Delivering Strength Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Delivering Strength is more than just a podcast. It’s a part of a bigger movement to empower women and their families to seek out the information necessary to have an informed birth. Podcast episodes interview experts and explore resources available in a variety of areas that are important to a woman’s overall health.
The podcast is led by Candace Gesicki, DC – a chiropractor, doula, new mom and BIRTHFIT Cleveland Regional Director, as well as Anna Marie Murphy – a curious and self-empowered new mom with experience in uncovering difficult answers through her pregnancy and overall health journey. Together, they dive into pregnancy, birth and postpartum health at both a scientific and everyday level to Deliver Strength to families and provide them with the resources they need to be their own biggest advocates in their health journey.
This week Candace sat down with local doula, childbirth educator, certified lactation counselor, and mother, Angel Coleman to talk about common newborn procedures. They talk about:
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Delayed cord clamping
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APGAR score
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Birthing the placenta
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Newborn eye drops
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Vitamin K shot
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Newborn Metabolic Screening
Thank you to Majka for coming on to support the podcast! Use CANDACE10 for 10% off at www.lovemajka.com
www.clechiropractic.com
https://www.fruitofthewombirth.com
This week Candace sits down with local mother, artist, and breastfeeding educator, Madison Hendry, to talk about skin to skin contact.
Thank you Majka for supporting the podcast and giving our listeners a discount! Visit www.lovemajka.com and use CANDACE10 for 10% off!
Find Madison: mamabirdhendry.com, @mamabirdhendry
Find Candace: @clechiropractic @mothers_den_cleveland @deliveringstrength
www.clechiropractic.com
www.drcandacegesicki.com
This week Candace sits down with local doula, Jarriel Campbell, to talk about what a doula is.
They cover:
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Cost
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Doula vs. Midwife
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Doulas and Partners
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Doula Training
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& More!
Thank you Majka for supporting the podcast and giving our listeners a discount! Visit www.lovemajka.com and use CANDACE10 for 10% off!
Find Jarriel: Call Your Doula Podcast, @callyourdoula
Find Candace: @clechiropractic @mothers_den_cleveland @deliveringstrength
www.clechiropractic.com
www.drcandacegesicki.com
This week Candace chats with Roza who shares an empowering homebirth story! Roza's first birth was in a hospital. She decided to have her second baby at home.
Topics: hospital birth, homebirth
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Today’s episode is another VBAC story! Aubrey Phelps is no stranger to the Delivering Strength Podcast! Today she shares the story of her daughters birth: a VBA2C and birth after birth trauma.
Healthy Pregnancy Online: http://www.drcandacegesicki.com/online-courses. Use “DELIVERINGSTRENGTH” to get your first month for $7.
April is Cesarean Awareness Month and I am excited to share another VBAC story. If you are looking for other VBAC stories check out Episode 19: Jaimie’s VBA3C, Episode 26 Kimberley’s twin VBAC at 40 weeks + 5 days, and my homebirth after cesarean, Episode 45. I want listeners to know that I have a blog post that contains a free download of my 10 tips for preparing for a VBAC and includes all things I found beneficial for my own. You can find the post at drcandacegesicki.com/blog/vbac
Today’s episode is a bonus episode! With all of the uncertainty being in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic leaves us with, Candace and Emma Whitlock talks about giving birth during COVID-19.
Healthy Pregnancy Online: http://www.drcandacegesicki.com/online-courses. Use “DELIVERINGSTRENGTH” to get your first month for $7.
Today’s episode is a bonus episode! With all of the uncertainty being in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic leaves us with, Candace and Rachel Bowers sit down to talk about coping during this time of known.
Find Rachel:
@resilientmamas
https://www.wollemicounseling.com/
Find Candace:
@mothers_den_cleveland
@clechiropractic
www.drcandacegesicki.com/online-courses
This week Candace sat down with friend and local breastfeeding educator, Madison “Mamabird” Hendry about pregnancy after premature birth.
Mentioned in the episode:
- Madison's NICU Family Scholarship
- DS024 A Micro Preemie Birth & NICU Survival Story
- Full Circle
- Project Preemie
- Jess Madden
- Ann Witt
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www.lovemajka.com 10% off with 'CANDACE10'
This week Candace and her husband sit down to share Rhys's birth story: a homebirth after cesarean (HBAC).
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Follow Candace: @mothers_den_cleveland + @clechiropractic
http://www.drcandacegesicki.com/online-courses
In this episode, Candace talks with Kari Craig, DPT about all things postpartum pelvic health. They cover topics such as tearing, incontinence, kegels, prolapse, and more!
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Follow Kari on IG: @KARepelvicPT
Follow Candace on IG: @mothers_den_cleveland , @clechiropractic
Candace's Healthy Pregnancy Online Program: http://www.drcandacegesicki.com/online-courses
www.deliveringstrength.com
This week Candace sat down with friend and local maternity and newborn photographer, Amanda Ellis, to hear Amanda's personal experience with an external cephalic version (ECV).
Link to Candace's Healthy Pregnancy Online Course: http://www.drcandacegesicki.com/online-courses.
View full show notes on www.deliveringstrength.com .
This week Candace talks solo about avoiding malposition and “flipping breech babies”. She covers topics and resources such as chiropractic, acupuncture, Spinning Babies, Miles Circuit, and External Cephalic Version. Disclaimer: these topics and techniques are not actually flipping breech babies, but encouraging babies to achieve ideal positioning in utero.
Link to Candace's Healthy Pregnancy Online Course: http://www.drcandacegesicki.com/online-courses.
To learn more about Candace's Healthy Pregnancy Online Program visit: www.drcandacegesicki.com/online-courses.
Candace and Pam discuss topics such as:
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Midwifery Model of Care vs. Obstetrics
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Types of midwives
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Switching care providers during pregnancy
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Midwives + high risk pregnancy
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Postpartum care with a CNM
Find the show notes at www.deliveringstrength.com
This week Candace sat down with friend and colleague Dr. Jennifer Mercier. Dr. Mercier created Mercier Therapy out of her own need for the therapy with a Stage 4 Endometriosis diagnosis. Jennifer has trained hundreds of practitioners in the technique to support women with primary and secondary infertility, endometriosis, pelvic pain, diminished ovarian reserve, advanced age, PCOS, scar tissue, and fibroids. Candace completed the Mercier Therapy and Shared Journey Fertility Program trainings in the spring of 2019 with Jennifer Mercier.
If you are in the Cleveland area, connect with Candace at her chiropractic practice: www.clechiropractic.com or www.mothersdencleveland.com for prenatal and postpartum fitness classes and resources.
Connect with Dr. Candace online at www.drcandacegesicki.com
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@deliveringstrength @motherdencleveland @clechiropractic on Instagram!
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Follow and subscribe!
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This week Candace sat down with friend and colleague, Lauren Keller, DC, DABCA, to chat about acupuncture and how it supports fertility. Lauren is the owner of Elemental Chiropractic, LLC in Addison, IL. Her goal is to help women optimize their pregnancy and postpartum time period so they are able to enjoy and embrace the experience.
View full show notes on our website: www.deliveringstrength.com
In episode 38, Candace interviews Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, Brittany Anderson to discuss how thyroid health can affect fertility and preconception lab testing.
I am so excited that BIOHM has come on to support the Delivering Strength Podcast and bring our listeners a great deal! This Cleveland based company combines good bacteria, good fungi, and digestive enzymes to help maintain the balance of bacteria AND fungi in your gut, while breaking down digestive plaque! My personal favorite product is their BIOHM Super Greens. They’re packed with 31 organic fruits and veggies, herbal extracts, probiotics, prebiotics, and digestive enzymes. It’s sweetened with Monk Fruit so tastes delicious. They also share tons of recipes on their blog we’ve been trying out at home. Be sure to use the code DELIVERINGSTRENGTH to get 10% off your order!
You can find the show notes on our website at: www.deliveringstrength.com
In episode 37, Candace interviews local mother and Registered Dietician, Aubrey Phelps, to talk about nutrition and how it is important when it comes to fertility. She covers an overview of what eating to optimize fertility looks like, the difference between working with a Registered Dietician and a nutritionist, keto and fertility, fertility superfoods, and much much more!
