EP64: Am I Doing It Right? w/ Dr. Alexandra Sacks

The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy

Elizabeth Presta

Education, Parenting, Kids & Family, Self-improvement

4.2 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth is joined this episode by Dr. Sacks who is a reproductive psychiatrist. She sheds light on the transition from pregnancy to motherhood and how the feelings of change are a normal part of the transition. They talk mom-guilt, matrescence and educating around motherhood.

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Alexandra Sacks M.D. is a Reproductive Psychiatrist, co-author of What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions From Pregnancy to Motherhood, and the host of Motherhood Sessions.

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to miraculous mamas. I have an amazing guest here for you guys. I have Dr.
0:12.9	Sack. She is a reproductive psychiatrist and she is just so knowledgeable and has so much to
0:20.5	offer us. I've read some of her articles. I watched her TED talk and when I watched your TED
0:27.1	talk, I was like, oh my gosh, she went into anthropology. That's what I started majoring for. I love
0:31.8	anthropology. So soon as you drop that, I'm like, I feel like we're going to bond. But she is here
0:38.0	just to share with us, to educate us. And hopefully everybody will be able just to take something
0:44.3	amazing away from this episode. But so welcome, first of all. Thank you so much for having me.
0:51.7	So before we dive in, it is pregnancy awareness month. But also I wanted to just touch on real
0:59.2	quick last month. So April is C section, Cicerian Awareness Month. So on the Patreon, it's all
1:06.6	women from our community sharing their Cicerian birth stories. If you want to see that or listen to
1:13.6	that, it's something that is very important. And I'm glad that a lot of our guests that we've
1:18.4	brought on have touched on it. But right now it is pregnancy awareness month. And so we are going
1:26.0	to give some fun pregnancy facts, a cultural one, either like a pregnancy or a birth fact,
1:31.9	and then an animal one. So for pregnancy, there is, okay. So basically your uterus is stronger
1:42.6	than a body builder. It deserves a medal because with every contraction during labor, the force
1:48.1	equates to 180 kilograms of pressure per square foot. And that is huge. Your uterus is a body
1:56.0	builder could put body builders to shame. I love that. Yeah, I thought that that was fun. And then
2:02.3	the other one, I was going to do a fun cultural fact. And this one is that in Ireland, some couples
2:12.2	save a bit of their wedding cake for an anniversary. But Irish couples traditionally hold on to
2:16.7	theirs for another occasion, the first child's chrysanthemums. The parents serve the top tier of
2:21.8	the cake to the guests and sprinkle a few crumbs on the child's forehead to bless it with good luck.
2:28.0	Wow. Yeah, I thought that was cool. It is cool, but it sounds like a lot of pressure.
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