.

Anyway, back to the overwhelming and c…

This week is about sex (bayybee)! Kaila talks with sex, intimacy, and relationship coach Azaria Menezes about how a couple's bedroom relationship tends to down shift once a baby comes home to stay. S…

This week on the podcast Kaila talks with Jess, a cannabis user and a mom. A CannaMom, if you will. Jess shares how using cannabis has helped her mental health but also has positively impacted her pa…

This week Kaila talks with Kiran Gaind, a parent, life, and leadership coach. Kiran teaches parents, schools, and organizations the mindsets, communication skills, and behavior that create cultures o…

This week's episode is a babysode, where Kaila reads the stories that you send in to her. Reading with her this week is Jess from Only You Podcast; Jess was Kaila's guest on the Postpartum Anxiety ep…

Holy hair loss, Batman! Or Robin, as that is literally Kaila's son's name. As if postpartum and the fourth trimester weren't hard enough already, your hair also falls out after giving birth?! Kaila, …

Trigger Warning: Discussions on body image

This week Kaila talks with Vanessa Gorelkin, an Occupational Therapist whose specialties include mental health and mindfulness, about the struggle that can b…

In this week's episode, Kaila speaks candidly with Kayode (a previous Parent Tell guest, heard on Episode 3: Let's Hear It For The Dads) about her experiences growing up as a biracial child in the 90…

In this second officially babysode, Kaila and Jimmy read some of the childhood stories listeners sent in! From questionable babysitter moves to being accused of cheating at a carnival game, take a qu…

The relationship that you have with your significant other pre-baby is not going to be the same relationship you have with your significant other post-baby. There's just no doubt about that. The kick…

While more of the world is learning the facts of PPD (postpartum depression) and just how common it actually is, postpartum anxiety (PPA) is additionally considered the most common childbirth complic…

In celebration of being parents for a full damn year (and in the middle of a global pandemic, thank you very much), Kaila tells her birth story with the help of the one and only Jimmy. Starting from …

When was the last time you really just played? For kids, play is happening all day every day, but as adults who have all too often lost sight of our inner child play is then pigeonholed into one defi…

The fact is, it's ultimately not up to the birthing person how a baby is born. And that can be really hard to grapple with, especially when you've been pregnant for almost 10 months and you just want…

Don't let anyone ever fool you with the phrase "sleep like a baby" ever again after listening to Kaila and her guest, Christina, talk about how excruciating sleep deprivation is for parents as well a…

This week's episode finds Kaila talking with one of her closest friends, Andrea, an attorney and entrepreneur. We are Marie Kondo-ing our self-care, y'all; and that includes the use of the word "self…

Mom groups. They are totally a life changing experience for parents, involving hilarious group texts, potluck lunches in the park, and instant BFFs. Right? Not always. Sure, parent groups are an amaz…