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Hosted by Carrie · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 253 episodes
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Welcome to the Active Mom Podcast — where real motherhood stories meet real science. Hosted by Dr. Carrie Pagliano , double board-certified physical therapist, runner, mom of two, and internationally recognized expert in pregnancy, postpartum, pelvic floor, and perimenopause performance. Whether you’re a mom navigating running with prolapse or leakage, a clinician supporting active women, or a lifelong athlete trying to stay strong through every hormonal season — this show gives you evidence-based guidance and real life mom stories without the fear, confusion, or shame. Each week, Dr. Carrie brings candid conversations with researchers, clinicians, elite athletes, and everyday moms to explore what it actually takes to run, lift, jump, and live confidently through pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and beyond. We talk about: • Postpartum return to running & lifting • Pelvic flo
Carrie hosts Active Mom Podcast: Pregnancy, Postpartum, Perimenopause, Menopause & Beyond, a health show with 253 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Relaxin is one of the first words you learn when you find out you're pregnant. Somebody hands it to you like a fact. Your joints are loose, your pelvis is unstable, be careful, this is just what pregnanc
Send us Fan Mail This should not be revolutionary in 2026. They asked the women. Went out across Canada, asked postpartum women what they were actually desperate to know, and let the answers drive it. What came back was
Send us Fan Mail Not everybody has time to sit down and read the whole paper. Not everybody wants to. I get it. But you do need to read beyond the abstract, so let's do it together. For this summer rewind episode, I'm br
Send us Fan Mail Meghan Rabbitt has been a health journalist for 25 years. And the thing she said to me about reporting this book was: why don't I know this? If she didn't know it, what are the rest of us working with? M
Send us Fan Mail Prolapse might be the single most fear-loaded word in postpartum health. Not because of what it is. Because of how little anybody tells you about it. This week we're rewinding to one of our season one co
Send us Fan Mail "It is probably nothing." The swelling is probably the third trimester. The breathlessness is probably the stairs. The ache in your calf is probably that run you should not have done. And most of the tim
Send us Fan Mail You leave the hospital with a healthy baby, a folder of paperwork, and zero mention of the fact that your estrogen just went from about 3,000 to almost nothing. That is where this conversation starts. In
Send us Fan Mail There's a thought a lot of moms have had and almost none of them have said out loud. Maybe it was an image of dropping the baby. Maybe it was something worse. And the second it showed up, the next though
Send us Fan Mail The "will exercise mess with my milk?" question comes up constantly, surrounded by fear and bad information. Kendall, a lactation consultant, separates what's actually supported from the myths. Short, pr
Send us Fan Mail You've heard it. Maybe you've said it. "Your pelvic floor is too tight." It's everywhere right now — on the socials, in the clinic, out of the mouths of people who've never assessed a pelvic floor in the
Send us Fan Mail If you've ever accepted leaking as the toll you pay to keep running, this one's going to reframe it. Dr. Linda McLean (@mfm_lab) is one of the foremost researchers on the pelvic floor and urinary inconti
Send us Fan Mail Melanie Cote spent years believing runners were a certain kind of person — thin, disciplined, elite — and she wasn't it. So when a coworker organized a 5K, she showed up to cheer instead of run, too emba
Send us Fan Mail Bringing this back because the "what exercises should I actually be doing?" question never gets old. Johnson cuts through the noise on rehab and strength work for runners — the movements that move the ne
Send us Fan Mail Can you run with pelvic organ prolapse? In this solo episode, Dr. Carrie Pagliano takes on one of the most feared pelvic floor diagnoses… and why prolapse doesn't have to mean hanging up your running sho
Send us Fan Mail This is the single most-downloaded episode in Active Mom Podcast history… and if you joined in the last two years, you've probably never heard it. Dr. Alison Grimaldi connects hip strength and stability
Send us Fan Mail What load actually reaches your pelvis when you run? For years we couldn't really answer that — we just said "wait twelve weeks, then go." Babe, we've come a long way. Dr. Megan James is back — and this
Send us Fan Mail Becoming a mom can take your lifelong habits, chew them up, and spit them out. So how do you build new ones when there's no such thing as a typical day in parenthood? In this Summer Rewind — our season o
Send us Fan Mail Thin evidence. Loud opinions. And a body that still wanted to climb. That's where professional high-altitude climber Lotta Hintsa found herself when she got pregnant — wanting to stay active and keep doi
Send us Fan Mail This one's for every mom whose week is built around practices, meets, and the pool-deck waiting game. It's honest, real-talk strategy for squeezing your own training into a life that runs on everyone els
Send us Fan Mail Gráinne Donnelly is back — and this time she's the editor and primary author of a brand-new Elsevier textbook, Sports Medicine and the Pelvic Floor: Science to Practice . It's the book this field has bee
Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein
orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist · Duke University School of Medicine
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Carrie Pagliano
pelvic floor physical therapist
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Christina Prevett
Pelvic floor physiotherapist, National level weightlifter, and PhD candidate
1 appearance on this show
Lauren Barker
CEO and Co-founder · Uresta
1 appearance on this show
Emma Brockwell
physiotherapist specialising in pelvic floor health
1 appearance on this show
Melanie Cote
the.curvy.runner
1 appearance on this show
Whitney Heins
The Mother Runners
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Erin Kennedy Dalisay
RunWell Clinic
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AIMEE OLIVER
bodyfitmums
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Ariana Sopher
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Revive
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COSM Medical
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Active Mom Podcast: Pregnancy, Postpartum, Perimenopause, Menopause & Beyond is hosted by Carrie. The show is categorised under health (fitness) and has published 253 episodes.
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