Life After Childbirth: Recent Episodes
Weslina Maxey
My name is Weslina Maxey, I am a Pelvic Health Occupational Therapist, I specialize in women's health, pelvic floor therapy, and pregnancy/postpartum recovery. My goal is to reach as many women as I can about life after childbirth, as well as pelvic floor function/dysfunction in general. This is not talked about enough and I want to change that. I want to be your resource during your journey before and after childbirth. Check out my website: the-holistic-pelvis.com Don't forget to follow me on instagram @the_holistic_pelvis and tiktok @theholisticpelvis and facebook The Holistic Pelvis
Guest
Lisa Jensen
In this episode we discuss:
- Why it's important to talk about money, to manage our money
- How to manage money with kids, with so many birthdays, Christmas, clothes, etc etc.
- Subscription payments
- "Total Money Makeover" by Dave Ramsey
How to get a hold of Lisa Jensen
Email: smilethrufinance@gmail.com
Facebook: Smiles with Lisa
Instagram: smileswithlisaj
All services on: linktr.ee/smilethrufinance
Virtual or in person work!
Trigger warning Maternal mortality rate discussion in postpartum.
In this episode, I talk about some of my postpartum journey with my son Tedwin, who will be 7 in January 2024.
I talk about the struggles I had.
I talk about how in our postpartum journeys women should be supported more care more educated.
My dreams of postpartum care
In this episode we discuss:
How is your quality of life?
What do you do that YOU enjoy?
What keeps you sane?
I challenge you today.... try something new, find something you enjoy, restart a project, do a puzzle, improve your quality of life.
In this episode we discuss:
- BREATHING.
- Why its important, and why did we stop talking about it?!
- Book mentioned: "Breath" The new science of a lost art" by James Nestor!
- It will change the way you breathe.
- How to connect to your pelvic floor via breath.
- How does breath benefit us
In this episode we discuss...
- Entrepreneurship
- Can you do it?
- How do you do it?
- Momtrepreneurship*
- Do it Scared
- Be brave, not perfect - Kaija Caraway (she was in the last episode as a guest!)
- Lindsey Vestal is a Pelvic Health Occupational Therapist- Facebook group is "OTs for Pelvic Health"
Email me if you'd like to be a guest!
lifeafterchildbirth2022@gmail.com
Thank you!
In this episode, I introduce my guest Kaija Caraway!
Trigger Warning for my listeners:
MC story
Resources mentioned and where to find Kaija:
- Caren Truske - Vibrational Sound Healing ( https://carentruske.com/ )
- iamkaijadawn - Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/iamkaijadawn/https://www.instagram.com/iamkaijadawn/ )
- Kaija Caraway - Facebook
- Womens awakening community - Private Facebook Community ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/1571100759736138 )
- Link Tree Site - Link tree ( https://linktr.ee/kaijacaraway )
In this episode we discuss:
- How do you decide what to do? What to put your child in to keep them active but not overwhelm them.
- Soccer
- Golf
- Piano
- Choir
- Baseball
There are so many things you can choose, so many decisions to make. How do you know if you're making the right one?
In this episode we discuss:
- Action
- Goals
- What to do with those goals
- How to make them realistic
- How to reach those goals
- the Stars vs the moon?
- Reverse Engineering it
- DO IT SCARED - MY MOTTO.
In this episode we discuss:
- How to prepare for labor
- What questions to ask
- What should/should not happen
- How to have an empowered birth
- How does labor feel
- What does your pelvic floor have to do with labor
- How does your breath correlate with labor
- What positions are ideal for labor
- How does it feel to push the placenta out after baby
- Education for pregnancy and labor are soooo important.
- We don't know what we don't know. So start asking questions, start educating yourself, see a pelvic floor therapist during labor.
In this episode we discuss:
- What does talk therapy consist of?
- Do you lay on a couch and look at the ceiling while you talk?
- Are you there for them to tell you what to do with your life?
- How can it benefit you?
- Do you even have to talk?
- What tools do you need for YOU?
- How can talk therapy help you? your kids? your life? your relationship with family friends, and significant others?
- Talking out loud vs in your head.
In this episode we discuss:
- How can pelvic floor therapy benefit YOU
- How can pelvic floor awareness change your daily life?
- What happens when you do what you do
- PELVIC FLOOR THERAPY can be soooooo beneficial.
What is Work Life Balance?
How do you succeed in having work life balance?
How do we find Occupational Balance? Balance in all the activities we do throughout our day.
Do we have to be superwoman?
What do women need to succeed in finding work life balance?
Parenting is fn hard.
Book mentioned in this episode: Atomic Habits by James Clear
In this episode we discuss..
- How many holes are down there?
- What is that?
- What is the function of the clitoris?
- Where are the holes down there?
- What tissues are down there?
- Be curious about your body.
In this episode we discuss:
- Toddlers
- How they learn
- Are they just being mean?
- Is terrible 2 or 3's a thing?
- Are boys any different than girls?
- Is the 2nd kid harder than the first?
- How do you handle a long day?
- Kids are human
- Kids need emotional regulation and to learn about emotions by feeling these emotions!
- Are toddlers aliens?
