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Q&A: Are Microwaves Safe to Use During Pregnancy?
“Hi Vanessa, thanks so much for the informative podcast! I was wondering if it is safe to use a microwave during pregnancy? Both to eat food or…
Continue reading156: Optimal Fetal Positioning & Spinning Babies
Listen Now Episode 156 Content and Overview Your baby’s position in the womb can have a big impact on your labor and their birth. What if you can do some…
Continue readingEpisode 155: Baby Position
Listen Now Episode 155 Content and Overview Your baby’s position in the womb seems simple on the surface. You want your baby head down in the third trimester and you…
Continue reading154: Delayed Cord Clamping
Listen Now Episode 154 Content and Overview Your baby’s umbilical cord is their lifeline. The reason for this, is that it is constantly delivering oxygen and nutrients, and removing carbon…
Continue readingEpisode 153: Third Stage of Labor (Updated)
Listen Now Episode 153 Content and Overview The third stage of labor starts after your baby is born and ends with birthing the placenta. Even after your beautiful baby is…
Continue reading152: How Pregnancy Changes Your Feet
Listen Now Episode 152 Content and Overview Did you know that your feet can go up a shoe size during your pregnancy? This is just one of many issues that…
Continue reading151: Five Rules for New Parents
Listen Now Episode 151 Content and Overview There is so much focus on pregnancy and birth that many new parents find themselves lost once their baby is born. Most parents…
Continue reading150: Body Image During Pregnancy & After Baby
Listen Now Episode 150 Content and Overview Body image during pregnancy and after having a baby is not something that just affects someone who was previously anorexic or struggled with…
Continue reading149: Preparing Your Partner for Birth
Listen Now Episode 149 Content and Overview Back in the 1950s dads spent labor in hospital waiting rooms, called “stork clubs”, until a nurse came in to let them know…
Continue readingQ&A: Cell Free DNA & NIPT (Non Invasive Prenatal Test)
Listen Now Episode Content and Overview You have several options during your pregnancy when it comes to testing for chromosome abnormalities in your baby. The most common non-invasive screening tests…
Continue reading148: Finding Out Your Baby’s Sex
Listen Now Episode 148 Content and Overview Your baby’s sex is determined at conception. They will get an X chromosome from the egg and either an X or Y from…
Continue reading147: Maternity Leave
Listen Now Episode 147 Content and Overview Maternity leave is the name for taking time off from work after you have a baby. The amount of time that your maternity…
Continue reading146: Placenta Encapsulation
Listen Now Episode 146 Content and Overview Consumption of placenta by a mother after birth has been a taboo subject, but it has been gaining popularity in recent years. The…
Continue reading145: Prenatal Vitamin
Listen Now Episode 145 Content and Overview It is so important to make sure you have all of the vitamins and nutrients you need during pregnancy for you for your…
Continue reading144: Gestational Diabetes
Listen Now Episode 144 Content and Overview When you eat your body breaks down foods into glucose, which is used for energy. Your pancreas he hormone, insulin, is produced by your…
Continue reading143: Breathing During Labor
Listen Now Episode 143 Content and Overview Breathing is something we are constantly doing, and seldom paying much attention to. When you are pregnant, the changes your body is going…
Continue reading142: Progesterone
Listen Now Progesterone is the most important hormone in a group of steroid hormones known as progestogens. This hormone plays a major role during your pregnancy by affecting your uterus,…
Continue reading141: What to Pack in Your Birth Bag
Listen Now Episode 141 Content and Overview Find out exactly what you need to pack in your bag to take to the hospital or birth center when you go into…
Continue reading140: Hemorrhoids During Pregnancy and After Birth
Listen Now Hemorrhoids are estimated to affect around 40% of pregnant women, and that number climbs even higher after birth. Hemorrhoids can cause bleeding during a bowel movement, pain, swelling,…
Continue readingEpisode 139: Pumping Breast Milk
Listen Now Episode 139 Content and Overview Pumping is a great way to provide breast milk to your baby when you cannot be there to breastfeed. This could be so…
Continue reading138: Breastfeeding, Troubleshooting Your Baby
Listen Now Episode 138 Content and Overview Newborns are hard wired to breastfeed and are born with instincts to help them latch on right after birth. But that doesn’t mean…
Continue reading137: Breastfeeding, Troubleshooting Your Breasts
Listen Now Episode 137 Content and Overview Many women expect breastfeeding to come naturally without many issues. In reality, breastfeeding can take practice and patience as you and our baby…
Continue reading135: Short Cervix, Incompetent Cervix, and Cerclage
Listen Now Episode 135 Content and Overview Your cervix is the lower part of your uterus that opens to your vagina. The length of your cervix changes as your pregnancy…
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