WEBVTT 00:00.111 --> 00:03.993 [SPEAKER_00]: And I am the thirty eight weeks and five days at this point, you guys. 00:04.033 --> 00:06.334 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just like, I am not in labor. 00:06.534 --> 00:08.135 [SPEAKER_00]: I never go on to work this early. 00:08.495 --> 00:09.556 [SPEAKER_00]: I was in denial. 00:09.736 --> 00:12.677 [SPEAKER_00]: I walked around downstairs, still having interactions. 00:13.017 --> 00:20.681 [SPEAKER_00]: So I got in the bathtub because my doctor always told me that if you get in the bathtub and you're in the water and they stop, it's false labor. 00:20.861 --> 00:22.682 [SPEAKER_00]: If it keeps going, it's actual labor. 00:22.762 --> 00:24.103 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was like, okay, cool. 00:24.343 --> 00:24.903 [SPEAKER_00]: They have gone. 00:30.092 --> 00:32.653 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the balancing hormones naturally podcast. 00:32.893 --> 00:34.634 [SPEAKER_00]: This is your podcast host, Leah Brugman. 00:34.794 --> 00:37.615 [SPEAKER_00]: I am a functional diagnostic nutritional practitioner. 00:38.095 --> 00:40.336 [SPEAKER_00]: Here you're going to get actionable steps. 00:40.436 --> 00:50.340 [SPEAKER_00]: You can take today to start balancing your hormones naturally so that you can maximize your menstrual cycle for painless periods, more energy and weight loss. 00:50.880 --> 00:54.001 [SPEAKER_00]: Learn my three secrets to balancing hormones naturally. 00:54.161 --> 00:58.243 [SPEAKER_00]: Just go to freehormonetraining.com and save your spot. 00:58.483 --> 00:59.103 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's dive on it. 01:02.295 --> 01:03.016 [SPEAKER_00]: Hi, ladies. 01:03.196 --> 01:03.936 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you miss me? 01:04.157 --> 01:04.917 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you really didn't. 01:04.997 --> 01:06.639 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you've been listening to me every week. 01:06.879 --> 01:10.682 [SPEAKER_00]: If you are a regular podcast listener, you aren't a regular podcast listener. 01:10.842 --> 01:11.143 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 01:11.183 --> 01:11.743 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you missed me. 01:11.763 --> 01:12.204 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you didn't. 01:12.284 --> 01:15.146 [SPEAKER_00]: But I am back from maternity leave. 01:15.526 --> 01:19.510 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is my first episode that I'm recording in about four months. 01:19.850 --> 01:23.053 [SPEAKER_00]: So it feels like I'm back because I best all the other episodes. 01:23.433 --> 01:24.414 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's fun. 01:24.854 --> 01:26.296 [SPEAKER_00]: But it felt like 01:26.976 --> 01:40.010 [SPEAKER_00]: A very good first episode back would be to share my first story and postpartum what I was doing for hormones support support where I just cried. 01:41.312 --> 01:42.153 [SPEAKER_00]: and all of those things. 01:42.173 --> 01:51.919 [SPEAKER_00]: I like hearing people's brief stories, but I mostly want to just share this with you because I know a lot of you have followed along with a very emotionally charged pregnancy and I want it to kind of give you some updates. 01:52.279 --> 01:55.342 [SPEAKER_00]: This is my third boy. 01:55.722 --> 01:58.904 [SPEAKER_00]: If anybody was keeping track there, my third kiddo. 01:59.324 --> 02:03.927 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, by the check, I'm gonna, if you're watching YouTube, I just need to update you guys on this, okay? 02:03.947 --> 02:10.370 [SPEAKER_00]: So we have moved, and so obviously I have a different background, I need to change the paint color for my YouTube videos. 02:10.410 --> 02:12.811 [SPEAKER_00]: So I am taking votes on this paint color. 