Pregnant? Here's how to deal with the new you

Life Kit

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Business, Health & Fitness, Education, Kids & Family, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Pregnancy is hard work – for the body, mind and soul. There are seemingly endless resources for all the physical and logistical aspects of pregnancy but far fewer for renegotiating your sense of self. Life Kit spoke with author and journalist Chelsea Conaboy about how pregnancy impacts the brain and how to embrace the changes that parenthood brings.

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0:00.0	You're listening to LifeKit from NPR.
0:07.0	Hey there, Andy Tagle here.
0:11.0	I'm a reporter and producer for LifeKit, and I'm also on my way to a brand new title.
0:18.0	Parent.
0:19.5	As of the recording of this episode, I am 7 and a half months pregnant, and friends, this
0:26.0	process has been a lot.
0:29.0	Don't get me wrong.
0:30.4	My partner and I are thrilled.
0:32.9	We're over the moon to be starting our own little family.
0:36.2	But also, wow, I truly did not know how many emotions I was capable of feeling all at once
0:43.3	until I got pregnant.
0:45.6	The answer to date, I think, is somewhere around 27.
0:50.5	And I know, I know.
0:52.9	Emotionality comes with a territory.
0:55.3	But the social, emotional, and mental weight of this time is so much more than just those
1:00.7	little flashes of great big feeling.
1:03.2	The internal shifts set off by pregnancy feel structural and endlessly bewildering.
1:09.4	One of the biggest myths in pregnancy is that it's going to be a happy, delightful, exciting
1:14.7	time, and they're just going to be happy memories from pregnancy.
1:19.4	And what we know, of course, is that pregnancy is a vulnerable time.
1:22.7	The fact of this teeny tiny, now cauliflower-sized stranger growing inside of me has led to a ton
1:29.5	of mental push and pull.
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