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It’s been a while since I’ve done a Q&A episode — so this one is extra stacked!

You sent in your questions about motherhood, business, routines, screen time, nutrition, boundaries, and so much more… and I’m here to answer them all — no holds barred, complete transparency, from my heart to yours.

Tune in as I pull back the curtains on: how we’ve navigated four years without screen time for my daughter (along with no dairy, gluten or sugar), how I transition between work and mum life, our plan for Bambi’s education, the newborn essentials I swear by, my thoughts on playdates, boundaries, potty training, how we navigate eating in social settings, and what really happens when I feel like I’m failing at both motherhood and business — it’s all in here.

Whether you’re a new mama, a soon-to-be mama, or deep in the sacred trenches of running a business and caring for others, this episode is full of practical tips, honest reflections, and a behind-the-scenes look at how we really do things in our home.

Press play now for an honest, unfiltered chat about what’s working, what we’re still figuring out, and everything I’ve learned along the way.

In this episode we chat about:

• How I navigate business and motherhood without losing myself in the process (1:45)
• How I personally think about my roles as a mama and an entrepreneur (4:04)
• Do I ever feel like I’m failing at both motherhood and business? (5:00)
• What I’d do if I were starting a business with a baby right now (6:07) 
• How we’ve gone four years without a TV in our home (8:01)
• How we’ve raised Bambi without dairy, gluten or sugar — and why (11:53)
• What we do when she visits other people’s homes (12:58)
• How I talk to Bambi when dairy or gluten is on the table (16:20)
• Our current sleep and feeding rhythm with two young kids (17:35)
• How I get enough sleep to support my morning routine (18:50)
• A behind-the-scenes look at what a typical day actually looks like for us (19:58)
• Our plans for Bambi’s education — and why we’re doing things differently (24:00)
• Thinking creatively about childcare when you have no family nearby (26:01)
• How we’re approaching the shift from one child to two (26:43)
• How I manage working from home with kids around (28:20)
• Exactly how much time I spend on my business each day (28:50)
• The mindset shift that helps me dance between work and motherhood with more ease (29:30)
• How long we plan to continue eating the way we do right now (30:52)
• Where I find the nourishing recipes we use daily (31:37)
• Do we allow any screens in our home at all? (31:53)
• How my approach to screen time will evolve as Bambi gets older (34:20)
• Am I strict about what Bambi eats? Here’s my honest answer (35:03)
• Do we let her have organic chocolate? (36:08)
• My best piece of advice for first-time mamas (37:09)
• Am I concerned about my children developing food intolerances? (37:26)
• Do we allow FaceTime calls in our house? (37:36)
• How to thrive when you’re doing everything on your own (39:00)
• My thoughts on screen time for kids when you’re trying to get stuff done — and some practical techniques you’ll want to swipe! (40:36)
• How I make time to cook from scratch without losing my sanity! (41:13)
• How we handle treats and chocolate around Easter and special occasions (43:40)
• What I do when our food values are challenged in social settings (44:45)
• Do we take Bambi to restaurants? (45:26)
• How we approach boundaries when Bambi goes on playdates (46:10)
• How I make sure Bambi gets enough calcium without dairy (46:50)
• What we do when we travel to make sure our bodies are nourished (48:26)
• Am I worried my daughter is missing out by not having typical food or entertainment? (49:27)
• How to maintain a healthy lifestyle when you’ve got minimal support (51:01)
• My current newborn essentials and what we’re loving right now (52:12)
• When our nanny started and how she fits into our routine (52:33)
• How to prioritise yourself when it feels like you’ve got no time (53:06)
• Thoughts on navigating the journey of breastfeeding (55:21)
• Was pumping a clear decision for me or did I struggle with it? (56:10)
• My thoughts on potty training — and what worked for us (57:16)
• How Nick and I divide household chores behind the scenes (59:25)

Episode resources:

• SheLaunch (join here)
• Mastering Your Mean Girl by Melissa Ambrosini (book)
• Open Wide by Melissa Ambrosini (book)
• Comparisonitis by Melissa Ambrosini (book)
• Time Magic by Melissa Ambrosini and Nick Broadhurst (book)
• Wholy Mama (website)
• Toniebox (website)
• Dr. Golly (website)
• Save Our Sleep (website)
• Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine by Gabriel Cousens (book)
• Mumilk Pro Breast Pump (get it here)

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[00:00:00] The Melissa Ambrosini Show. Welcome to the Melissa Ambrosini Show. I’m your host, Melissa bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl, open, wide, comparisonitis and Time Magic. And I’m here to remind you that love is sexy, healthy is liberating, and wealthy isn’t a dirty word. Each week I’ll be getting up close and personal with thought leaders from around the globe, as well as your weekly dose of motivation so that you can create epic change in your own life and become the best version of yourself possible.

Are you ready? Beautiful.

Hey, beautiful. Welcome back to the show. I’m so excited about this episode because I am answering your burning questions. And can I tell you, I’m looking at my thing right here. I have 124 questions to answer. On the topic of parenting, [00:01:00] business and motherhood, and specifically, I posted on my Instagram the other day how I have not given Bambi screens, gluten, dairy, or sugar, and I got so many questions.

So this is my episode to answer all of those questions, all 124 of them. Well, we’ll see how we go. There was quite a few that were similar. So I will bulk those together and I wanna go deep on business and motherhood and parenting for you guys because it is such a huge part of my life and I wanna be here as a support for you.

So let’s dive straight in. Okay, so these are in no particular order, but I’m gonna dive into all of the parenting questions first. So the first question is, how do I do both? How do I do business and motherhood? And I just wanna preface this by saying that you can absolutely do both. You can I do it? I have so many clients [00:02:00] that do it.

I have so many friends that do it. However, there needs to be structure. There needs to be healthy boundaries. And so here’s how I do it. We have a nanny, and I know that is privileged, and I’m not saying you have to get a nanny, but you can ask friends or you can ask your mother-in-law, your father-in-law, or I dunno, whether you do daycare, whatever it is, but having specific times when you work.

This is a game changer. So I know that during this time is when I work, my son is asleep, Bambi is with our nanny, and that is when I do my work. So I try not to do work outside of that time. I try not to work whilst I’m mothering. Now, this has been a little bit trickier since having my second, because there’s been times where it has creeped into my mothering.