02:12.871 --> 02:18.054 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you would like to tell me what you think I should paint it, this is also going, that picture back there. 02:18.234 --> 02:21.956 [SPEAKER_00]: And we need to find a place for my plant, because so far my plant is still alive and well. 02:22.397 --> 02:26.279 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're wondering why, I'm in a different location for YouTube videos, that's why. 02:26.379 --> 02:28.440 [SPEAKER_00]: So give me your votes on paint color. 02:29.020 --> 02:30.242 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm open to solutions. 02:30.602 --> 02:36.048 [SPEAKER_00]: So anyways, as my third kiddo, you guys know that, okay, what do you all know? 02:36.108 --> 02:46.699 [SPEAKER_00]: You know that I did have a granic coverage in the first part of my pregnancy, which ended up on giving Roman, they called it dilated bowel in utero. 02:46.939 --> 02:49.202 [SPEAKER_00]: And that was the assumption as to what is caused at the 02:49.642 --> 02:50.363 [SPEAKER_00]: really knew. 02:50.523 --> 03:12.695 [SPEAKER_00]: I was very thankful during my pregnancy that I was able to work with a holistic doctor who put me on a very specific supplement protocol to help stabilize the sub-cranic hemorrhage as well as build up my iron stores and my hemoglobin because having a sub-cranic hematomeum, because that's what it turned into, can put you at a greater risk for hemorrhaging at birth when is that large. 03:12.735 --> 03:16.998 [SPEAKER_00]: So mine was nine centimeters by six centimeters so it was pretty significantly big. 03:17.438 --> 03:22.579 [SPEAKER_00]: So anyways, at the tail end of my pregnancy, we had been doing ultra-sounds. 03:22.599 --> 03:28.381 [SPEAKER_00]: We had to deliver at a different hospital than we originally were planning on because they needed a better pediatric unit. 03:28.641 --> 03:36.723 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we were staying regular with scans to just make sure amnionic fluid was okay, because that was the biggest concern with the dilate about. 03:37.043 --> 03:41.444 [SPEAKER_00]: So anyways, it was very emotional, like up and down and up and down. 03:41.684 --> 03:47.185 [SPEAKER_00]: And all of my babies have been late, like past their due date, yesterday, however you look. 03:47.345 --> 03:47.505 [SPEAKER_00]: that. 03:47.845 --> 03:55.570 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I was thirty eight weeks and three days, I think, and that whole day, I was just, he just doesn't feel like he's moving that much. 03:55.911 --> 04:00.533 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I literally drink juice, which one to sleep, I ever drink juice. 04:00.553 --> 04:03.776 [SPEAKER_00]: I really ever, I'm like, this should give him a sugar rush, like we'll see if he moves. 04:04.016 --> 04:04.136 [SPEAKER_00]: And 04:04.656 --> 04:06.077 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you really move much at all? 04:06.137 --> 04:09.799 [SPEAKER_00]: So I saw, okay, let's just go in and go to Triage. 04:10.200 --> 04:18.605 [SPEAKER_00]: So we went to Triage and they checked me all out and they're like, he's very low in your pelvis, but movement's great, heart rate's great, and this was the kicker. 04:18.625 --> 04:20.687 [SPEAKER_00]: I was dilated past two centimeters. 04:21.467 --> 04:28.332 [SPEAKER_00]: The reason why I thought that was the kicker is because I have gone into labor with my other kids, not even dilated centimeter. 04:29.032 --> 04:29.352 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just 04:30.653 --> 04:33.015 [SPEAKER_00]: I always have gone into labor, not dilated. 04:33.175 --> 04:38.399 [SPEAKER_00]: So when anybody literally gets disappointed at their prenatal appointments, and they're like, but I wasn't dilated. 04:38.679 --> 04:39.720 [SPEAKER_00]: Just like that means nothing. 04:39.840 --> 04:43.602 [SPEAKER_00]: So anyways, I was having a lot of Rex and Hicks. 