PODCAST · health
Delivering Miracles Podcast
Helping moms with high-risk pregnancies have healthy babies.
Episodes
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83: What Pediatricians Want New Parents to Know with Dr. Jen Trachtenberg
Are you considering which pediatrician you should choose for your child? From personal experience, I know the importance of finding … More
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82: Control
The worst advice anyone can give a woman (or couple) going through infertility, fertility treatment or a high-risk pregnancy is, … More
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81: How Her HRP Inspired Her Entrepreneurial Journey
Having a high-risk pregnancy can make you feel like your whole world is collapsing. So many women have to cut … More
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80: When You Avoid
We all know avoiding important tasks isn’t helpful. And yet we all do it, because, let’s face it, it’s easier … More
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79: Lean Into Trauma
Thousands of women experience pregnancy and/or birth trauma every year. Without proper support, resources and information, trauma is often overlooked … More
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78: Miracles During a High-Risk Pregnancy
A high-risk pregnancy is a uniquely difficult time because of the emotional and physical intensity. Within a short 40 weeks … More
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77: Transforming Monster Mommy Moments
When you lose your temper on your child, it doesn’t make you a bad mother. Every single mother on this … More
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76: When Crying is Not a Sign of Postpartum Depression
With increased attention on postpartum depression in the media and in research, more and more women (and their loved ones) are … More
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75: Coping with Pregnancy After Loss
Experiencing a loss is heartshattering for any parent. Whether it’s a chemical pregnancy, miscarriage, due to prematurity, a stillbirth or … More
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74: How Stress and the Mind Body Connection Impact Pregnancy Health
The term “mind-body connection” can mean a variety of things to so many people. Some take it to mean mental … More
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73: When Your Body Needs You to Slow Down but You Love to Go Fast
When you’re a Type-A, go-getter person who loves to be busy, it hard to accept when your body needs you … More
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72: Secondary Infertility
When it’s easy to have your first child, it’s a pretty safe assumption that having subsequent children will be easy … More
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71: Why Labels Matter
The words and labels that you use during your family-building challenges matter. They inform what important anchor points define your … More
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70: Financial Management for a Healthy Pregnancy
Financial stress is a tremendous source of stress for women with a high-risk pregnancy. Whether it’s because you spent much … More
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69: Toxic Chemicals and Infertility
Environmental toxins are all around us in our day to day lives. From what we eat to what we breathe … More
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68: Essentials and Gifts for NICU parents
The NICU is an overwhelming, scary place that feels like a world away from the rest of the world. Whether … More
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67: Listener Q&A
When you have challenges creating the family of your dreams, whether it’s experiencing loss or infertility, a high-risk pregnancy or … More
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Expecting Triplets with Jenny Medlen
When I first started watching This is Us, the very first episode reminded me of a good friend I’d … More
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65: Adoption After Infertility
For many couples who experience fertility challenges, adoption is often an option that’s considered the next step. But is it … More
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64: When You Got What You Wished But You’re Still Angry
Ever feel angry to the point when you get a baby shower invitation or hear about a birth announcement? Feel … More
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63: What Women Wish Doctors and Medical Professionals Understood About Maternal Mental Health
There are far too many misconceptions and incorrect stereotypes about maternal mental health. From believing a woman is crazy to … More
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62: How to Take Back Control When You Feel Backed Into a Corner During Infertility or a High-Risk Pregnancy
No matter the circumstances, when you feel like all options are gone and your back is to the wall, we … More
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61: Postpartum Nutrition for Healing
My postpartum looked NOTHING like what I had thought it would, due to the timing of my son’s early birth … More
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60: Managing Pain Without Medication
Even though pain and I are complete enemies, I feel like we are best friends in a way, simply because … More
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59: Building Your Postpartum Dream Team
Bringing your baby home from the NICU sounds like its the end of the hard part. But sometimes its even harder to deal with the feelings of loneliness and anxiety. You need t build a postpartum team, just like you need a prenatal team and a NICU team. I'm very excited to introduce this weeks…
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58: Trust
Trust. I want to talk to you today about what it means to trust. Webster defines it as “assured reliance on the character ability strength or truth of someone or something.” Quite a heavy load, but we do it all the time.
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57: It’s OK to Not be OK
Sometimes we are in so desperate need of help, that we don't even realize it. That may seem ridiculous, but sometimes we really can feel like we are "doing fine" when really we need support from others. Today I'm joined by Abbi Perets, Founder of SuccessfulFreelanceMom.com. She teaches at-home…
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56: Surviving a Ruptured Ectopic
Ectopic pregnancy is not often talked about, but this happens to many women and can actually be quite dangerous. As someone who has gone through an ectopic pregnancy, it is important for me to talk about this experience, and that we understand how it is different from a miscarriage. In this...
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55: Words You Use
The words you use can be so powerful for healing if you allow yourself to be exactly where you are. I will never tell you not to say or express the fears and negative thoughts that you are experiencing. I will never tell you that you are not broken because healing can begin wherever you are and...
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54: What You Should Know if You’ve Experienced Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
Today we're going to shed some more light on recurrent pregnancy loss. If you've experienced recurrent pregnancy loss, you know how hard it is to cope with, especially when there is often no reason or explanation for it. Joining us today is Dr. Lora Shahine, Reproductive Endocrinologist, who...
