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For full show notes go to https://marandabower.com/how-birth-impacts-your-postpartum-years-interview-with-dominika-buck-podcast-ep10/

We have a special guest, Dominika Buck on the podcast today! Dominika is a certified postpartum nutrition coach and business owner. She owns Above and Beyond Doula Care, which supports women in labor and during breastfeeding. We get into a deep conversation about how birth can impact not just weeks postpartum but years to come. 

Preparing for a friendly birth experience is what everyone wants to do but they rely too much on childbirth. What I mean by this is they tend to take childbirth classes and have an idea of what childbirth is “supposed” to be, and when that expectation doesn’t happen, they are left dealing with fear and overwhelm. But on the other hand, if you go into childbirth with no expectations you will feel like childbirth just happened to you and be left feeling out of control with the entire process. Having a doula will help you feel like you have complete control over the birthing process. Come listen in on all the goodness that Dominika shares in this episode, and be sure to share it with all your friends and family.

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In this episode, I’m sharing with you:

• Preparing for a friendly birth experience
• Preparing for childbirth is more common than preparing for postpartum
• Traumatic birth accounts for over 30% of all births in the USA only
• Our confidence in ourselves is shrinking because our childbirth is filled with so much fear
• Picking the doctor that you can trust 100% will help with the childbirth process
• Our partners, and the role and effect they have during birth 
• How a doula can help you through the childbirth process
• How to recover from a traumatic birth experience
• Breaking the generational traumas of childbirth and postpartum
• Understanding the physiology of postpartum
• Breaking gene

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For full show notes go to https://marandabower.com/miscarriage-and-loss-podcast-ep9/

We are going to be talking about a topic that is likely going to be the hardest episode we will ever do on this podcast. I believe that this information should be readily available to you but unfortunately, it is not. Therefore, I am going to end the tendency to brush off or minimize a miscarriage. This episode is going to be for everyone. Whether you have had a miscarriage or not, you will find valuable information in this. If you haven’t had a miscarriage, it is more than likely that someone in your life has, and this episode will give you some insight as to how to support them.

Buckle up and get ready for an eye-opening episode. Let's work together and get the correct information out there and help each other through a difficult time.

Be sure to share this podcast so we can change the stigmas and misinformation around miscarriage and loss.

In this episode, I’m sharing with you:

• Miscarriages are thrown under the rug too much
• 20% of all pregnancies end in loss
• 1 in 5 pregnant women will experience a loss
• In history, women who miscarried were deemed inadequate
• Feeling the pain of the women before us
• There is no right or wrong way to feel 
• We all mourn differently
• Don’t let people tell you how to or not to feel while experiencing this grief
• How you grieve is 1,000% valid, no matter how it is
• Grief can manifest it into other health issues if not dealt with
• Psychosomatics
• Psychoneuroimmunology
• Grief will show up in so many ways, that doesn’t always feel or look like grief
• Grief is often masked as postpartum depression
• Depression is simply a rational response to being overly stressed with no support
• It doesn’t matter where in the pregnancy that the loss of a baby was experiencing, it is still a loss
• Ask how to support them
• Moms who have experienced a miscarriage won’t start the conversation
• Find the support to heal
• You are not alone in this journey
• Don’t betray your body
• Verbalize your needs
• We need to normalize miscarriages
• If you're not sure where to start, reach out to me, to someone you trust, or to your provider. Whatever you do, it

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For full show notes go to https://marandabower.com/how-you-develop-depression-anxiety-and-autoimmune-disease-in-postpartum-podcast-ep8/

We are going to get into quite a hot topic around how the postpartum body actually gets depression, anxiety, and autoimmune diseases. While all bodies and backgrounds and situations are different, these different things all create a starting point of your health and postpartum. When we are able to understand the how, and the why of why these things occur in so many women in the years after having a baby, that information can be used to prevent it from occurring, and even completely reverse the damage of not knowing how to heal our body or how it functions during this transition.

So buckle up and get ready for an eye-opening episode all about nutrients, hormones, and how these things affect your body differently in pregnancy and postpartum. Be sure to follow this podcast so you never miss an episode when it goes live and leave a review!