In this episode we discuss:
- Some on what does a pelvic floor evaluation look like, the treatment look like, what can it entail
- 360 breathing
- How can you help pain with sex
- Patterns
- PR MATT course - (Pelvic Rehab Manual Assessment & Treatment Techniques with Laura Rowan
- Restore Your Core course with Lauren Ohayon
Intimate Rose discount: http://www.intimaterose.com/WESLINA
In this episode we discuss:
- Connecting to our bodies during pregnancy,
- Connecting to our bodies after childbirth
- Should you care? Should you ignore it?
- What is mindfulness?
- How to talk to your significant other about touch and intimacy
- First workshops of October in Durant, OK!!!
- Oct 20th 9:30-10:30 am and Oct 25th 6:00-7:00pm
at NIKOs downtown in Durant.
Book on my website lifeafterchildbirth.com
In this episode we discuss:
- Boundaries
- What are boundaries
- Do you have them?
- Do you need them?
- When to use boundaries?
- Who do you or can you have boundaries with?
- Talk to me1
- Let me know if you have boundaries, how long did it take you to use them? Anything you would have added to the episode? I love to hear from you!
In this episode we discuss:
- What does being productive after childbirth look like?
- What is a good mom?
- Do you have a 'tag out" or "time out" code word with your partner?
- Never ending laundry... where does it come from?
- Habits
- What is habit stacking?
- Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear
Thank you for listening
In this episode we discuss:
How does your practitioner enter room?
How do they leave the room?
Is this okay?
Does consent matter when it's a practitioner? spoil alert YES.
Does the way they explain things need to make sense to you?
Does your practitioner make eye contact?
Do they sit down in the room with you?
What is pain?
https://www.iasp-pain.org/publications/iasp-news/iasp-announces-revised-definition-of-pain/#:~:text=IASP%202022%20General%20Election%20Results&text=The%20definition%20is%3A%20%E2%80%9CAn%20unpleasant,pain%20for%20further%20valuable%20context.
TRIGGER WARNING:
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In this episode we discuss:
Pregnancy Trauma
Miscarriage
Family death
Mental Health aspect of pregnancy
What Pregnancy means to you.
Is every pregnancy different?
Is pregnancy a happy glowing time?
Is it the worst thing?
Is our body naturally made for this?
For the birds or is it magical?
Everyone's pregnancy is different.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE no matter how you feel!!
However you feel is VALID!
Research, educate yourself when pregnant.
The need for more resources.
Advocacy!!!
Guest speakers:
August Coxsey
Miranda Harris
Anonymous
Montana Dill
Brooklyn Johnson
Thank you so much for sharing a bit of your story. I appreciate your vulnerability.
I love you all.
In this episode we discuss:
How your partner can help in every stage of childbirth
PPA
What is valid and what is not
Paternal Postpartum
Finding a new normal
Communication!
How exciting! 5 episodes already, I felt like this topic was fitting to celebrate FIVE!
In this episode we discuss:
What is Occupational Therapy, what are occupations?
What does it mean to have occupational balance?
What is the Pelvic Floor and what does it do?
Pelvic Floor Occupational Therapy
Is pelvic floor therapy just kegels? (spoiler alert: NO)
What does it all help with?
Common diagnosis
Support during postpartum
Standard care
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/parenting/pregnancy/pelvic-floor-therapy.html
https://www.hjphysicaltherapy.com/the-new-standard-of-postpartum-care/
In this episode we discuss:
What does maternity leave look like in the US?
What does it look like in other countries?
How can maternity leave benefit a family?
How is a woman's mental health affected by maternity leave or the lack thereof?
What is childcare?
How do you get childcare?
Is it worth paying for childcare costs vs just staying home?
How do we change this?
Links to the information discussed in this episode:
https://www.lifeinnorway.net/parental-leave/
https://www.slice.ca/how-does-maternity-leave-work-in-canada/
http://japan-payroll.com/japan-maternity-leave/
https://japanconsult.com/japan-maternity-leave/ https://n26.com/en-fr/blog/maternity-leave
https://www.globalpeoplestrategist.com/4-countries-with-the-best-parental-leave-laws/
In this episode we discuss:
What is breastfeeding?
What is exclusively pumping?
What is formula fed?
How does this affect others?
What are weaning hormones?
What feeding your baby looks like.
Have you ever thought about the position you sit in when feeding your baby?
Pumping at work
Baby Led Weaning
Safety while feeding your baby
In this episode we discuss:
What is postpartum depression (PPD), postpartum anxiety (PPA), and intrusive thoughts.
What these can look like.
How can these affect you?
What you can do about this.
Late onset Postpartum Depression.
What is a breaking point?
What can that look like?
Here are the links from the data that I mention during this episode:
https://www.thewomenshealthot.com/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3039003/
Let's discuss the postpartum period.
In this episode I'll talk about the postpartum period, and how long is it, when does it end?
What is Life After Childbirth?
What does it look like?
Is it what we think?
Do you have pelvic floor dysfunction?
Do you need pelvic floor Occupational Therapy?
What is Occupational Therapy and how can I help you antepartum and postpartum?
How many appointments do we receive postpartum?
Can postpartum care be better?
Do we even receive postpartum care?
Education on postpartum care.
Each episode we'll dive deeper into LIFE AFTER CHILDBIRTH with an occupational therapist.