FFP 268 | Postpartum Planning | What Really Happens After Birth | Adriana Lozada

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🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Adriana’s background is multi-layered and multi-cultural. A former print and online editor from Venezuela, the birth of her daughter sparked her passion for being a birth advocate. With over 12 years of experience, Adriana is a certified advanced birth doula, postpartum educator, healthy sleep consultant, and bestselling author. Adriana is also the host of the Birthful Podcast, where she talks to amazing, knowledgeable, and passionate birth professionals every week, to help new and expectant parents inform their intuition. This is part of her quest to help expectant parents everywhere get birth and postpartum ready.

In today’s episode we have a candid conversation about the postpartum period from what it really looks like to how to prepare for it!

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Topics discussed in today's episode:

What inspired Adriana to jump into the birthing world
What is the official role of a Doula
The difference between a doula and a midwife
The benefits of birth doulas and postpartum doulas
The importance of postpartum education
The idea of motherhood postpartum vs. the reality of those first few weeks
The toll the first few weeks of postpartum life can take on a new mother
The importance of a new mother to rest, recover and discover
Benefits of establishing a postpartum plan
Embracing the change and having grace during that change
Communicating with your partner and sharing the mental load
How the “super woman” idea causes unnecessary stressors and pressure on mothers
Don’t forget to breathe!

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by my fertility awareness mastery online self-study program.
0:05.9	Learn fertility awareness from the comfort of your own home at your own pace. For a fraction of the
0:10.4	cost, head over to fertility friday.com slash mastery for details. That's fertility fratify.com
0:16.5	slash mastery. This episode is brought to you by my very first book, The Fifth Vital Sign, Master your cycles,
0:22.4	and optimize your fertility. With over 1,000 research citations, it is the most comprehensive
0:27.1	resource on fertility awareness and the menstrual cycle to date. The Fifth Vital Sign is available
0:32.1	in paperback, e-book, and audiobook formats on Amazon.com. Listen to the Fifth Vital sign for free when you sign up for a
0:39.5	30-day trial with Audible. Visit fertility friday.com slash audible for details. That's
0:45.0	fertility fruity friday.com slash audible. This is a fertility Friday podcast episode number 268.
0:57.1	Welcome to the 268 episode of the Fertility Friday podcast.
1:01.2	Thank you for joining me today.
1:02.3	I'm Lisa from FertilityFriety.com, and this is your source for information about the
1:06.0	fertility awareness method and all things fertility.
1:14.2	I have a great interview to share with you today.
1:16.6	Today I'm sharing my interview with Adriana Lasuada.
1:20.3	I hope I said your name right, Adriana.
1:22.5	And I'm really excited to share this interview with you actually because it was a really
1:26.4	fun interview to record.
1:28.4	You'll hear it as soon as you get into it. But beyond the fun, it is a really important topic that we're covering in today's show.
1:35.5	Today's episode applies to you if you are pregnant right now. If you are thinking about pregnancy at some point in the future, whether that's the near future or a little ways away, or if you are actively in the preconception phase and you are trying to conceive, in today's episode, we talk about postpartum.
1:55.5	We basically talk about what happens when the baby arrives, how to prepare yourself for that, and what types of
2:03.6	shifts happen, emotional, physical, spiritual, and why it's important. It's really interesting.
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