04:43.622 --> 04:46.524 [SPEAKER_00]: They felt more like contractions, but we're gone, Rex and Hicks. 04:46.724 --> 04:48.226 [SPEAKER_00]: After that, they stopped. 04:48.566 --> 04:50.747 [SPEAKER_00]: And the next day was pretty normal. 04:50.867 --> 04:54.010 [SPEAKER_00]: Went to bed, woke up that morning at three a.m. 04:54.290 --> 04:55.231 [SPEAKER_00]: with contractions. 04:55.491 --> 04:56.391 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm the 04:57.652 --> 04:59.353 [SPEAKER_00]: weeks and five days at this point you guys. 04:59.393 --> 05:01.694 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just like, I am not in labor. 05:01.914 --> 05:03.514 [SPEAKER_00]: I never go on to this early. 05:03.834 --> 05:04.895 [SPEAKER_00]: I was in denial. 05:05.055 --> 05:08.016 [SPEAKER_00]: I walked around downstairs, still having interactions. 05:08.396 --> 05:16.018 [SPEAKER_00]: So I got in the bathtub because my doctor always told me that if you get in the bathtub and you're in the water and they stop, it's a false labor. 05:16.199 --> 05:18.059 [SPEAKER_00]: If it keeps going, it's actual labor. 05:18.099 --> 05:19.420 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was like, okay, cool. 05:19.720 --> 05:20.300 [SPEAKER_00]: They kept going. 05:20.560 --> 05:26.022 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's like, okay, I texted my sister-in-law, because they were going to come get the kids to so sleeping. 05:26.442 --> 05:27.243 [SPEAKER_00]: Like it's fun. 05:27.424 --> 05:28.425 [SPEAKER_00]: We have plenty of time. 05:28.485 --> 05:33.913 [SPEAKER_00]: I contractions were about fifteen minutes apart, fifteen twenty minutes, so it was pretty all over the place. 05:34.174 --> 05:41.625 [SPEAKER_00]: Tell my husband like we should probably finish packing everything up and within that time frame, my contractions went from fifteen minutes apart to five minutes apart. 05:41.945 --> 05:43.466 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's get in the car. 05:43.826 --> 05:47.608 [SPEAKER_00]: We had an hour and a half drive to the hospital. 05:47.909 --> 05:51.831 [SPEAKER_00]: So we have the nicest neighbors on planet earth that we know very well. 05:52.191 --> 06:00.176 [SPEAKER_00]: I guess as well as you can know neighbors, but we have the sweetest neighbor and she came over while because we're sleeping in satin our living room until my brother got there. 06:00.396 --> 06:04.838 [SPEAKER_00]: Think habits, think habits have to say because I was starting to go, oh my gosh, we need to get to the hospital. 06:04.999 --> 06:10.562 [SPEAKER_00]: So we left and in the car, I contractions slowed down to eighteen minutes again. 06:10.962 --> 06:13.369 [SPEAKER_00]: So immediately you start second guessing yourself. 06:13.549 --> 06:14.151 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not on labor. 06:14.191 --> 06:14.792 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not thing. 06:15.053 --> 06:17.499 [SPEAKER_00]: So we get there and we're going to triage. 06:17.519 --> 06:18.742 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm still having contractions. 06:18.762 --> 06:19.284 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like okay. 06:21.233 --> 06:21.993 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what this is. 06:22.034 --> 06:23.234 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's early labor. 06:23.474 --> 06:29.018 [SPEAKER_00]: So we get in there and they did a cervix check, which I know some people are like, so again, cervix checks. 06:29.258 --> 06:29.678 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care. 06:29.758 --> 06:30.078 [SPEAKER_00]: Go work. 06:30.398 --> 06:34.061 [SPEAKER_00]: They did a cervix check and I was almost five centimeters. 06:34.261 --> 06:40.785 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason why I just have to laugh is because like I always just go into labor, not dilated. 