I am so excited that BIOHM has come on to support the Delivering Strength Podcast and bring our listeners a great deal! This Cleveland based company combines good bacteria, good fungi, and digestive enzymes to help maintain the balance of bacteria AND fungi in your gut, while breaking down digestive plaque! My personal favorite product is their BIOHM Super Greens. They’re packed with 31 organic fruits and veggies, herbal extracts, probiotics, prebiotics, and digestive enzymes. It’s sweetened with Monk Fruit so tastes delicious. They also share tons of recipes on their blog we’ve been trying out at home. Be sure to use the code DELIVERINGSTRENGTH to get 10% off your order!
You can find the show notes on our website at: www.deliveringstrength.com
This week Candace sits down to fill listeners in on what she and Anna have been up to and where the podcast is headed! Visit www.deliveringstrength.com for show notes!
In episode 35, we interview local mother and natruopath, Jerrica Sweetnich, to talk about hormones during pregnancy and postpartum. She covers topics such as hormones and breastfeeding, keto and ovulation, hormone and micronutrient testing, heavy periods postpartum, and more!
You can find the show notes on our website at https://deliveringstrength.com
In episode 34, we interview local mother and psychotherapist, Rachel Bowers, to talk about the transition into motherhood and how it impacts our mental health. She covers an overview of perinatal mood disorders (prenatal and postpartum depression, OCD, prenatal and postpartum anxiety, and postpartum psychosis), signs to look for, and where you can get help.
We also discuss things like:
- How to find a provider
- Perinatal mood disorders
- The difference between psychiatry, psychology, and social work
- Paternal depression and partner depression
You can find the show notes with links to Rachel’s support groups and website on our website at: www.deliveringstrength.com
In this episode, we sat down with local breastfeeding educator Madison Hendry. Madison is a mama of two with one on the way, a visual artist, and owner of Mama Bird through which she provides in-home certified breastfeeding education and services.
Curious about what Birthfit has to say about exercising throughout your pregnancy? Listen into this interview with Birthfit Coach and Regional Director Laura Mattison. Between Laura and Candace so many great insights are shared!
In this episode, Candace and her partner, Eric, sit down and share their son Otto’s birth on the night of his first birthday! Otto’s birth was a planned homebirth with a hospital transfer and unplanned cesarean.
Get caught up on what's going on in Candace and Anna's personal lives, professional lives and the lives of our little ones. Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend!
In this interview, we talk with Christine Cassella, a mother, community herbalist, birth doula, & biologist that loves helping to educate & inspire individuals who are ready to learn the ways of Earth-centered living, including those who are preparing for an empowering birth.
Through her business, Light Footsteps, she shares her passion for Earth, plants, women, and children with the immediate community and larger online community. She believes that this knowledge is essential for us to reestablish a meaningful connection with the natural world and ourselves. By doing this, we can begin to create healthier people and a healthier earth.
Let us together reweave ancient wisdom for modern times and create a new paradigm for living on this planet.
In this interview, we talk with Linnea French - a local mom who has given birth at home for all 5 of her kids! In this episode, she shares the story of her son's breech birth, as well as some great helpful info if you're considering giving birth at home.
In this episode, we sat down for a laid back conversation with Kate Spinner - a local mom and CrossFit box owner. She shares her journey to motherhood, baby Luke's birth story. And we had a lot of fun discussing fitness - prenatal, postpartum, and after a miscarriage, and chatting about that mompreneur life. We hope you enjoy this interview!
3:30 – Candace What’s Up
5:55 – Anna What’s Up
7:15 – Kate What’s Up
8:32 – Kate’s Introduction
11:20 – First Miscarriage – Early Term Miscarriage
12:35 – Keeping Baby Hope’s Memory Alive
16:50 – Second Miscarriage/Stillbirth
17:10 – Getting pregnant with Luke
- Mindset – fear of pregnancy after miscarriages
19:10 – How she felt during pregnancy
- Zofran, Progesterone shots
21:27 – Birth story
- C-section, NICU stay
25:25 – The journey back to fitness
- Working out while pregnant
- Each person is different
- Subchorionic hematoma
35:28 – Fitness in the postpartum period
- Diastasis Recti, Birthfit Functional Progressions
37:20 – Mompreneur Life
Kate’s desire to get back into competing
46:10 – I Am Stronger – nonprofit Kate runs – www.iamstronger.org
- Free girls class on Saturdays
- Girls Only Fall Camp
48:40 – Progesterone in 3rdpregnancy because of pre-term labor details
51:25 – Rainbow babies
52:55 – How do you feel you’re Delivering Strength?
55:10 – How can our listeners find you?
- cocacrossfit.com
- iamstronger.org
- katerawlings.com
Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – www.deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – www.facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
If you have show topics or guests that you’d like to recommend to us, please feel free to send us a message through our website or send us an email at info@deliveringstrength.com.
Find Dr. Candace Gesicki, DC at Cleveland Chiropractic & Integrative Health Center* or Birthfit Cleveland*.
This week we sat down with Kimberly Hartzler, a Cleveland mama who had a twin VBAC at 40 weeks and 5 days.
Show Notes
Each of our episodes will have some show notes so that you can skip to specific topics that apply to you if that’s what you’d like to do. Those show notes for this episode are shown below.
- 3:29 – Kimberly is here to talk to us about her VBAC with twins journey
- Delivering Strength shared a VBA3C with Jamie Stepp Schrock on Episode 19!
- 5:20 – About Kimberly
- Selah Farm
- Hartzler Farm
- 11:47 – The Hertzler’s journey to starting a family
- 18:38 – Kimberly’s preparation for the birth of her first born son, Josiah
- 29:34 – The fear of getting pregnant a second time
- It is recommended for a VBAC to have 18 months between births
- 31:20 – Exploration of options for VBAC
- 33:30 – Kimberly finds out she is pregnant with identical twins at the 20 week anatomy scan
- Kimberly’s needs to fight for a provider to support her VBAC
- 36:44 – Why would your care provider only want you to carry until 38 weeks with twins?
- 42:00 – 40 weeks came and went
- 44:00 – Kimberly is a “collision of a perfect storm”. There were a lot of things that helped her achieve her VBAC
- No bed rest
- Chiropractic care
- Baby A head down
- Stayed active with a 2 year old at home
- 45:00 – 40 weeks and 5 days- Kimberly’s contractions begin
- 54:05 – What is a bulging amniotic sac?
- 57:12 – Dr. Gingo checks in
- 59:45 – Emmitt is born
- 60:35 – Judah is out and gets delayed cord clamping
- 67:02 – Overcoming fear of another pregnancy
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69:29 – Questions for Kimberly
- Referrals mentioned:
- Doulas
- “Doula Rae”- Rae Schmidt
- Sunday Tortelli
- Patsy Leo
- Homebirth Midwife:
- Pam Kolanz
- OB/Gyn:
- Gingo
- Other resources:
- ICAN
- Birthing from Within(**Note: we mistakenly called this book Birth Without Feat on the podcast)
- How to find a doctor that will support your VBAC?
- Doulas
- Find Kimberly Online:
- http://www.selafarmsohio.com
- Reach out to Kimberly on Facebook!
- Referrals mentioned:
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Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – com
- Facebook – com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
If you have show topics or guests that you’d like to recommend to us, please feel free to send us a message through our websiteor send us an email at info@deliveringstrength.com.
Aubrey Phelps is a Cleveland, Ohio mom who is no stranger to unmet expectations. She did everything right during her pregnancies – all the right nutrition, fitness and birth preparations. And she had high hopes for her babies’ births and motherhood journey. But her children’s births and first years were nothing like she had imagined. A good reminder that while we can prepare all we want, our babies are going to be born the way they’re meant to be born. Listen to her story here – and stick around to the end for an encouraging message about babies choosing their parents wisely!
Trigger Warning:
In today’s episode, we talk about birth trauma, emergency cesarean section, premature birth, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. If this is something you do not feel comfortable with listening to today, we suggest passing on this episode and circling back to it when you’re ready.
If you’re struggling with birth trauma, perinatal mood disorder, or healing from unmet expectations of motherhood, you may want to consider consulting with your care provider, therapist or one of the support groups listed on our website.
SHOW NOTES:
1:45 - Intro to episode
3:00 – Candace what’s up
- Otto is 6 months
- Otto’s Baptism
- Ticks in the house!
7:20 - Anna’s what’s up
- Dean has been sick, calling the pediatrician at 2:00 a.m.
