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Today I finish my conversation with Caitlin, the registered dietician who focuses on women's fertility issues.
She shares the rest of her story about managing the challenges of PCOS.
She addresses changes she made to:
*her diet
*her exercise
*her mindset
*her ability to manage stress
and how these changes led to three children (and stay tuned, maybe more?)...we pick up where we left off last week, Caitlin is about to share the very specific things that she did to overcome her diagnosis. -
Today's guest shares her journey through infertility generated by Poly cycstic ovarian syndrome.
She is a clinical dietitian and talks about things to consider when taking birth control.
She gives a number of tips on what you can do to improve your fertility, but note: this is not medical advice. What follows is the first part of our conversation.
possible side effects of hormonal birth control:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9842494/#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20side%20effect,some%20point%20in%20their%20life.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159123003331?via%3Dihub
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10347535/#:~:text=Hormone%2Dbased%20contraception%20disrupts%20hormonal%20balance%2C%20creating%20artificial%20states%20of%20anovulation%20and%20threatening%20women's%20health.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/articles/10.3389/fendo.2020.00603/full
To find Caitlin's podcast, Food Freedom & Fertility, click here -
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In today's episode:
I finish my conversation with Jess.
We talk about :
* how her research prior to the third postpartum set her up for a significantly better experience.
She describes concepts like constructive rest and matrescence
* practical tips on how much physical work should be done in the early weeks
* a useful time line to set your expectationswe pick up where we left off last week, where jess is reflecting on all the advocacy she did on her daughter's behalf and how that might be applied to her own experience in a future pregnancy
What can you do naturally to induce labor (spoiler: not much)
https://www.webmd.com/baby/does-pineapple-induce-laborhttps://www.nct.org.uk/pregnancy/your-pregnancy-week-week/third-trimester/can-i-make-myself-go-labour-myths-or-truths
Find Jess at:
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I talk to a woman who shares the story of her transformative births:
in particular :
how the postpartum and aftermath of the second birth changed the way she viewed herself and her career.
Its an impactful and inspirational story that I think many of us can relate to. What follows is the first part of our conversation.hyperemesis and anxiety
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767058.2022.2089550https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1471-0528.14180
affect of fetal sex on pregnancy outcome
https://bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13293-020-00299-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75969-8
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2017.00144/full
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Today we'll talk with Dr. Carl Weiner, MD, MBA
He has been working on developing testing that can PREDICT PREMATURITY and EARLY ONSET PREECLAMPSIA as early as 12 weeks into the pregnancy.
*If it is detected, WHAT can be done?
*What are his hopes for the FUTURE of PREGNANCY
You can find Dr. Weiner here: https://www.creighton.edu/campus-directory/weiner-carl-p -
In this week's episode we hear the rest of Hannah's story:
*we hear about the premature birth of her son
* how she manages his care during his long stay in the NICU
and
*how he's doing now.
We also hear more from Dr. Weiner, who is working on a test that can predict both prematurity and early onset preeclampsia to try to prevent these issues from arising in a pregnancy.
We pick up where we left off last week; Hannah has checked into the hospital at 23 weeks five days because she's having contractions and doesn't know if this is the birth or Braxton Hicks.. -
In today's episode I speak with a woman who was very much caught off guard by a condition called PPROM--preterm premature rupture of membranes when she was 22 weeks along.
She talks about how she managed all the twists and turns of her experience, and despite all the hard things that happened, many things made her feel lucky.
We also hear from an OB/scientist who is working on a test that can be used to predict premature birth, among other things, long before it arrives.
JAMA article about NICU policy
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2815359
Find Dr. Carl Weiner's work here: https://www.creighton.edu/campus-directory/weiner-carl-p -
In today's episode we hear the rest of Corinne's story.
In particular:
*What she learned in her repeated trips to the ER
*What she took away from the challenging things she experienced.
*What she'd do differently next time
.We'll also hear from Dr. Chapa, a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics & gynecology at Texas A&M College of medicine, who shares some of his expertise about pregnancy and hypertension.
