Hosted by Paulette Kamenecka · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 194 episodes
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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.
Paulette Kamenecka hosts What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights, a kids show with 194 episodes published.
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 i
This week, we hear the rest of Julia's story. More endo, a bit older, a shorter menstrual cycle, a medical community that was suggesting the pregnancy was unlikely again. But Julia story should remind us to never bet aga
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 pre
This is the second half of my rebroadcast conversation with Gill, a mother from England who experienced lots of physical challenges with her premature birth, which changed her life. The birth gave her a beloved son, but
Today's guest overcame all the challenges that met her in birth, including a premature birth, a fourth degree tear and a misdiagnosis and a fistula and a stoma. Despite that list, this is an amazing story of resilience.
Today I finish my conversation with Sascha. We hear about her triumphant home birth with her fourth pregnancy and the challenging outcomes of the two pregnancies that followed: what her experience was with the screening
Today we hear the really really from a woman whose experiences dramatically changed her approach to birth, from having the first one at a hospital, assuming that was the norm, to having her husband catch the fourth baby
In today's episode we hear about the rest of Atara's experience. She talks about managing GBS and its consequences with her newborns, and the importance of nutrition before pregnancy. We pick up today where we left off l
In today's episode my guest, who is a therapist, shares her experiences of four births and all the many things she learned things like holding lightly to the birth plan as she's moved from the birth center to a hospital
Today I finish my conversation with Kristen. This week we hear about: * two challenging miscarriages * drugs for miscarriage versus D and C procedure * Insights on how to think about the miscarriages * Her current pregna
Today we hear from a woman whose experience ran the gamut from infertility, on the brink of IVF, to smooth pregnancies, quick births, and difficult miscarriages. Throughout this process she learns: * important lessons ab
This week I finish my conversation with Darla. She has another uneventful pregnancy, that ends in a bang-- * An unintended home birth *Significant challenges when-- in the early thick of Covid-- Darla has to jump through
Today we hear from a mother of two who has a degree in public health and was trained as a doula before her first pregnancy. She didn't expect her water to break the way it did She didn't expect a retained placenta or the
In today's episode I finish my conversation with Jennifer, the Doula in Reno She shares how she managed all the complications of her daughter's tenuous condition: * Born with RDS, a lung condition that has a high mortali
Today my guest, a DOULA and birth worker, talks about her challenging experience with INFERTILITY : * All the minor surgeries * How hard it was to manage at the age of 19 more or less alone *How challenging it was to go
In today's episode I finish my conversation with Kim about her experience, both having kids and becoming a sleep coach. NOTE: I should mention upfront that we talk about a full term still birth and how Kim managed that v
In today's episode I speak with a woman who worked in the field of mother and infant health before she became pregnant. She shares the challenges she encountered in her birth--going from a planned birth center birth to a
In today's episode I finish my conversation with Shri. She shares her experience of birth, and the things that made postpartum a challenge--in particular Covid and the isolation it involved She shares the ayurvedic appro
In today's episode I speak with a woman who had her whole life turned around by an unexpected health crisis when she was in her early thirties. She shares *what she did to reclaim her health * how it influenced her ferti
This is the THIRD and last part of Amy's story. In this episode she talks about * the importance of accurate ultrasound in utero * her experience of navigating a surgery on her newborn * the challenges they encounter in
Julia
director · French Rose Studios
1 appearance on this show
Gill
Helpline Manager · R&B Dance Fitness
1 appearance on this show
Gil
founder and owner · Follett Content
1 appearance on this show
Sascha
The Hero Tribe
1 appearance on this show
unknown
Purchasing Agent · Ope Outdoors
1 appearance on this show
Kristen
attorney · Paranorm Girl Podcast
2 appearances on this show
Darla
Children's Librarian · Children's Services
2 appearances on this show
Jennifer
Matchmaker · NYC adoption agency
2 appearances on this show
Kim
The Parentologist · Statheros Academy
2 appearances on this show
Amy
speaker · IvyWise
1 appearance on this show
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