And it’s not what I wanna do, but I’m still kind of finding my feet. You know, he’s five months now, I’m still trying to find my feet, uh, and my workflow. But when I just had [00:03:00] Bambi, I was on and off. I was working when she was with the nanny, and then I was off, completely off. Never touched my phone, didn’t even have my phone with me when I was with her.

That’s how strong my boundaries were around it. So how do you do both? You have to have boundaries. There has to be boundaries. This is when I’m working, this is when I’m not working. And if you don’t have support from your mother or your mother-in-law, or grandma or a nanny or daycare. Tag teaming with your partner.

So I took the kids for a walk this morning and I bumped into this man who has a daughter, and we were both walking and pushing our prams at the same time around the block. And I said, how do you guys work? And he said, well, she works in the morning and I have the babe, and then he works in the afternoon and she has the babe.

So tag teaming. There needs to be boundaries. There needs to be specific times when you work. That is how you can do both. You have to have healthy boundaries and work out [00:04:00] when you are working and when you’re not working. So that is how I do both. Next question was, how do you learn to compartmentalize if this doesn’t come naturally for you?

For me, again, I found this was a lot easier with one child. To be able to just go, okay, I’m working now and then I’m not working where, it’s still in the unpredictable stages for him with his sleep. Like I, he’s, he usually does like a two hour sleep now, but he woke up after one hour. So that’s when I’m meant to be working.

So now I’m like, okay, what can I do? Can Nick take him? Can the nanny take him so I can finish my work? What do we do? So the best way to compartmentalize is I think knowing and having time in your calendar dedicated solely to your work so that you can, when you are mothering, switch off that so that you can be fully present, be the mother that you wanna be, knowing that later you are going to get your work time so that you can dive into your work.

So that’s how I do it. So I hope that [00:05:00] helps. Okay. Next question. Do I ever feel like I’m failing at both jobs? I definitely feel like I’m failing at motherhood at times. Not because of my work, but more so because I know the mother that I wanna be patient, present, playful, loving, soft, kind, compassionate. I know the mother I wanna be.

And when this mama doesn’t have a good night’s sleep, I feel like I don’t show up as that best version of myself. So there are times definitely where I feel like I’m failing as a mother, and I feel like with my business, I’m always just doing the best that I can. I don’t feel like I’m failing at my business, but definitely at motherhood, sometimes I do.

Sometimes I don’t respond the way that I want to, and then I walk away and go, why did I just do that? Because I’m tired. It’s no excuse, but because I’m tired, so what can I do to fill myself up? What can I do to fill myself up so that I can [00:06:00] show up as the best version of me for them? Yeah. So I hope that answers your question.

How would you start a business with a baby? She’s dependent on me and too young for childcare, so be kind and gentle with yourself. If you have a baby and you wanna start a business like that is a lot. But we do have women inside she Lodge that are doing it, and you’ve gotta be gentle with yourself, lower the expectations and go slow and small.

Like don’t put a lot of pressure on yourself. Just do what you can do. And if you’re starting it because you have a burning desire and passion within you that you have to, that’s a great place to start from. But if you’re starting it just because you want to or you’re comparing yourself to others, then I would look at that.

Yeah, look at why you wanna start a business with a baby right now, and can you lower the expectations that you have on yourself? Can you be kind and compassionate with yourself and come and join [00:07:00] She launch because I can help you start your business. It’s exactly what we do. And we give you all of the tools and all of the mindset hacks that you need to create the business of your dreams.

But when you’ve got a baby, you need to take that pressure off yourself so you can do it. Like I said, I’ve got women inside she launched that are doing it, but you need support. So is that from your partner? Is that from mother-in-law? Is it from your mother? Is it from whoever who is going to be there and hold your baby whilst you do your business or be there?

So having a support system in place is essential. And I feel like I keep saying it, but there’s a common theme here is like support, support, support in motherhood and business support, support, support. We don’t have to do this thing alone. We don’t have to do this thing alone. We don’t have to do life alone.

Okay? So master your main goal. Get really good at asking for and receiving [00:08:00] support. Okay, so. The next big common question that I got asked was about how have I gone four years and she’s never watched tv, she’s never watched a screen. How have I done that? Exactly? How have I done that? So I’m gonna share how I did it.

So firstly, we don’t have a tv. We do not have a TV in our house, and we haven’t had a TV for many, many years. That is one of the best ways to not have the temptation there. So I’m not saying you have to get rid of your tv, but we purposely and intentionally don’t have a tv. If we really wanna watch something, we’ll watch something on a laptop.

But I’m not in the season. I’ve got a new baby. I am not in the season to watching things. But occasionally, before Prince came along, Nick and I would watch an episode of something on my laptop or on the desktop, and it’s easy. We just do that. But. [00:09:00] We intentionally didn’t want a TV in our house. So that’s the first thing we did.

So the second thing is, is you have to just get creative with other ways. So for me, we are always outside. Like I would prefer her doing arts and craft and being outside in nature. So we do a lot of outside activities and I know a lot of people that give screams when. They wanna get their work done. So I would use my nanny in that time.

That is when I get my work done. But there’s also other things you can do. So when Prince came along, like a few months in, I was like, this is not working. Like how can I put him down? She was getting so upset with me going to put him down for sleep, and I was like, well, why don’t you just do some arts and craft?

And she was like, no, not having a bar of that. So I would set her up with an activity and she would still not want that. So we got a thing called a Tony Box. Now this is not an ad for Tony Boxes, so it’s like a little box that they put a character on top and it tells a story. So it [00:10:00] reads them stories, it can do songs and you can record things as well.

So we did that. And that worked. But the novelty for that kind of wore off. Like she does still like it, but it kind of wore off a little bit. Another thing that we did allow recently, and that was purely so I could put prints to sleep, is I let her look at photos on my phone when it’s on airplane mode of her.

She loves looking at photos and videos of herself. So that is the only thing that she’s ever really looked at. And then literally last week when we were all so sick, so sick, so Prince had RSV, Nick got viral meningitis. I don’t know what Bambi and I had, it felt like Covid, but I dunno what it was. We allowed her to watch something for the first time a few weeks ago.

She went to the Pepper Pig show and she had read the pepper Pig books. So to now actually get to watch it, she was just like, this is amazing. This is so cool. So. [00:11:00] That was the only time she has watched a screen and she was over four. But I wanna share with you how I got to her being four without any screens.

So yes, like I said, no TV in the house, other activities, audio books. There are so many things that you can do and we never watch tv, so she’s never seeing us watch tv. So there are other options. I prefer to be outside, I prefer to be creative. I prefer to be doing arts and craft, cooking with her, all sorts of things.

