Trying to Conceive After a High-Risk Pregnancy
For some, experiencing pregnancy complications can be a traumatic event - even if you deliver a healthy, full-term baby. For others, a...
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Parijat Deshpande
120: Preparing Your Marriage for Baby with Jennifer Lagrotte
The journey to becoming a parent may bring fertility challenges, stress, and fear of the unknown. One aspect of parenthood that we don’t...
When Getting Pregnant Again Feels Scary
Biologically, we are wired to protect our children, and as many fertility patients can understand, that protectiveness can begin even in...
Why Trauma Release is Essential for a Healthy Pregnancy
Whether you are officially diagnosed with PTSD or not, a traumatic experience affects all of us on a physical level. Without adequate...
119: Parenting with Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain with Jen Hardy
It’s another one of “those things” that no one tells you. After a high-risk pregnancy, difficult delivery, or lengthy NICU stay, the...
When Fertility, Pregnancy or Birth Trauma is Misidentified
There is a very different relationship and bond between a woman and the baby she's carrying or a parent and the child they're caring for...
118: Stress and Digestion with Jess Cording
Stress and anxiety can cause digestive issues for many of us, including pregnant women and women going through infertility. Let’s look at...
117: What Women Need to Know About Pelvic Floor Health
We all know that the postpartum period brings challenges in physical recovery, but one issue you may not be aware of is pelvic floor...
Triggers That Activate the Stress Response During Pregnancy
I talk a lot on my podcast, on this blog, in Pregnancy Brain , on social media...and really everywhere I can..about how stress is NOT a...
116: Personal Experience of PPROM
Many acronyms that come along with learning the new language of infertility and high-risk pregnancy. One experience that not many go...
115: How Mindset Affects Fertility
One of the most frustrating aspects of building a family is when it takes a struggle to get pregnant. It’s especially exasperating when...
114: Partner's Role in Decreasing Postpartum Depression
We all know how challenging and traumatic a stay in the NICU can be for new parents, but NICU isn’t the most common postpartum difficulty...
Anxiety About Miscarrying Is Not In Your Head
A while back, an OBGYN reached out to me to ask about resources to cope with miscarriage anxiety during pregnancy. With miscarriage rates...
113: The Health Benefits of Control
The worst advice anyone can give a woman (or couple) going through infertility, fertility treatment or a high-risk pregnancy is, "You...
111: For the Type-A Person
There's a negative connotation placed on being Type-A. While there are more health issues that are tied to being Type-A (especially...
The 3 Body Systems Affected by Stress During Pregnancy
During pregnancy, our bodies change. Specifically, there is a natural shift in 3 major body systems - the endocrine (hormonal) system,...
109: What Every Woman Going Through a High-Risk Pregnancy Needs to Hear
For how much I'm supportive of motivational messages and maintaining hope, there is a downside to messages that we say far too often to...
108: How Stress and the Mind-Body Connection Impact Pregnancy Health
The term "mind-body connection" can mean a variety of things to so many people. Some take it to mean mental health, others take it to...
Getting Pregnant Again After PPROM
Recently I've been getting many questions from women who want to try and conceive again after PPROM (Preterm Premature Rupture of...
106: When Your Body Needs You to Slow Down But You Like to Go Fast
When you're a Type-A, go-getter person who loves to be busy, it hard to accept when your body needs you to go slow. You feel...
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