What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights
Creating a family is a life transforming event that’s a lot harder than the culturally-generated marketing suggests.
Relying on the glossy media depictions of this transition leaves many women feeling like they are broken or failing when their actual experience doesn’t match their expectation.
I tripped over every step of this process: getting pregnant, being pregnant and giving birth on my way to having two kids.
This podcast showcases the really, really of people’s experiences:
* what they didn’t expect when they were expecting
* what they wish they’d known.
You’ll hear shareable insights gleaned from time in the IVF gauntlet, ways to manage the flattening nausea and fatigue of pregnancy, 40 hour labors and much more including expert medical insights to remake our expectations, making them more real, more human and more useful.
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights
Latest Episodes
What's the difference between PTSD & PPD: Teaser for *new show* Making Sense of Pregnancy
For this season, I'm going to migrate over to a new show called Making Sense of Pregnancy What Experts Want you to Know about Your Body:This show is meant to be a new pr...
What happens when Endometriosis & Age aren't the final word on Fertility: Julia's story + Expert Insights, Part II
This week, we hear the rest of Julia's story. More endo, a bit older, a shorter menstrual cycle, a medical community that was suggesting the pregnancy was unlikely again. But Julia story should remind us to never bet against mother natu...
Rebroadcast: What Pregnancy can look like when it started with Undiagnosed Endometriosis: Julia's Story + Dr. Insights, Part I
Pregnancy involves massive changes, and for some of us, one of the first hurdles is overcoming issues that have developed in our bodies that make getting pregnant and being pregnant difficult.On the road to becoming pregnant, today's gu...
What Inspired this Mother to Do an Iron Man & Swim Solo Across the English Channel: Gil's birth story + OB insights, Part II
This is the second half of my rebroadcast conversation with Gill, a mother from England who experienced lots of physical challenges with her premature birth, which changed her life. The birth gave her a beloved son, but it also dramatically shi...
REBROADCAST: What One Woman Did to Turn Birth Trauma into a Movement for Resilience and Awareness: Gil's Birth Story + OB insights, Part I
Today's guest overcame all the challenges that met her in birth, including a premature birth, a fourth degree tear and a misdiagnosis and a fistula and a stoma. Despite that list, this is an amazing story of resilience. Having had so many...