And it’s just about getting creative. It’s just about other ideas. Play-Doh, like we make Play-Doh together and then we do Play-Doh puzzles. We’ve moved into our new house, so we have a dedicated playroom, which she absolutely loves, and her and I will spend two hours in there and it’s just so much fun. So that is the screen thing.

Now I wanna talk about. How I’ve been able to not give her dairy, gluten, or sugar. [00:12:00] And I got so many questions about this, like how have I been able to do this? And again, it’s because we don’t have gluten, dairy, or sugar, so she doesn’t actually know what they are. We were reading a book and it was so cute the other day, so cute because in the book they give the ants white sugar.

I used to change it to, they gave the ants food. And so papa would say, they gave the ants sugar. And she goes, what’s sugar? And it was just so cute. Nick and I looked at each other and we just laughed. It was so sweet and so beautiful. So we don’t have those things in the house. We don’t eat them ourselves.

And so that is how we’ve been able to do it. And I think our children are always watching and learning from us. And what we do, they will do. Yeah, so we don’t have those things, so we don’t have to deal with that. Then another [00:13:00] question that I got a lot was like, what do you do when she goes to other people’s places or parties and things like that?

And we are super grateful that like my parents and Nick’s parents are incredibly respectful with how we raise our children. And we spoke to them before both of our children came into the world and we shared with them how we want to parent. And they were so respectful and they are so amazing, and they give her the food we eat.

They’re just so respectful. So we are truly so grateful for that. And I know that’s not the case for a lot of people. And if that’s not the case for you, can you sit down, have a beautiful, loving, open, crystal, clear communication conversation with your parents and your in-laws and express to them so lovingly.

How important it is for you that you nourish your little angels in a certain way [00:14:00] like this, whatever it is for you listed out, and how much that would mean to you if you know when they’re at their house, they ate that same way or whatever it is, can you sit down and have a loving, beautiful conversation about this with your parents or with your in-laws or whoever it is that looks after your kids sometimes?

Can you do that? Yes, you can. You are brave. You can do it. I know it’s not always comfortable, but yes, you can do it. Okay, so I would highly recommend doing that. And if there is like other people that take care of your children, again, just expressing that for parties and things like that. She’s still only four, like she doesn’t go to that many parties, but.

Again, we’re super grateful that a lot of our friends are super aligned with how we eat, but not all of them. And that’s okay. So I will always take her own food, always take her own food, and her favorite things. And I did this with Leo. So I have [00:15:00] a 19-year-old stepson. Bambi is four and Prince’s five months.

So we used to do this with Leo. He would go to bowling parties and all sorts of parties. And there was a lot of junk food, a lot of junk food. And firstly, I would always fill him up before he went. So I’d always give him a big lunch or a big breakfast before, so he was full. And then I would always take food with him and I’d always give him his favorite dessert or whatever it was, chocolate or whatever he loved.

I would give that to him to have. And I’m sure when he got older, there was times when he had the cake. And look, you can’t control everything. All you can do is your best. And it’s my responsibility to take care of these children that I have been gifted. And that means eating a certain way. So can you have crystal clear conversations with the people in your life?

Can you be prepared for the parties and let go of caring what other people [00:16:00] think? Yeah, let go of caring what other people think. Okay. Oh, I should also say like when it comes to tv, so when we go to like my parents or my in-laws, again, they respect that we don’t watch tv. So they will try and limit it or they will turn it off when Bambi’s there, which is really beautiful and very, very respectful.

So the next question I got was, what do I say to Bambi when she’s in a situation where sugar, dairy, or gluten are present? So I will say to her, oh, that’s got gluten in it. And she’ll just go, okay. Like she’s. So fine. She does not care. She doesn’t batten eyelid. She just goes, okay. Like she just knows that we don’t eat gluten.

So we go to a Steiner playgroup every Wednesday. We bake bread together, and that’s one of the things that you do at the Steiner playgroup. And there’s a couple of kids and mothers that are gluten-free. So what I do is I let her bake the bread with all of the kids, [00:17:00] and then I have already made two bread rolls that I give to the teacher and she puts in the oven with the other bread to heat it up and then pulls it out.

And she just makes sure that Bambi has the one that I gave her, but she still gets to do the activity with all of the other kids, so she doesn’t feel left out or isolated in any way. So I think education is just key and you don’t make too much of a fuss about it. Just get on with it and educate them on why you don’t do it and why you don’t want them to do it, or if they’re a bit older.

Education is absolute key. Okay, so the next question I got a lot was about my current routine, like sleep and feeding routine and what that looks like at the moment. So Prince is on three sleeps at the moment. So he does like a morning one, a lunchtime one, and then a little one in the evening. So the morning one, which is right now is when I do my work.

And then the second one when he sleeps is when I have one-on-one Bambi [00:18:00] mama time. And then the third one is just in the carrier. It’s only like a half an hour walk, and I just usually do that with him in the carrier and Bambi on the scooter or bike or walking next to me. So we’ll go for a little walk.

So we do follow a routine and I love routines for children. Dr. Gully has some amazing age appropriate routines. He’s been on the podcast before. Tizzy Hall has some amazing age appropriate routines. So I just look up age appropriate wake windows and routines, and I just follow those. And then each month when they get older, I’m like, okay, what?

Well, how much wake time. Roughly should they be getting now. And I just follow that and that for me really works. I love it. I love it so much. And also feeding, like how much do they need to be feeding at that particular age And I just follow that and that works really well for me. How do you manage to get enough sleep at night?

To do morning routine still? Huh. That’s so funny because I’m definitely not getting a lot of sleep right now. He [00:19:00] was doing so amazing. He was only waking like twice in the night for a feed and then he got RSV and it’s been every hour. So definitely not getting a lot of sleep right now whilst he’s still recovering at the time of recording this.

But I know we’ll get back to that. So, you know, I think with the sleep stuff so much of it is mindset and I know you can feel tired and can feel low energy and fatigued and I definitely do feel those things at times. And a lot of it is mindset. A lot of it is mindset and reminding myself that like this will pass.

And I just look at Bambi and I’m like, she sleeps seven till seven. She’s a dream. And we will get there. And it’s just a season. It is just a season. So embrace it and keep showing up. Keep putting one foot in front of the other during this season. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. So how do I structure my days to [00:20:00] do both work and motherhood?

