Navigating Pregnancy as a Couple | E362

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

YAP Media Network | Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Relationships

4.7 • 890 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Smart couples recognize that pregnancy is more than a growing-a-baby waiting game. It is a prime opportunity to work through important relationship issues and strengthen your relationship. Having a baby can feel like it’s the Pregnant Lady Show, rather than an experience that you and your partner are working through together. But the journey of pregnancy, and the challenges it offers, are opportunities for growth — for both of you. Using these moments during pregnancy will help you know how to work as a team, improve your communication, increase your emotional intimacy, support your emotional wellbeing, and lay the foundation for the happy, healthy family life you want for yourselves and your child... but only if you know how. This episode is going to teach you how to turn the pregnancy into a positive relationship growth experience, by navigating the pregnancy experience as a team. My guests D’Anthony and Rachel Ward are experts on this subject, and today they're sharing their wisdom with you. Join us! Xoxo, Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby GrowingSelf.com PS: I have so much more to support you and your family in my "Happy Families" content collection. Tap in to find expert advice from the marriage and family therapists and parenting coaches on my team, as well as curated podcast playlists just for you.

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0:00.0	This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the love, happiness, and success podcast.
0:07.2	When people start thinking about having babies, they obviously and understandably spend a lot of time and energy thinking about the growing of said baby.
0:17.7	Sometimes, without fully realizing, the amount of growth that is possible for them during
0:26.4	the pregnancy experience, either personal growth or relational growth.
0:32.0	The truth is that the experience of pregnancy is the hero's journey. It transforms you mentally, emotionally,
0:42.2	relationally, and learning how to do all that work well and on purpose sets you up for love,
0:51.2	happiness, and success when you bring that new baby home. And on today's episode,
0:57.2	we're going to be talking about how to use this very special time intentionally and
1:04.3	productively so that you have the opportunity to grow while you are growing another human. And I'm so glad you're here for this
1:12.9	conversation. For musical inspiration, we're listening to the song Growing Together by a band called
1:20.7	Juke, J-O-O-K. You can learn more about Duke and their music on their bandcamp page, juk.bandcamp.com.
1:29.3	As I mentioned in my intro, there is such an untapped growth opportunity for most people
1:36.6	when it comes to the experience of being pregnant.
1:40.8	We often think of pregnancy as just like, you know, the part you want to hop over to
1:45.1	the other side of when you get to bring home a baby. And, you know, it can be a physically
1:51.0	uncomfortable experience and sometimes it can be stressful. Like there can be a lot of practical
1:56.0	things to figure out during this period. But the very cool thing is that if you learn how to embrace the
2:05.7	mental, emotional, relational changes and like stressors in a very intentional way, the experience
2:15.7	of being pregnant is transformational. Not only are you knitting together
2:22.2	another little human, you are being changed forever internally before you even officially
2:32.1	become a parent. And figuring out how to do that can really just make things
2:37.5	so much easier for you as a parent. It can also, most importantly, just be enormously strengthening
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