Episode 7: Processing Your Birth Story with Dr. Alyssa Berlin, Perinatal Psychologist.

In this episode, we chat with Dr. Berlin, a perinatal psychologist, on how we can begin to approach processing our birth story if it was not the positive experience we had been preparing for.

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Episode 6: Gina's Second Birth Story: The Birth of Eoghan 

In this episode, Gina shares her second birth story, a home birth story during the COVID pandemic!  Gina was originally planning to give birth in a military hospital, but after the pandemic stopped all her in-person prenatal care (only virtual was offered until 36 weeks), she and her husband switched to home birth with a midwife.  

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Episode 5: Pelvic Pain: Overcoming Pelvic Pain During Pregnancy.  You do NOT need to be in pain during pregnancy!  There is a common misconception that pelvic pain is something that needs to be suffered through during pregnancy, and the only solution is birth.  This is NOT true!!  There is a LOT we can do to overcome pelvic pain during pregnancy.

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Episode 4: Roxanne's First Birth Story!  Roxanne's first birth was an unmedicated birth in a military hospital.  MamasteFit had supported her first pregnancy, and we had learned so much since Gina's birth that we were able to support a much more positive experience for Roxanne.  Roxanne shares her positive birth story and what contributed to her positive experience.

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Physically preparing for birth is more than just doing a lot of squats and prenatal yoga.  Learn how incorporating internal rotation into your prenatal workouts may be more beneficial for labor prep and preventing labor stalls!

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This podcast is sponsored by Needed, a nutrition company focused on optimal nourishment for your perinatal journey.  Use code MAMASTEPOD for 20% off your first order or three months of subscription.  

And we are sponsored by Crossover Symmetry, World class training and equipment for pain, fitness & performance.  Use code MAMASTEFIT for 20% off your equipment package.

Join Gina and Roxanne as Gina describes her first birth - an experience that left her feeling confused, defeated, and traumatized. Though she was grateful at the end of it all to meet her first, happy, healthy baby, this experience ultimately gave birth in its own way to what would become the perinatal fitness/birth education company that is MamasteFit!

Trigger Warning: If you are still processing your own birth trauma, this episode may or may not be for you yet (despite a relatively happy ending)!

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Read the blog post on Adeline’s birth story: https://mamastefit.com/adelines-birth-story-the-birth-of-mamastefit/

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Welcome to The MamasteFit Podcast!

Join Gina (perinatal fitness trainer and birth doula), and her sister, Roxanne (labor & delivery nurse and student midwife), as they discuss topics that will empower you on your prenatal fitness, birth, and postpartum journeys. In today's episode, we will also introduce Casey Backus, physical therapist/yoga instructor and C-section mom (x2), who was there for the very start of this journey and has been a major part of how MamasteFit came to be!

Listen to learn about how MamasteFit started in SPARTC, a local personal training gym, in the early days of developing our current pre/postnatal fitness programs.  Follow as we share how we expanded to our own brick-and-mortar location, and the challenges involved in offering services to a niche population.  Learn how Gina started to offer birth support, and how Roxanne and Gina navigated owning a business during a global pandemic.

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This podcast is sponsored by Needed, a nutrition company focused on optimal nourishment for your perinatal journey.  Use code MAMASTEPOD for 20% off your first order or three months of subscription.