THE GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER PODCAST

Embracing Our Maternal (and Professional) Expertise

May 10, 2021

MATRESCENCE, IDENTITY, MOTHERHOOD IDENTITY, RITES OF PASSAGE, MOTHERING, MOTHER SELF, TRANSITIONS IN MOTHERHOOD, PARENTING PODCAST

with a bilingual and bicultural pediatric speech-language pathologist, associate clinical professor, and mother of two, Emily Adler Mosqueda

This conversation about this meeting point is with Emily Adler Mosqueda, M.S., CCC-SLP who is a bilingual and bicultural pediatric speech-language pathologist, associate clinical professor, and mother of two.

Emily experienced postpartum depression late in her second postpartum and has become an advocate for teaching about parental mental health factors to her graduate speech-language pathology students.

In this episode, we reflect on the intersection of knowledge, experience, and authority, and the claiming of maternal authority and utilizing professional expertise.

Speaking of the experience of both being a mother, and working in supporting mothers, Emily also shares how the development of maternal thinking as mothers can inform and enrich our careers.

  • Maternal knowledge and the expertise we develop through the practice of mothering our children is often defined as being in the ‘private’ realm, while professionals are regarded as experts in the ‘public’ realm.

    — Emily Adler Mosqueda in conversation with Sophie Brock, Ep #57 The Good Enough Mother Podcast

LISTEN UP.

When the two are brought together, there can be collision and challenge, and/or there can be the meeting of experience and expertise in a way that is powerful, transformative, and enriching for our children.

Meet

Emily

Emily is a bilingual/bicultural mamá of two and a pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist. She is state and nationally certified and began her clinical career in 2009 working in early intervention and early childhood special education. Currently, She is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Supervisor of graduate speech-language students.

In 2018, 8 months postpartum after a second child, she began experiencing anxiety, and moodiness. She started reassessing my experience of motherhood as a repeat parent and examining more deeply who I was as a mix-ethnicity woman. Her forthcoming memoir, out Feb 27, 2023, by Demeter Press, recounts my experiences with mothering as a first-time mom, past mental health and my identity transformation upon becoming a mother a second time.

connect with Emily.

Connect with Emily at emilyadlermosqueda.com and on Instagram @emily.adler.mosqueda and her account @postpartum365 where she shares peer-reviewed research on postpartum and Motherhood Studies topics in an effort to shift the cultural understanding of how long the postpartum time is, and how to centralize mothers in their mothering and experience of motherhood.