86 Postpartum Struggles

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Shawn and Andrew go LIVE talking about their postpartum life after having their second baby. From mental health, to identity, to daily routine changes, they delve deep into the struggles and joys of life after baby. Here are a few topics that we cover: 0:00 introduction 2:18 statistics of women who struggle with postpartum depression 3:45 dealing with postpartum with your second child 6:53 hormones after birth 8:31 talking to someone about your mental health 11:13 having the postpartum conversation before birth 12:42 the mom guilt 13:21 ways we've found that may help you through postpartum 13:57 leaning on each other 16:45 losing your identity once you become "mom" 20:58 take care of yourself 23:45 dad struggles 26:57 having a community 27:45 c-section recovery 28:16 the TSA story 32:47 how drew is doing with jett 33:30 getting your husband to understand postpartum 35:09 c-section recovery must haves ANDD....WE ARE GOING ON TOUR!! Check out the link below to see if we are coming to a city near you in 2022! Click here to get your tickets now ▶ https://www.couplethingspod.com/ We are sponsored by these companies that we love. Check them out below: SlingTV ▶ Go to slingTV.com/EASTFAM to get your first month for just 10 dollars! Athletic Greens ▶ athleticgreens.com/eastfam -with your first purchase today, they are going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs! ▶ If you haven’t yet, please rate Couple Things and subscribe to hear more. Follow us on Instagram to keep the conversation going at https://www.instagram.com/couplething... And if you have suggestions/recommendations for the show, send us your ideas in a video format – we might just choose yours! Email us at [email protected]. Subscribe for more! http://bit.ly/3rnOdNo Follow My Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/ShawnJohnson Follow My Twitter ▶ http://www.twitter.com/ShawnJohnson Snapchat! ▶ @ShawneyJ Follow AndrewsTwitter ▶ http://www.twitter.com/AndrewDEast Follow My Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/AndrewDEast Snapchat! ▶ @AndrewDEast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I feel like as soon as you become a mom, as I would say, the story I'm telling myself is that the world forgot that there's other sides of me.
0:07.0	This is probably where I struggle the most. She said it's easy to feel like your only job is mom, and you're a forgotten that you have other roles as wife, partner, daughter, friend.
0:22.0	We are live, baby.
0:24.0	What? Up, everybody?
0:26.0	Good morning.
0:27.0	Good morning.
0:28.0	What's up?
0:29.0	Everybody, welcome back to a couple things.
0:30.0	What's Sean and Andrew.
0:31.0	A podcast all about couples.
0:33.0	And the things they go through happy Wednesday, baby.
0:36.0	Happy Wednesday.
0:38.0	We made it.
0:39.0	We made it.
0:40.0	Yeah.
0:41.0	We made it to hump day.
0:42.0	Today, I'll let you introduce the topic for discussion.
0:45.0	Yes, today's topic of discussion.
0:47.0	We actually tried to film this twice yesterday.
0:49.0	Yes.
0:50.0	Infield.
0:51.0	So we thought why not do it live and actually answer questions.
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