13:15 - Aubrey what’s up
- Celebrating her daughter’s second birthday, 7 tier rainbow cake!
17:20 – Introduction to Aubrey
19:15 – Aubrey starts her story
- The birth story of her first son
- Emergency C section
- He was a tough baby - crying all the time
- Identifying her postpartum anxiety
- Her son was a difficult nurser, she had a heavy letdown
- Embracing her C section scar
- Weaning and getting period back to prepare for 2ndchild, seed cycling
34:00 – Planning for baby #2
- Getting pregnant with second child
- Implantation bleeding
- John’s West Shore Midwives
- Bleeding during pregnancy
- High blood pressure
- Preeclampsia
- Issues during spinal
- Meeting her daughter for the first time
- Difficulties breastfeeding and long term pumping, G tube
- Postpartum issues - seeing therapist, not having time to realize she needed help again
47:33 – Mindset shift after second baby. “I hadn’t failed. She was going to be born early and have feeding issues. She picked us. She knew we could handle it.”
51:00 – Having a child in the NICU and another at home
- Feeling cheated of time and experiences
- Leaving a child at the hospital and having to go home
- Being on house arrest with no visitors because of germs
53:30 Recommended that you see a therapist
- She is diagnosed PPD, PTSD, PPA
- You need a village to get through these things
- Social media is a highlight reel showing only the good news
- Going out of the house and seeing other happy, healthy children was difficult
55:50 – How long until you felt comfortable going out of the house?
- Going out with the G tube and pumping
- Supply and night pumping for extended period of time
- Supplementing with donor breastmilk – Human Milk for Human Babies
59:00 – How her daughter is now
- SOS Approach to Feeding
- Anxiety with this new change
- Division of responsibility
- Weaned in two months
- Baby led weaning
1:09:00 – Advice for anyone struggling with unmet expectations (birth trauma, breastfeeding, parenting, etc.)
- Both, And * A great reminder and life lesson!
1:11:00 – Owning your story without caveats or excuses
1:12:15 – Dealing with postpartum issues after - exercise, taking care of yourself, therapist
- Finding the right therapist
- Medication, breastfeeding while on medication
1:16:05 – How do you feel you’re Delivering Strength?
Find Aubrey Online:
- Website: Backtoscratch.Net
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Instagram: instagram.com/aub_the_rd
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Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
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- Website – www.deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – www.facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
If you have show topics or guests that you’d like to recommend to us, please feel free to send us a message through our website or send us an email at info@deliveringstrength.com.
Find Dr. Candace Gesicki, DC at Cleveland Chiropractic & Integrative Health Center or Birthfit Cleveland.
We’d love to hear from you! Do you have comments on today’s episode? Ideas for future episodes? Questions for us? Send them to us at info@deliveringstrength.com.
In this episode, we talk with local mom Heather Law about the birth of her daughter Holly, born at 24 weeks. This story has a happy ending because Holly is now 2 years old and thriving! Hear all about their pregnancy, birth and NICU stay in this episode.
TRIGGER WARNING: In this interview, Heather shares her daughter Holly’s birth, which includes topics such as premature cesarean birth, postpartum depression, and postpartum ptsd.
After going back and listening to the interview, i wanted to make sure that we touched on the tone of our conversation. Heather is two years into her journey and has leaned on the support of family, friends and counselors to help with postpartum depression and PTSD. Our conversation was very comfortable and the entire interview carries a lighter tone on the topic although we understand not everyone is in that same place. We just want to remind our listeners that everyone handles their situation differently. If you are struggling with a perinatal mood disorder or are struggling with emotions surrounding a traumatic birth we encourage you to seek out a professional, reach out to us for referrals or look into one of the support groups we have mentioned.
2:45 – Intro to episode topic
3:37 – Ice breaker
6:45 – Heather Intro
16:43 – Heather shares her journey to motherhood
- Fertility struggles with PCOS
- Incompetent cervix
- Bedrest
- Emergency c-section
- Pumping
34:31 – Heather sees Holly for the first time
36:00 – Recovering from a cesarean birth with a baby in the NICU
- Holly’s first days
38:10 – NICU doctors are a different breed
43:00 – Holly is making progress
47:30 – Heather’s routine with her baby in the NICU
49:52 – Heather’s advice for parents with a baby in the NICU
53:15 – Dealing with birth trauma, PTSD, and PPD
59:30 – Micro preemie vs. preemie
62:45 –
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Full Circle Support Group meets on the East Side on the 3rd Tuesday of the Month at Mayfield Public Library. This support group is open to any NICU parent.
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4th Monday of every Month the West Side group meets at Circle of Life Birth Services
- Contact: FullCircleHope@gmail.com
65:12 – Project Preemie
67:47 – Holly is two! Heather updates us on how Holly is doing!
1:10:40– How do you feel like you are delivering strength through that you are doing?
Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – www.deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – www.facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
If you have show topics or guests that you’d like to recommend to us, please feel free to send us a message through our website or send us an email at info@deliveringstrength.com.
Find Dr. Candace Gesicki, DC at Cleveland Chiropractic & Integrative Health Center or Birthfit Cleveland.
We’d love to hear from you! Do you have comments on today’s episode? Ideas for future episodes? Questions for us? Send them to us at info@deliveringstrength.com.
In this episode, Candace and Anna discuss body image, positive self talk, and touch on getting back into fitness and into the gym in a healthy way in the postpartum period. Another real talk episode that we think many mamas out there will relate with!
1:10 – Intro to episode topic
3:00 – Announcements
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Facebook Group – Please join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
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Email Subscription – https://deliveringstrength.com/subscribe/
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Please leave us a review on iTunes!!
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Earlier Episode – Prenatal Testing – https://deliveringstrength.com/2018/05/08/ds-020-6-strategies-to-prepare-your-relationship-for-life-with-baby-with-suzanne-smith-phd/
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Birth Worker Coffee Date – July Meetup – July 5th at 10 a.m. at Play Grounds in Lakewood https://www.facebook.com/events/2143184442628421/
11:00 – What’s Up Candace
-Birthfit Summit - https://birthfit.com/blog/2018/05/04/birthfit-summit-2018/
12:40 – What’s Up Anna
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Dean’s birthday party update
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Cake from Café Avalaun - http://www.cafeavalaun.com
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Dean walking
18:20 – Miss America Scraps Swimsuit Portion from Pageant - https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/us/miss-america-swimsuit-trnd/index.html
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Body image and self love
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Changing your inner dialogue
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Practicing positive self talk for ourselves and for our children (girls and boys)
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Real Food Liz - https://www.instagram.com/realfoodliz/
26:10 – Candace & Anna’s views of fitness in the postpartum – fitness vs. wholesome movement
31:40 – Prioritizing fitness in the postpartum
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Feeling isolated when returning to fitness in the postpartum
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Finding your tribe
41:20 – Getting back into fitness in the postpartum – when can I start working out postpartum?
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Should I do situps in the postpartum?
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When can I start running after having a baby?
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Incontinence in the postpartum
46:15 – 2 weeks in the bed, 2 weeks on the bed, 2 weeks out of the bed
Upcoming Event: Strong Women Know (core and pelvic floor) @ Coca CrossFit - https://www.facebook.com/events/227151678051113/
Learn about the Functional Progressions here - but please schedule a consultation with Dr. Candace!
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https://www.birthfitcleveland.com/blog/
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https://www.birthfitcleveland.com/birthfitclevelandservices/
Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
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Website – www.deliveringstrength.com
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Facebook – www.facebook.com/deliveringstrength
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Instagram – www.instagram.com/deliveringstrength
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Facebook Community – www.facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
If you have show topics or guests that you’d like to recommend to us, please feel free to send us a message through our website or send us an email at info@deliveringstrength.com.
Find Dr. Candace Gesicki, DC at Cleveland Chiropractic & Integrative Health Center* or Birthfit Cleveland*.
We’d love to hear from you! Do you have comments on today’s episode? Ideas for future episodes? Questions for us? Send them to us at info@deliveringstrength.com
In this episode, Anna chats with Stephanie Bowlin of Signing with Miss Steph about infant and toddler sign language - a topic that Anna is very passionate about!
Did you know that babies have the ability to communicate with us as early as 6 months? Teaching your infant or toddler sign language gives them the tools to communicate with you about the world around them, empowering them to understand & to be understood.
