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Paging Dr. Mom with Julie La Barba, MD, FAAP


Feb 23, 2022

Zibby Owens edited essays in 2 books: 

Moms Don’t Have Time To- A Quarantine Anthology and Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids 

“The perfect reminder for every mom that none of us have it all together, all of us are doing our best and, perhaps most important, even our worst days make great stories!”

By the way, if that doesn’t absolve every working mom’s guilt, I don’t know what would! 

 

Besides Zibby’s self-deprecating humor, she also shared her family's personal loss throughout Covid. She was  generous not only in sharing the effect the tragic loss had on her life, but also in her efforts to help others by contributing to vaccine research through her literary work.

 

That brings us to our next guest: Dr. Susan Wootton. (RECORDED 1/19/22)

She’s a professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and member of the Center for Clinical Research and Evidence Based Medicine at the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth. Her research focuses primarily on vaccine-preventable infections and vaccine delivery, so she has been unknowingly preparing for this pandemic for the past 25 years!

 

Rather than more Covid data which is readily available, we wanted to provide a different conversation , steeped in hope and real social strategies for both work and home in terms of navigating it all. 

 

Dr. Wootton focuses on the hope that we will get through this together, shares her own personal challenges, and highlights steps to make it through each long day, including personal experience in navigating everything from birthday parties to family reunions, she also reveals that her own extended family has been no exception to the tensions we have all felt

  • Doctor moms with kids under 5 and how stressful Covid has been to not be able to work from home/ all the pivoting it has required
  • Strategies to stay sane and avoid burnout in the process: exercise, sleep, nutrition, asking for help
  • Future outlook: historical knowledge and confidence that by definition, pandemics end at some point.
  • Navigating invitations to gather with unvaccinated friends and family