S5E22 How To Prepare For Having a Baby & “The First 40 Days” Post-Birth Quarantine Practice | Sandra Sharpe

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

What is the best way to prepare for having a baby? Sandra Sharpe, Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner, and Health Coach, specializes in comprehensive, holistic, mind, body, and spirit postpartum support. In this episode, Sandra dives into all the nitty-gritty details of preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum. She talks about the global infertility crisis and how poor mental health and undernourishment could be two of the main contributing factors. Sandra highlights the importance of the first 40 days after giving birth, highlighting practices utilized across cultures to support the pregnancy and postpartum journey, showcasing a beautiful alternative to the commonly heard “bounce back” mentality.

HERE’S THE JUICE:

How pregnancy and motherhood often heighten mental health issues and insecurities, so addressing those problems BEFORE pregnancy can be incredibly beneficial
Why cultivating awareness in our bodies and being vocal about what we need can be the catalyst in changing the perfectionist “I Can Do It All” mindset
How Diet culture from the 90s has created an undernourishment epidemic (and nourishing our bodies is so crucial for pregnancy!)
Tangible ways to identify support and communicate your needs to make the postpartum period smoother
Sandra’s health journey and the changes she made in her postpartum healing from her first child to her second
Why journaling and writing letters can be healing and how to utilize this practice as a tool during preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum
What Middle Eastern cultures practice in the First 40 Days postpartum to promote healing

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0:00.0	Welcome back to What's the Juice Podcast. We have such a beautiful episode today with
0:08.8	Sandra Sharp. She's a certified functional nutrition practitioner and health coach based in Dubai and after a wild journey with her own fertility and being diagnosed with stage 1 thyroid cancer directly after giving birth during the pandemic.
0:25.4	She really turned her immense pain and struggle into this beautiful passion for helping other women,
0:32.0	not only with their physical fertility, but also with the emotional,
0:36.2	mental, and spiritual aspects of feeling safe in their body, of communicating their needs
0:41.8	throughout their pregnancy and postpartum and
0:44.0	truly setting themselves up for success for this massive life and identity shift
0:49.7	that happens when you become a mother. She is the true definition of a practitioner who provides
0:56.2	comprehensive, holistic mind-body spirit, fertility, and postpartum support, and we get into every single facet of pregnancy and
1:06.8	motherhood today on a soul level. She talks a lot about her journey, being diagnosed with cancer,
1:13.2	and how that created so much fear and stress in her body,
1:16.6	and how her way out through that was actually just connection,
1:21.0	sharing her pain and sharing her story with other women, learning how to ask for help
1:26.8	and reach out for support and leave behind the perfectionist, I can do it all myself, mindset,
1:32.1	and how that completely improved her health on so many different
1:35.8	levels as she went into remission from cancer.
1:38.4	We talk about how you can prepare yourself for pregnancy, only physically but emotionally with your partner and why instead of
1:47.2	decorating a nursery before giving birth it's probably a better idea to have really difficult and specific conversations about managing expectations
1:58.0	and how your values are going to change with people like your partner and your friends.
2:02.2	She talks a lot about the root causes of fertility
2:05.9	struggles in women and how so often what she's seeing in her clients is this pattern of
2:12.0	under eating.
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