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
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 pregnancy reference that should fill you with both information that's useful to your pregnancy and awe about the project of growing another human in your body and what science does and does not understand about this amazing process.
I'm finding and talking with experts, doing cutting edge work to better understand pregnancy and what you can do to better understand your own experience.
I was pregnant three times and each time I experienced things that I never saw in any book about pregnancy, which led me to dig deeper and try to find answers to some of these mysteries or talk about where we are in the hunt to better understand how pregnancy works.
Each week, the research we highlight is focused on creating healthier pregnancies, Giving you the most current evidence-based way to approach this enormous transition in your life. I hope it will become your go-to source for how to make your pregnancy better.
This is a teaser episode of Making Sense of Pregnancy.
In this episode we'll talk about the distinct and important difference between childbirth related PTSD and postpartum depression. The two are often confused, and Its particularly important to figure out which path you may be on because although the symptoms can overlap, the treatment is entirely different.
You can find Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you to Know about your Body
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-sense-of-pregnancy-what-experts-want-you-to/id1779600854
https://open.spotify.com/show/75WWhQawTcxSSn9xtXW5Bt