Can I give a sample day so both of my kids are up at, around seven? Doesn’t always happen. Sometimes it’s a little bit earlier. Like this morning, Bambi woke at six and Prince woke at six 30. And in the mornings it’s like cuddles and feeding and playing and we have breakfast together. Our nanny comes, I take both the kids for a walk at eight o’clock in the pram and we go for a little walk and look at all the trees and get some fresh air.

Nine o’clock Prince goes down and nine o’clock is when Bambi goes with our nanny for two hours. And for two hours Prince Sleeps. So I get two hours of work then, and Bambi will be with the nanny and then Prince Wakes at around 11. I will feed him and Bambi will be playing and she’s still with the nanny at this time.

And then we have lunch together and lots of Sun time Nudie, sun time for Prince and for us as well. And we eat our lunch together. Not always, Nick is able to join us, but when [00:21:00] he can, he will. When he is not writing and recording music and working, he’ll come and join us. But yeah, we’ll have lunch together.

Our nanny leaves just before lunch usually. And also when we were super sick recently, we had our nanny all day because Nick was completely bedridden, so I needed more help. So she stayed for most of the day, well till around three 30 most days. So seven 30 to three 30, so that I had more help and more support, which was so good.

So then when Prince goes down around one o’clock for his next sleep, I will have some Mom up Bambi time. We will go to the beach together, or we will play in the playroom, or we will go to the organic shop and get a smoothie, or we’ll do something like that together occasionally, like I’m talking maybe once a week.

I might have a sleep in that time. But look, in five months, I’ve done that twice. But I would love to do that more. I would absolutely love to do that more, but I [00:22:00] know how important one-on-one time with Bambi is, and like next year she. Maybe going to school, which I’ll talk about in a minute. And I just wanna soak up this time.

So I really wanna have that one-on-one time with her. And Nick’s like, go and have a sleep. And I’m like, I don’t wanna, I wanna be with her. And then when Prince wakes up at around two 30 or three, I will feed him and then it’s family time. We will go to the beach or we will hang out at home and he has another little sleep at around four 30.

And then we do dinner at five and bath routine, all the routines, the bathing, the books, the feeding, getting into bed, and both kids are in bed at seven o’clock. So that is our sample routine for this season in our life. It will change. It will change because he will drop that third sleep soon, I think around six months.

They drop that third sleep. So it’ll change. And I’m not getting a lot of work time at the moment, but I’ve set up my [00:23:00] business. So that I’m still making money whilst I’m not working as much as I usually do. So I’m literally working probably like two hours a day at the moment and with the podcast and with all my companies she launched, she leads and leads genius.

Like all of these companies I’ve got like I am so grateful that I have Nick as the CEO and also an amazing team that keep things running and allow me to work two hours a day and still make the money and have the impact that I want. Like that’s what I want for all women. So that is a little sample day, but it’s never the same.

And it will keep changing as he goes from three sleeps to two sleeps, to one sleep. I will then get more time to do more work. But also he’s been really unwell, so I have been a lot more by his side. So I’ve had to do a lot more feeding to sleep and things like that while he’s not well. So it shifts if you’re a mama, you know what I’m [00:24:00] talking about.

Let’s talk about schooling, because I get asked this question a lot. So am I planning on homeschooling Bambi, and I wanna talk about this because we always thought we would homeschool. Nick really, really wants to homeschool, mainly because he doesn’t want our children to be in a system and he really wants to do it, and I’m happy for him to do it.

There’s a part of me that loves the community aspect of the school that we would choose for her. So yeah, I’m still not a hundred percent, but we are leaning more toward, there’s a beautiful Steiner school here, and next year if she goes, she would be five and they do like a five day fortnight. So three days, one week, two days the next week.

So she wouldn’t even be there full time, which I feel good about, but I’ve never had a night away from her. I’ve never had a full day away from her ever. [00:25:00] So I think I’m going to need more emotional support the day that I first drop her anywhere. I’m going to need some emotional support, so please come and support me on that day because I will probably be in a puddle of tears.

Yeah, I definitely feel like that will be me. And I have spoken to her about it. I have said to her, if you go to school next year, do you know how it works? Like mommy drops you off and then I will come back and pick you up. And she says, no, mama. I was like, okay. So I am not sure how that’s gonna go. She has always been by my side and I love that so much.

But I am thinking maybe the Steiner next year and we’ll see how it goes. I dunno, we might pack up everything and go traveling and I don’t know. But I love the idea of homeschooling and I also love the idea of the beautiful community aspect of, in particular, this Steiner school that is very close to us.

So. I’m not sure. [00:26:00] I’ll keep you posted. Okay, next question. Advice on how to do it if you can’t afford childcare and have no family in the area. So if you can’t afford childcare and you have no family in the area, this is when you need to lean on your soul family, your friends, and do swaps with your friends.

So you take your friend’s kids so she can work or have a shower or do whatever, and then you swap. So that’s what you do. Okay? So you call on your soul family, your friends, and see if you can do swaps there. And don’t be afraid to ask. Ask and receive support. Again, you don’t have to do business and motherhood alone, and in fact, I don’t even recommend it.

Okay. How do you manage the transition from one to two kids? Okay guys, I’m gonna be really honest with you here. This transition has been huge. Huge. I look back and I’m like one kid. Oh my gosh, that was so [00:27:00] easy. I feel like the transition from zero to one was for me personally, so easy. Almost like a retreat compared to the initiation of one to two kids.

It’s like it’s not one to two, it’s like one to 15. I feel the most stretched I’ve ever felt in my entire life, and it’s been big, but it’s not like that for everybody. But that’s just been my experience and what I would say, my advice to anyone who is going for their second or their third or their fourth or however many is get support.

Call on your tribe. Family, friends, paid support, get support because it is not a one person job. It’s not a two person job. It takes a village. Ask for support. So whilst we were all sick, I would ask my mother-in-law, can you please make us some food and bring it to [00:28:00] us? And she was like, absolutely. Can you please go to the shop for us and get these things?

Absolutely. Yeah. So people want to help remember that people want to help. Okay? So ask for what you need and receive it. Receive it, receive it, receive it. Okay. So the next question was, how do I manage to have kids at home and work at the same time? So this is where we have the nanny. I’m not saying you have to get a nanny, but can you tag team with your partner?

If your partner is not home, then can you tag team with a friend? Or have your mother or your mother-in-law, can you have someone there for a couple of hours to play with the kids whilst you do your work? That is how I do it. Okay? That is how I do it. Next question, how much time do I work in my business per day?

