SO YOU’RE THINKING ABOUT HAVING A BABY - how to “prepare the palace” and nourish your womb for a pregnancy journey + tips to support yourself as a new mom with Dr. Kara MoraMarco-Kendrick
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Ep 66. Welcome back to Dr. Kara MoraMarco-Kendrick: a Doctor of Acupuncture (DAOM), a board-certified California Licensed Acupuncturist (LAc), and the owner of Aculand in Los Angeles.
As a new mom, Kara is ready to share all the juice when it comes to preconception nourishment, pregnancy survival tips, and postpartum wisdom. In this episode, we’re chatting about how to “prepare the palace” before conception and all the things you can do to set yourself up for a positive journey, all the way to delivery. I love Dr. Kara’s holistic perspective as a practitioner, plus all of the tips from her personal experience that she has to share. Let’s get juicy!
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode, I'm so excited to welcome back, one of my favorite podcast guests and a friend of mine, Dr. Kara, who's a licensed acupuncturist and the owner of Acculand in Los Angeles. |
| 0:14.2 | As a new mom, she is ready to share all the juice when it comes to how to prepare your palace and nourish yourself and your womb |
| 0:23.1 | during the preconception period. She's going to share her pregnancy survival tips, |
| 0:28.2 | everything she did during her pregnancy diet-wise, how she prepared for her labor with herbs, |
| 0:34.1 | her exercise routine, why certain things that she thought were going to happen went |
| 0:38.4 | totally out of the window and how to have compassion for yourself. And she's also going to share |
| 0:43.8 | her postpartum journey and how to set yourself up for success. I think it's so nice to hear |
| 0:50.3 | such a positive pregnancy story, which is what Dr. Kara is going to bring to us today. |
| 0:55.7 | We also get to hear the reality for many women of infertility struggles and pregnancy and |
| 1:02.2 | postpartum issues. And for me, I'm always making sure that I listen to those stories and that |
| 1:07.4 | I'm aware of what can happen and what women are going through to understand |
| 1:11.0 | how to help them and how to prepare myself if that's something I were to ever deal with. |
| 1:15.3 | But at the same time, I think it's so important for us to know that many people also have |
| 1:20.1 | really beautiful, seamless pregnancies and that there's things that you can do to prepare yourself |
| 1:26.2 | to hopefully help you to also have |
| 1:28.6 | a beautiful pregnancy and postpartum journey like the one that Dr. Kara's had. So this is just a huge |
| 1:33.6 | dose of positivity and a lot of just high value advice and tips from someone who's not only a |
| 1:39.8 | talented practitioner, but again, just went through this entire journey herself. So she's going to blend |
| 1:44.1 | her professional experience with her personal experience and again, walk us through pre-conception |
| 1:49.3 | during pregnancy and postpartum. Everything that you need to know and can do for yourself and your baby. |
| 1:56.3 | She'll explain why it's important to prepare the palace, which is essentially your womb or your uterus, |
| 2:01.4 | since this is a sanctuary that your body is going to be living for 40 weeks. She explains how to |
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