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Join us as we discuss how to thrive in the lifelong experience of motherhood.
Each episode looks at women's health - how to heal and be strong during fertility journeys, pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Listen as we bring you information on hormone balance, uterine and pelvic health and mental wellbeing. With my guests we discuss realities of motherhood and how to live and support each other as strong, connected women, while nurturing children who will shape the world.
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S1:EP5 Part 2: Helping Newborns and Mothers Transition Following Birth with Susana Montoya Pelaez
In this episode, Suzanne continues her discussion with Susana Montoya Pelaez, a body worker who uses physiotherapy, craniosacral therapy, visceral manipulation and applied kineseology to her treatments, along with numerous other modalities. Susana explains how she would help a woman's body recover from birth, whether it be caesarean section, instrumental or normal vaginal birth. She also discusses what a baby's body needs to do to prepare its nervous system for life outside the womb, and how birth prepares it for that. And how interrupted births - caesarean sections - affect the baby. She also gives some advice on how to help your baby make the transition to extrauterine life, regardless of the mode of delivery.
S1:EP4 Part 1: Bodywork for Fertility and Pregnancy with Susana Montoya Pelaez
In this first of a 2-part episode, Suzanne speaks to Susana Montoya Pelaez, a body worker who uses physiotherapy, craniosacral therapy, visceral manipulation, applied kineseology and other modalities to heal and bring balance to people's bodies. A talented, learned and inspired healer, Susana explains how a woman's body can be helped by bodywork to conceive, and how a woman's body can be physically prepared for pregnancy and birth.