When I had Bambi, I would work four hours a day, and right now I’m probably getting about two hours a [00:29:00] day at the moment, but that will change. I will get more, but I don’t want you to compare yourself to how much time I’m getting to work. I just want you to do what is right for you. So set up your day and structure your day so that you know when you’re working.

Like I said before, like when are you working and when are you not? Okay? And you call on the free help mother. Mother-in-law, your partner, your friends, and or you get paid help from a nanny or daycare or things like that. Okay. How do you transition between work and mum life? Do you have any routines or rituals?

No, I don’t. I would like to say that I have a beautiful saging crystal anchoring essential oil diffusing transition ceremony. And I don’t, I don’t. I just, I’m in it right now where I’m like, okay, I’m working now. He’s asleep. Go, okay, now he’s awake. Now I’m momming. But if you want to have a [00:30:00] beautiful s staging, Paolo Santo, essential oil crystal infused ceremony to transition from motherhood to work and then work to motherhood, by all means, go for it.

Beautiful. You do you. I will say though, that I have an office, and it is separate to the house we have just built and moved into our dream home, and we’ve intentionally built our offices down the very other end of the house upstairs, away from the bedrooms, away from the living area. You have to walk up a spiral staircase to our two offices.

It’s soundproof. It’s amazing for recording music and podcasts. So I walk down those stairs and that’s my transition. Yeah, that is my transition. So like I said, you do you. Do you and do what feels right for you. Okay, so going back to the dairy, sugar, and gluten has another question here on how long will I continue this with her?

As long as I [00:31:00] possibly can. Yeah. If she goes out and she has something and she chooses to, that’s fine. I never am going to shame her. I’m never going to make her feel like she’s left out. Like if she gets to a point where she is really wanting something, we’ll have a conversation about it, but I’m never going to make her feel bad.

I’m never going to make her feel shame about any of these things, especially around food and her body ever. I’m never going to do that. So I will just have a conversation with her. I’ll be super neutral about it, and I’ll just do my best. Like we all always are. Okay, where do I get all my recipes from?

Instagram, lots of recipe books I love. There’s so many amazing vegan recipe books and vegan Instagram accounts that I follow. So just Google, look on Pinterest. There’s so many out there. Do I use screens in front of my kids? So it was so funny, we had some friends over the other day [00:32:00] and we were talking about how different the first kid is to the second kid.

So Bambi, it was like I never touched my phone when I was with her, ever. Never touched my phone. She never saw me on my computer, she never saw me on my phone. I would never let her body come into contact with plastic. I would never let her bathe in chlorine unfiltered water. And it’s so different because it’s just different this time.

Not that I’m letting him like do those things, but there was a time where he was at Nana’s house and she bought him this plastic ball and I was just like, I. Whatever he can hold the plastic ball. He put it in his mouth. I’m like, okay, whatever. Like, I’m just so much more relaxed now. So in saying that, we never use screens in front of Bambi.

Ever, ever, ever, ever. Do we now do it? Yes. I have my phone with me a lot because that’s my clock or I’m looking at the time. It’s always on airplane mode. Like I take it with us when we go out for a walk and I look at the [00:33:00] time we play music a lot. I’m also taking notes on like prints, like when he’s feeding, when he’s sleeping, like I’m constantly taking notes on that sort of stuff.

And yeah, sometimes I am on the phone whilst I’m breastfeeding and I would never have done that with Bambi ever. You know, if like that’s the only chance I can chat to my mom or speak to my dad was while I’m breastfeeding, like I do it. I of course hold the phone away from him, but. It’s so different. I would never have done that with Bambi.

Anytime I breastfed with Bambi, I was meditating, I was deep breathing. And I was saying to Nick the other day, like, prince has like got Bambi jumping on top of me while I’m breastfeeding. Mom, mom, mom, look at this, mom, look at this. Can you come over here? And I’m just like, it’s so different. The first child meditating, Zen breastfeeding.

And then yeah, he’s trying to breastfeed with Bambi, putting bracelets around his ankles and playing with him and [00:34:00] wanting to kiss him and wanting to hold him and all the things. It’s just so different. So you, uh, so much more relaxed the second kid. And I can imagine that you’re even more relaxed by the third and the fourth and the fifth.

So if that’s you come and tell me on Instagram, are you even more relaxed as you have more and more children? I’m sure that is the case. Okay. What are your thoughts on screens as she gets bigger and exposure to documentaries, et cetera? Like I said, we were super sick last week and she watched Pepper Pig for the first time, so I’m okay with that very occasionally and only when we’re sick.

Like if we are absolutely in a pickle and we have to do it, then that’s what I will do. But it is not a daily thing. I’m never gonna let it get to that place. But yeah, I think as she gets older, yeah, documentaries and things like that will be really powerful for her to watch and we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.

I also have some friends who do Friday night movie night and I’m like, yes, I love that ritual and I [00:35:00] know that we’ll do that one day. One day will do that. And I strict with what she eats. If she ate something not in alignment, would I be annoyed? No, not at all. I would never be annoyed at her in for this.

Never, ever, ever. But I’m always making her food or like I said before, my mother and my mother-in-law are so on board with how we eat, so we are super grateful for that. But no, I would never be annoyed. If she ate something that I didn’t agree with, I would simply maybe have a chat with her. It just depends.

It depends. But we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. I have a friend who has a 9-year-old and she just simply will like say, oh, that’s got sugar in it. We don’t usually eat sugar, but it’s your choice in your body, and this is what she says at parties to her daughter. And you can choose. And sometimes she does it and sometimes she doesn’t.

Sometimes she might do it because she wants to fit in or whatever, but she’ll just say to her, yeah, that cake has sugar in it. [00:36:00] It’s up to you, darling. You choose your body. So I feel like maybe I’ll say something like that, but again, I’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. What about chocolate? Not even clean, organic vegan chocolate.

Why don’t you let her have that? Well, firstly, I feel like it’s too stimulating for them. It’s too much. It’s just too much. I feel like it’s just too much. So she’s not even interested. Like she sees me eating it. I’ve always just said, well, it’s chocolate. When she was really little, I used to say, this is adult food, but she sees other kids eating it now, so I can’t pull that one anymore.