Learn more about infant and toddler sign language and some tips for getting started with signing in your home in this episode.
Find Signing with Miss Steph at: www.signingwithmisssteph.com
In this episode, Candace and Anna chat about what's going on in their worlds, both professionally and personally. Some of the topics include events going on around Cleveland, baby led movement, first birthday parties, smash cakes & much more. A casual update episode!
67% of couples report feeling very unhappy with each other during the first 3 years of baby’s life! Local psychologist Suzanne Smith covers strategies to prepare your relationship for life with baby. A great listen for expecting parents and new parents!
Jaimie Schrock has a story to tell. After three cesarean sections, she researched and fought to have the VBA3C (vaginal birth after 3 cesareans) that she wanted. She shares her journey in this episode and also in her book that is about to be released – A VBAC Mom and Her Journey. Her journey and outlook on life is inspiring and uplifting. We're so glad she has shared it with us!
Please share this episode and these resources with anyone who has had a cesarean. Let them know that resources are available and they can have a say in their future births!
Show Notes:
1:10 – Delivering Strength will be at the Cleveland Birth Expo April 15th from 12 p.m.- 3 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Independence at the BIRTHFIT Cleveland Booth.
- We will have giveaways at the table and Candace will be offering 25% off any BIRTHFIT Cleveland services booked on site!
1:56 – Intro to Episode
3:20 – Candace What’s Up
7:50 – Anna What’s Up
11:21 – Jaimie What’s Up
14:10 – Intro Jaimie & Babies 1-3
18:30 – Baby #4
32:24 – What is the medical reasoning/fear of vaginal birth after a cesarean?
34:54 – Why do doctors shy away from VBAC?
- Book Recommendation – Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care https://amzn.to/2EHFHj9
37:33 – Jaimie’s doula and how she supported Jaimie through her pregnancy and birth
40:04 – Jaimie’s experience becoming a doula
42:35 – ICAN – International Cesarean Awareness Network
- ICAN – National http://www.ican-online.org
- ICAN – Cleveland http://icanofgreatercleveland.org
43:50 – Jaimie’s story online & where to find her/her resources:
- Website:http://www.jaimieschrock.com
- Book:http://www.jaimieschrock.com/the-book/(In the works! Stay tuned for more details on the release of her book.)
- Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/AVBACMomandHerJourney/
- Journey to VBAC Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/129298131040565/?source_id=447610075394905
47:00 – Advice for women who want to VBAC
50:20 – How do you feel like you’re Delivering Strength?
Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – www.deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – www.facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
If you have show topics or guests that you’d like to recommend to us, please feel free to send us a message through our website or send us an email at info@deliveringstrength.com.
Find Dr. Candace Gesicki, DC at Cleveland Chiropractic & Integrative Health Center or Birthfit Cleveland.
We’d love to hear from you! Do you have comments on today’s episode? Ideas for future episodes? Questions for us? Send them to us at info@deliveringstrength.com.
This week we sat down with Brianna K, momma of two, YouTube Vlogger, and #BossMom. We discussed baby led weaning, working from home, going back to work from maternity leave, traveling for work, pumping while traveling, and a whole lot more! This is such a great, insightful episode for working moms with littles - or anyone who may become a working mom with a baby in the future!
Show Notes Each of our episodes will have some show notes so that you can skip to specific topics that apply to you if that’s what you’d like to do. Those show notes for this episode are shown below.
- 1:15 Delivering Strength will be at the Cleveland Birth Expo April 15th from 10-3pm at the Holiday Inn in Independence at the BIRTHFIT Cleveland Booth.
- We will have giveaways at the table and Candace will be offering 25% off any BIRTHFIT Cleveland services booked on site!
- 2:50 – Brianna K introduction
- 3:30 – Candace What’s Up
- 4:20 – Anna What’s Up
- E-meals
- 7:45 – Brianna What’s Up
- 15:00 – Maternity leave
- Maternity leave
- Paternity leave
- 27:40 – Transition back to work
- 32:00 – Breastfeeding + pumping while traveling
- Skip hop bag
- Madela pump and style
- Tips for breastfeeding while working + pumping while traveling + security
- 40:00 – Working from home
- 43:35 – Blocking calendar
- 52:47 – Tips for moms returning to work
- Brianna’s first work trip
- 55:10 – Traveling with a baby
- 57:07 – How do you feel like you are Delivering Strength through the work that you do?
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Find Brianna Online:
- YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0uHB4d6u0jIJSgPC3WzBFw
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/BitsofBri
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Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – www.deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – www.facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
If you have show topics or guests that you’d like to recommend to us, please feel free to send us a message through our website or send us an email at info@deliveringstrength.com.
Find Dr. Candace Gesicki, DC at* Cleveland Chiropractic & Integrative Health Center or Birthfit Cleveland*.
We'd love to hear from you! Do you have comments on today's episode? Ideas for future episodes? Questions for us? Send them to us at info@deliveringstrength.com. Thanks!
This week we sat down with Christy Phillips Adkins, 8 times CrossFit Games Athlete, for a conversation on pregnancy and fitness.
Throughout her pregnancy, Christy has been soaking in ALL the info to make sure she's approaching this period of life & birth (the greatest athletic event of her life!) appropriately.
Whether you are a weekend warrior at your local gym or an uber competitive athlete, this episode has something for you!
Show Notes
- 1:13 Giveaways! In February we will be giving out two $30 gift certificates to Café Avalaun. Leave us a review on iTunes or Facebook to enter! Send us a screenshoot to info@deliveringstrength.com to enter!
- 3:13 – Christy Bio
- BIRTHFIT Prenatal Series
- 5:50 – Candace What’s Up
- Wonder Weeks Book
- 6:18 – Anna What’s Up
- Ganas Fitness
- The Winter Classic
- 8:56 – Christy What’s Up
- Training United
- BIRTHFIT Professional Seminar (Coming to Cleveland in May!)
- 15:32 – How Christy has been feeling during her pregnancy
- 20:12 – How Christy has been handling fitness during her pregnancy
- Expecting Better by Emily Oster
- Subchorionic bleed
- 27:50 – “Highlight reel” that is Instagram vs. reality when training
- 28:25 – Feedback from social media followers
- 29:51 – Instagram photo: coning during a strict muscle up
- 31:31 – BIRTHFIT Consult as prehab
- Movements to cut out during pregnancy
- 34:45 – What is coning? Diastasis rectus abdominis explanation.
- 37:25 – You don’t have to pee when you jump rope!
- 38:20 – BIRTHFIT Functional Progressions
- 43:37 – Christy’s advice for athletes who enjoy being competitive
- Approaching birth like a big athletic event
- Book recommendation: Exercising through Your Pregnancy
- What you “should/shouldn’t” do / Intention
- 49:00 – Mindwork & Breathwork
- Belly breathing
- Mindset – Dawn Fletcher of MentalityWOD
- 54:22 – How are you preparing for birth?
- Birthfit Prenatal Series – Cleveland, Ohio
- 57:45 – How Christy’s husband is feeling about becoming a dad
- 1:02:00 – Getting back to competitive CrossFit after baby
Find Christy Online
- Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/christyphillipsadkins/
- Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ChristyPhillipsAdkins/
- Twitter – https:// twitter.com/ChristyPhill
- Training United (Beyond the Whiteboard) – https://beyondthewhiteboard.com/coaching/trainingunited/
Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
If you have show topics or guests that you’d like to recommend to us, please feel free to send us a message through our website or send us an email at info@deliveringstrength.com.
In this casual, real-talk episode, Candace & Anna discuss life after baby! Topics include returning to work postpartum, tongue/lip ties, breastfeeding/bottle feeding, making rules for visitors and postpartum nutrition. A peek into two womens' postpartum lives!
Show notes:
1:10 – Café Avalaun Giveaway! Leave us a review on iTunes or Facebook during the month of Feburary 2018, snap a screenshot of your review and email it to us at info@deliveringstrength.com. You can get two total entries – one for reviewing us on iTunes and one for reviewing us on Facebook. Check out Cafe Avalaun at www.cafeavalaun.com. Thanks in advance and good luck!
2:45 – Introduction to today’s episode
3:20 – Introducing Otto! And how things are going at home in the first 5 weeks.
