If you’ve struggled to get pregnant, grappled through multiple IVF cycles, experienced a loss, or delivered early, you know first hand that pregnancy is NOT always blissful. Unfortunately for some, the process of building a family can border on traumatic. 

If this is the case for you or someone you know, the information and insights from Parijat Deshpande could shed some light on how to work through the anxiety that lives alongside infertility and high-risk pregnancy. 

Parijat is founder of Ruvelle, bestselling author, speaker, and high-risk pregnancy consultant. In this episode of Baby or Bust, Dr. Lora Shahine dives deep with Parijat into anxiety before and during a high-risk pregnancy and learning how to calm your nervous system so you can move through the trauma that causes your anxiety.

In this episode you’ll hear:

[3:30] Meet Parijat Deshpande - she’s been through it all

[8:15] An evolutionary benefit of anxiety in pregnancy 

[10:41] Calming your nervous system when you’re anxious

• Learning to acknowledge your feelings
• Recognizing what’s going on in your body

[15:19] Tips for “completing the threat cycle” (calming down)

[21:33] Dr. Shahine answers a question from a YouTube listener about the HSG procedure

[25:00] Learning more about somatic trauma work

[30:04] Using somatic therapy to improve pregnancy outcomes

[32:50] Parijat’s business Ruvelle - support for high-risk pregnancy

[35:56] Leaning into hope and ways to connect with Parijat

Resources mentioned: 

ruvelle.com

IG - @healthy.highriskpregnancy

Pregnancy Brain by Parijat Deshpande

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