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Pregnancy & Birth Made Easy
Birth is amazing, beautiful, wonderful . . . and it can throw you for a loop! Despite our very best birth “plans,” we can find ourselves taking some twist and turns during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum that we don’t expect. Enter the Pregnancy & Birth Made Easy Podcast!
Hey mama! My name is Stephanie, and I’m a mom of three boys, and two girls, a professional doula, childbirth educator, and the creator of the Online Birth Course - My Essential Birth www.myessentialbirth.com.
I love to help mothers just like you feel empowered and confident during pregnancy, birth, and into motherhood by taking my years of knowledge and personal/professional experience in the birth world and breaking down complex birth topics to make preparing for labor & birth a breeze!
Every week, you’ll hear from myself & other women ready to share their knowledge with other pregnant moms about pregnancy and birth topics that will have you feeling knowledgeable and in the driver’s seat of your best birth experience.
Your best birth starts here >>>> www.myessentialbirth.com/getstarted
Pregnancy & Birth Made Easy
Placenta Encapsulation: Should You Eat Your Placenta? Benefits, Risks & Postpartum Recovery w/Dr. Sophia Johnson
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Some moms swear placenta pills changed their postpartum recovery…others say they did nothing. So what’s actually true?
Today I'm sitting down with Dr. Sophia Johnson. She's a physician, researcher, and author who spent a decade studying the placenta inside a university lab in Germany.
(Fun fact: in Germany, the placenta is literally called Mutterkuchen: "mother's cake." 🎂 After this episode, you'll understand why. )
We're diving into the actual science of consuming it: which preparation methods preserve the most hormones, the GBS case every encapsulating mom needs to know about, what hormone withdrawal really does to your body postpartum, and so much more.
I've been watching this topic explode since my oldest was born (17 years ago!!), and this episode is everything I wish I had been able to hear all those years ago.
I know you're going to LOVE this episode — and I'm so curious about what you'll plan to do after you listen!!
Here are some highlights from the episode:
- What the placenta actually is and why it's so much more powerful than most people realize
- The science behind consuming your placenta
- Freezing vs. steaming vs. dehydrating & what the lab research actually found is best
- Placing placenta inside the cheek for postpartum hemorrhage, and why it works
- The hormone crash after birth and its connection to postpartum depression
- Who should think twice before consuming their placenta
- Why Dr. Sophia wrote Placenta Power and how to get your copy
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