06:40.865 --> 06:43.386 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we were sitting there in the midwife's goal. 06:43.406 --> 06:45.287 [SPEAKER_00]: The contractions are really irregular. 06:45.447 --> 06:46.328 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't want to admit. 06:46.528 --> 06:49.031 [SPEAKER_00]: My five centimeters, I am in labor. 06:49.331 --> 06:53.416 [SPEAKER_00]: So she told me I could walk around outside for two hours. 06:53.817 --> 06:54.357 [SPEAKER_00]: So I was 06:55.513 --> 06:57.134 [SPEAKER_00]: For it, so it wasn't quite five centimeters. 06:57.154 --> 06:59.456 [SPEAKER_00]: I was four and a half centimeters, I think. 06:59.776 --> 07:00.316 [SPEAKER_00]: Four and a half. 07:00.696 --> 07:02.057 [SPEAKER_00]: However, they measure that. 07:02.397 --> 07:04.239 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's seventy percent of it. 07:04.419 --> 07:07.761 [SPEAKER_00]: And she gave me that scale of like where the baby is in your pelvis. 07:07.881 --> 07:10.282 [SPEAKER_00]: And she said he was at a negative two. 07:10.302 --> 07:11.883 [SPEAKER_00]: I think if you know what I'm going to talk about. 07:11.903 --> 07:14.105 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't know, I'm talking about, that's going to be more lucky to. 07:14.465 --> 07:18.528 [SPEAKER_00]: So I went outside and went in did part of the mile circuit as much as I could. 07:18.548 --> 07:22.110 [SPEAKER_00]: I was listening to hypnoberting like 07:22.530 --> 07:25.251 [SPEAKER_00]: Visualization track and then I started doing the stairs. 07:25.291 --> 07:29.692 [SPEAKER_00]: So I did the stairs sideways like on the diagonal to open up your memory. 07:29.772 --> 07:31.493 [SPEAKER_00]: How was I did some curb walking? 07:31.993 --> 07:34.774 [SPEAKER_00]: I was doing some really one of those deep lunges. 07:34.794 --> 07:35.294 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 07:35.394 --> 07:46.417 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever the stretches are that helped the baby move down deeper into the pelvis like that first stage where you need to open up the top part of the pelvis and then once they're fully in the breath tonight 07:46.937 --> 07:47.937 [SPEAKER_00]: bottom part of the pelvis. 07:48.058 --> 07:53.040 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you physical therapists for teaching you to tell it for therapists, I guess I should emphasize. 07:53.540 --> 07:57.401 [SPEAKER_00]: So I was doing those and they were getting pretty regular at this point. 07:57.421 --> 08:02.544 [SPEAKER_00]: They're about three months of art and inking really strong enough that you have to breathe through them. 08:02.724 --> 08:12.468 [SPEAKER_00]: So we went in and the midwife was there and she's okay, you're five and a half centimeters, not your ninety percent of face, let them go, you're in my sit. 08:13.142 --> 08:22.703 [SPEAKER_00]: do I was in labor anyway I was just casually getting ready finally get us into a room maybe an hour later so we got to the hospital 08:24.086 --> 08:30.507 [SPEAKER_00]: It's seven, thirty, and they get us into a triage room until eight, thirty. 08:31.108 --> 08:37.209 [SPEAKER_00]: We walked from nine to eleven, got admitted, and then got into the hospital at twelve, thirty. 08:37.469 --> 08:38.709 [SPEAKER_00]: If anybody cares about this timeline. 08:38.909 --> 08:42.750 [SPEAKER_00]: And at this point, my connections are still three to five minutes apart. 08:44.110 --> 08:46.331 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're not too bad. 08:46.351 --> 08:49.612 [SPEAKER_00]: There are enough where you have to sit and go and breathe for those for a second. 08:49.652 --> 08:51.432 [SPEAKER_00]: But it just felt like 08:52.922 --> 08:53.903 [SPEAKER_00]: strong early labor. 08:54.163 --> 08:57.086 [SPEAKER_00]: So we get in, have you do all that paperwork? 