Preggers Can Be Choosers

By rowan twosisters

Preggers Can Be Choosers delivers a ten-minute and eighty-second or less podcast shortie addressing frequent questions and topics of reflection or whatever else we are into at the moment.

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The podcast currently has 90 episodes available.

Preggers Can Be Choosers episodes:

November 19, 2024 Season of the Stick
Hopefully Helping,
Rowan
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6min
November 13, 2024 Birth Story Time with Jiva G
I met my gurl Jiva G at the Bhakti recovery group during the pandemic, so if sobriety, punk, black (and orange) wearing devotees and their friends are your people, you have come to the right place to listen in.
Longer format, 30 mins.
Bhakti Recovery Group https://www.bhaktirecoverygroup.com/

ps Im gonna get a matching lotus flower tattoo underneath my eye.
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29min
August 23, 2024 Are We OK?!!
In this episode, I discuss various topics including my recent birthday, parenting in my fifties, using Riverside to record podcasts, buying softball gloves, a spike in heart rate during pregnancy, the 'gay agenda', the impact of a hurricane, and finding peace in turbulent times.

Links and such
Song: I can DO IT

Show My Work: Services
Pregnant individuals may experience a spike in heart rate around 33-34 weeks.
The 'gay agenda' is a humorous concept explained by Ray on TikTok.
Climate events like hurricanes can have a significant impact on mental well-being.
Finding stillness and relaxation is important for regulating the nervous system.

Wrap-up:
As always, you know you best. Get your learn on from me and other teacher guides and community, and make the best decisions for you.

Hopefully Helping,
Rowan
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10min
May 22, 2024HTX Derecho & Mother's Day Aftermath
Song: ⁠ The architect by Kacey Musgraves yeah yeah I know I already mentioned her but still this is where it’s at.

Local Event of importance

Menopause Monthly group

Womens Personal Finance Group
Hopefully Helping,
Rowan
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11min
March 06, 2024 Dark Energy? Hormones? Hard to Tell Sometimes.
Dark Energy, or Hormones. Hard to Tell Sometimes.

Song: ⁠Deeper Well by Kacey Musgraves. I’ve always liked her a bunch, in fact at one of the lowest points in my life I was sitting in a lawn chair at a dusty music festival with my dog Electra, and she came out on stage and there were like 4 other people in the audience, she was maybe the first band, and she sang “ Woke up on the wrong side of rock bottom,” and my life was forever changed, I had a string, a thread, of someone who could feel where I was at, and had climbed their way back to the other side.

Deeper Well, "Saying goodbye to people who are wasting my time."

Showing my work: Writing-wise, I started loading my presentation into Canva, the Collaborative Pelvic Exam that I’m sharing at ATM conf in May. After I present, I’ll record that onto Vimeo and host on the back page of my website, so if you can’t attend and that topic has punch for you, join my newsletter and that will let you know when it goes live.

What she said: Eleanor shares how much weaning ate her lunch, caused a depressive episode, and what she did about it.

Wrap-up: As always, you know you best. Get your learn on from me and other teacher guides and community, and make the best decisions for you.

Hopefully Helping,
Rowan
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12min
February 20, 2024Fast Car, "It's not about a car."
Song: Fast Car which Tracy remarked, "It's not about a car." which I remember but can't find a citation.

Showing my work: Continued to tweak and work over the Birth Prep Prenatal offering.
What on your mind, fears, what don’t you understand ex newborn medications

Pelvic floor or personal anatomy specifics. Ex do you habitually always cross your legs one way? How has that affected your body balance?
VBAC Assessment (hit this sooner rather than later)

link to book (H-town peeps or virtual)

Ancestor Shrine: I tend to use altar and shrine interchangeably, and while they aren’t exactly the same, for me it’s close enough.
Growing up in El Paso, Ofrendas were a thing, and part of daily life both around 11/2 and all year around
I've been super blessed with many teachers, and those who taught me the most about ancestor work have been
Elena Avila, Woman Who Glows in the Dark, a curandera from my hometown.

My Dutch grandmother Annekae, a professional wise woman.

Afua Hassan,

And FF (in the Ifa tradition.)

I have a couple of altars in my spaces, in my workspace I have invited my grandmother to be with me and guide me. I also realized I had a low-key altar to Afua, and I wanted to snaz it up.
A song that inspired me to dive deeper into understanding domestic violence and my privilege, and somehow connected me to Afua, and wanting to show up for pregnant people who may be low-resourced and in harm's way.