But she’s just not interested. She’s just not interested at all. She loves fruit. Loves fruit. She would eat fruit all day, every day, and she loves dried fruit. So that is like her sweet food that she loves dried fruit. So again, we don’t let her go absolutely crazy on this because it will upset her tummy, but she’ll pick dried fruit.

Like whenever we go to the shop, [00:37:00] I let her get whatever she wants. I say, you can pick one or two things, and she always wants something dried, she says, which is so cute. So cute. Any parenting advice for a first time mama? Do my course. Holy mama. W-H-O-L-Y-M-A-M-A. That’ll teach you everything you need to know.

It’s about conscious conception. Powerful pregnancies, empowered, birthing, and blissful postpartum. So check that out my friend. Am I worried about intolerances not being raised, eating sugar, gluten, or dairy? No, I’m not at all. No, I’m not. I’m not worried about those things. Okay, next question. Do we allow Bambi to FaceTime?

This is such a great question because for a really long time we didn’t, and Nick’s parents live very close to us, but my parents live an hour and 45 minute drive away, so they would love to FaceTime all the time. And it’s only been recently where we have allowed this [00:38:00] because it’s just, again, not something that I want to do all the time.

And truly she doesn’t even mind. And it’s something that we just communicated very clearly with my parents and Nick’s parents, and they totally respect and are so. Onboard, which is just amazing. And I just shared with them why we don’t want a screen in her face that often. However, she does occasionally now FaceTime and not often because we see them in real life so often, at least once every two weeks.

And that’s better than FaceTime, I think. But if you have parents that live overseas or grandparents, then I think it is a great thing. And I think, sure, go for it. Do it. Don’t do it every day. And put a time limit on it and you can put a night shift on your phone so that when they’re looking at the phone, it is that amber color, you can do that.

So that is my thoughts on FaceTime. [00:39:00] Okay, next question. I do everything myself. And I sometimes need screens to get things done, like exercise, deal with insurance calls, chores, and I would love your advice. And then she’s also asked, have I hired help? And yes, I have a nanny. I have hired help. So for things like exercise, I get Bambi to do it with me.

So I don’t know how old your children are, but get them to do it with you or set them up with an activity. There are so many fun things that you can do. Play-Doh, there are arts and craft. There are water, there’s water play. There’s so many things that you can do, get them to help you with the chores.

Bambi loves Unstacking, the dishwasher in the morning. She doesn’t do it every day, but I don’t even have to ask her. I just start doing. I just start doing it and she will come and help me. Get them a little mop and a little broom and get them to help you instead of putting a screen in front of them as the first option.

Try other things first. So that is my advice. For [00:40:00] someone who doesn’t have help and they wanna get exercise done or calls or chores, try other things first. Get them involved. If you wanna cook, get them involved, set them up. We have a little tower that Bambi can stand up and help us cook. She loves it.

Absolutely loves it. And we’ve done that from really early on with her. We got her a little kid’s knife and she just stands there and cuts up the mushrooms or whatever it is. And I promise you, if you get your kids involved in cooking or in the garden, they are much more likely to eat those delicious things.

So get them involved. That is my advice. Next question. I have a toddler who helps me with chores, but sometimes I need the screen. What activities do you do for Bambi instead of screens to keep her occupied? I feel like I just answered that question. So again, Play-Doh, water play, get them involved in what you’re doing.

Cooking, cleaning, it’s really that simple. Get creative. I remember when Bambi was super little. I would like pull out all of these colored rubber bands and I’m like, can you sort these colors for me? [00:41:00] Or I would pull out pegs and say, can you sort all these colored pegs into this cup and these ones into this cup?

And she would just play on the floor in the kitchen whilst I was cooking. So there are so many things that you can do. You just have to get creative. Okay, next question. How do you have time for making all of your food from scratch and taking care of your home, your business yourself without screens? So yes, we make all of our food from scratch, but I have to be really honest with you, we keep it super simple.

Like I just throw in a whole bunch of root vegetables in the oven whole. Sometimes I don’t even have the time to cut them up. So I’ll throw in beetroot, pumpkin, sweet potato in the oven, whole wash it, cut off the ends, put it in the oven, and I let that cook. I put a timer on. So that’s like our healthy carb.

Then we’ll always have protein, and usually it is like soaped beans or lentils from the night before. So when I’m cleaning up at dinner time, I will soak some [00:42:00] beans or lentils, and then in the morning I just rinse them, put them in the pressure cooker, turn it on and walk away. So that’s our healthy protein.

And then we always have some healthy fats, which is usually like avocado or nuts and seeds or like a nut dressing, tahini dressing or something like that, or some sort of beautiful olive oil, lemon juice dressing. And then we always have fiber vegetables, so a salad or cooked vegetables. And so I make a huge salad at breakfast time, and then that will do lunch and dinner, or I will cook.

Some vegetables or steam some vegetables. And then that is our lunch and dinner. So I only cook once a day, and that’s usually whilst I’m making breakfast or cleaning up after breakfast. And during the week, like I said, it is super simple because I don’t have the space to do an entire lasagna or curry or things like that, and I don’t want to.

And on the weekend we get more adventurous and we do things like that. But during the week it is just super simple because I wanna spend my time with my [00:43:00] kids or doing work. So keep it simple. My friends keep it simple and you don’t have to get super fancy. Just keep it simple and fun. Bambi loves cutting up her own fruit platters, so I will give her a whole bunch of fruit.

She will cut that up, make a fruit platter. She usually makes a happy face. I give her some nuts. I give her seaweed. She loves seaweed. I give her like buckwheat crackers with almond butter. She loves that sort of stuff, so keep it simple. That is my tip for eating healthy. Not putting your kids in front of the screen whilst you make your food.

Okay, so I hope that answers most of your screen questions. Now I wanna dive into all of the food questions and how we’ve been able to not give Bambi sugar, dairy, or gluten. So one of the questions was, what did I do for Easter? Because Easter is very much commercialized and centered around chocolate. So what did I do?

So she doesn’t even know it’s [00:44:00] centered around chocolate. She has no idea. So we’ve always done a crystal hunt, or this year we did a little hunt with little eggs that we made, and there’s always like a little toy or something at the end of the hunt. So for us, Easter is not about chocolate. She has no idea that it’s got anything to do with chocolate.

So she’s never actually even asked. She’s never asked, ever, ever, ever. And yeah, her friends and her cousins. They eat chocolate, but she’s never asked because we’ve never put focus on it. That’s one of those things, like we’ve never put a big emphasis on it. It’s just what is. It’s just there, and we never focused a lot on it.

