On today’s episode, Megan and Katie discuss something juicy…sex around pregnancy. While Katie gets tons of questions about sex during pregnancy, Megan lends her experience as a pelvic floor physical therapist to the postpartum sex discussion. Katie delves into the importance of experiencing intimacy with your partner during pregnancy and how that can look different for different people. Megan gives us a crash course on pelvic floor physical therapy and the roll relaxed pelvic floor muscles play in birth and postpartum. Megan and Katie DO NOT shy away from this delicate conversation! Tune in to learn!

Welcome to the show!

TOPICS INCLUDE:

-expanding the conversation

-different types of intimacy

-education around the anatomy of pregnancy

-the problem with kegels

-relaxing the pelvic floor

TIME STAMPS:

1:00 introduction

2:59 sex in pregnancy

7:28 pelvic PT 101

11:23 RELAX

19:01 connecting to your body

21:43 trauma-informed care

23:37 random question

RESOURCES:

Why we can stop calling them Kegal’s

Ora RIng

Etsy

Homunculus 

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Katie Hope, CD(DONA), LCCE
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