Rachael & Tom on Rejecting Birth Control, PCOS & Losing my Parents
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What challenges did Rachael face during pregnancy?
I dealt with pregnancy rage this time around. Anything that anyone almost did at that point gave me the egg. I might have had that.
Your bodies, it's truly amazing, are never the same two days in a row. Whether you're on a 28, 32, 34-day cycle, throughout that time, your body's asking for different things. My father died four years ago, and this is coming up on one year. They taught me great love, and my kids aren't going to feel it.
A lot of women think it's really cool to miss their cycle. I felt that way. And then the time came where I did have to worry about it and it flipped my world upside down.
This past week, we had the opportunity to sit down with Rachel and Tom Sullivan, who at one point thought they weren't going to be able to have kids. After missing multiple periods in a row, Rachel was diagnosed with PCOS. But what her and Tom discovered is they were able to help heal her body through nutrition. Since then, her and her husband Tom have gone on to have two beautiful babies, but while their family's been growing, Tom lost both his parents. In today's episode, we talk about PCOS, pregnancy rage, and how sometimes even men can struggle with postpartum depression. Welcome back to the Unplanned Podcast, people. We have two very special guests today, Rachel and Tom Sullivan. Can we just give it up?
How did Rachael and Tom navigate the loss of family?
Can we just give it up? Matt looked at the camera and freaked me out when I was like, should I look this way or this way? But now I'm seeing what's going on. I love it.
Thank you for being here. You have a beautiful family. Right before this, you guys were feeding kids, reading your children books. I can tell you're in the thick of the newborn stage, but then you also have a toddler. How are you guys surviving right now?
Are we surviving? No. Yeah, you travel with them. One day at a time. Yeah, traveling.
That was her seventh flight.
Yeah. She's a travel. I was a flight attendant. So I got to make sure she's getting her miles in there. You know what I mean?
Yeah. I would say we're three months in with Rosie. We have the two and a half year old. You guys know how this goes. I think we are rediscovering ourselves, our love for each other, our new love for Rosie, right? Yeah.
Yeah, no, 100%.
You guys get it.
Oh, totally. Dude, we were out the other side. I wish someone had told me, hey, by the way, just get your kid a seat on the plane or fly southwest where you can just bring on the car seat or bring the Duna on and no one's going to say anything. Because we started using our Duna to help with flights. Oh my gosh, our one-year-old falls asleep on the plane now.
Because the boys would just pass out.
He never would fall asleep. He would try to crawl everywhere. I feel asleep for 40 minutes max, but that's way better than what we were getting before.
I wish somebody, we started like, what do we got to do with the newborn? And you start going through all this stuff, right? Unpacking, getting the pumps ready. Nobody warned me that your two-year-old might have a breakdown.
Oh, Tom's saying, so like, oh yeah, the biggest difference with like one to two for us, it wasn't, you know, like preparing for the newborn in the family was Sutton. And I think I hear online all the time. It's like, oh, what's easier? Like zero to one or one to two. And I feel like zero to one has its own challenges because everything's new.
You're like reading every book. You're asking for all the advice. When number two came, we're like, we do know what.
We know what we're doing. We're seasoned in this at this point. But number two threw us for a loophole because we didn't expect how our toddler would handle it all. I think it all depends on the age of your kid. She was at the point where she just was discovering the world for the first time, I feel like.
Truly understanding it.
Truly understanding it.
Things she wanted to do in the day, when she wanted to go to bed, if she wanted to get out, if she wanted to stay in bed and play, she was getting it.
She was at that point.
And then we brought home a baby.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What challenges did Rachael face during pregnancy?
0:00–1:10
2
How did Rachael and Tom navigate the loss of family?
1:10–3:52
3
What is PCOS and how did it affect Rachael's fertility?
3:52–6:33
4
How did Rachael and Tom manage postpartum challenges?
6:33–17:03
5
What holistic approaches did they use to overcome fertility issues?
17:03–33:29
6
How has their parenting journey evolved with two children?
33:29–42:14
7
What role does community play in their lives?
42:14–47:59
8
How did they turn their experiences into a book?
47:59–1:33:05
Speakers
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