So she doesn’t really care, which is great. Okay. What do I do in social situations? So in social situations, I mentioned this before, I’ll always give her lunch before we go. I’ll always pack some of her favorite things, and I just offer her that again. She [00:45:00] never asks, never ever asks. And actually, there was a birthday that we went to recently and it had chocolate in it and before they were even dishing it out, I said, oh, that cake’s got chocolate in it.

And she didn’t even say anything and she just went on her scooter and scooted off. She doesn’t care because we’ve never put a lot of focus on it. So I think the more you focus on it and the more you say this is something that we don’t have, then the more they’re gonna want it. So just don’t focus on it too much.

Does Bambi ever go to restaurants with us? To be honest, we don’t eat out a lot. We prefer to make a lot of our food at home, or we have lots of beach picnics with our friends where we all bring food and share food. We go to friends’ houses. But a lot of our community where we live eat the same way and are very respectful.

So we are super grateful for that. But to be honest, we don’t often eat out. And when we do, it’s usually a clean place. So when we do, she can get whatever she wants there. It’s usually a very clean [00:46:00] and healthy place. So that is always very, very helpful. So go to places where your children can order something and you know it’s going to be good for them.

How do I navigate these boundaries when doing a play date? So what I do with play dates is I just tell the mother beforehand, Bambi doesn’t eat sugar or gluten or dairy. And I will pack her lunch and I will pack something and I’ll always pack more for the other child. So I’ll do like a fruit platter and then I’ll take that fruit platter to the play date.

And children love fruit. It is just the best. And so they love that. And I’ll put maybe some activated nuts and some buckwheat cakes. There’s so many different things you can do. You can do like healthy muffins or healthy cookies, things like that. But just keep it really simple for yourself. A fruit platter, it’s super simple.

Okay, what do I do to make sure that Bambi gets enough calcium because she doesn’t have dairy. So there are so many vegan sources of [00:47:00] calcium. So you’ve got broccoli, you’ve got soy milk, bok choy, kale, dried figs, which are one of her favorite things ever. You’ve got colored greens, Brussels sprouts, mustard greens.

She doesn’t love Brussels sprouts, I’m not gonna lie. But we have this rule in our house, and we actually learned this from a book. So there’s a book that talks about being brave and all the different things you can do to be brave. And one of them is trying new foods. And so we always had this rule with Leo that you’d always try something at least once and then you can decide whether you like it or not.

And so there’s been quite a few examples where I’ve said to her, just try this darling. And if you don’t like it, you don’t have to have anymore. And she’s tried it. And then she’s like, oh my gosh, this is so yummy, mummy. And so I’m like, remember that time? So I remind her of the time, I’m like, remember the time where you didn’t wanna try those steamed green beans and you tried it and you loved it?

And she’s like, yes. And I’m like, well, why don’t you just try [00:48:00] this brussel sprout? ’cause mommy’s made it really yummy. And then if you don’t like it, you don’t have to have anymore. And I’ll have them. And she’s like, okay. So she’s really happy. And I said, remember the book, the Be Brave book? Just be brave and try one.

And she just does it. She’s just amazing. So there are so many vegan sources of calcium as well. Tofu, if you eat tofu, but there’s so many different sources of calcium. So just make sure you’re getting lots of those in your diet. How do I manage traveling, making food, but staying sane and having grace for yourself.

So whenever we travel, we always do research beforehand and make sure that there is either a farmer’s market or an organic food shop close by. We will always book our Airbnb or our hotel close to that because health is such a huge core value for us. So we’ll always do a bit of research beforehand to make sure that there is, yeah, like I said, a farmer’s market or an organic food shop close by and.

Then we do a little bit of research when we [00:49:00] get there. We look for healthy cafes and healthy restaurants. Like we find joy in that stuff. So that is not a chore for us, like we find joy in it. So we just do that and we make it fun and playful. And then even when we do travel, we will go to the shops and the markets grab a whole bunch of food and we do a lot of cooking.

But yeah, we will eat out a bit more when we do travel and mainly because it’s so fun. But we do find good places. Am I worried that Bambi is missing out on certain food experiences and entertainment and No, I’m not worried about that at all. And when she gets older, if she wants to try these things, then that is totally up to her.

I will never shame her like I said before, and I will always be there to guide her and support her. But no, I’m not worried about her missing out on that sort of stuff. And I think where there’s too much focus on food as a culture. And we look at food as a fuel source, but we don’t focus on it too much in this house.

We just eat it. And [00:50:00] then we talk about how grateful we are for it, but we don’t focus so much on it. Like we definitely don’t use food as a reward ever. So there is never eat your dinner and you get ice cream. We never ever use food as a reward and we never bribe with food ever. Sometimes she’ll say, can I please have some mulberries?

And I’ll say, yes, after dinner you can have them. Or Can I please have a date? She loves dried fruit. And I’ll say, yes, and you can have it after your dinner, things like that. But I will never bribe her with food or use food as a reward. So I think if we take the focus of food ourselves, then that’s what they learn.

So just look at our own relationship with food. Because whatever our relationship with food is, that is generally what will pass on to our children. So if you have a not very healthy relationship with food, then that is something that you could look at and you could heal so that that doesn’t get passed on [00:51:00] to your children.

And the last food question is, I would love to hear about how you do this and how you feel it’s possible without any support. So keeping it super simple. Like I mentioned before, we go to the organic farmer’s market every Sunday. We do a huge shop and we try not to go to the shops in between that, but sometimes we need to, but we tend to not really need to.

We just do one big shop and we just keep it super simple during the week. And Nick and I share the duty. We also have outside help. We have our nanny who sometimes does some stuff, some cooking, some cleaning and things like that for us too. But if you don’t have support tag team with your partner, let them do the dinner.

You do the lunch or you do one day, they do the next day. So just tag team and then get your children involved. Okay? Get your children involved, get them cutting up, get them doing age appropriate things because they love it and it is a game changer for your time, but also for getting them to eat [00:52:00] healthy.

So yesterday, Bambi and our nanny made cuss a pizzas and Bambi cut up all the mushrooms and put the mushrooms on and spinach on, and she devoured three of them. So get them involved. Okay? Some other non-screen related questions or non-food related questions that I got in about motherhood that I’d love to answer.