6:12 – How Heidi (Candace’s dog) is adjusting to life with a baby
7:10 – Going back to work – small business owner version of maternity leave
- Cleveland Chiropractic & Integrative Health Center
- Birthfit Cleveland
9:10 – Breastfeeding, Cracks, Lip Ties & Tongue Ties
- Ann Witt – Breastfeeding Medicine of Northeast Ohio
14:30 – Paced bottle feeding, how many ounces to feed a breastfed baby by bottle
18:40 – How Eric is adjusting to life with Otto, how he helps out at home, how they split up helping with Otto
22:45 – Needing help during the day/working from home
23:10 – Sean’s time at home after Dean was born, how he helped out with Dean in the early days/weeks, splitting up helping with Dean, his honey-do list at home
24:50 – Anna/Sean/Dean’s visitors, help at the house after he was born
25:18 – Stay-in help (parents staying for the first week(s) or month
27:05 – Stay-in help discussion – Anna & Candace’s views on this
29:15 – How Anna’s mom would visit and help in early days, reconnecting/bonding with mom (grandma) through new mom lens
30:25 – Rules for visitors – Anna
31:45 – Rules for visitors – Candace, challenges of visitors postpartum, nursing with visitors
35:50 – Dean exploring, babyproofing home
36:40 – Wonder Weeks leaps – explanation of theory/leaps, where Dean is
- Wonder Weeks book
- App
40:00 – Dean is teething – 4 teeth at 8 months!
42:10 – Postpartum Nutrition – how Candace prepped for postpartum meals, and how she has been handling groceries/cooking since having Otto.
- Whole30 Compliant Freezer Crock Pot Meal Plan
- Fresh Fork CSA
- Thrive Market – Click here to sign up and get 20% off of your first 3 orders!
- RX Bars – Click here to get them on Amazon.
- Paleo Banana Bread
- Perfectly Imperfect Produce
56:00 – Difference in development between Dean and Otto
Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – www.deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/deliveringstrength.com
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
Find Dr. Candace Gesicki, DC at Cleveland Chiropractic & Integrative Health Center or Birthfit Cleveland.
In this episode, we talk with local mom Alicia Hansen about the pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience of her first-born daughter. Her story has an overriding theme of anxiety throughout, and through sharing she hopes to help other moms with similar experiences. We thank Alicia for being so open and honest and vulnerable with us throughout this episode. She wants our listeners to know that, if you find yourself having similar anxiety or obsessive compulsive actions, please don't be afraid to speak up and get the help you need!
- 1:10 Expectful – Expectful – We are proud to share with our listeners a great resource – Expectful: A guided meditation app for your fertility, pregnancy and motherhood journey. Sign up for a free two week trial at www.expectful.com/delivering.
- 3:20 – Announcing Candace’s baby!
- 3:55 – Introducing today’s topic – Postpartum anxiety with Alicia Hansen
- 4:40 – Alicia introduction and what’s going on in your life right now?
- L’nique rentals - http://www.lnique.com
- Sunday yoga – https://www.facebook.com/pg/aliciamhansen/events/
- Always Alicia Blog – aliciamhansen.com
- 8:00 – What’s up with Anna
- 9:25 Baby-Led Weaning
- Get the book on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2mE58eA
- Baby Led Weaning 101 – Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1225556547506659/
- 15:30 – Getting into Alicia’s story
- 16:15 – Anxiety in Alicia’s life
- Yoga as a tool in managing anxiety
- 18:00 – Anxiety in pregnancy
- 20:30 – Anxiety at the time of birth
- 31:00 – Remembering the panic attacks more than the delivery because it happened so fast
- 31:30 – APGAR score
- 32:00 – Breastfeeding experience / Formula supplementing – dealing with a low supply
- 34:50 – Postpartum anxiety setting in. Obsessing over certain things. Leaving the house. Unplugging everything electrical.
- 36:25 – Postpartum survey at 2 week appointment
- 39:10 – Seeing a therapist
- 41:10 – Medication for anxiety
- 46:00 – Being vocal about standing up for yourself to get the help you need
- 49:30 – Does a past with anxiety mean you’re more prone to postpartum anxiety?
- 51:00 – Alicia’s feelings toward another baby
- 53:10 – Alicia’s feelings toward another pregnancy/birth
- 58:10 – Is there anything else you’d like to share? Find support – support groups, mom groups, FB
- 1:00:50 – How do you feel like you’re Delivering Strength to the Northast Ohio area? – Sharing my story.
- 1:03:02 – Closing
- Find Alicia Online:
- Website: www.aliciamhansen.com
- Sunday yoga – https://www.facebook.com/pg/aliciamhansen/events/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aliciamhansen/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aliciamhansen
- Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
In this episode of the Delivering Strength podcast, we interview Michelle Beckner of Michelle Beckner Family Wellness. Michelle is a mother of two children who both had dairy (and other) food sensitivities. Because of her passion to sustain her breastfeeding relationship with her kids, she decided to eliminate dairy and some other triggers from her diet. This led to Michelle becoming a certified nutrition consultant and now a guide, motivator, teacher and mom-friend to other mamas whose littles can’t handle dairy, as well. If you know your baby can’t handle dairy, or you’re experiencing a fussy baby or one with eczema or other unexplainable rashes, you need to check this episode out!
Show Notes:
- 1:10 Expectful – Expectful – We are proud to share with our listeners a great resource – Expectful: A guided meditation app for your fertility, pregnancy and motherhood journey. Sign up for a free two week trial at www.expectful.com/delivering
- 3:00 – Intro to episode
- 3:55 – What’s Up Candace?
- 5:15 – What’s Up Anna?
- Ganas Gear – www.ganasgear.com - custom apparel & promotional products
- 7:30 – What’s Up Michelle?
- 8:40 – Michelle’s daughter’s dairy sensitivity, son’s dairy, egg and corn sensitivity
- Follow-up info from Michelle on this topic: A food allergy is when the immune system has a negative response to the protein in a certain food. This response can show up in a variety of ways like skin issues or tummy troubles. A food intolerance is a broader, and less serious, term for when the body has difficulty digesting the food. The best treatment for either is to completely avoid that food.
- 10:00 – How Michelle got into the work she’s doing – Michelle Beckner Family Wellness www.mlbfamilywellness.com.
- Free Dairy-free starter toolkit: http://freebies.mlbfamilywellness.com/toolkit/
- 11:30 – Candace’s knowledge in dairy sensitivities in babies, how she’s handling dairy in her diet now while pregnant in preparation for the early months with a new baby
- 14:30 – How long does it take for dairy to leave your system?
- 15:20 – How Anna handled dairy in last months of pregnancy in preparation for the early months with a new baby, how Dean has handled dairy in first few months, family history of dairy sensitivities in babies
- 20:10 – Difference between a dairy allergy or dairy intolerance
- 22:00 – Colicky babies and other ways parents find out their babies have an intolerance or allergy (diaper rash, eczema around face and chest)
- 24:10 – Dairy sensitivity vs lactose intolerance, babies are reacting to the protein in the dairy – and other facts about the makeup of milk
- 25:10 – Dairy that has more or less of the dairy protein and other types of milk and cheese
- 26:00 – Follow-up info from Michelle on this topic: What about other animal milks like goat, sheep, or camel? All of these milks have similar protein structures to cow’s milk. There are lots of new studies out there about camel milk being suitable for people with cow’s milk allergies. There is also a lot of interesting research on A1 beta-casein protein vs. A2 (A2 is found in certain types of cow's milk, goat's milk, and others). Studies show that A2 beta-casein protein may be more suitable for people with cow’s milk intolerance. Do your own research if you are interested, but to make things simple, I would stay away unless you are willing to do the research yourself.
- 26:15 – Going Dairy Free Course: Join Michelle’s 14-day Dairy-Free Survival Course this January! This is a special link to get 20% off: https://mlbfamilywellness.lpages.co/df20/
- 27:40 – Is it worth alternatives or just going straight dairy free?
- 29:17 – Difference in raw or cooked/baked dairy and how it affects the milk protein
- 30:10 – Growing out of dairy sensitivities with age, common age that children will grow out of dairy sensitivities
- 32:00 – Digestive system changes around 6 months and how it correlates with handling dairy
- 33:35 – Other sensitivities that tend to come along with dairy sensitivities (soy, gluten, eggs, corn, etc.)
