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B*tching and Bolusing
by Brittney and Courtney
Courtney and Brittney are two birth trauma mamas navigating life as full-time caregivers, mothers, wives, and friends. They aim to take their experiences, break them down, and share what they’ve learned in hope of creating a more equitable, accessible, and inclusive world. So come bitch while you bolus...
Episodes
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Presuming Competence: Shifting Perspectives on Disability and Empowerment
On this episode of The Bitching and Bolusing Podcast, we explore the concept of presuming competence in individuals with disabilities while challenging societal assumptions and biases. By embracing this mindset, we are able to foster inclusion, autonomy, and empowerment while transforming the...
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Back to School (and Beyond!) - Transportation Safety
Back to school season is here, and for many of our children who use wheelchairs - they'll be transported to school on a bus. But so many of these children are transported unsafely, and without proper restraints! On this episode of The Bitching and Bolusing Podcast, we sit down and talk about…
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Reframing Self Care
Self care...if you're a parent you know the typical narrative: "take care of yourself, take time for yourself, if mom (or dad) isnt ok, no one is ok" but it feels like an an impossible goal to obtain. One where the goal post is constantly being moved. "No, a shower doesn't count, that is a human...
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Accessible Travel: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Most parents feel as though accessible travel may be off-limits when they receive their child's diagnosis, especially when mobility aids are involved. While, for some, not traveling is the safest option, for others travel can still be obtainable with a little bit of extra planning. While we may…
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Beyond Supersib: Understanding the Impact of Othering Siblings of Disabled Children
There's no hood quite like siblinghood! As parents of interabled children, watching our children grown and learn side by side is a beautiful thing - even if they're doing it at difference paces. There is a natural routine that falls into place between the siblings, and oftentimes the non-disabled...
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Family Planning After HIE
Family planning can be complicated even in the most straight-forward of situations, but when parents have a child with a disability family planning can feel even more challenging to navigate. On this episode of The Bitching and Bolusing Podcast we sit down to discuss how we waded through the…
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Unseen Agendas: The Ethics of Disability in Marketing Campaigns.
Marketing campaigns are an important way for companies to sell products or services to customers, including the disabled community. These companies , however, have a responsibility to create campaigns that provide respectful and ethical representation. When these companies fail to do this, they…
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Crawl Out Through the Fall Out
Fallout may be a smash hit on Amazon Prime, but it got us to thinking...."what would we ACTUALLY do in the event of nuclear bomb?". No, we couldn't just strap our kids and their wheelchairs to the back of a horse and go galloping off to a Vault the way Cooper Howard did. Chances are those Vaults...
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Reimagining Therapy for Disabled Children - Featuring Clare
From the moment we learn of our children's disability - be it before or after birth - we are told go do as much therapy for them as possible. Physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, all of the therapy. While therapy is a useful and necessary medical intervention, it can sometimes...
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Between Hope and Hard Choices: Navigating Medical Interventions
All parents are faced with making medical decisions for their children, but when your child is disabled or medically fragile those decisions can be more frequent and oftentimes carry more weight. As parents we are faced with hard decisions surrounding irreversible surgeries, medications that…
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We All Have Internalized Ableism
Internalized ableism. We all have it. Yet so many parents struggle to acknowledge it, and can hardly even recognize it. This has a direct affect on our disabled children who may inherit some of that internalized ableism for themselves. On this episode of The Bitching and Bolusing Podcast we sit...
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Navigating Single Motherhood with Medically Complex Children - Featuring Hope & Rachel
Raising a child comes with a lot of responsibility, but when medical decisions, extra appointments, and support needs are involved those responsibilities increase. Most families have some sort of support - usually in the form of partnership, but what happens when you have to navigate all this...
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Mental Health as Parents & Caregivers: How Our Mental Health Affects Societal Views on Disability.
There is a mental health crisis affecting everyone in the U.S. and beyond. Parents and caregivers of disabled individuals are no exception, and sometimes, due to lack of resources, respite, services, and support, mental health becomes an extra struggle for these families. However, it is important...
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Career Loss While Raising Disabled Children: Challenging Misconceptions and Advocating for Support
All parents have one thing in common when it comes to balancing work and family life - lack of childcare. Yet, somehow, a recent narrative has turned this struggle into an issue that can feel almost exclusive to parents raising disabled children. In the U.S. the lack of affordable childcare is a...