In this episode, I’m sharing with you:

• Maternal Mental Health Issues, why are so many struggling with them postpartum?
• Every Body is different. Different backgrounds, different socioeconomic statuses, different diets and deficiencies, different birth experiences, these all create a starting point for your health and postpartum journey.
• Nutrients and hormones while growing a baby
• Running on deficiency
• The physical trauma of childbirth, sending your body immediately into survival mode
• Experiencing birth trauma creates an Overactive Nervous System
• Processes in the body slow down rapidly after you give birth.
• Changes in digestion after birth
• Learn to eat in a way that is beneficial for your healing body
• Your body struggles to absorb nutrients
• Sleep Deprivation and lack of nutrients leads to hormone irregularities
• Hormone Fluctuations are NORMAL in postpartum, but they need to be supported by sleep and nutrients
• Major Symptoms of a larger problem
• Postpartum mood disorders and autoimmune issues are common, but they are not “normal”
•  If you're not sure where to start, reach out to me, to someone you trust, or to

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We have our very first guest on this podcast, Jojo Hogan of Slow Postpartum! Jojo has been involved in the care of pregnant and postpartum women for nearly 20 years of her life. We get into a deep discussion on the importance of postpartum and how much study and research lack in offering women the support that is so desperately needed during this time, what led us both to this path of supporting women on this journey, and how we now work to give this support to them in the absolute best ways possible.

I highly recommend that you go check out Jojo, if you're pregnant, especially, you need to go take a look at the work that she's doing in this world. You don’t want to miss out on what I refer to as the Slow Postpartum Movement where the work that she is doing is changing lives!

In this episode, we share with you:

• Introducing Jojo Hogan
• Jojo’s story in transitioning from caring for the pregnant woman to focusing on women in postpartum
• The stigma around feeling as if things have to be “good” as a Mama
• Caring for a mother up until delivery, but then who was caring for her afterward?
• Postpartum was always a “blip” on the radar for courses with mothers preparing during pregnancy for delivery/postpartum
• Attention needs to be drawn to other significant parts of this journey into motherhood, not just birth
• Food is medicine, food is healing
• The history of what different cultures were feeding postpartum women and offering them for care
• The concept of Slow Food
• The importance of postpartum planning
• Find Jojo Hogan on her platforms and her offers  >>>>here<<<<

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Our hormones are responsible for everything. These little signals in your body are constantly sending out messages and controlling so much of what you experience in this world, no matter if you're postpartum or not. But in pregnancy and postpartum, our hormones take the front seat, and we become even more aware of their existence for two different reasons. 

The first reason, hormones bring your body into a heightened state to care for your baby and keep them safe, and the second reason we are so much more aware of them is that they’re not being supported as needed and become so out of balance that they start to mess with EVERYTHING.

In this episode, I’m focusing on talking all about how to balance your hormones and why we experience hormone fluctuations during pregnancy and postpartum.

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In this episode, I’m sharing with you:

• Why are so many women experiencing hormone imbalances in postpartum?
• Postpartum hormones are not naturally out of control
• There is a normal shift and change, but NOT an imbalance 
• Our society knows nothing about healing the body during the sacred and raw and vulnerable time that postpartum is
• Fixing it with pills, or herbs or essential oils are not the answer
• The root of the issue needs to be addressed and fixed
• The Postpartum Hormone Cycle Chart (find this in my Facebook group >>>here )
• Four Components of the Hormone Cycle
• These four pieces are fundamental to healing your body. And you need all four of those to heal
• For full show notes go to https://marandabower.com/postpartum-hormones-are-they-really-out-of-balance-podcast-ep6/

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Postpartum is not just including the weeks after having a baby. In fact, the postpartum period lasts for six (6!) years.

The 6 week "postpartum" period is a myth and in fact, the healing postpartum moms need from day 1 to year 6 starts and ends with postpartum nutrition.  Moms and postpartum providers and holistic practitioners everywhere have been seeking more education around the topic of holistic and functional postpartum nutrition which is what led me to create the Postpartum Nutrition Certification in the first place. 

So if you are a postpartum mom or provider working with postpartum clients who are experiencing anything from mood swings, weight issues, hormone imbalances, gut health issues, depression, anxiety, and more...you are in the right place. Whether these issues have lingered on for the first few months of postpartum or you've experienced ongoing symptoms 4 to 5 years after having a baby, we are here to help. Let's dive into the major physiological changes that shift your digestion in the months and years postpartum and how focusing on root cause care through functional nutrition is the solution to helping mothers get well and feel whole again. 

