In today’s replay of Episode 224, Anita goes over partner roles and responsibilities, as well as tips to prepare yourself and your partner for birth - including ways your partner can support you in order for you to stay present during the process.

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Show Notes

0:55 - Anita's Bump to Birth Course (self study)

2:50 - Intro to today's replay

3:19 - What today’s episode is all about

6:44 - Tip #1 (How your partner can support you during birth): Make sure you stay hydrated during labour

7:43 - Tip #2: Remind you to pee every 1-2 hours

8:26 - Tip #3: Remind you to change positions

10:12 - Tip #4: Understand “induction”

10:31 - Tip #5: Know birthing positions (for medicated AND unmedicated)

12:49 - Tip #6: Know ways to help minimize tearing

13:08 - Tip #7: Know interventions

13:40 - Tip #8: Does your partner know your birth preferences?

15:55 - Tip #9: How can your partner advocate for you during birth?

17:05 - Wrap up (why this is all so important)

In today’s replay of episode 197, Anita breaks down the all-important mental prep for labor and birth into 4 easy to follow steps!!

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Anita’s Bump to Birth Course (self study)

Show Notes:

0:55 - Anita's Bump to Birth Course (self study)

2:50 - Intro to today's replay

3:18 - What I will be talking about today

4:16 - Step #1: Get an idea of the environment you will be birthing in

7:24 - Step #2: Finding strategies that are going to help you stay in the zone and focused through a distraction or surge, so your body and brain aren’t getting ahead of you

15:22 - Step #3: Listen to a variety of birth stories

17:27 - Step #4: Gain knowledge around labor and birth beforehand

20:51 - What my Bump to Birth Program is all about

21:39 - Wrap up

In today’s episode, Jessie talks through how she handles body discomfort - especially when she is committed to the knowing that her body is not the problem - while staying away from restriction…and how you might, too!

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Show Notes

0:57 - Jessie’s 50% off birthday sale is LIVE NOW!

3:57 - What we are talking about today!

6:38 - First: something we must normalize!

8:25 - Reminder #1: The discomfort is not a call for urgency to change my body

10:12 - Reminder #2: Sit with the growth and discomfort of those feelings (I acknowledge and name it)

11:42 - Reminder #3: I continually remind myself what I want for myself, how I want to feel long term in my body

14:24 - Reminder #4: I do what I can to take care of myself and to increase my feelings of comfort

16:38 - Quick rundown of the 4 reminders and wrap up!

In today’s episode, Anita talks with L&D Nurse, Trish Ware, about her position as an L&D nurse, as well as how to have the most empowering hospital birth possible!

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Show Notes

0:55 - Anita’s Bump to Birth Method (self study)

2:50 - Who I am talking with today!

4:00 - What got Trish into L&D?

8:50 - How many patients is an L&D nurse working with at once?

10:02 - Is an L&D nurse there for an OB/GP or midwife?

11:53 - Birth preferences and plans

19:30 - Why your birthing partner needs to know your preferences and plans (and bringing them up early with everyone involved)

23:40 - Trish explains her passion for patient/student/client ability to choose to leave a practice

25:17 - What are all the different tasks an L&D nurse is doing during the entirety of labor and delivery?

29:32 - Does Trish feel like L&D nurses are as handson as she would like to be?

32:27 - What difference does a prepared partner bring to the experience?

36:52 - Informed conset and informed refusal

42:34 - Have a question? Just ask!

47:27 - Pushing

53:02 - What does “hospital policy” mean?

55:46 - How can people connect with Trish?

In today’s episode, Jessie discusses simple and best practices to work out with kids around. Jessie has been using these tips to create a consistent, regular exercise routine in her life for 7 years.

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Show Notes

1:01 - What we are talking about today!

5:14 - Tip #1: Approach every workout with the mindset that you are going to be interrupted

6:21 - Tip #2: Break up the workout

7:42 - Tip #3: Do not change your clothes to exercise

8:19 - Tip #4: Exercise equipment stays out in plain view

9:15 - Tip #5: Snacks and screens

10:04 - Tip #6: Reset the boundaries with your toddlers or older kids again and again

11:27 - Tip #7: Get super realistic about your expectations for yourself (for the life you are living right now - what is ACTUALLY possible?)

12:48 - Tip #8: Know that the first few months of starting an exercise plan/program is sa learning curve…

14:58 - Tip #9: Practice working out when it is inconvenient

16:34 - Tip #10: If you are able, ask for more support…

18:03 - Rundown and Wrap

In today’s episode, Jessie and Anita discuss what pregnant people can do for their core while they are pregnant - and think about core exercises differently.

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Resources and References

Show Notes

1:04 - Bump to Birth self study is available to purchase TODAY!

2:53 - What we are talking about today!

3:30 - Consideration #1: Connecting to your core in different ways is key

7:30 - Consideration #2: Traditional core exercises - crunches and sit ups - get awkward in pregnancy

14:04 - Consideration #3: It’s not all about strengthening your core

16:50 - Wrap up

In today’s episode, Jessie and Anita discuss ways to use exercise as a tool to help you along in your life during these times when things feel so painfully hard.

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Show Notes

1:04 - What we are talking about today

3:06 - #1: Exercise can force me to feel things in my body when I am feeling really numb to things

5:29 - #2: It forces me to breathe in deeper and different ways

7:04 - #3: It can help to reconnect me to a sense of power and purpose - within myself, within my body, within my life

9:00 - #4: It can really help with the aches and pains that come with stress

11:07 - #5: Completing the stress cycle

13:00 - Wrap up

In today’s bonus episode, Jessie gives you a peek into her “Ready, Get Set” program with a guided test run - complete with warm up and cool down!

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Ready, Get Set Program - ON SALE UNTIL THURSDAY, MAY 26th 2022 @ 11:59PM PST

Time Stamps:

1:00 - Intro to this bonus episode!

1:00 - ANNOUNCING: “Ready, Get Set” program is open for enrollment (postpartum running plan)

3:39 - Jessie coaches you through a running workout!

15:37 - Wrap up!

In today’s episode, Anita realized that we often give you suggested on things to help pelvic floor symptoms. But - before that - let’s talk about what you can STOP doing to help your pelvic floor symptoms!

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Show Notes

1:00 - Introduction to the subject

1:43 - Review of the picture of the pelvic floor muscles

3:16 - The pelvic floor doesn’t work in isolation - time to picture the pelvic floor canister!

3:59 - Habit to check in with #1: Are you constantly sucking in?

7:02 - Habit to check in with #2: Do you constantly clench your bum?

8:50 - Habit to check in with #3: Being too focused on your pelvic floor

11:26 - One thing TO do: If you can, please take some breaks throughout the day to do some deep breathing

13:40 - Review and wrap up!

In today’s episode, Jessie talks with Dr. Jillian Murphy about realizing and untangling your relationship with exercise from a damaging place to positive, healthy, flexible, and rooted in care for self.

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Resources and References

Show Notes

0:55 - Enrolment is now OPEN for To Pregnancy and Beyond!

3:26 - Intro to the episode

5:36 - How Jessie progressed into the perspective of fitness coaching she is in now

8:31 - What has it felt like for Jessie to step out of the more conventional fitness world?

10:37 - What’s Jessie’s philosophy and strategy when it comes to shifting the perspective on why we move our bodies?

15:30 - Jessie discusses ways to get through the initial resistance to get back to movement

17:30 - The way in which Jessie approaches exercise now

21:40 - Wrap up!