- 35:15 – Limiting exposure to dairy to help long-term success with your child, introducing a probiotic to your child
- 36:25 – Handling questions from family members about why Candace & Anna avoided dairy in their pregnancy, family functions, meal planning, holidays
- 46:00 – Do we have to start a child on milk at 1 year old? What’s important? Healthy fats and calcium – and other places to get those things.
- 48:12 – Calcium
- 49:30 – Fats
- Grassfed ghee recommendations:
- http://a.co/37wy2ML Tin Star Foods
- http://a.co/2AtadBo Ancient Organics
- 55:30 – How your milk changes to suit dietary needs
- 57:00 – Recommendation to breastfeed until 2 months from WHO – and the concept of introducing milk at 1 year
- 58:30 – Introducing foods and starting solids – babies guts close a gap around 6 months
- Signs of readiness for solids - https://littlegourmetbaby.com/when-to-introduce-solids/
- Starting off with baby led weaning
- 1:04:00 – Symptom guide for parents to watch for – http://freebies.mlbfamilywellness.com/toolkit/
- 1:05:15 – How do you feel you’re Delivering Strength?
- 1:06:45 – Find Michelle online:
- Website: www.mlbfamilywellness.com
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/mlbfamilywellness
- Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
We sat down with Alayna again in this episode to explore many of the prenatal tests that happen over the course of a pregnancy. We discuss the typical tests, possible alternatives and our experiences with these tests during our pregnancies. A must listen for pregnant mamas!
- 1:10 Expectful – Expectful – We are proud to share with our listeners a great resource – Expectful: A guided meditation app for your fertility, pregnancy and motherhood journey. Sign up for a free two week trial at expectful.com/delivering.
- 3:03 -- Anna Gannon introduction
- 4:40 – Candace What’s Up
- BIRTHFIT Professional Seminar- http://www.birthfit.com/education/seminars/
- 8:00 – Anna What’s Up
- 10:20 – Prenatal massages
- Power Provider: The Womb Wellness Center
- 13:10 – Anna Gannon Bio
- 14:24 – Anna Gannon’s journey to where she is at now
- 23:15 – Anna Gannon and founder of Expectful, Mark Krassner, connect
- 25:04 – How Expectful has grown over the last year and a half
- Motherhood Meditations
- Trying to Conceive Meditations
- Pregnancy Meditations
- 27:20 – Dr. Jessica Zucker- #IHadAMiscarriage Campaign http://shop.drjessicazucker.com/about/
- 29:30 – Structure of the meditation app Expectful
- 36:26 – Where is Anna Gannon at with her meditation practice as mother of a two year old
- 38:00 – Why “meditation has transformed my life more than anything else”
- 43:05 – How do I start a meditation practice?
- 47:20 – Meditation during the postpartum period
- Postpartum depression
- 54:45 – How do you feel like you are Delivering Strength to women through the motherhood transition with what you are doing with Expectful?
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Find Anna Gannon/Expectful Online:
- Expectful
- Website: http://www.expectful.com/delivering
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/expectful/
- Instagram: @expectful
- Expectful
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Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – com
- Facebook – com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
If you have show topics or guests that you’d like to recommend to us, please feel free to send us a message through our website or send us an email at info@deliveringstrength.com.
Our next Cleveland Birth Worker Coffee Date is this week! Join us on Thursday, December 7th from 10am-12pm at Blackbird Baking Company in Lakewood to network with other birth workers in Cleveland.
This week we sat down with Jenna Hull, prenatal yoga instructor at Awaken Yoga and birth junkie, for a conversation on the benefits of yoga during pregnancy.
Show Notes
- 1:10 Expectful – Expectful – We are proud to share with our listeners a great resource – Expectful: A guided meditation app for your fertility, pregnancy and motherhood journey. Sign up for a free two week trial at expectful.com/delivering.
- 3:00 – Candace What’s Up
- 5:59 – Anna What’s Up
- 9:20 – Jenna What’s Up
- 10:04 – Jenna Bio
- DONA Doula Training
- Rebozo Workshop with Gena Kirby
- Spinning Babies
- Prenatal Yoga at Awaken Yoga
- Baby and Me Class at Awaken Yoga
- Birth Partner Class
- 11:40 – Switching from a medicated hospital birth to a homebirth at 30+ weeks pregnant
- Homebirth Option of Cleveland
- 18:03 – Jenna’s path to becoming a prenatal yoga instructor
- 22:12 – Prenatal yoga teacher training at Awaken Yoga for yoga teachers, doulas, midwives, birth workers, and anyone else interested!
- 23:58 – Goddess Intoxication Workshop at Awaken Yoga
- 25:16 – Benefits of prenatal yoga
- 28:38 – When can someone begin taking prenatal yoga?
- 29:50 – What does a prenatal yoga class look like?
- 31:38 – BIRTHFIT Cleveland Prenatal Fitness
- 34:00 – Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth
- 34:25 – Other prenatal yoga offerings in Northeast Ohio
- Blue Sky Yoga in Willoughby with Paula Gardner
- 34:50 – Non-pregnancy specific yoga during pregnancy
- Hot yoga
- 38:30 – Incorporating Spinning Babies into prenatal yoga
- 40:30 – Optimal fetal position
- 47:13 – Birth partner workshop at Awaken Yoga
- 50:10 – Baby and Me Yoga at Awaken Yoga, offered monthly
- 52:12 – How do you feel like you’re Delivering Strength to the families in NEO through what you do?
- Find Jenna Online:
- Awaken Yoga Studio
- Website: http://awakenyoga.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/awakenyoga/
- Chrysalis- Yoga Mama Doula FB Page
- Instagram: @jennahull27
- Other shout-outs from Jenna:
- Mother Rising Studio
- Light Footsteps
- Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – com
- Facebook – com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
- Awaken Yoga Studio
If you have show topics or guests that you’d like to recommend to us, please feel free to send us a message through our website or send us an email at info@deliveringstrength.com.
This week we sat down with Jolynn Radin, owner of The Womb Wellness Center, for a conversation on preparing the body physically and mentally for a natural childbirth.
- 1:10 Expectful – Expectful – We are proud to share with our listeners a great resource – Expectful: A guided meditation app for your fertility, pregnancy and motherhood journey. Sign up for a free two week trial at expectful.com/delivering.
- 3:00 – Candace What’s Up
- BIRTHFIT Professional Seminar- http://www.birthfit.com/education/seminars/
- 5:26 – Anna What’s Up
- 7:44 – Jolynn Introduction
- 8:20 – Jolynn Bio
- 13:18 – Preparing your body in a physical way for birth
- 14:26 – Prenatal massage in the first trimester and types of massage techniques
- Maya Abdominal Massage- https://arvigotherapy.com/
- 16:26 – Why is massage important in pregnancy?
- 19:10 – Addressing imbalances in the pelvis for optimal fetal positioning and birth prep
- 21:45 – Ideal body mechanics during pregnancy
- 24:58 – Spinning Babies
- Spinning Babies- https://spinningbabies.com/
- Spinning Babies- Daily Essentials
- 28:07 – Baby positioning and belly mapping
- 30:50 – Just because you are pregnant, does not mean you need to be in pain during pregnancy
- 32:27 – Supporting herbs during pregnancy
- Light Footsteps- http://www.lightfootsteps.com/
- Light Footsteps Facebook Page- https://www.facebook.com/LightFootsteps/
- Susan Weeds- Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year
- Aviva Rams- The Natural Pregnancy Book
- 35:10 – Tonifying the uterus
- 36:10 – Mountain Meadow Herbs
- Gentle Birth Formula- 2oz
- Gentle Birth Formula- 4oz
- Gentle Birth Formula w/o Blue Cohosh- 2oz
- Gentle Birth Formula w/o Blue Cohosh- 4oz
- Talk with your care provider before adding any new herbal formulas or supplements into your routine. These links are a reference as to what our guest discussed on the podcast from her personal experience, not as a professional recommendation.
- 37:44 – Preparing the mind for birth
- Expectful- Sign up for a free two week trial at expectful.com/delivering.
- Bountiful Beautiful Blissful by St. Martin’s Griffin
- 38:33 – BIRTHFIT Online Programming- http://www.birthfit.com/education/coaching/
- 42:52 – Birthing From Within by Partera Press
- 45:38 – Favorite Birth Mantras
- 47:30 – OP Baby
- 49:20 – How do you feel like you’re Delivering Strength to the families in NEO through what you do?
