Pregnancy Prep: Are You Ready to Give Birth?

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Kate Garlinge

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Giving birth is one experience in your life you will never forget. There are so many emotions in the mix, both leading up to the birth, and on display during the birth!

Host Jessica Rolph met Leslie Schrock when she was in the process of publishing her book Bumpin’: The Modern Guide to Pregnancy, which she wrote while she was pregnant with her first baby. Leslie does not consider herself a pregnancy guru, but instead a curious person who found trustworthy resources for pregnant women in short supply. She talked with all variety of experts in the process of writing her book and shares her findings on this episode.

Key Takeaways:

[1:34] What inspired Leslie to write her book about pregnancy?

[3:10] Leslie shares how it felt to be her own health advocate.

[5:58] What is the technical difference between a doula and a midwife? Why would you want one over the other? Does it make sense to have both?

[7:55] Does the participation of a doula or midwife preclude you from having a medicated birth?

[10:32] Where does a doctor fit into all of this?

[11:59] What goes into the decision to have an epidural or not? How to build a supportive birthing team and what to consider if you want to plan for an un-medicated birth.

[16:07] Leslie shares tools for feeling positive when going into labor.

[18:40] Leslie gives advice on how to best involve your birth partner.

[20:23] What is going on with the pelvic floor during pregnancy and birth? What can women do to make sure that it's healthy after birth?

[21:18] What is pelvic floor dysfunction?

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0:00.0	Parenthood is a time of so much change for you and your baby.
0:12.8	A little reliable information can go a long way towards making this new life a good life.
0:18.6	I'm Jessica Rolfe, and this is my new life, a love every podcast.
0:35.8	Giving birth is one experience of your life that you will never forget.
0:40.3	There are so many emotions in the mix, both leading up to the birth and on display during the birth.
0:46.4	I remember feeling a sense of awe at how my body was changing and the life evolving inside me.
0:53.0	My husband and I were excited and nervous. So many questions arose.
0:58.4	I met today's guest last year. She was in the process of publishing her book Bumpin, the modern
1:03.9	guide to pregnancy, which she wrote while she was pregnant with her first baby. Leslie Schrock does
1:09.8	not consider herself a pregnancy guru, but instead a curious
1:13.5	person who found trustworthy resources for pregnant women in short supply. She talked to all varieties
1:20.1	of experts in writing her book, and I'm thrilled that she's sharing some of that expertise with us
1:25.1	today. Hello, Leslie. I knew you before you launched your book,
1:29.2	and I can't wait to hear a little bit more about what did inspire you to write this book about
1:33.6	pregnancy? Yeah, you know, I always kind of thought I would write a book, but I kind of assumed it
1:39.1	would be fiction, actually, because I'm a lifelong reader. But truly my own personal experience inspired the writing of this
1:45.9	book. So when I decided to get pregnant, I was 35. I had spent, you know, I've been in health and
1:52.8	tech for about a decade now. And I thought to myself, oh, well, this is going to be easy. I'll just
1:58.5	get pregnant and that'll be that and things will be smooth. And yeah, because, you know, I'm a healthy person. I, you know, thought I knew what I was getting into. And turns out I just really didn't. So I had a miscarriage around five, six weeks. That was the first pregnancy. The second pregnancy. We had a fatal chromosomal abnormality that we found out about and the baby wasn't growing and we knew that it was going to end on its own, but it was still technically a termination, which was one of the most, I can't even describe what it was like going through that. Having to terminate a wanted pregnancy
2:35.5	because it was going to end on its own in a few weeks was just something I didn't even know was a thing.
2:41.2	And so really it was that second pregnancy that inspired me to start learning and learning everything
2:46.8	I could about all of it and realizing that a lot of the literature and a lot of the
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