Check out this episode on the blog: https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-nutrition-the-physiological-changes-that-shift-your-digestion-podcast-ep5/

In this episode, I’m sharing with you:

• Postpartum Nutrition - not just for the first weeks after baby, but years after childbirth
• What happens during these years is critical and will affect your body your life on a deep level
• Your entire body changes and shifts after having a baby
• Changes in our digestion after pregnancy and delivery
• Nutrition - it runs every single thing in our body
• Lack of nourishment and malabsorption issues for extended periods leads to other immune system dysfunction
• How this is influencing your life, and how you can make a change and take advantage of it and start healing your body

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By working through my own trauma, balancing hormones, learning to prioritize my sleep, and nurturing my body with the right foods for a body that is healing from both pregnancy and birth I have perfected these methods of healing for women in postpartum. Through my own experiences and research, I now teach and have taught 1000’s of women to take back control of their postpartum experience so that they too can create the bliss they deserve. Listen in to learn all about my story and why I’m so passionate about the work that I do.

In this episode, I’m sharing with you:

• Sharing my raw and vulnerable journeys of postpartum
• Preparing for my first birth, settling for nothing less than the absolute best
• Knowing nothing about the unique needs of my newly postpartum body 
• Research doesn't really prepare you for the unfolding of postpartum depression
• I dedicated myself to learning all that I could about healing my postpartum body and mind
• Reconnecting with Myself
• Determined not to have the same experience with 2nd birth, but several months after falling into rage and depression
• Diagnosis of ulcerative colitis - a postpartum autoimmune disease 
• The reality of depression in pregnancy, and how little it’s talked about
• Leaning into the feelings and finding support from my provider
• Postpartum bipolar, and healing it with nutrition, sleep, and support.
• Creating your own postpartum bliss through healing

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We're going to get into some topics in this episode that not a lot of people are talking about in the space of postpartum, especially in regard to what we know as common sense. I'm going to share some really important misinformation and myths that I strongly feel are really destroying the health and well-being of mothers in the life after birth.

Be sure to screenshot that you listened to this episode, share on social media and tag me with any thoughts or questions and leave a review!! I’m so honored to be a part of your journey in healing postpartum.

In this episode, I’m sharing with you:

• Important misinformation and myths around postpartum
• The huge increase in women who are experiencing some sort of maternal mental health concern or condition, especially since the start of COVID
• 1994 is when postpartum depression finally became a clinical diagnosis
• The massive gap of knowledge around postpartum and women’s bodies after birth
• Why trying to fit all of these components of our old life without a baby into our new life with one is just plain harmful. 
• Massive changes throughout your entire body after having a child
• How I help clients correct different postpartum mental health issues and health problems that were caused by lack of information given to mothers
• Our world right now is not supportive of postpartum women, in the way we need to heal our bodies.

• For full show notes go to https://marandabower.com/common-sense-in-postpartum-is-creating-an-epidemic-of-disease-podcast-ep3/

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What I'm going to be sharing with you here is essentially redefining the period that is postpartum. I want to talk about the postpartum period, and how it does not last for just six weeks, I will tell you upfront, that postpartum lasts upwards of six years. And this really shouldn't be a shocker because every woman who has ever birthed a baby will tell you that they are not fully healed at the six-week mark. Most women can attest to not ever feeling like a “normal human being” until their child reaches a certain level of independence when they’re able to take a step back and truly ask how they are doing. This is when the healing process really begins for most women instead of earlier because we have been trained as mothers that everyone else’s needs come before our own. So buckle up and get ready to deep dive into the postpartum period after having a baby.

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In this episode, I’m sharing with you:

• The misconception of postpartum lasting only 6 weeks
• Being conditioned that we, as mothers, come last
• A huge need for women to be able to take a look at what we need to heal physically, mentally, and emotionally
• We as mothers are defining self-care for our children
• How the 6-week timeline came about
• Why you should dismiss 90% of everything you hear and read about postpartum
• Changes and an ACTUAL necessary healing time for your body postpartum
• Hormones and all the changes with them in postpartum
• This transition and these phases are greatly influenced by the care you receive in the first few weeks postpartum
• Be gentle with yourself and know you are ever deserving of healing and loving your body in your postpartum journey
• We have so much control over our healing.

• For full show notes go to https://postpartumu.com/how-long-is-postpartum-postpartum-university-episode-2/

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There are some massive myths and misconceptions around postpartum in the years after, and all of that is deeply affecting the way we as mothers experience motherhood. 

I can’t wait to dive into the depths of postpartum with all of you and find ways to support you along this journey.  Be sure to follow and leave a review!

For full show notes go to https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-recovery-postpartum-university-ep-1/

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