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Navigating IEPs and Encouraging an Inclusive Education Setting
Welcome to season 2! Inclusive education - it can be wonderful, and it can be awful. Almost all parents of disabled children have had some sort of negative experience along the way when it comes to IEPs or 504 plans. We are oftentimes expected to know how to navigate the "special education"…
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The Holiday Season: A Time for Grief, Gratitude, and New Traditions
For parents of disabled children, the holiday season can be a tricky time of the year to navigate. We are often faced with managing extra schedules, taking on the mental load of making sure everyone has everything they need, and feeling a certain way when doing our holiday shopping knowing a toy...
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Shattered Silence: The Hidden Dangers of Toxic Positivity in Trauma Recovery
Toxic Positivity: We've all experienced it at some point during our trauma recovery. Whether it's a well meaning relative telling you to "look on the bright side" or a stranger saying "you're so strong, I don't know how you do it". It's all left us feeling shut-down and invalidated. On the flip...
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Access Granted: Dads, Disabilities, and Tearing Down Gatekeepers with AdaptedDesign
Challenges with accessibility can come in many different forms. One of the most frustrating challenges parents can face with accessibility is the outrageous cost that comes with finding adapted toys or other functional items. There's almost a gatekeeping-mentality around those who offer switch...
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Disability and Caregiving: A bullseye for Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience, with its unsubstantiated claims and misleading information, can have a particularly harmful and predatory impact on the disabled community. This exploitation often takes the form of alternative treatments and therapies that promise miraculous cures but lack scientific backing. Such...
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Every child has a right to play - Featuring Katrina from The Recess Project and Discover with Dallas
Every child has the right to play, but for children with disabilities, inclusion in play can be almost non-existent in certain circumstances. Oftentimes school playgrounds leave out room for inclusion by having non accessible equipment. Enter: Katrina, founder of The Recess Project. On this…
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Caregiver parent, or just a parent?
Oftentimes parents who have medically complex and disabled children will refer to themselves as their child's caregiver. On this episode of The Bitching and Bolusing podcast, we sit down to discuss the potential harm this could have not just on our own children, but on ourselves, and within our...
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Navigating trauma through the NICU and beyond: Featuring Jen Lowe, MSW
On this episode of The Bitching and Bolusing Podcast we sit down with Jen Lowe, MSW, a social worker, therapist, and mother to a son with medical complexities who spent 3 months in the NICU. Jen offers her unique insight as a therapist who has experienced her own trauma during labor and delivery,...
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Acts of kidness and the ableist undertones
We've all been there - you're going about your life minding your own business and somebody interrupts you to do something kind simply because you have a disabled child, or because you yourself are disabled. These acts of kindness certainly come from a place of good, but it can be driven by an...
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From Pity to Perspective: Featuring Lillian Joy
It is far too commonplace that disabled individuals and their families receive pity from passersby. The mere thought of disability becomes worst case scenario for most people who have no experience at all with disability. But this is not, and should not, be the case. On this episode of The…
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The complexities of relationships in interabled families
Relationships sometimes become unnecessarily complicated when disability is involved. Sometimes people don't know how to react to the news of disability, they oftentimes hold grief for who they imagined your child would have been without disability. As parents, navigating the grief of others can…
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Separating a child’s disability from a parents identity: Featuring Wes of Disabledland
When parents have children with disabilities it can be challenging to figure out what your identity is. Oftentimes, sometimes unintentionally, parents tend to take on their child's disability as their own identity. This, however, can not only be detrimental to the family and child, but it can…
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Fathers Day Special: Suffering in Silence
When it comes to birth trauma, the focus is often on the mother. More times than not, however, the fathers experience a similar level of trauma that can even result in PPD, PPA, and PTSD. On this episode of The Bitching and Bolusing Podcast, Courtney and Brittney sit down with their husbands to...
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Privacy & Autonomy of Disabled Children on Social Media: a fight worth b*tching about
As parents and caregivers, we want to share our journey and raise awareness for our children. But sometimes this can come at the cost of our children's privacy. On this episode of The Bitching and Bolusing Podcast, Courtney and Brittney talk about the importance of maintaining privacy and…
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Welcome Episode - What are we bitching about?
Episode 1 introduces you to Courtney and Brittney. We explain what to expect from future episodes, and we talk about our own journeys into motherhood with interabled children. So come Bitch and Bolus with us!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Courtney and Brittney are two birth trauma mamas navigating life as full-time caregivers, mothers, wives, and friends. They aim to take their experiences, break them down, and share what they’ve learned in hope of creating a more equitable, accessible, and inclusive world. So come bitch while you bolus...
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Courtney and Brittney are two birth trauma mamas navigating life as full-time caregivers, mothers, wives, and friends. They aim to take their experiences, break them down, and share what they’ve learned in hope of creating a more equitable, accessible, and inclusive world. So come bitch while you...
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