***TW: We discuss pregnancy-related medical and mental health issues in this episode***

PsyD candidate Hannah Hyatt Hartnett shares her predoctoral pandemic pregnancy story. (Too many Ps?) Anyone who has wondered about how or whether to have a baby while still a student, who has supervised or taught pregnant students, who has been pregnant or been a pregnant person’s partner, or who was a product of pregnancy will enjoy this episode. (We really do love alliteration.)

Honorable Mentions:

• Grad school BC (before COVID) and AC (after COVID)
• Having a baby in graduate school
• Pretending not to be pregnant
• Bill Gates Goals
• Gestational diabetes and other adventures in prenatal/postnatal hell(th)
• Being born full of s***
• Don’t tell me to calm down!
• How to support a pregnant person
• Postpartum anxiety
• Carl Rogers

Researchy Stuff:

• Vanderbilt SENSE Theatre program
• Gestational diabetes isn’t mom’s fault: 1 2 3
• Demographic breakdowns of psychology graduate students and of practicing school psychologists

Hannah Hyatt Hartnett is a 3rd year doctoral student in a Health Services Psychology doctoral program. She has a Master’s in Educational Psychology and a Specialist degree (SSP) in School Psychology. She enjoys working with children with disabilities and finds them and their families to be some of the coolest and most resilient humans she has ever met. She is wife to a wonderful partner and mom to an amazing little human, and she says that is her favorite and most important job in life :).

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Gill Strait PhD and Julia Strait PhD are both Licensed Psychologists (TX) and Licensed Specialists in School Psychology (LSSPs, TX). They are alumni of The University of South Carolina School Psychology Doctoral Program (Go Gamecocks).

Gill is a teacher, researcher, and supervisor at a university graduate psychology training program. He does trainings on Motivational Interviewing in all of th

Welcome to The Psychologists Podcast, where we talk about all things psychology through a very personal lens.

Gill Strait PhD and Julia Strait PhD are both Licensed Psychologists (TX) and Licensed Specialists in School Psychology (LSSPs, TX). They are alumni of The University of South Carolina School Psychology Doctoral Program (Go Gamecocks).

Gill is a teacher, researcher, and supervisor at a university graduate psychology training program.

Julia is owner and therapist at Ocean Therapy in Houston, TX, offering telehealth therapy to young adults in their 20s and 30s who are struggling with anxiety. Check it out here: https://www.oceantherapy.net/