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Find Jolynn Online:
- The Womb Wellness Center
- Website: http://thewombwellnesscenter.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheWombWellnessCenter/
- Instagram: @thewombwellnesscenter
- Power provider link on our website: https://deliveringstrength.com/portfolio-items/the-womb-wellness-center/
- The Womb Wellness Center
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Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – com
- Facebook – com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
If you have show topics or guests that you’d like to recommend to us, please feel free to send us a message through our website or send us an email at info@deliveringstrength.com.
Our next Cleveland Birth Worker Coffee Date is this week! Join us on Thursday, November 2nd from 10am-1pm at Erie Island Coffee Company in Rocky River to network with other birth workers in Cleveland.
In honor of Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day/Week, we sat down for a conversation with local bereavement doula, Ashley Rainey, of Nurtured Foundation Doula Services. A helpful listen for anyone experiencing a loss, and insightful info for all so that you can be prepared if this happens to you or someone you know and love.
Delivering Strength Podcast | Real talk about pregnancy, birth and postpartum health. | www.deliveringstrength.com
DS 009: Miscarriage and Infant Loss with Bereavement Doula Ashley Rainey
SHOW NOTES:
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1:10 Expectful - Expectful – We are proud to share with our listeners a great resource – Expectful: A guided meditation app for your fertility, pregnancy and motherhood journey. Sign up for a free two week trial at www.expectful.com/delivering.
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3:30 – Candace What’s Up
- 5:30 – Anna What’s Up
- 8:53 – Ashley What’s Up
- 9:30 – Ashley Bio
- 13:10 – Anna’s experience with two miscarriages
- 19:45 – Bereavement clients – where they come from for Ashley
- 21:08 – What a bereavement doula does
- 25:30 – At what point would someone contact a bereavement doula?
- 26:50 – What kind of training is involved in becoming a bereavement doula?
- 27:41
- About Sufficient Grace Ministries - http://sufficientgraceministries.org/support-sufficient-grace/
- Sufficient Grace Book - http://sufficientgraceministries.org/sufficient-grace-the-book/
- Regional Support - http://sufficientgraceministries.org/find-support/
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SufficientGraceMinistries/
- Training http://sufficientgraceministries.org/sgm-perinatal-loss-support-training/
- Tuesday, October 24 – Birth Story Circle with a Focus on Loss Awareness at Mother Rising – https://www.facebook.com/events/101311337266080/
- 30:30 – Statistics of miscarriage and loss
- 31:45 – Reducing the stigma of talking about this topic, waiting to tell people you’re pregnant until 12 weeks
- 35:10 – Waiting to tell people you’re pregnant until you’re 12 weeks, knowing what to say if someone tells you that they’ve experienced a loss
- 38:05 – Passing judgment on someone who’s grieving
- 39:35 – Ways to keep your baby’s memory alive – balloon releases, toy donation drive, knitting hats, etc.
- 40:13 – Rainbow babies
- 42:34 – Moms going through a rainbow pregnancy might need some extra support
- 43:17 – Support groups – Sufficient Grace Ministries - http://sufficientgraceministries.org/northeast-ohio/
- 44:15 – Events at Circle of Life Birth Services in Lakewood http://www.circleoflifebirthservices.org/events/
- 45:03 – People who have experienced loss will likely be struggling through pregnancy
- 47:41 – Emergency ultrasounds and care providers – care providers are typically supportive of fitting you in
- 47:08 – Typical recommendation that labwork only be done after 3 miscarriages?
- 49:42 – What kind of questions do you get as a bereavement doula?
- 51:25 – What can someone expect when someone experiences a miscarriage?
- 52:21 – What is a D&C?
- 53:14 – What can you do with what you pass?
- 54:52 – Recommended books: (all of them listed on this page)
- 55:58 – Does someone have to have religious affiliation to be supported by Sufficient Grace Ministries?
- 56:17 – How do you feel like you’re Delivering Strength to the families in NEO through what you do?
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Find Ashley Online:
- Sufficient Grace Ministries:
- http://sufficientgraceministries.org
- Nurtured Foundation Doula Services:
- Website: https://nurturedfoundation.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nurturedfoundationdoula/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nurtured_foundation_doulas/
- Sufficient Grace Ministries:
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- 59:18 Power provider link on our website: https://deliveringstrength.com/portfolio-items/nurtured-foundation-doula-services/
- Delivering Strength: Find Us Online
- Website – deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community – facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
To celebrate International Babywearing Week, we sat down with Wendy Haas, President of Babywearing International of Cleveland. We discussed a lot of the basics about babywearing, including its benefits, types of carriers, carrying in hot and cold weather, and more!
In this episode, Lisa Falkenstein discusses postpartum planning, providing valuable insights and resources that help families prepare for life after the birth of their child. A must-listen for expecting parents!
We are on-location in this episode at the 2017 Rally to Improve Birth in Chardon, Ohio – hosted by Mother Rising. We talk with several birth workers and individuals who share with us how they hope birth improves in the future.
Delivering Strength Podcast | Real talk about pregnancy, birth and postpartum health. | www.deliveringstrength.com
DS006: On-Location at the 2017 Rally to Improve Birth – Chardon, Ohio
Show Notes
1:10 – We are proud to share with our listeners a great resource – Expectful: A guided meditation app for your fertility, pregnancy and motherhood journey. Sign up for a free two week trial at www.expectful.com/delivering.
2:35 Intro to Improving Birth Rally
6:44 Shauna Rich – Mother Rising – About the Event
8:08 Monies Raised by the Rally – Future Improving Birth – Chardon
8:30 – Improving Birth – Focus on Access to VBAC
10:30 – Door Prizes at the Rally
11:25 – Messages/Signs at the Rally
12:57 – Danielle Breach – Co-Founder of Mother Rising
13:35 – Danielle’s Speech about How Doulas Improve Birth
14:30 – What Makes Danielle Want to Get Involved with Improving Birth?
15:40 – Danielle’s Sign for the Rally
16:16 – Alayna Spratley – The Nurturing Root
16:34 – The Nurturing Root & Babies Need Boxes
17:17 – Why Alayna is at the Rally
17:35 – Alayna’s Sign for the Rally
18:26 – Alayna’s Intro to Alicia Moellenkamp
19:05 – Sarah Koenigseker – Summa Healthcare
19:18 – Evidenced Based Care
19:47 – Evidenced Based Birth – Rebecca Decker
20:25 – Being Involved in the Rally
21:01 – How Sarah Got Involved This Year
22:46 – Midwives’ Relationships with Residents at Hospital
24:04 – Birth Climate in Akron
25:24 – Sarah’s Sign for the Rally
26:08 – Intro to Alicia Moellenkamp – Roots and Wings
27:15 – What Does Improving Birth Mean to You?
27:41 – Alicia’s Sign for the Rally
27:52 – Alicia’s Role in the Rally
28:30 – Improving Birth – Organization’s History
29:19 – Intro to Tierney Dewan-Saperstein & Parenting Classes at Hershey Montessori
30:03 – Candace’s Experience with Finding Parenting Classes
31:57 – Cultural Push to Improve Birth – But There is a Need for Parenting Knowledge and Classes
33:15 – Parenting Course Topics
34:13 – How Long Have You Been Doing This?
35:23 – Need for Growth in these Parenting Classes
35:54 – What Does Improving Birth Mean to Tierney?
36:55 – Talking About Birth with Daughter
38:21 – Intro to Karen with Carrying with Karen (Babywearing)
39:11 – Different Options for Babywearing Carriers
40:15 – How Karen Got Into Babywearing
41:18 – Master Wrappers: Wrapping Rachel & Babywearing Faith
41:33 – History of Babywearing Locally
42:28 – What Do You Hope Improves About Birth?
44:59 – Candace Gesicki – Cleveland Chiropractic & Integrative Health Center and Birthfit Cleveland
45:28 – Chiropractic Services
46:03 – Birthfit Cleveland
46:55 – How Does Candace Hope to Improve Birth?
48:47 – Jolynn Radin – The Womb Wellness Center
49:07 – Jolynn’s Speech at the Rally – Spinning Babies
49:28 – Spinning Babies Philosophy
50:00 – When Can Someone Start?
50:25 – Alignment of Pelvis
50:44 – What Do You Hope Improves About Birth?
