Welcome to the birthful podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada and today we're talking about the effects of sleep deprivation.

If you have a baby in your life, it's a given that you're not

getting enough sleep. But how does that deprivation affect your mind, body, and mood? How does it

relate to weight gain? Can your body adapt to the lack of sleep? Do micro-naps help or hinder?

What about regular naps? Dr. Kimberly Fen has answers. Stay tuned.

This episode of Birthful is brought to you by Megan Othling, a birthdula in Albuquerque, who is all about

offering women the information and support they need to make their own empowered birth choices.

Learn more at Woman of Valorbirth.com. The birthful podcast, talking to

maternity pros to inform your intuition. Hello, mighty mamas and mamas to be and mighty

dads and dads to be. As always, thank you so, so much for listening

and for all the love you give the show. I appreciate your comments, your requests, and of course

your reviews, since those help get the show in front of even more parents, as I tell you every week.

So if you enjoy what you hear, then please consider subscribing and leaving a review in iTunes, even if that's not

how you usually listen to the show, because it really does help. Now, most of the listeners

of this show are mighty parents to be, but I also know that there are quite a bunch of mighty

doulas and childbirth educators and birth professionals who also join us week after week.

And so if you are a birth professional close to Rochester, New York, I have a fabulous

birthday treat for you. I am doing a special advanced dula workshop on June 24th to talk about

rethinking prenatals to support physiology and promote birth ownership. Yes. In this

workshop, we'll be exploring a new birth model that stops focusing on stages and stations and

centimeters. This model is going to help birthing couples really understand what they can be doing

now during pregnancy to make labor flow and really own their births, a model where

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