Bonus: Alex Morgan on motherhood

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4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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During our conversation with Alex Morgan, the USWNT star went into detail about both her pregnancy and her life as a new mother. Not all of that made it into the final episode, but we thought it was too good not to share. Now, in this special bonus episode of the JWS Podcast, you can listen as Kelley and Alex discuss what it was like to give birth in a pandemic, the lack of research regarding pregnancy and training, and what Alex’s return-to-play protocols look like as the new mother gets ready for next summer’s Olympics. Together With: BEAST, personal care products for BEASTS of all kinds. Get 20% OFF with code: JWS Ritual, vitamins for skeptics, by skeptics. Get 10% OFF with code: JWS Sports Save You Money.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all this is Kelly O'Hara, host of the Just Women's Sports Podcast. During my
0:08.6	interview with Alex Morgan in episode one we talked a lot about her post-pregnancy return to play.
0:14.3	Not all of that made it into the final show edit, but it's too good not to share.
0:18.4	Hearing Alex talked about how little guidance there is regarding post-pregnancy training really
0:22.4	opened my eyes and it
0:23.7	made me want to share this conversation with all of you. So we're releasing this
0:27.3	bonus episode just covering Alex's pregnancy and her life as a new mother. I hope you
0:32.3	enjoy and to any new moms out there,
0:34.0	congrats.
0:37.0	How are you doing? You're in Florida. How is motherhood?
0:41.0	Good. It's great. I'm just at Charlie's disposal and whenever she wants to eat or cry or sleep. It's like I swear it's like she's sleeping and I need to wake her up to eat and then she's awake and I'm like go to sleep. You know it's like this forever like cycle
0:58.5	terrible cycle of like waking up when she doesn't want to be awake putting her in bed when she doesn't want to be asleep and just eating at all times.
1:04.8	So is it, are you doing that because you learn, like you've been told that you need to get her
1:09.0	on a schedule or you just like, oh I need to feed her every, to four three five six hours what is it I don't know every two to three hours
1:17.3	Yes from the beginning of one feed to the beginning of the next so it's like an hour and a half so it's not like fair for that they say that but that's fine that's the way it goes. And yeah, it's been I mean I've adjusted to it and it's pretty much gone like pretty smooth Charlie's like a super easy baby and I've had a lot of family here to help me so that's been really nice.
1:40.0	She looks very happy on all the pictures you send me.
1:43.0	Yeah, I only take pictures of her when she looks happy.
1:45.0	I delete the ones that she's crying in immediately.
1:48.0	No. I just share the ones that she's happy.
1:51.0	Many times she's sleeping or crying, and I'm trying to put a cute bow on her and she's like,
1:56.0	eh! Like taking it off or it's like blinding her in her face.
2:00.0	Bose always looks so cute but they're really not easy to keep on.
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