204: Meghan Telpner - A "Natural" Birth Story
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2017
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Meghan Telpner is a Toronto-based author, speaker, nutritionist, and founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition who's been ranked as one of the top 100 female entrepreneurs in Canada. She’s written two bestselling books: UnDiet: Eat Your Way to Vibrant Health and The UnDiet Cookbook.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The eternal pregnancy
- The importance of preconception planning
- Detoxing before getting pregnant (women & men)
- Nobody talks about miscarriages
- Eating 100% organic during preconception (and beyond)
- Recruiting an amazing pregnancy team
- Giving birth is the greatest physical feat of your lifetime
- The role of a doula and a midwife
- Every pregnant woman must go visit a pelvic floor therapist
- Pregnancy is unpredictable
- Birthing your child is simultaneously the most selfless and selfish act, of your life
- Traumatic births can cause PTSD
- Focusing on healing after giving birth
- Considering cosleeping?
- Balancing being a new Mom and an entrepreneur
- Saying no to good so you can say yes to great
- You can never plan for the unknown
- The unexpected feelings of being a new Mom
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Related links:
Meghan Telpner - UnDiet (book)
Meghan Telpner - The UnDiet Cookbook (book)
Follow Meghan Telpner on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
Sign up for Meghan's Culinary Nutrition Expert Program (CNE)
Listen to Meghan Telpner previously on TUHP (episode #25, #91, & #146)
Listen to Josh Gitalis previously on TUHP (episode #4, #80, & #146)
Our Birth Story: Where Nothing Goes As We’d Planned (Meghan's blog)
Miscarriages Happen and It’s Okay. Here’s What No One Talks About. (Meghan's blog)
40 Natural Solutions To Pregnancy Symptoms (Meghan's blog)
My Prenatal Library: Best Books For A Natural Pregnancy and Birth (Meghan's blog)
My Top 25 Essentials for New Moms and Babies (Meghan's blog)
Why “Mom Guilt” Is Total Nonsense (Meghan's blog)
Listen to Nadine Artemis previously on TUHP (episode #41, #88, #188)
Sally Fallon Morell - The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care (book)
The Weston A. Price Foundation
Roy Dittmann - Brighton Baby (book)
Heng Ou - The First Forty Days (book)
Evidence Based Birth (website)
Sarah Buckley - Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering (book)
Related episodes:
329: Dr. Shefali Tsabary – Conscious Parenting, Vipassana Meditation, Letting Go Of Perfection
315: Genevieve Howland aka Mama Natural – Preparing For A Healthy Pregnancy & Childbirth
206: Josh Gitalis – Support During Pregnancy • Boost Your Immunity • Testing For Heavy Metals
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| 0:00.0 | The natural birth method is that you put the baby on your chest and the baby will naturally find the nipple and begin nursing. |
| 0:07.8 | So I was ready to receive the baby, but the baby didn't come to me. |
| 0:11.0 | He was taken immediately to the resuscitation team where he was |
| 0:14.4 | intubated and to have his lungs cleared of the maconium. Hello and |
| 0:25.0 | Jessie Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:30.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:34.0 | This week our featured guest is Megan Telner. |
| 0:36.0 | She's a Toronto-based author, speaker, nutritionist, and founder of the Academy of |
| 0:41.2 | Culinary Nutrition, who's been ranked as one of the top |
| 0:44.2 | hundred female entrepreneurs in Canada. She's written two best-selling books, |
| 0:48.2 | Undyit, Eat Your Way to Vibrant Health, and the Undyat Cookbook. |
| 0:51.6 | Megan also happens to be a good friend of ours and we were just so happy to have her on our show today to tell her very real and very raw birth story. |
| 1:01.0 | So I think there's a lot of moms listening and we've gotten a lot of |
| 1:04.8 | questions about natural birth and Megan's going to tell us how her very |
| 1:08.9 | natural birth plan went a very different way. So here's some of what we get into in today's show. |
| 1:14.2 | How important it is to recruit an amazing pregnancy team, |
| 1:17.5 | the role of a dula and a midwife, and what those are, |
| 1:20.8 | how having a pelvic floor therapist was crucial to Megan's healing, balancing |
| 1:25.7 | being a new mom and an entrepreneur and you can never plan for the unknown. |
| 1:29.6 | So much goodness in this. Here we go with Megan Teltner. |
| 1:33.4 | Hello Meg, welcome back to the podcast. How's it going today? |
| 1:36.7 | So good, thanks for having me back. It's always so nice to chat with you both, |
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