What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights

About What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights

Creating a family is a life transforming event that’s a lot harder than the culturally-generated marketing suggests. Relying on the glossy media depictions of this transition leaves many women feeling like they are broken or failing when their actual experience doesn’t match their expectation. I tripped over every step of this process: getting pregnant, being pregnant and giving birth on my way to having two kids. This podcast showcases the really, really of people’s experiences: * what they didn’t expect when they were expecting * what they wish they’d known. You’ll hear shareable insights gleaned from time in the IVF gauntlet, ways to manage the flattening nausea and fatigue of pregnancy, 40 hour labors and much more including expert medical insights to remake our expectations, making them more real, more human and more useful.

Publisher

Paulette Kamenecka

Category

education · kids & family · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Oct 2020

Latest episode

21 Jan 2025

Latest episodes

195 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Jan 2025

   What's the difference between PTSD & PPD: Teaser for *new show* Making Sense of Pregnancy

   For this season, I'm going to migrate over to a new show called Making Sense of Pregnancy What Experts Want you to Know about Your Body:This show is meant to be a new pregnancy reference that should fill you with both information that's useful to your pregnancy and awe about the project of growing another human in your body and what science does and does not understand about this amazing process. I'm finding and talking with experts, doing cutting edge work to better understand&nbs...

2. 

   14 Jan 2025

   What happens when Endometriosis & Age aren't the final word on Fertility: Julia's story + Expert Insights, Part II

   Julia shares her inspiring story of overcoming endometriosis and age-related fertility challenges, and functional nutrition expert shares insights on reclaiming reproductive potential.

3. 

   7 Jan 2025

   Rebroadcast: What Pregnancy can look like when it started with Undiagnosed Endometriosis: Julia's Story + Dr. Insights, Part I

   Pregnancy involves massive changes, and for some of us, one of the first hurdles is overcoming issues that have developed in our bodies that make getting pregnant and being pregnant difficult.On the road to becoming pregnant, today's guest learned that she had endometriosis, an issue that she'd painfully lived with for years without a diagnosis, and which required surgery before a pregnancy could develop.She also shares how the pregnancy and birth fulfills an earlier premonition. Women'...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

26 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

77

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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