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Down to Birth

#236 | October Q&A: Mom Friends, Tight Abdominal Muscles, Diabetes & Pregnancy, Velamentous Cords, Vitamin D & Breastfeeding

Down to Birth

Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig

Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum, Midwives, Alternative Health, Home Birth, Society & Culture, Newborn, Documentary, Hypnobirthing, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Breastfeeding, Pregnant, Birth, Maternity, Motherhood

4.8586 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Hello everyone - it's your favorite day of the month, when we take your calls! As always, thank you for submitting your excellent questions to 802-438-3696 (802-GET-DOWN). Keep them rolling in! We love hearing from you. Today, we kick things off with some of the hilarious comments and questions your husbands and partners have said during pregnancy and birth. Next, we dive into our questions beginning with one mom seeking guidance on how best to make mom friends after having a baby. Ano...

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0:00.0

Hi, Cynthia and Tricia, all the way from Europe to Netherlands, to be exact.

0:07.7

I have some questions regarding, and I hope to pronounce it right,

0:11.4

filamentous cord in Saracen.

0:13.4

There are 13-pound babies born.

0:15.4

I mean, so to say this to a woman who has a 9-pound baby, that's just like,

0:19.3

that's not as humongous as we're led to

0:21.1

believe. And if we didn't induce millions and millions of women per year, all those babies would

0:26.4

have weighed more at birth because they would have been born later. I was wondering about

0:31.0

GBS in the urine. I know you guys have covered GBS a lot, but I kind of wanted another opinion.

0:37.2

I was curious what you guys have to say. Considering divorce, but I kind of wanted another opinion. I was curious

0:37.6

what you guys have to say. Considering divorce statistics, why not do that? Yeah, we're going to,

0:42.1

like, send out the invitations. We're having a trial of marriage because we all know the

0:46.0

statistics on divorce. Come celebrate our trial of marriage. Why not? Maybe that would be more appropriate.

0:51.6

Yeah. Okay. You're getting the wrong message from this entirely.

0:55.9

I'm kidding.

0:58.2

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypnoborthing of Connecticut,

1:01.5

childbirth advocate, and postpartum support specialist.

1:05.0

And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.

1:11.2

And this is the Down-to-birth podcast.

1:15.7

Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?

1:22.7

Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.

1:32.2

Thank you. spell the myths and get down to birth. Okay, there we go.

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