Week By Week

About Week By Week

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.

Publisher

Celeste Busa

Category

kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Nov 2020

Latest episode

28 Aug 2024

Latest episodes

106 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Aug 2024

   95. Fun Sized Minisode: Communicating Wants

   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 (https://open.spotify.com/show/1rE4vaP7vq96JnXjZrzPaa), 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 💛

2. 

   21 Aug 2024

   94. Postpartum Anxiety, Letting Go of Breastfeeding, and Parenting a Toddler with Lizz Adams

   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 (http://www.lizzadams.com/) 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 (https://open.spotify.com/show/1rE4vaP7vq96JnXjZrzPaa), 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 💛

3. 

   31 Jul 2024

   93. Wet taps, Finding Humor, and Building Community with Sarah Bosignore

   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 (https://www.instagram.com/petesybon/?hl=en) 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 (https://open.spotify.com/show/1rE4vaP7vq96JnXjZrzPaa), 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 💛

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

31 ratings

Spotify

3.5 / 5

115 ratings

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