Conscious Conception

"I'd like to die for this"- Radical Commitment to Motherhood: Tina's Conscious Conception

Phoebe Lyman Season 1 Episode 27

On Fertile Ground retreat doors are OPEN! 

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In this episode:

- Blending allopathic medicine, bodywork, and TCM 
- Five pregnancy losses including Blighted ovums, and a ruptured ectopic pregnancy before her daughter 
- "You're on a rollercoaster, you can't let it throw you around"
- A pregnancy despite an unclear LH surge 
- Thinking miscarriage happens, but "it won't happen twice"
- How hard it is to advocate for yourself as a patient in the medical system
- When being a medical professional and knowing "too much" makes things harder
- The loss of the golden hour after birth
- Finding alignment in career, and femininity through postpartum
- Learning to say "no" to parties as a form of self-care
- Paternal postpartum depression
- How to avoid triggering conversations about fertility when you're TTC