335: Focus Friday – The Ultimate Baby (Our 3rd Trimester)
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
We're nearing the end of our 3rd and final trimester and all is well! We can't wait to meet our bundle of joy very soon :)
We're both as prepared as can be and are ready for the birthing and parenting adventures ahead.
Today we discuss our unique baby shower, preventing constipation, (lack of) sleep, consuming dates, natural remedies for fighting a cold during pregnancy and so much more!
Again, thanks for joining us on our baby journey!
In this episode, we discuss:
- Our tea party themed baby shower
- Receiving books instead of cards to grow TUB’s library
- We're grateful for the gifts and continued support
- Capturing your pregnancy with a photoshoot
- What is belly mapping?
- At 32 weeks, baby was in a frank breech position
- Chiropractic care and Spinning Babies exercises
- The home visit with the midwives ended in a hospital visit at 37 weeks
- Always look for the silver lining in a situation you can’t control
- Shortness of breath is still an ongoing struggle in trimester 3
- Eating high fiber foods and staying hydrated helps prevent constipation
- Glowing skin and thick lush hair
- How our sleep has been impacted during this stage
- Exercises to tune into your pelvic floor
- Listen to your body
- Can you prevent tearing with the EPI-NO?
- Start planning for postpartum
- Stockpile your freezer with ready-to-go meals & snacks
- Minimize any stress and be prepared as possible
- Consuming dates can reduce the intensity & duration of labour
- The benefits of drinking red raspberry leaf tea
- Marni's new breastmilk tea helps increase milk supply
- Pregnancy safe natural remedies for fighting a cold
- Enjoying the nesting phase of pregnancy
- Creating a nursing station for breastfeeding area
- Getting the car seat properly installed
- Trust and surrender to what comes next
Related links:
Listen to Focus Friday - The Ultimate Baby - Our 1st and 2nd Trimester
Follow Marni Wasserman on Instagram
Follow The Ultimate Health Podcast on Instagram
Penny Simkin - The Birth Partner (book)
Listen to Jen Oliver previously on TUHP (episode #262)
Jen Oliver - The Love FitMama Way (book)
Glowing Mama Health & Fitness Program – Use the code “ultimatehealth15” for 15% off
Tracy Anderson Pregnancy Project Workouts
Kim Vopni - Prepare To Push (book)
Listen to Genevieve Howland aka Mama Natural previously on TUHP (episode #315)
Chalice Spice - The Ultimate Baby (TUB) Tea Collection
Traditional Medicinals - Red Raspberry Leaf Tea
Chalice Spice - The Ultimate Breastmilk Tea For Nursing Mothers
Listen to Focus Friday - Close the Loops previously on TUHP (episode #314)
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329: Dr. Shefali Tsabary – Conscious Parenting, Vipassana Meditation, Letting Go Of Perfection
206: Josh Gitalis – Support During Pregnancy • Boost Your Immunity • Testing For Heavy Metals
204: Meghan Telpner – A “Natural” Birth Story
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Arnie Wasserman with Jesse Chappas from the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome back to another Focus Friday, where we give you short bursts of information and inspiration to set your weekend off on the right foot. |
| 0:16.0 | And today we're going to be talking all about Trimester 3, which we are actually still in, |
| 0:21.0 | but we've got lots to share on what's been happening over the last number of months. |
| 0:24.8 | These episodes, this is the third one we've done obviously being the third trimester and |
| 0:28.8 | Marty and I get on tangents and they're quite long but we're going to put them out in the |
| 0:34.0 | focus Friday format and we know you're going to love it. Yeah they're definitely not |
| 0:37.7 | short there's just too much to say but it's all good. So yeah we've got lots to |
| 0:42.4 | talk about about what's been taking place, but I think the place that I want to start is how this trimester started, which is with a baby shower, which was literally at, well, just after the start of |
| 0:55.2 | trimester 3. It was at 30 weeks. |
| 0:57.5 | We had a beautiful baby shower put on by my mom, |
| 1:01.5 | Jesse's mom, Jesse's aunt, and future sister-in-law were all part of this and they are |
| 1:07.7 | such an amazing team. |
| 1:08.7 | Jess, how amazing was the shower? |
| 1:10.3 | Oh, it was perfect and the interesting thing too is that this group arranged the |
| 1:15.2 | decorating for our wedding and for your wedding shower and now the baby shower. So |
| 1:20.8 | there's been a real consistency with the look and feel of each of these |
| 1:25.2 | milestone events in our life. Yeah, well a lot of it is DIY. They all are very |
| 1:30.4 | crafty, very artistic, and they do everything from scratch, |
| 1:35.0 | like all the things that are hanging and the banners |
| 1:38.0 | and everything's very rustic and artsy. |
| 1:40.0 | So the decor was amazing and beautiful, and so me. The theme was kind of a tea party which was perfect. It was an afternoon tea party and it was a great opportunity to see friends and family celebrate me and the baby and Jesse and obviously it was a great way to get |
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