You're listening to the Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast, episode number 48.

Hey guys, happy Monday, we are doing another collaborative podcast episode today.

I got so much good feedback from you guys on my birth story with

Ryland when I talked with my sister Jenna and my other employee Tiffany that you

guys love that episode of me and the two of them sitting down and just having a conversation.

So we decided to do that again and talk about my postpartum experience.

So one of the things that we decided to do

is break this episode up into two parts.

So this is part one of two.

Postpartum, as I know, because I've been through it twice now can sometimes throw you for a loop.

It's hard. It's very very hard and we talk about that in this episode and I'm sure we're going to talk about it in part two as well.

So this is something that I talk about in my course and that I've talked about and we prepare for pregnancy and we take birth courses

to prepare for labor and birth. I personally experienced this the first go-round

with Walter that labor was super hard and I knew that I had to prepare for that but

nobody really told me exactly how hard postpartum was and how to prepare for that. I thought I knew what I was doing because I'm a leave my delivery nurse and you know, you think you kind of know what you're getting into

because I take care of patients you know in the first couple of hours postpartum so I'm like I know what to

expect but it was pretty hard. And it wasn't certainly quite as hard this go-round, but it, you know, still absolutely some challenges. The emotions, you know, the lack of sleep, the body changes, especially if it's your first baby, your normal becomes very, very different and that can be very, very hard for people.

Personally, with Walter, with my first, I was not ready for the complete slap in the face

that postpartum was for me.

And I want to make it clear to you guys that it's super hard,

but I don't want to scare you.

You know, this is not me scaring you.

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