By Paulette Kamenecka
Creating a family is a life transforming event that’s a lot harder than the culturally-generated marketing suggests.
Relying on the glossy media depictions of this transition leaves ma
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In today's episode my guest, who is a therapist, shares her experiences of four births and all the many things she learned things like holding lightly to the birth plan as she's moved from the birth center to a hospital when her cervix is reluctant to fully dilate, holding lightly the plan to return to work three months after delivery when postpartum
Today I finish my conversation with Kristen.
This week we hear about:
* two challenging miscarriages
* drugs for miscarriage versus D and C procedure
* Insights on how to think about the miscarriages
* Her current pregnancy
We pick up where we left off. Kristen is talking about getting pregnant a 4th time, around 9 months after the last birth, and how this time things don't go well...
Must Watch video with Elizabeth Banks from the American Heart Association
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JI487DlgTA
References for Oocyte Aging
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-many-eggs-does-a-woman-have#puberty
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10080932/
Today we hear from a woman whose experience ran the gamut from infertility, on the brink of IVF, to smooth pregnancies, quick births, and difficult miscarriages.
Throughout this process she learns:
* important lessons about the limits of her control over the complicated process of growing another human
* the joys of outrunning medical predictions that pregnancy would be very hard to achieve.
What follows is the first part of our conversation.
Link about inductions
https://evidencebasedbirth.com/evidence-on-inducing-labor-for-going-past-your-due-date/
This week I finish my conversation with Darla.
She has another uneventful pregnancy, that ends in a bang--
* An unintended home birth
*Significant challenges when-- in the early thick of Covid-- Darla has to jump through hospital hoops shortly after delivering a baby.
We pick up where we left off last week. Darla reflects on her first birth with appreciation, and is gearing up for the next birth, in a different setting.
More on recurrence of retained placenta
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767058.2019.1688294
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijgo.14800
To find more about Darla:
Website:
howtoaffordeverything.com
Socials:
instagram.com/my_finansis
youtube.com/@my_finansis
Today we hear from a mother of two who has a degree in public health and was trained as a doula before her first pregnancy.
She didn't expect her water to break the way it did
She didn't expect a retained placenta or the hemorrhage that followed
and thanks to both her resilience, and the skillful work of her doula, that experience was followed by a second pregnancy and birth.
She also shares great tips about managing the chaos of postpartum with a whiteboard
What follows is the first part of our conversation
Doula care is currently covered by insurance in 21 states:
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/challenges-and-strategies-in-expanding-non-traditional-pregnancy-related-services-findings-from-a-survey-of-state-medicaid-programs/#:~:text=Endnotes,reimbursed%20through%20a%20bundled%20payment).
To find more from Darla:
Website:
howtoaffordeverything.com
Socials:
instagram.com/my_finansis
youtube.com/@my_finansis
In today's episode I finish my conversation with Jennifer, the Doula in Reno
She shares how she managed all the complications of her daughter's tenuous condition:
* Born with RDS, a lung condition that has a high mortality rate
* How lessons learned from that experience shaped her willingness to go on to foster babies who came into the world with other compromising circumstances
and
*How her experience in the hospital that first time led her into birth work.
We pick up where we left off last episode. Jennifer is in the hospital after birth waiting to hear about the fate or her fragile newborn.
Today my guest, a DOULA and birth worker, talks about her challenging experience with INFERTILITY:
* All the minor surgeries
* How hard it was to manage at the age of 19 more or less alone
*How challenging it was to go through a regrettably similar process with her grown daughter
and how she managed the twists and turns of both the pregnancy and the birth, which included HYALINE MEMBRANE DISEASE (aka RDS) and a PDA.
Unequal Investment in Women's Health: Nature, 2023
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-01475-2/index.html
PDA: Patent Ductus Arteriosis
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/patent-ductus-arteriosus-pda
Connect with Jennifer:https://doulainreno.com/
In today's episode I finish my conversation with Kim about her experience, both having kids and becoming a sleep coach.
NOTE: I should mention upfront that we talk about a full term still birth and how Kim managed that very challenging experience.
She also shares WHAT MAKES BED SHARING SAFE OR UNSAFE (generally speaking)
and gives TIPS about what's generally considered NORMAL FOR INFANT SLEEP and WHY WE SEE DISRUPTIONS IN SLEEP even after things have been going well!
We pick up where we left off last week. Kim is talking about the benefits of starting to understand what cultural anthropologists and others define as normal sleep patterns for infants.
AAP Guidelines
https://safesleep.mo.gov/american-academy-of-pediatrics-recommendations/#:~:text=Infants%20should%20be%20placed%20in,position%20as%20soon%20as%20possible
Academic work that contest elements of the AAP Guidelines
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/153/4/e2023064675/196919/The-Tension-Between-AAP-Safe-Sleep-Guidelines-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Connect with Kim
Website: https://intuitiveparentingdc.com/
The Responsive Family Sleep Podcast: https://intuitiveparentingdc.com/podcast
https://www.instagram.com/intuitive_parenting_dc/
https://www.facebook.com/intuitiveparentingdc
In today's episode I speak with a woman who worked in the field of mother and infant health before she became pregnant.
She shares the challenges she encountered in her birth--going from a planned birth center birth to a C section, what she might have done differently in that process,
and how she managed that challenge.
She also shares what led her to become a holistic sleep consultant, a story continued into the next episode.
You can find Kim here: https://intuitiveparentingdc.com/
The Responsive Family Sleep Podcast: https://intuitiveparentingdc.com/podcast
https://www.instagram.com/intuitive_parenting_dc/
https://www.facebook.com/intuitiveparentingdc
And some references for infant sleep:
Dr. James McKenna’s work and Baby Sleep Info Source, a wonderful website out of the UK: https://www.basisonline.org.uk/
Kim's blogpost on infant sleep:
https://intuitiveparentingdc.com/blog/2018/7/6/developmentally-appropriate-sleep-expectations-birth-to-age-5
In today's episode I finish my conversation with Shri.
She shares her experience of birth, and the things that made postpartum a challenge--in particular Covid and the isolation it involved
She shares the ayurvedic approach to both the preconception period, and to postpartum to help restore balance in the body
including topics on:
movement
stress management
food/herbs in the postpartum
We pick up where we left off last week, with lessons Shri learned from her experience of a stroke before she got pregnant.
To find More from Shri:
you can check out her website: https://vivabyshri.cohere.live/about
Her Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/vivabyshri/
and her Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554924608066
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