Leakage, Painful Sex, Pelvic Floor Health and How to teach your Daughter to Insert her First Tampon with Dr. Sara Reardon aka The Vagina Whisperer

Raising Good Humans

Dear Media, Aliza Pressman

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Pelvic health is often ignored until something goes wrong—but it’s essential at every stage of a woman’s life. In this episode, Dr. Sara Reardon, also known as the Vagina Whisperer, breaks down what every woman needs to know about her pelvic floor. From painful sex and postpartum recovery to perimenopause, proper toilet habits, and how we talk to our kids about their bodies.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:04.0	If we don't understand our bodies, how do we teach the next generation about their bodies?
0:09.1	If we don't even know how to find the vaginal opening or use a tampon or that sex shouldn't be painful,
0:14.8	like how are we able to support our kids, all genders, on how to take care of their pelvic floors?
0:25.4	Thank you. all genders on how to take care of their pelvic floors. Welcome to Raising Good Humans podcast.
0:28.3	I'm Dr. Elisa Pressman and first and foremost, happy Mother's Day Mamas.
0:34.4	I am just in love with every one of you. I cannot think about a more profound experience or
0:46.1	relationship. And the honor that I have of being in this community with so many mothers is just life-giving. So I hope you do something
0:59.3	to feel joy on Mother's Day. And for those of you, for whom this is also a complicated day,
1:07.4	I'm thinking of you as well. And to my mama, I don't think my mom's listening to this
1:12.9	episode, if I'm honest, but if she is, I love you so much. And this is the topic of the episode.
1:18.9	In honor of Mother's Day, we're talking all about vaginas and how to care for them
1:24.1	throughout every stage. The end of this episode, we're even going into how to help
1:29.2	your daughters put in tampons, but we're mostly talking about taking care of our own pelvic
1:35.4	floor. So I've enlisted the woman, Dr. Sarah Reardon, who's known as the vagina whisper on
1:42.2	Instagram, she's the best.
1:47.2	And she actually has a new book called Floored,
1:48.6	coming out in a few weeks,
1:52.6	a woman's guide to pelvic floor health at every age and stage.
1:56.1	So she's giving us everything we need to know from basically pregnancy onward
1:58.5	and then working backwards to our teenagers and emerging adolescents.
2:04.2	So let's do this. Have a little vagina talk. And for those of you who don't want to hear the
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