What are my newborn essentials? I share everything inside. Holy mama. So go to my Holy Mama program, W-H-O-L-Y. MAMA. And all my newborn essentials are there. When did our nanny start with Bambi? When Bambi was four months old, so she’s now four. So we’ve had our same beautiful nanny since Bambi was four months, and it’s so special and so beautiful.

She is now one of our dear, dear friends. She comes traveling with us. She’s one of our closest friends, her and her husband, which is so beautiful. And she is French and she only speaks French to the children, which is such a gift. Such a gift. So Bambi understands French and can speak [00:53:00] French. It’s just amazing.

And my French has improved. Definitely not as good as Bambi’s, but it has improved. How do you prioritize yourself when the kids need you? 24 7. So I speak a lot about this on my social media, about being a self-led woman, and when we put ourselves at the top of our priority list, everything shifts. You are a better mother.

And for so long I put my kids first and then me after that. But I am a better mother. I’m a better boss. I’m a better friend, a better daughter when I am at the top of my list. So what I do each day in this season of my life is I say, okay, what are the absolute bare minimums for me to fill myself up today?

So for example, today I wanted to go to Pilates, but that didn’t happen. So I’m gonna do a 20 minute home workout with Bambi and I wanna go to the beach. I wanna get sun on my body and I want to oil my body whilst I’m there, I take [00:54:00] down this beautiful Ayurvedic a Bianca oil, I oil my whole body. I lay in the sun for a minute, or I play in the sun for a minute with Bambi, and then I get in the water.

So for me, and I mean if I get meditation in there, yes, and some deep breathing, which I already did. I do breath work first thing in the morning, which is amazing. Just a few rounds whilst I’m just waking up and the house is still quiet, I just do a few rounds of breath work, like five in hold for five, five out.

And if I get those couple of things in, then that is how I feel my best. And how do you prioritize yourself is just by making the space in your day for it. When your kids are sleeping, if they still sleep in the day or getting them involved, or tag teaming with your partner, please, you look after the kids for 20 minutes while I meditate or whatever it is.

You just have to get creative and you have to fill yourself up every single day. Every single day. It is essential. And even if it is just for five [00:55:00] minutes, it doesn’t matter how long. It doesn’t matter what you do, but it just has to be fulfilling to you. Okay? So take responsibility, fill yourself up. Even if you have five kids, fill yourself up because you are going to be a better mother.

A better wife, a better business owner, a better friend, a better daughter when you do, okay, I have a 1-year-old who is no longer breastfeeding. How do I supplement milk? Well by one. They should be eating by then. So get all the food into your beautiful little angel if you haven’t already. There is, Gabriel Cousins, has an amazing book, rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine.

I think that’s the title of the book. And he has like a introduction timeframe for six months, eight months, each kind of milestone for children. And we followed that with Bambi. So at seven months, what did he recommend they eat and we introduced that, and then at eight months and then nine months, whatever it was, et [00:56:00] cetera.

So definitely look at that book. But if they’re one, then definitely getting in some nice nourishing food will be essential and a priority for you. I. Can you talk to me about pumping? Was this an easy decision for you? No, it was not an easy decision for me because I did not pump with Bambi and never gave her a bottle and breastfed her exclusively for two years and fed her all through the night until she was 11 months and night weaned her at 11 months.

And so I thought I would not pump four prints. However, it is different when you have two children and I’m sure three and four and five and six children. And I wanted to be able to have special time with Bambi and Papa be able to give Princes a bottle. And so that is the reason why we did it and it’s been great.

So don’t put a lot of pressure on yourself. Just do your best. I get asked a lot about what pump I use. I use the hands-free mum, milk pro pump. And [00:57:00] I think it’s great. I don’t have an affiliate link for it or a discount code for it, but I got it. My midwife recommended it to me and I love it. It’s really great.

So you can just pop it in your bra and walk around. I often drive with it. I do all sorts of things around the house with it, so check that out. It is really good. What are my thoughts on potty training? So we actually did elimination communication with Bambi. So she was going on the potty from like four months old, and we did that for a really long time.

She would go on the potty every day, and then when she was turning three, we leading up to her third birthday, we said, when you turn three, there’s no more nappies. And we just spoke to her about it for a month leading up to it. When you’re three, there’s no more nappies, and you do them in the potty. And we just spoke to her about it and we kept on talking about it and we made it not a big deal.

When you’re three there’s no more nappies ’cause we need to save them for the next baby. So I was pregnant then. And so we would say, we need to save them for the next baby. Is that okay if we save the nappies for the next baby? ’cause he’s gonna need them. And she [00:58:00] was like, yes. So we just kept on talking about it, kept on talking about it, kept on talking about it.

And then when she was three on her third birthday, we actually waited till the next day because we were traveling and it took one day, she was a bit resistant and she was a bit like, I don’t wanna, and she held a number two for most of the day. And then it got to the point where she was like, I can’t hold it.

And she was a bit nervous. ’cause that feeling for them it’s different. And then once she did it once and then she did one the next day, she was fine. It literally was like maybe three days of apprehension and then it was fine. And I had tried to do it earlier maybe when she was two. And it was too stressful and too upsetting for her.

And so I was like, no, I’m not doing this. And it was not fun for me. And they were like, you’ve gotta stay home for three days and you’ve gotta not wear a nappy and you’ve gotta follow them around. And it was just too stressful and not fun. And so I was like, no, I’m not doing this. So during the day she wouldn’t wear a nappy and then she would just wear them [00:59:00] at night and we’d just put one on when she needed to go and do a number two.

And she would do most of her number ones just outside. We lived on land, so she would just go outside. And then, yeah, when she turned three, we were like, great. No more nappies. And she just got it like a legend. She’s a legend and we’re so proud of her. She’s amazing. She’s such a beautiful angel child, and I just am so in love and so obsessed with her.

So one more question before we wrap up, and that is, how do you and Nick split the household chores, like cooking, groceries, et cetera? So when we first got together, we made a list of who’s doing what, and we have just stuck to that. And I do certain things. He does certain things, and of course there’s crossover at times, but we just stick to it.

We have our nanny do certain things as well. So there is a book in our kitchen that has Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. And so she just follows that list. And Nick and I both know what we do individually, and when you have a conversation about it, it’s so easy to just [01:00:00] follow, okay, I do this, you do that.

And if you can’t do it, you just communicate it. And I think it is a really great thing to do with your partner, divide up who is doing what. And so there’s no conversation that needs to be had around it. It takes out the decision fatigue, it takes out the conversation that needs to be had. So I highly recommend doing that.

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