Pregnancy Crash Course for Dads and Partners

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Finding out that you will be a parent is super exciting but can also be intimidating, especially for dads and partners. Most of what people know about having a baby is from movies or what they have heard from friends. That will not adequately prepare you for what is ahead. Understanding pregnancy, birth, and birth recovery basics will significantly impact your ability to support mom. Most importantly, you will be better equipped to navigate pregnancy, labor, and being a new parent. This episode is a crash course on everything dads and partners need to know, from finding out you will be a parent through pregnancy and bringing your baby home.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton.
0:11.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. This episode today is going
0:17.2	live on Father's Day, so happy Father's Day to all of the dads and dads to be and I know everyone who's becoming a parent
0:25.4	may not be a dad so this episode is for dads and partners, wives, girlfriends,
0:30.7	and all the parents. Today's episode is a pregnancy crash course for
0:35.9	dads and partners. Finding out that you're going to be a parent is so exciting but it
0:40.8	can also be intimidating. Most of what people know about having a baby is for movies or what they've heard from friends.
0:48.0	And none of that is going to adequately prepare you for what's ahead.
0:52.0	Understanding some basics around pregnancy, birth,
0:56.4	recovery can make a significant difference in your ability to support mom. And most importantly you're going to be better equipped
1:04.8	to navigate all of the things that you need to deal with for pregnancy, labor, and
1:09.7	being a new parent. You can find the complete article and all of the resources for this episode
1:16.4	at pregnancy podcast.com.
1:19.8	partner. Right now you can try pregnancy podcast premium for free for seven days and
1:27.3	when you sign up you're going to get a free copy of the Your Birth Plan book.
1:31.8	There's over 200 episodes that are exclusively available to premium members.
1:37.2	Those are all in the private podcast feed,
1:39.6	and premium members access those in your favorite podcast app plus all of the content is
1:45.2	ad free. If there is a question you have about anything pregnancy or birth related
1:50.9	there's an episode that covers that topic. Try pregnancy
1:55.2	podcast premium for free for seven days and you're going to get an instant
2:00.4	download of the Your Birth Plan book that walks you step by step on how to create
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