Normalizing Postpartum Discussions With Deema Soufan

Mommies Tell All

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🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On this week's episode of "Mommies Tell All" Jade and Carly sit down with postpartum psychotherapist Deem Soufan. In an effort to destigmatize conversations around postpartum care, they dive deep into the mental and physical side effects women go through after giving birth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Postpartum OCD is so complex and it happens a lot and it's very scary when it does happen because of the
0:08.4	level of the intrusive thoughts and it's exactly what you just shared. So for someone listening who's like,
0:12.5	I don't know what intrusive thoughts are. Intrusive thoughts are these thoughts get stuck in your head
0:17.9	about something horrible happening essentially to you, your baby, a family member, your partner.
0:24.2	They're really hard to shake and they're oftentimes quite vivid.
0:26.8	Hey guys, it's Carly and this is Jade. Welcome to Mommy's Tell All.
0:43.8	Welcome everyone. Hello, hello, hello. I'm so excited. We're talking about something that I feel like
0:51.1	we talk about sometimes on here but not enough. I would say postpartum struggles.
0:59.6	Yeah. Postpartum is hard. It is nobody warns you, you know? Yes, I don't think you're ever prepared,
1:08.2	especially that first time when you become a new mom for postpartum. I mean the mental, emotional,
1:15.6	physical changes that happen. Oh yeah. And then you're like, and then there like, here's a new
1:21.8	born to take care of a person who's never been in the world before. Good luck. Right. I know,
1:27.6	it's so crazy. You think that like we would all know all of that information but you just sit in
1:33.5	the hospital and they give you a child to take home and you're like, what? What? I'm supposed to
1:40.1	take this baby home like by myself. Can I come with me? My chair, sorry, my chair is like
1:48.8	squeaking today. I don't know. I don't squeaking here. Okay, great. But it's interesting because
1:53.6	I was at the beach. I was talking to a new mom. She just had a baby what like four months ago,
2:01.7	five months ago. Is that right? Something like that. And I was asking her, you know, how are
2:07.6	you doing? She's like, it's really hard. You know, and I feel like that is probably the most
2:12.9	common answer. It's really hard. Totally worth it. Really hard. You know, yeah. And yeah, so we
2:19.6	just started kind of getting into it. I was like, what are you struggling with? You know, and I was
2:23.5	like, yes, that is so calm. You know, not like I'm an expert, but I was saying like we talk in our
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