Don't worry about how women on Instagram are doing it. Don't worry about just the right comment to say,

oh, you're having big feelings today. Like some of that is just such nonsense to me. I really don't like

any of that. Just like, you are, you are free. You are free as a mother to be yourself.

We block that out because we take the external, we take the technology, we take the words of society, we take what the pediatrician says, we take all of those things, over trusting ourselves.

Our culture celebrates those sorts of things, like pushing through and self-sacrifice. There's no merit or

honor scene when a woman takes like three weeks off to rest in bed. If I did chores the whole

time, I wasted the nap time. If I lounged the whole time, I wasted the nap time. If I called a dear

friend or my mom the whole time, I wasted the nap time. No matter what I did, it didn't feel I could ever justify having

a little time to myself. There was always a feeling of guilt. I'm Cynthia Overgard,

birth educator, advocate for informed consent, and postpartum support specialist.

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

And this is the Down to Birth Show.

Childbirth is something we're made to do.

But how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?

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

Hi, everybody. I am Dr. Morgan McDermott. I'm a naturopathic doctor and I specialize in the perinatal women's health space. So pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, postpartum, motherhood, and a little bit of pediatrics just because I feel like it's a natural flow from one thing into the next. And today I really want to talk about and emphasize to those that are pregnant or planning on having families, the importance of postpartum, many different concepts within

postpartum, but some of them maybe we haven't talked about before, people haven't heard about,

and a little bit more in the philosophical realm around rest, transformation of motherhood,

and what the benefit and the beauty and the lessons that can be made from those situations,

but then

specifically also why this is a challenge for modern women, American women.

You know, I don't speak for the entire world here, but I do think that there's uniquely

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