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...
2 Juli 202325min
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 ...
25 Juni 202324min
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 he...
18 Juni 202342min
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...
11 Juni 202344min
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 kno...
4 Juni 202336min
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 damag...
28 Maj 202332min
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 y...
21 Maj 202344min
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, t...
26 Sep 20155min