08:57.146 --> 08:58.567 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just on a birthing ball. 08:58.587 --> 09:07.114 [SPEAKER_00]: I just talk into the nurse, asking her for so many good stories, and I'm just moving, my biggest thing is movement, just move. 09:07.394 --> 09:09.256 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want to say what type of 09:11.277 --> 09:12.858 [SPEAKER_00]: like one, one, thirty. 09:13.398 --> 09:15.398 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is what you're mind is so powerful. 09:15.478 --> 09:23.841 [SPEAKER_00]: So remember, if you delivered a different hospital, I was very concerned that baby was going to need surgery after birth for a dilated bowel. 09:24.121 --> 09:32.204 [SPEAKER_00]: And I could tell my whole body was not progressing in labor because I was worried about what was going to happen after birth right now. 09:32.284 --> 09:32.884 [SPEAKER_00]: He was safe. 09:32.924 --> 09:33.844 [SPEAKER_00]: He was inside me. 09:33.924 --> 09:34.805 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything was good. 09:35.025 --> 09:35.145 [SPEAKER_00]: And 09:36.260 --> 09:41.478 [SPEAKER_00]: I could feel that some of my contractions were strong, but some of them were as strong as I knew that they should be. 09:42.553 --> 09:43.453 [SPEAKER_00]: They were in the right position. 09:43.513 --> 09:51.875 [SPEAKER_00]: I knew his position was really good, but so I did not, I was in that hospital room, walking back to them for doing EFT tapping. 09:52.095 --> 09:57.556 [SPEAKER_00]: I was literally going and doing the different pressure points and just walking my body through that emotion. 09:57.936 --> 09:58.976 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be okay. 09:59.336 --> 10:00.236 [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be okay. 10:00.356 --> 10:00.996 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be okay. 10:01.636 --> 10:05.697 [SPEAKER_00]: And really just telling my body, like you can do this, you're okay. 10:06.077 --> 10:06.777 [SPEAKER_00]: You can do this. 10:06.917 --> 10:07.757 [SPEAKER_00]: You're built for this. 10:07.817 --> 10:08.557 [SPEAKER_00]: You're built to birth. 10:08.597 --> 10:09.138 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got this. 10:09.458 --> 10:11.358 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, don't remember what time this was. 10:11.698 --> 10:16.520 [SPEAKER_00]: I just remember at some point the obese came in, the a small to pull obese. 10:16.740 --> 10:18.321 [SPEAKER_00]: It's because of the teaching hospital. 10:18.541 --> 10:20.321 [SPEAKER_00]: And they were like, do you want to check you? 10:20.381 --> 10:25.964 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like sure, but at the same time, I told my husband, I was like, I feel like I haven't progressed and made a pressing. 10:26.204 --> 10:31.926 [SPEAKER_00]: But I hate getting on that whatever that thing's called, the bed, the bed, the bed just stood the whole time. 10:32.326 --> 10:32.926 [SPEAKER_00]: So again, the bed. 10:33.887 --> 10:34.847 [SPEAKER_00]: And they check me and 10:36.278 --> 10:37.379 [SPEAKER_00]: I was literally the same. 10:37.399 --> 10:39.162 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I'm going to have centimeters. 10:39.582 --> 10:42.746 [SPEAKER_00]: I was fully a face though, just like, are you kidding me? 10:43.447 --> 10:50.575 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't actually say that to them, but I definitely thought that the OB was said has had it literally right there. 10:50.796 --> 10:55.662 [SPEAKER_00]: My water had already been slightly broken, but it hadn't come all the way out and she said that 10:56.042 --> 11:00.864 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want, we can break the rest of your water since it's already coming out and his heads right there. 11:00.984 --> 11:01.985 [SPEAKER_00]: And I can feel it right there. 11:02.065 --> 11:04.386 [SPEAKER_00]: So she wasn't really worried about chord prolapse. 