The BIRTHFIT Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Lindsey discusses fertility tracking while breastfeeding and 4 things to consider when trying to conceive while breastfeeding. She also shares tips on weaning your little one 12 months or older. Dr. Lindsey also shares her personal thoughts on why someone get their bleed immediately post birth and why others it may take a bit longer. Spoiler- there's no right answer.

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In this episode of the BIRTHFIT Podcast, Lindsey sits down with Alyssa Seeland, founder and CEO of Fond Bone Broth, to explore the intersection of motherhood, nourishment, and entrepreneurship. Alyssa shares the story behind her six natural births and how her personal experiences with pregnancy, healing, and ancestral nutrition ultimately led to the creation of her bone broth company. From delivering babies in a Texas birth center and at home, to navigating the demands of pregnancy while building a national food brand, Alyssa offers a powerful perspective on trusting the body, building resilience, and choosing a path that often runs counter to modern culture.

The conversation also dives into Alyssa's entrepreneurial journey—how a small farmers market product grew into a nationally distributed regenerative bone broth brand, now found on shelves across the country. Along the way, she opens up about the challenges she faced, including regulatory battles, legal disputes with major food companies, and a devastating warehouse fire during her sixth pregnancy. Through it all, Alyssa shares the lessons she's learned about nourishment, movement, chiropractic care, and the importance of surrounding yourself with a supportive community during pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.

This episode is a reminder that whether you're building a family, building a business, or both—strength often comes from the most unexpected seasons.

In This Episode We Cover:

- Alyssa's journey through six natural births and how each experience shaped her perspective on motherhood

- Finding supportive birth environments and making countercultural choices in childbirth - The role of nutrition, movement, and chiropractic care during pregnancy and postpartum

- How ancestral foods—especially bone broth—support healing and recovery

- The origin story of Fond Bone Broth and its growth from farmers markets to national retailers

- Navigating legal challenges, regulatory hurdles, and a warehouse fire during pregnancy - The importance of community, resilience, and trusting your instincts as a mother and entrepreneur

- Encouragement for women choosing a more intentional path through pregnancy, birth, and self-care

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Inside this episode, Dr. Lindsey discusses benefits of exercise during pregnancy. She shares some of the latest research and what moves the needle for labor outcomes, mom's mental health, and long term metabolic health of baby.

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Inside this episode, Dr. Lindsey discusses two of the biggest tools commonly used for measuring labor progress- Station Grading and Friedman's Curve. She breaks down the history and why we should not be using these outdated practices as reasons to intervene in a woman's labor.

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In this episode, Dr. Lindsey shares 10 things that she'd communicate with you if she knew it would NOT hurt your feelings. Spoiler alert- if you know her, she'd probably still share these things with you even if it hurt your feelings because SHE CARES.

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In this episode, we welcome Brigid Tebaldi — a board-certified Health Coach and mentor who helps women uncover the original story their nervous system learned… and rebuild the foundation so their bodies no longer have to protect them at the cost of peace. Brigid's work lives at the intersection of physiology, identity, and faith. She supports women who feel stuck in chronic stress, fatigue, emotional reactivity, and lingering physical symptoms that never seem to resolve.

Through her signature program, Restored by Grace, Brigid guides women to trace present-day patterns back to their roots — often shaped by birth experiences, early responsibility, or long seasons of overwhelm — and gently rewire the body toward safety and stability. Her approach blends nervous system regulation, integrative health principles, and a Christian understanding of the human person, creating space for real healing without force, pressure, or hustle. Brigid is a wife, a mother of five, and a homesteader in Pennsylvania. When she's not working with clients, you'll find her outside with her kids, reading about conspiracy theories, cooking and baking, and listening to as many podcasts as she can.

✨ You'll also hear about Brigid's own podcast, The Discerning Mother Podcast, where she continues conversations around nervous system health, motherhood, and faith-centered healing. Learn more about Brigid and her work:

🔗 Website: www.loretowellness.com

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brigid.tebaldi

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🎧 Free private podcast: https://www.loretowellness.com/free-private-podcast/private-podcast-opt-in

🌿 Restored by Grace: https://www.loretowellness.com/restored-by-grace

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Inside this episode, Dr. Lindsey discusses The BIRTHFIT Postpartum Fitness Triangle. She breaks down the Recovery, Rehab, Rebuilding, and Sport phases inside the triangle.

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Inside this episode, Dr. Lindsey discusses what is DRA (diastasis rectus abdominis) and an opportunity to shift your mindset when it comes to healing. She discusses why depth and functionality matter more than width, and shares the BIRTHFIT 3-prong approach to healing core and pelvic floor dysfunction. Dr. Lindsey also shares why sunlight matters and how healing can be enhanced with tools like red light therapy.

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A big question that keeps coming up in our community is how to get training in when you're exhausted, overwhelmed, and the idea of a 45-60 minute workout feels like a fantasy from your pre-baby life. Here's the good news: research shows you don't need hours at the gym to rebuild your strength and energy—"exercise snacks" are short bouts of physical activity lasting just 30 seconds to 5 minutes that can improve muscle strength by up to 31%, increase endurance, reduce stress, boost mood, and enhance cardiovascular health and brain activity. From breathing snacks to core connection work to walking snacks to strength training snacks these mini-workouts fit into the chaos of motherhood and work around baby's schedule, not against it. Start ridiculously small, piggyback on existing habits, use baby as your workout buddy, embrace the mess, and remember your why—you're evolving into the new, better, more optimal version of yourself AND modeling healthy habits for your little ones.

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Rochester General Hospital in New York just proved what we've known all along: when you remove financial incentives for C-sections, shift to midwife-led care, and give women TIME to labor, outcomes transform—their C-section rate for low-risk, first-time mothers dropped from 40% to 25% between 2019 and 2024, one of the steepest declines reported nationally. They stopped paying physicians more for surgery, trained staff in non-surgical support techniques, allowed evidence-based labor timelines instead of declaring "failure to progress" prematurely, and educated patients on normal labor—proving that when the system aligns with physiology instead of profit, the female body does what it was designed to do. But here's what we need to say out loud: 25% is still higher than it should be, and the missing piece is supporting women from conception forward with the BIRTHFIT 7 Pillars—sun, sleep, strength, nourishment, mindset, community, and spirit—so they show up to labor with regulated nervous systems, unshakable confidence, and bodies primed for physiologic birth. Rochester General didn't change overnight; it took leadership from physicians, midwives, and administrators who said "we can do better," and your community needs that same leadership—not from a hospital or policy change, but from YOU. This is validation for everything the mother-led birth movement has been saying for decades: when leadership aligns with what the female body needs, the system can change—now imagine what happens when every pregnant woman in your community has access to a BIRTHFIT-trained coach or practitioner.

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