FFP 387 | High-Risk Pregnancies | Reducing The Risk of Pre-Term Birth | Parijat Deshpande
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🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode focuses on high-risk pregnancies. My guest Parijat Deshpande shares specific strategies for coping with the stressful realities of high risk pregnancies to ultimately reduce birth complications and reduce the risk of having a pre-term birth.
Parijat Deshpande is the leading integrative high-risk pregnancy specialist, somatic trauma professional and speaker and author who guides women to improve their pregnancy complications so they can reduce their risk of preterm birth. Her unique neurobiological approach has served hundreds of women to manage pregnancy complications and reclaim a safety and trust in their bodies that they thought was eroded forever. Parijat is the author of bestselling book Pregnancy Brain: A Mind-Body Approach to Stress Management During a High-Risk Pregnancy. She is also the host of the popular podcast Delivering Miracles®️, that discusses the real, raw side of family-building including infertility, loss, high-risk pregnancy, bed rest, prematurity and healing once baby comes home.
Learn more about Parijat Deshpande and her work at www.parijatdeshpande.com.
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- What inspired Parijat to begin her work in women's health
- How her own fertility and pregnancy journey impacted her
- Identifying what stress really is and how it affects the body
- Strategies to manage your stress during pregnancy
- How stress can affect your menstrual cycle
- Knowing when is the right time to use specific tools (meditation, journaling, etc.) in your stress cycle
- The importance of getting yourself back to safety post-trauma before getting pregnant again
- Why it's important to remember we cannot feel joy if we don't feel safe
- Positive effects of re-regulating your nervous system during pregnancy
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Resources mentioned:
- Pregnancy Brain: A Mind-Body Approach to Stress Management During a High-Risk Pregnancy
- Delivering Miracles®️Podcast
- The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility (Book) | Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
- Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook
- Fertility Awareness Mastery Online Self-Study Program
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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 cost. |
| 0:11.1 | Head over to fertility friday.com slash mastery for details. |
| 0:15.0 | That's fertility fruity friday.com slash mastery. |
| 0:18.0 | This is the fertility Friday podcast, episode number 387. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome to the Fertility Friday podcast, your source for information about the fertility |
| 0:32.8 | awareness method and all things fertility. I'm your host, Lisa Hendrickson Jack. I'm the author of the |
| 0:38.5 | Fifth Vital Sign and the Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Journal. I'm a certified fertility |
| 0:43.2 | awareness educator and holistic reproductive health practitioner with nearly 20 years of experience |
| 0:48.3 | teaching women to connect to their fifth vital sign through menstrual cycle charting, balancing |
| 0:53.3 | hormonal health, and optimizing the menstrual cycle charting, balancing hormonal health, and optimizing |
| 0:55.0 | the menstrual cycle without hormones. I'm outspoken about hormonal birth control and its |
| 1:00.7 | impact on fertility and overall health because you have the right to know how your body works |
| 1:05.5 | and how artificial hormones disrupt that natural process. I host live coaching programs to help you achieve optimal fertility and health |
| 1:13.2 | because it's important to have healthy menstrual cycles regardless of whether or not you want to have babies. |
| 1:19.5 | I'm also a wife and mother of two beautiful boys. I know, I know, I'm a busy girl, but I managed to fit it all in. |
| 1:26.6 | This podcast is designed to empower you to take full control of your cycles, your fertility, |
| 1:31.5 | and your overall health. |
| 1:32.8 | And I'm so excited that you're here with us today. |
| 1:41.3 | Today's episode, I think, is an interesting follow-up to last week's episode. |
| 1:45.8 | So last week I shared my interview with Justine Bold, and she shared her experience, |
| 1:53.2 | her fertility journey, as well as her experience of pregnancy in her mid-40s. |
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