Postpartum Can Be Beautiful?
Mommy Labor Nurse
Liesel Teen
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week I interviewed Maranda Bower, CEO and Founder of Postpartum University®. Maranda lives in her beautiful homestead in Alaska with her husband, 4 children, and many unruly chickens! She’s had 4 home births, each of which has uniquely taught her about herself, and her postpartum experiences. Maranda has such a unique, beautiful story and I can’t wait to share it with you all!
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About Maranda Bower:
Maranda Bower is the CEO and Founder of Postpartum University®, dedicated to empowering both mothers and professionals in redefining maternal well-being. With her extensive expertise in biology, nutrition, and perinatal mental health, she stands as a pioneering figure in the field.
Maranda possesses a profound understanding of the intricate physiological processes that underpin postpartum well-being. As a prolific researcher and accomplished author, including the bestselling book "Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness," her impactful work extends globally. She’s also the founder of the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Program, the only functional nutrition certification dedicated to the unique period that is postpartum!
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| 0:00.0 | And I know what it means to feel the dark, deep, hard, painful stuff, physically and mentally, |
| 0:06.8 | emotionally, and also that beautiful side of postpartum that truly does exist that I feel like we are so |
| 0:16.4 | unaccustomed to knowing that we have forgotten and mainly because society especially in the US, has painted this picture of |
| 0:26.0 | motherhood is crappy, motherhood is mediocre, you're gonna feel like crap, |
| 0:30.3 | your hormones are gonna be a disaster and this is just your new normal so welcome to the team. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, and that is so not true. You're listening to the mommy labor nurse podcast where you'll gain the tools, |
| 0:50.1 | knowledge, and confidence you need to erase the unknowns, feel in control, and have an even better |
| 0:56.0 | birth and no matter how you deliver. |
| 0:58.7 | My name is Leasel-teen, mom of two, practicing labor and delivery nurse and your host. From over eight years |
| 1:05.8 | and counting of working at the bedside I know that knowledge is the key to an even |
| 1:11.3 | better birth. |
| 1:12.8 | So tune in each week to learn about all things pregnancy, |
| 1:16.3 | birth, and postpartum from me, |
| 1:18.7 | a labor and delivery nurse that's seen it all. |
| 1:21.1 | And now let's get into this week's episode. Happy Monday you guys. |
| 1:29.6 | This week on the podcast we can tell by the name of the episode we are talking |
| 1:32.4 | about the beauties. The beauties I will the |
| 1:34.0 | beauty's I will almost said the beautiful disaster I guess it can be interpreted that way the beautiful |
| 1:38.7 | disaster of postpartum no but really postpartum can be beautiful, I promise, and you're going to hear how Miranda |
| 1:47.0 | tells us the story of her four homebirds and how it took until that fourth one for her to have a beautiful postpartum experience that does exist |
| 1:57.4 | contrary to popular belief we only you know a lot of the times we talk about how horrible things are in postpartum and you know a lot of the times we talk about how horrible things are in |
| 2:03.3 | postpartum and you know for for good reason right we're trying to try to |
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