114. The Fourth Trimester
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
"I felt broken. Physically. Emotionally. I had a complete breakdown. I felt like a broken human. I was so tired. Lifeless. And I finally Googled the one thing I hadn't really wanted to Google."
In just a few days, Annie — my spankin' new daughter — will be three months old. That means I will have reached the end of what is commonly referred to as "the fourth trimester." That period postpartum when the baby still thinks its in the womb, and the mom is — I'm not sure what the mom is. But I know that for me, this fourth trimester has been tough. Trying. Exhausting. Emotional. Wonderful, amazing, monumental — but definitely hard. So on this solo episode, I talk about all of it: the pumping, the boob stuff, the expectations, the realities, and the truths. I talk about why I've been living in fear, and open up about what went down over the holidays, and how it ended with me Googling and really looking into postpartum depression. Plus, I talk about having help — thank god for help! — and answer listener questions.
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What I mention on this episode:
"I Had a Baby!" Episode 106 of the Ali on the Run Show
Laura Anderson on Episode 92 of the Ali on the Run Show
Chrissy Teigen Opens Up for the First Time About Her Postpartum Depression, via Glamour
Michele Gonzalez on Episode 19 of the Ali on the Run Show
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Aftershocks. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm your host Allie Feller and I'm also your guest today. |
| 0:14.4 | Well Annie's here too and so is Ellie but I think I'll be the one doing most of the talking. |
| 0:19.7 | Ellie of course is my three year old dog, my first born, and Annie is my three month old baby. |
| 0:26.6 | She was born on October 16th, 2018 and that's what I want to talk about today. |
| 0:33.0 | If you're into all this personal stuff, yay! I'm so happy to have you here. |
| 0:37.6 | But if the personal stuff isn't your jam and you came here for the running talk and inspirational |
| 0:42.8 | conversations with other people, I totally get that. That's why this show started after all. |
| 0:48.3 | And here's the thing, my goal was to have one of those conversations this week but it didn't happen. |
| 0:54.1 | I'm learning that is life with a newborn. Scheduling is hard. |
| 0:59.1 | Everything is kind of hard and that's what I want to talk about today if you're up for it. |
| 1:03.5 | I want to talk about the personal stuff, the hard stuff, the wait why is this so hard stuff? |
| 1:09.9 | I'm doing my very best to keep the cool conversations coming but in the meantime, here's a little |
| 1:15.8 | Allie on the Run unfiltered. |
| 1:25.1 | So Annie is 12 weeks old. She'll be three months on January 16th. |
| 1:30.2 | So that means I'm out of the fourth trimester. The fourth trimester, as you probably figured out, |
| 1:36.5 | that's what people call the first three months postpartum. The baby still thinks she's in the womb |
| 1:42.2 | and the mom, the me. I don't know what she thinks but whatever it is, it's not clearly. |
| 1:48.4 | But the fourth trimester is done. There is no theoretical fifth trimester, at least not that I |
| 1:54.0 | know of. That actually might be the one thing. I haven't Googled yet. |
| 1:58.5 | So I should have it all figured out by now then, right? We got through the first foggy period and |
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