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Pregnancy Podcast

von Vanessa Merten

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  1. Navigate Your Prenatal Care with Confidence

    Your doctor or midwife is your trusted partner and has the education and experience to guide you through all the intricacies of pregnancy and birth. You can expect to have somewhere around 14 appointments throughout your entire pregnancy. T

  2. Ensuring Optimal Vitamin D Levels for You and Your Baby

    Vitamin D is sometimes referred to as a hormone because the activated forms are hormones. You utilize this essential vitamin in nearly all parts of your body. Vitamin D is crucial for absorbing other nutrients like calcium, iron, magnesium,

  3. Benefits of Water During Pregnancy (Pools, Hot Tubs, Baths, and Float Tanks)

    If you enjoy the water, you don't have to give it up when you are pregnant. Enjoying the water can be a great workout, relaxing, and even therapeutic. Along with the benefits, there are also risks you need to be mindful of to keep you and y

  4. Labor Signs and the Start of Labor

    When you have made it through most of your pregnancy and are in the final stretch, you enter the waiting game of waiting to go into labor. This can be nerve-racking for two reasons. First, you do not know when you will go into labor. Second

  5. Pregnancy Crash Course for Dads and Partners

    Finding out that you will be a parent is super exciting but can also be intimidating, especially for dads and partners. Most of what people know about having a baby is from movies or what they have heard from friends. That will not adequate

  6. Nutrition and the Evidence on Popular Diets During Pregnancy

    Whatever your long-term goals for weight or health, you have one priority when you are pregnant – to ensure you and your baby are healthy. What you eat plays a significant role in this. While a lot of research is available, there is no defi

  7. Protecting Your Mental Health (Baby Blues and Postpartum Depression)

    As soon as most expecting mothers hear the words postpartum depression, they tune out and skip over this topic. If you have never experienced depression, it is the last thing you think you need to know about, especially at a time in your li

  8. Guide to Sun Exposure and Tanning During Pregnancy

    The sun emits UV radiation which comes with both evidence-based benefits and risks. On a positive note, UVB light allows your body to make vitamin D. The downside of UV light exposure is that it damages the DNA in your skin cells, increasin

  9. Stress and Anxiety During Pregnancy

    We all deal with some level of stress daily. Pregnancy can be a time of additional stress as you are experiencing many physical changes and preparing for birth and a new baby. In a sense, everything you expose yourself to during pregnancy a

  10. Introduction to the Pregnancy Podcast

    In this short episode you get a quick rundown of everything you can expect from Vanessa Merten and the Pregnancy Podcast. The Pregnancy Podcast is a resource to support expecting moms (and partners, too!) with evidence-based information to

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