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53: How to Manage Guilt and Self Blame
Women going through pregnancy complications know that they didn't do anything to cause their fertility challenges or pregnancy complications, yet our brains are trained to go to a place of guilt and self blame. This is a difficult process, because as humans we want someone or something to blame,...
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52: Seeing Double? The Truth about Twins
We often romanticize the idea of having twins, but twins are actually considered a high risk pregnancy. So today to show the true, realistic side of twin pregnancy, we are joined by Brittany Dixon. Brittany Dixon is an organizing and productivity strategist for stressed out and exhausted women...
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51: How To Manage Stress During Pregnancy
We all know that stress isn't good for our bodies, but we often tend to push it to the side and bottle it up rather than dealing with it. Stress extremely impactful on pregnancy health. Stress during pregnancy has been found related to pre-term birth, low birth weight and much much more. Today I...
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50: Babyproofing your Career on Bed Rest
While being on bed rest might be necessary for you and your baby physically, your mind can wander and get caught up in all the "what ifs." A question I faced and I know many other women have faced is: "What's going to happen to my career." It can create so much extra anxiety and you don't deserve...
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49: Alternative Therapies
So much of medicine today is a "one size fits all" approach, and if you've been listening to this podcast for awhile, you know how much I don't believe in "one size fits all." Today I'm going to walk you through a number of alternative therapies that could be beneficial to you if you find…
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48: What is a Doula?
Today on Delivering Miracles our guest is Lori Bregman, a renowned doula, life coach, healer and author of The Mindful Mom to Be. She's here to explain what exactly a doula is, and how they can help you through your pregnancy journey from fertility, through pregnancy and into motherhood.
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47: Why “Don’t Give Up” Is Terrible Advice
"Don't give up." a comment I've heard all the time, through every stage of my journey and I'm sure many other women have heard as well. It's a comment that is meant to be kind and supportive, but it has really rubbed me the wrong way for a long time. Today I want to discuss why I don't like…
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46: Don’t Let Perfection Bring You Down
We often compare our experiences to others and see ours as "imperfect." Today we our guest is Jillian Grover owner of the "Doing away with Perfect" blog. She joins us today to share her imperfect delivery story and to show you that you are not alone, and to change the way you remember what you've...
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45: Breaking Down Fertility Treatment Options
There is no "one size fits all" solution to fertility treatment. So today I'm going to break down all of the possible options so that you have and idea of which ones are for you. There is no one solutions for everyone, you have to listen to your body.
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44: How To Maintain a Healthy Body Image During Infertility & High Risk Pregnancy
In this episode we are joined by Lindsay Stenovec, a San Diego based dietitian nutritionist and owner of Nutrition Instincts who is focused on helping women make peace with food and their bodies. We discuss the importance of maintaining a healthy body image, and how you can support your own body...
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43: The Biggest Lie Women Tell
There's one particular lie that so many women going through infertility, high-risk pregnancy, prematurity or taking care of children tell themselves and their loved ones. It's so common that we don't even think twice about it. But this lie is one that is affecting not just you but your pregnancy...
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42: The Truth About Surrogacy
Today we talk about something that is rarely discussed, surrogacy. there is a lot of misinformation and mystery around surrogacy and gestational carriers, so here to help demystify the topic is Eloise Drane. Eloise has been an egg donor as well as a 3 time surrogate mother. She is now the...
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41: Postpartum Body Memories
Memories of traumatic pregnancies are not just stored in the mind but the body as well. I tell you about my own experiences and discuss ways to confront and conquer these body memories.
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40: Gestational Diabetes with Lily Nichols
Today's guest is the expert of experts on gestational diabetes, Lily Nichols: registered dietitian nutritionist, certified diabetes educator, researcher, speaker, and author. Gestational diabetes was Parijat's 7th complication during her high-risk pregnancy and today she chats with Lily to…
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39: Paternal Age and Fertility with Dr. Aimee
We hear a lot about women's age correlating to fertility, but not as much about men's age. This can translate to a lot of pressure. In this episode, we discuss child development from both the perspective of a man and a woman's age.
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38: The truth about postpartum anxiety
Postpartum anxiety is almost 2-3 times more common than postpartum depression. Unfortunately, too few people know about it, talk about it or even understand it, leaving too many women to suffer in silence. That ends today. On this episode, I share with you the truth about postpartum anxiety...
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37: Fertility Myths & Non-Traditional Options for Infertility with Marc Sklar
Growing up you learn all the ways to prevent getting pregnant, but no one really discusses what happens when you want to get pregnant and can't. Today's guest is fertility expert Dr. Marc Sklar and he's here to give you some real advice on how to get pregnant and debunk some of the myths…
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36: What Every High-Risk Mom Needs to Hear
It really is this hard. Let this sink in. Don't minimize your feelings. If it feels hard, it's okay. On this episode of Delivering Miracles, Parijat talks you through this important statement that every woman going through a high-risk pregnancy needs to hear.
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35: For the Type-A Person
This episode of Delivering Miracles with Parijat Deshpande is all about the Type-A person. Parijat explains what this means, how this impacts your high-risk pregnancy, and what you can do to accommodate this.
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34: What It’s Like To Have Multiple Complications
We don't share our stories enough - it can be hard to get to that place where you're comfortable sharing, but storytelling can help you heal. Today, Parijat opens up Delivering Miracles as a platform for high-risk mom's to share their stories. Our very first brave mom is Khadya Hale.
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