A birth revolution and body autonomy are how I choose to represent, with Mama Afua on my mind.

Wrap-up:
As always, you know you best. Get your learn on from me and other teacher guides and community, and make the best decisions for you.

Hopefully Helping,
Rowan
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13min
February 06, 2024Two Tells: When a Community-Based Birth Isn't Gonna Happen Here
Two Tells: When a Community-Based Birth Isn't Gonna Happen Here

Song: Been Listening to John Mayor's "Sob Rock" on repeat. Who do you think he wrote all those songs about?

Show your work:
This week I added more 411 to my collaborative pelvic exams presentation, focused on the need for safety and consent so that the tissues will be optimally responsive.

Some content was inspired by talking to Ellen Heed, some was inspired by the Spinning Babies Parent Educator training that I hosted in H-Town.
Love Letter is going out this week, opt in here.

Planner updates:
I’ve been using the Laurel Denise and Passion Planner, slowly migrating into the LD as I grieve all the artwork and groovy stickers that went into the Passion Planner. I’ve temporarily moved into a backpack (my sister's Vera Bradly Black quilted with cherry lining, thank you very much.)

My sister, who is an undated planner hater, just caved and bought the mini undated planner that has just been released and will be writing them with her fancy pens, but no stickers lol

From a chat I had with Ellen Heed:
2 “tells” that a baby doesn’t want to be born in a community setting like a birth center or homebirth, that the baby would be better served born in a more medical environment.

Wrap-up:
As always, you know you best. Get your learn on from me and other teacher guides and community, and make the best decisions for you.

Hopefully Helping,
Rowan
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9min
January 30, 2024Pads! And a Planner Update.
Pads and Planner Update!
Song: Who was that, who was thaaaaat? By Deee-lite

Showing My Work: Wrote the outline for the Cervical Scars, Provider Version last week. That content will debut at the ATM conference in May. Register here!

Planner Update: My sister got it! And gave it to me cause she didn't like it! Twyla Tharp and the pencil concept

Let’s Make Reusable Pads! I was talking to my gurl D about making reusable chux pads for our midwifery practices. Head over to the Preggers Can Be Choosers IG account for pics.
cut/pinn 2 t-shirts.

stitch in an X down the middle

serge the sides. I like the punk rock look, but you could do a rolled hem or even fancy a French hem.

Hopefully Helping,
Rowan
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8min
January 23, 2024Planner Problem!? And Magnesium Soaks. Not in that Order.
I can quit at any time!!!

Planners I have loved before:
Moleskine

Danielle la Porte Desire Map

miGoals

Unbound

Passion Planner

Laurel Denise
Y'all, I didn't even mention the writer's planner I have!

Magnesium I mention"
Natural Calm

Magnesium Soak

Flewd

Big Love, stay well.
Rowan
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9min
September 29, 2021 AfterBirth 9/28/21 When Enough is Enough and its TIME TO LEAVE
When Enough is Enough and its TIME TO LEAVE.
Big Bold Trigger Warning
One of our peeps is in a bad scene, so this episode contains domestic violence, alcohol abuse, and in general a feeling of being scared for our girl and her kids. It's enough that Katelin, our current host, asked me (Rowan) to get this up ASAP.
So here you go.
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Links Links Links
Houston Domestic Violence Hotline ~ https://www.domesticshelters.org/help/tx/houston
Alanon ~ https://al-anon.org/al-anon-meetings/electronic-meetings

Call the PSI HelpLine at 1-800-944-4773(4PPD)
Text Support: send a message to their Helpline at 503-894-9453
AfterParty in the FB group~ https://www.facebook.com/groups/PCBCAfterBirth/
Text reminders so you can join us LIVE, Tuesdays at 11 am central right here https://tapit.us/zeep18
All things Preggers at https://preggers.rocks/
Alert ~ Be wary, we are a little sweary. Get your earbuds if you are concerned about tender ears and sensibilities.
#postartumdepression #houston #love #preggerscanbechoosers #thisiswhathealinglookslike #AfterBirth #4thtrimester #postpartumdoula #love #toddler #pandemic #family #biting #xmidwifex #straightedge #midwife #doula #postpartumsupportgroup #bewell #covid #domesticviolence #alanon
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53min

FAQs about Preggers Can Be Choosers:

How many episodes does Preggers Can Be Choosers have?

The podcast currently has 90 episodes available.