11:04.726 --> 11:06.827 [SPEAKER_00]: And she said that will probably speed things up for you. 11:07.108 --> 11:09.449 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was like, OK, I'm down for that. 11:09.669 --> 11:10.949 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen to what the nurse had to say. 11:10.969 --> 11:12.870 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, sure, I'm fine with that. 11:13.231 --> 11:15.472 [SPEAKER_00]: So they broke my water and 11:16.536 --> 11:17.436 [SPEAKER_00]: This is funny. 11:17.776 --> 11:20.357 [SPEAKER_00]: It was, I'm going to have the time cable off. 11:20.557 --> 11:24.318 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was around like two, thirty, two, twenty, five, something like that. 11:24.618 --> 11:27.219 [SPEAKER_00]: And I felt one really strong contraction. 11:27.279 --> 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14:59.113 --> 15:01.434 [SPEAKER_00]: My husband like ripped that cord. 15:01.934 --> 15:03.275 [SPEAKER_00]: He said he was going to have to catch the baby. 15:03.395 --> 15:04.215 [SPEAKER_00]: I was still standing up. 15:04.275 --> 15:05.615 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, he's he's here. 15:05.835 --> 15:09.457 [SPEAKER_00]: And the nurse comes flying in and she's like, he's here. 15:09.477 --> 15:09.857 [SPEAKER_00]: He's coming. 15:10.077 --> 15:11.338 [SPEAKER_00]: And she's no easy. 15:11.358 --> 15:14.219 [SPEAKER_00]: And then she sees that she was, oh my gosh, she's done it. 15:14.479 --> 15:17.260 [SPEAKER_00]: And then all of a sudden the room filled with people. 15:17.560 --> 15:18.400 [SPEAKER_00]: And the nurse caught him. 15:18.560 --> 15:21.141 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think the OB's made it back in the room in time. 15:21.361 --> 15:25.003 [SPEAKER_00]: So literally they broke my water left and I had him in three minutes. 15:25.043 --> 15:29.084 [SPEAKER_00]: I think I had with it three contractions for contractions in that time frame. 15:29.184 --> 15:31.085 [SPEAKER_00]: They were literally coming back to back. 15:31.665 --> 15:34.550 [SPEAKER_00]: And I remember standing there and they were like, stop pushing. 15:35.070 --> 15:37.514 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if any of you have had this, but I was not pushing. 15:37.634 --> 15:40.098 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just literally fetal ejection. 15:40.138 --> 15:42.742 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like there was nothing I could do about it. 15:42.902 --> 15:43.663 [SPEAKER_00]: I was standing. 15:43.863 --> 15:44.785 [SPEAKER_00]: Never given birth standing. 15:44.805 --> 15:45.606 [SPEAKER_00]: It was interesting. 15:46.567 --> 16:08.617 [SPEAKER_00]: because they grabbed the baby obviously thankfully the nurse was amazing and they're like let's walk to the bed like walk how you're supposed to walk after that so thankfully they helped me humble to the bed and he came out screaming which I was so thankful for and they did a workup on him we did get to have our golden hour which was really nice but 16:09.077 --> 16:20.225 [SPEAKER_00]: He was not able to nurse because of the dilated bowel and it to run the testing which was always which is sad like that was hard because That's just hard anyways. 16:20.645 --> 16:27.310 [SPEAKER_00]: They took him to the nest and he still had a blockage and so We were thinking obviously still surgery. 16:27.550 --> 16:32.813 [SPEAKER_00]: I did lose a decent amount of blood and my human glove and dropped a few points. 16:32.953 --> 16:35.035 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it dropped so we are four 16:35.415 --> 16:40.581 [SPEAKER_00]: But thankfully, because it had been so high, I was able to get it up so high before I came in, everything was fine. 16:40.782 --> 16:41.863 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was really good. 16:42.063 --> 16:49.012 [SPEAKER_00]: He had just been the night in the NICU, which means I had to pump, which I've never had to do right after birth, and that is interesting. 