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In today's episode :
we hear the story of a first time mother who has a by the book pregnancy which slides off the tracks in delivery and postpartum.
In this first part of our conversation, she shares:
* how she and her husband managed the uncertainty that seemed to come without much warning.
We'll also hear from a fantastic OB (Dr. Hector Chapa) who gives a wider medical context to this story and helps us understand gestational hypertension that appears after delivery.Catch Dr. Chapa's podcast, Clinical pearls here
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In today's episode, I finish my conversation with Angie.
She's a mindset coach and worked in early interventions from birth to three.
we talk about parenting the son that she initially fostered and then adopted;
how her training and experience led to a new approach, both in her own life and her work.
She talks about how important mindset is and how to manage our mindset
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In today's episode I speak with a MINDSET COACH about her experience with pregnancy and with fostering and then adopting a child. She talks about what she learned with respect to colic and tongue tie and some of the challenges she met in this process and how she, someone trained in early interventions from birth to three, ultimately had to change the way she approached parenting. What follows is the first part of our conversation.
Trends in home and birth center births, 2004-2017
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8827343/#:~:text=(AABC%2C%202021)
Definitions of Preterm Birth
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11386/
Tongue Tie
https://www.healthline.com/health/dental-and-oral-health/tongue-tie-in-adults#9https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10167863/
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his week I finish my conversation with Suzzie. She shares:
* how the second birth felt like a redemption of the first one
* all the things she did between the first and second births to make that outcome more likely, including:
* more birth education
* facing her fears
*managing her expectations.
We pick up where we left off last week. Suzzie has spent hours contracting and waiting and ultimately her stalled labor leads to a C section. She's now been left in the recovery room by herself, with little sense of where her husband and new baby are.
You can find Suzzie's contacts:
Childbirth Class: https://shebirthsbravely.com/learnWhat Does Your Birth Plan Say About Your Personality Quiz: https://shebirthsbravely.com/quiz
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shebirthsbravely/
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This week's episode features that story of a woman who had two nearly opposite experiences of birth.
Like many of us, the FIRST one was ROUGH--including anything but gentle treatment at the hospital and an unpleasant C section;
The SECOND was a vast improvement, which started her on a journey to learn more about birth and to become what she needed that first time around: an excellent DOULA;
what follows is the first part of our conversation
Molar Pregnancy
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17889-molar-pregnancyhttps://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/molar-pregnancy/symptoms-causes/syc-20375175
Connection between Psychological State and Labor Progress
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4027004/https://www.parents.com/pregnancy/giving-birth/labor-and-delivery/when-labor-stalls/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1595201/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1595201/
ACOG: infection after PROM
https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2019/02/approaches-to-limit-intervention-during-labor-and-birth
To find Suzzie' s contacts:
Childbirth Class: https://shebirthsbravely.com/learnWhat Does Your Birth Plan Say About Your Personality Quiz: https://shebirthsbravely.com/quiz
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shebirthsbravely/
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In todays episode we hear the end of Tanya's story.
To remind everyone, last week we left Tanya:
*She's spent the whole pregnancy on a boat with her 4 other children & husband
*the boat is docked in Sarasota Florida for the birth
*Although it's her 5th birth, it doesn't go quickly
*The midwife sends her to see an acupuncturist during her stalled labor
*Tanya is terrified of needles
Listen to how this birth unfolds....
Castor oil and labor
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7138266/https://evidencebasedbirth.com/ebb-128-inducing-labor-with-castor-oil-and-dates/
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This week's episode features details of a pregnancy on a boat.
My guest Tanya shared her experiences of her other 4 births on an earlier episodes:
Her first episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-you-learn-from-your-first-two-of-5-births/id1546909059?i=1000617239231
The second half of that story: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-happens-when-with-each-birth-you-get-closer-to/id1546909059?i=1000618066765
She had a variety of experiences in the hospital:
*induced labor
*shoulder dystocia
*large babies
with midwives and OBs, but this pregnancy and birth are entirely different.