54:00 – Jenna Hull – Prenatal Yoga at Awaken Yoga Studio
54:48 – Yoga’s Role in Getting Baby in Position
55:29 – Tools for Birth
56:00 – Rebozo
57:50 – Community
58:16 – Awaken’s Location
59:04 – What Does Jenna Hope Improves About Birth?
1:00:25 – Delivering Strength
Find Us Online:
- Website – deliveringstrength.com
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In this episode, we talk with Ashley Sova, owner of CLE Baby - a local birth and parenting services business. We talk with Ashley about the role that a doula can play in a medicated or cesarean birth.
Delivering Strength Podcast | Real talk about pregnancy, birth and postpartum health. | www.deliveringstrength.com
DS005: Unbiased Doula Support for Medicated Births with Ashley Sova
Show Notes:
- 1:10 – We are proud to share with our listeners a great resource – Expectful: A guided meditation app for your fertility, pregnancy and motherhood journey. Sign up for a free two week trial at www.expectful.com/delivering.
- 2:35 – Episode Intro
- 3:23 – Ashley & CLE Baby Bio
- 5:37 – Association of Doulas for Unmedicated Births
- 7:39 – Planning for Unmedicated Birth and Needing Intervention
- 8:10 – Not Projecting Birth Views on Moms
- 9:22 – What are People Looking for in Doula
- 11:05 – Differences Between Providing Support for Medicated vs Unmedicated
- 12:02 – Doula Support During Cesarean
- 12:10 – Cesarean Support – Typically Scheduled? Or Unexpected but Ends Up Happening
- 14:44 – Millenials and Becoming an Active Person in their Health Care Decisions
- 16:52 – Doulas Today vs Doulas of Old – A Movement in the Way of Providing Nonjudgmental Support
- 18:14 – Relationships with Local Hospitals, Birthing Centers, OBs, Midwives
- 19:42 – Introducing Your Doula to Your OB/Midwife
- 20:34 – Postpartum Doula Education and Support
- 24:42 – CLE Baby Breakdown of Prenatal and Postpartum Doulas
- 25:20 – Picking a Doula from a Doula Team
- 26:19 – Specific Circumstances Where You Would Definitely Recommend a Doula
- 29:28 – How Are You Delivering Strength to the NEO Community?
- 31:33 – Find CLE Baby Online:
- Website: clebaby.com
- Email: hello@clebaby.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/CLEdoulas
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/clebabytweets
- Instagram: instagram.com/therealclebaby/
- Pinterest: pinterest.com/clebabypins/
- Find Us Online:
- Website – deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community - facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
Naturopathic Doctor Jerrica Sweetnich, ND, CNS (Naturopathic Doctor and Certified Nutrition Specialist) teaches us all about postpartum thyroiditis, a thyroid issue occurring in postpartum women more often than one might think. During our chat, we also explore the different thyroid hormones, adrenals and how the stress of becoming a new mom can affect all of those things.
Delivering Strength Podcast | Real talk about pregnancy, birth and postpartum health. | www.deliveringstrength.com
Show Notes:
3:20 – What is a naturopathic doctor?
5:30 – What are appointments like?
7:23 – What brought you to endocrinology specialty?
8:30 – Prevalence of NDs in the Cleveland/NEO area
8:58 – Introduction to postpartum thyroiditis
11:49 – How early do symptoms show?
13:14 – How common is this?
14:42 – symptoms
15:25 – What markers get checked?
16:27 – Treatment
18:18 – Natural treatment
20:15 – Testing
20:45 – How long does treatment take?
21:30 – Prevention
22:21 – Risk factors
23:34 – Practitioner qualifications
25:20 – Treating someone with prior diagnosis or treatment
26:20 – “Normal” labs but issues present
26:56 – Why don’t all doctors run the full panel?
28:00 – How do your adrenals relate to thyroid health?
31:23 – Stress of motherhood and its effect on adrenal fatigue and thyroid health
32:22 – Stress relief and self care as a recommendation
33:58 – Thyroid health’s role in preconception and fertility issues
34:54 – What other issues do you see patients for in childbearing years?
36:33 – Birth control’s role in hormonal issues
38:28 – Closing remarks – you should feel good, you should be able to lose weight, you don’t have to be fatigued all the time. If you don’t feel good, get help. And get the right and full lab work done before you start supplementing.
39:42 – Find Jerrica Sweetnich, ND, CNS online
- Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/drsweetnich/
- Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/jsweetnichnd/
- Website – www.modernhealthblog.com
40:06 – How do you Deliver Strength to the Northeast Ohio region?
Find Us Online –
- Website – www.deliveringstrength.com
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Cohost Anna Marie Murphy shares the story of her recent natural hospital birth of her son Dean.
Delivering Strength Podcast | Real talk about pregnancy, birth and postpartum health. | www.deliveringstrength.com
Show Notes:
1:10 – Introduction to Anna Marie’s birth story
1:21 – Anna Marie begins birth story
2:30 – Pregnancy journey
3:45 – First trimester
4:45 – Second trimester
5:10 – Pregnancy/Birth team
6:50 – Third trimester
7:29 – Birth story
28:58 – Was the birth what you expected it to be?
31:57 – Birth plan
33:35 – Anna Marie’s lessons learned from pregnancy/birth journey
38:53 – Closing statements
39:38 – Find Us Online:
- Website – www.deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community - www.facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
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Alayna Spratley of The Nurturing Root's Ohio office chats with us about the importance of building a birth team that supports the birth you want to have. Topics include: OB vs. midwife, hospital vs. home birth, doulas, chiropractic & more.
Delivering Strength Podcast | Real talk about pregnancy, birth and postpartum health. | www.deliveringstrength.com
Show Notes:
1:10 – Introduction to today’s topic
1:40 – Introduction to Alayna Spratley of The Nurturing Root
4:05 – How does someone determine where to birth and what are our options here in NEO? How does someone pick the right thing for them?
6:55 – When you’re in those locations, who are the different types of practitioners? (Obstetrician in a hospital setting, Certified Nurse Midwife in a hospital setting, or Direct Entry Midwife or Certified Professional Midwife at home)
7:52 – Prenatal care for each of these providers
9:37 – Prenatal care providers vs birth care providers
10:32 – Midwifery assistants
11:20 – Who else can/should be at your birth?
12:35 – What is a doula?
13:55 – How much do doulas cost in Northeast Ohio?
15:23 – Questions to ask doulas when interviewing?
17:45 – Where is the best place to find doulas?
- Cleveland Natural Parenting – Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClevelandNaturalParenting/
- doulamatch.net
19:45 – Other care providers to consider as part of your birth team
- Chiropractors
23:33 – Massage therapist
27:15 – Acupuncturist
30:35 – Preparing your birth partner for birth
34:35 – Are doulas becoming more popular in Northeast Ohio?
35:50 – Benefits of a doula
37:56 – Doulas for medicated vs unmedicated
39:40 – Doulas at home vs in hospitals
41:30 – How are you Delivering Strength to the community?
42:25 – About The Nurturing Root
- Website – thenurturingrootohio.com
- Power Provider directory
- Facebook – facebook.com/thenurturingroot
- Instagram – instagram.com/thenurturingroot
44:15 – Find Us Online:
- Website – www.deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community - www.facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/
Cohosts Candace Gesicki, DC and Anna Marie Murphy introduce themselves and give five tips for advocating for yourself in your pregnancy, birth and postpartum journey.
Delivering Strength Podcast | Real talk about pregnancy, birth and postpartum health | www.deliveringstrength.com
Show Notes:
1:13 – Welcome Message
2:25 – Candace’s Introduction
9:40 – Anna Marie’s Introduction
17:40 – Intro to Tips for Advocating for Yourself in Your Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum Journey
18:25 – Tip 1: Ask Questions
21:35 – Tip 2: Take Some Space
24:20 – Tip 3: Be Confident in Your Decision
25:40 – Tip 4: Build the Care Team of Your Dreams
28:15 – Tip 5: Find Your Tribe
32:05 – BONUS TIP: Exercise These Muscles: Practice doing these things and they will become easier over time.
34:20 – Summary: We want to Deliver Strength to you through this podcast!
36:33 – Find Us Online:
- Website – www.deliveringstrength.com
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/deliveringstrength
- Instagram – www.instagram.com/deliveringstrength
- Facebook Community - www.facebook.com/groups/DeliveringStrength/