What do biomechanics have to do with birth?!

Everything.

And yet, it's often left out of the birth conversation and pre-natal education entirely.

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“You’ll never hear me say I trust birth.”

Those are the words that caught my attention last week on social media and ignited my fascinating conversation with this week’s guest Adelaide Meadow, but the conversation goes much deeper than this.

Adelaide is a physiologist, yoga teacher, bodyworker, and homebirth attendant who is passionate about the radical feminist reclamation of the body. Her genius is her ability to read the female body- specifically, women's sacred posture and the magic of the female pelvis. She is passionate about liberating movement practices from biologically inaccurate and harmful bodily teachings that are grounded in male physiology, and rebirthing female movement practices.

Adelaide thoughtfully shares:

• Her deeper perspective and expanded definition around the phrase “I trust birth”
• The need for nuance and humanness in your decisions around what type of birth experience is right for you
• Her definition of "Physiological Womanhood" and the mismatch between what you believe about idealized physiological birth and the common capabilities of your modern body
• The effects of the "hands-off" birth movement and the loss of wise, gentle and skilled hands on care

Adelaide seeks to answer the question "What can we learn from the patterns we see within the births we experience or witness?".

She paints a beautiful picture of the synergy between hormones and body mechanics, giving you a new, deeper understanding of how birth unfolds in the body. She shares some of the modern root causes of pelvic issues and more difficult births and offers a new way forward through a deeper understanding of individual biodynamics and body mechanics.

Her insights promise to deepen your understanding and preparation for childbirth, and shift your perspective around how birth unfolds within the body whether you're pregnant yourself, or providing care to perinatal women.

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Check out Adelaide's newest course, as mentioned in the episode:
Born Through Movement A study of birth biomechanics, prenatal movement, & actionable ways to support baby’s pathway through the pelvis.
(SAVE 100$ off and get one month in her True Core Health Membership FREE if you sign up before September 16, 2024)

Don’t forget to use discount code LAUREN for 10% off any of Adelaide’s courses and programs.

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Having a baby changes everything. Especially your relationship. It can throw you off guard, but with the right tools, open and honest communication, and a commitment to prioritizing the changing needs of your relationship, you can feel like a rock solid team riding the waves of parenthood, together.

In this episode I'm chatting with Autumn Fowler, a clinical counsellor, relationship expert, business owner, wife, and boy mama to two littles. She specializes in helping folks who are preparing for parenthood, or in the trenches of the early years, better their relationships with themselves and others. She does this through individual and couples therapy as well as virtual group programs.

We're diving into the challenges, triumphs, and transformations couples experience in the transition to parenthood. Autumn serves up so much expert guidance around how to baby proof your relationship, reconnect after a tough season (hello fourth trimester), rekindle intimacy and sex, and realign on the regular to match both of your current levels of capacity and energy. If you've ever asked yourself:
"is it normal we're not having as much sex since baby?" or "how do we find our way back to each other after a stressful season of life?" then this one is for you.

The wisdom, guidance, and simple practical tools Autumn shares are infused with her deep compassion for and understanding of the unique and common challenges faced in relationships through the journey into parenthood.

We dive into:

• the common issues that can come up through the transition into parenthood like sleep deprivation, unfair division of labor, shifting intimacy, feeling like roomates, and what to do about it
• communication (of course!!) with script examples to help you shift from arguing to really communicating effectively
• what everyone's thinking about but no ones talking about: shifting sex and intimacy postpartum- how to navigate the ebbs and flows that take place in early parenthood
• navigating relational conflict in a way that helps you look deeper below the surface (you're not really arguing about the dishes again)
• the foundational qualities you need in your relationship to maintain deep connection through the changing seasons of parenthood
• how to have a "love meeting" and why it's so useful and important

Autumn's advice will empower you to shift from autopilot to conscious relationship in a way that matches your current capacity.

I hope this episode helps validate and normalize the immense shifts and transitions our relationships go through once baby arrives. You'll leave with practical tips, tools, and scripts to help you nourish your relationship, communicate effectively, deepen trust and all forms of intimacy and feel like you're on the same team.

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Connect with Autumn:
www.nestcounselling.ca
@thenestcounselling_

Just for The Well-Nourished Mother listeners, save 15% on Autumn's courses with the code NOURISH15:

Babyproof Your Relationship: A self-paced digital course to help you prepare your relationship for a new baby

Team Parenthood- How to Not Hate Your Spouse After Kids: A virtual cour

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We’re so often given the advice of “more being, less doing” yet what does this actually look like in modern motherhood as busy, potentially high achieving, and conscious mothers or women entrepreneurs?

It can be easy to enter a shame spiral when we find ourselves betraying our own needs or not following through on things we intend to do.

In this episode, we uncover the identity of efficiency and discuss how being efficient can be a strong motivator in our day to day actions. We reflect on how societal conditioning and external validation has led to a distortion around self worth and productivity.

We explore how to show our nervous systems that it’s actually SAFE not to be efficient despite past and current programming, and we talk about different ways we are each personally infusing micro pauses of intention into our day without massive adjustments to our to-do lists.

This episode invites you to find ways to infuse more being into your doing.

Some ideas we offer include practicing awareness and strengthening your muscle of discernment. Strengthening awareness and discernment can increase Self trust and Self worth in small, bite sized ways while allowing flexibility for the changing seasons of one’s capacity.

We set new moon intentions for ourselves and invite you to join us in asking yourself questions like:

“What does my body need right now?”
And “Have I felt my heartbeat today?” and invite you to either follow through on what comes up in response to those questions, or hold space for what's present without jumping to fix it or take it away.

Resources mentioned:

The Healing Power of Pleasure: Seven Medicines for Rediscovering the Innate Joy of Being by Juila Paulette Hollenbury (book)

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