She shares what she learned both about her body and the process of birthing, including the fears she had and how she overcame them.Acupuncture & Labor Induction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6953318/https://www.ajogmfm.org/article/S2589-9333(23)00414-7/fulltext
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Today's guest uses IVF to get pregnant
* she's successful, but nearly not
*she has a relatively straightforward pregnancy, but
*hypertension sneaks in at the finish line, and
*a not straightforward postpartum, ushered in by a hemorrhage and uterine atony.
She can look back over that experience at both the beautiful and hard parts, and learn something important from them.
geriatric patient
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6789409/https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22438-advanced-maternal-age
unexplained infertility
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23187-unexplained-infertility
retained placenta
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijgo.14800
https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/placenta-delivery#takeaway
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6789409/
breastfeeding trends
https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/data/nis_data/rates-any-exclusive-bf-state-2020.htm -
This week we have the end of my conversation with Andria.
She talks about:
* how that first birth unfolded
* dealing with the unexpected C section and all the pain and fear that it brought
* the difficulties of that first postpartum
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she also shares:
*the research she did for the second birth
*the value of the midwife
*the empowered birth she createdDr Amutah-Onukagha shares her advice for how to manage challenging birth settings and her hopes for the future of black maternal care
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In today's episode I talk to a woman who walked into her pregnancy imagining that:
* it would be relatively easy
* miscarriage wasn't a part of the equation and
* that her doctor would tell her everything she needed to know.
It's a very relatable story, given that this is the way a lot of us walk into this experience. It's certainly the way I initially walked into pregnancy.
She'd wanted an unmedicated birth, but her scheduled induction turned into a C section in a way that really scared her and her husband. It also taught her how to adopt a different approach for the second child.
We talk about her experience as a black woman in a maternity setting, and I also talk with a fantastic professor of black maternal health who shares the work she's doing in improving this setting from within a medical school.ACOG preparation for an unmedicated birth:
https://www.acog.org/womens-health/experts-and-stories/the-latest/thinking-about-childbirth-without-pain-medication-heres-how-you-can-prepare
Dr. Amutah-Onukagha at Tufts School of Medicine: https://medicine.tufts.edu/people/faculty/ndidiamaka-amutah-onukagha -
Note: this episode contains some information about military sexual trauma; no explicit details are shared
In today's episode we hear from a woman who navigated her pregnancy and birth with all kinds of obstacles, including that her partner was away on military assignment
She also encountered some significant issues in delivery that turned out to be related to an undiagnosed chronic condition-- Ehler Danlos syndrome,
Once she got her diagnosis, she was able to use it to improve the lives of her children.
She also shares what she did to create the community around her that she needed, and how ultimately getting a diagnosis dramatically changed her life and her children's lives.
For more facts on military sexual trauma: https://www.protectourdefenders.com/?fbclid=IwAR1hFiujoboAufjSw7MrN2TnBM9CSnhgRa84TrcOqSpKYCTiaYmvGowIe1g -
In today's episode we talk about: Kelly's second birth, which was at home.
As a BIRTH EDUCATOR & LACTATION CONSULTANT, she shares:
*Some critical ingredients for an empowered birth (hint: the setting doesn't necessarily matter)
*What clues might suggest that you need breastfeeding help and how to find it
* Autoimmune issues that are not uncommon to confront in the postpartum period and what to do about them
You Can Find Kelly's Book here: https://www.amazon.com/Protecting-Potential-Breastfeeding-Kelly-Durbin/dp/1946665665/ref=sr_1_2?crid=BN31OXY3SLPX&keywords=kelly+durbin&qid=1702852134&sprefix=kelly+durbin%2Caps%2C177&sr=8-2
Article about Birth as a Neuro-Psycho-Social event: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230992
Stat's on Gestational Diabetes and Postpartum Thyroiditis
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/gestational.html#:~:text=Gestational%20diabetes%20is%20a%20type,pregnancy%20and%20a%20healthy%20baby.https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15294-postpartum-thyroiditis
Institute of Functional Medicine: https://www.ifm.org/ - Näytä enemmän