16:49.292 --> 16:53.157 [SPEAKER_00]: And miraculously, literally, he passed the blockage all by himself that night. 16:53.517 --> 16:54.998 [SPEAKER_00]: So he did not need surgery. 16:55.018 --> 16:59.260 [SPEAKER_00]: He got discharged from the NICU twenty four hours after birth, which was incredible. 16:59.500 --> 17:03.222 [SPEAKER_00]: And doctors gave him the all good, which was, we were so thankful. 17:03.342 --> 17:06.924 [SPEAKER_00]: Like all the prayers were very thankful for that. 17:07.264 --> 17:09.105 [SPEAKER_00]: So many tears of gratitude, worship. 17:09.385 --> 17:13.148 [SPEAKER_00]: We were able to nurse after that, which we had the really awesome lactation consultant. 17:13.228 --> 17:14.769 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was really good. 17:14.789 --> 17:19.092 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he hadn't, he had been on an IV for twenty four hours. 17:19.412 --> 17:21.854 [SPEAKER_00]: So obviously he was getting nourishment without having to nurse. 17:21.874 --> 17:25.937 [SPEAKER_00]: So we had to start that process, which ended up on being fine and he's a great nurse. 17:26.317 --> 17:28.439 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was his first story. 17:28.679 --> 17:28.799 [SPEAKER_00]: And 17:29.219 --> 17:35.801 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you, I now tell, like, my sister-in-law, how'd her baby six, six, six weeks after I had my baby? 17:36.161 --> 17:39.142 [SPEAKER_00]: And I was telling her, you have to have been in labor. 17:39.523 --> 17:40.663 [SPEAKER_00]: It helped so much. 17:40.963 --> 17:45.405 [SPEAKER_00]: Because really getting your mind there really made a really big difference. 17:45.505 --> 17:48.366 [SPEAKER_00]: I felt like it really helped progress my labor along. 17:48.446 --> 17:50.166 [SPEAKER_00]: I just, in shock. 17:50.406 --> 17:57.749 [SPEAKER_00]: I think about it sometimes about how the doctors left and I had in three minutes later, and I was standing up, just pure shock to me. 17:58.149 --> 18:01.011 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, so very thankful for all of that. 18:01.371 --> 18:10.998 [SPEAKER_00]: But I did want to share some things that I have been doing that I think have really helped support him and helped support me both part of, especially for hormones and all that fun stuff. 18:11.398 --> 18:16.941 [SPEAKER_00]: So one thing that I have been doing is the biore infant pro way out. 18:17.142 --> 18:25.007 [SPEAKER_00]: The reason why I opted for this one is because it's liquid and so it was much easier to give him that while he is 18:25.447 --> 18:30.530 [SPEAKER_00]: Exclusively nursing because I started to get an oversupply in the very beginning and I got mass status. 18:30.710 --> 18:31.610 [SPEAKER_00]: I got mass status. 18:31.851 --> 18:35.273 [SPEAKER_00]: I think he was for four and a half ago. 18:35.673 --> 18:37.114 [SPEAKER_00]: It was utterly miserable. 18:37.394 --> 18:40.776 [SPEAKER_00]: So I didn't want to pump because I didn't want to get myself over supply. 18:42.256 --> 18:44.698 [SPEAKER_00]: More so than I had, thankfully, it is regulated now. 18:44.838 --> 18:49.881 [SPEAKER_00]: What I ended up undoing is I would take the infant probiotics from biore and put like. 18:51.147 --> 18:52.348 [SPEAKER_00]: a drop right here. 18:52.368 --> 18:56.732 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like in our lip or you can put some on your nipple before nursing. 18:56.872 --> 18:58.353 [SPEAKER_00]: All of those worked really well for me. 18:58.693 --> 19:00.275 [SPEAKER_00]: He's been a great pooper. 19:00.595 --> 19:04.058 [SPEAKER_00]: Had not had an issue with that at all not been a quality baby. 19:04.298 --> 19:10.083 [SPEAKER_00]: All of those things have been amazing and I thought, okay, maybe you just have a Christine God or maybe this probiotic is really that 19:10.263 --> 19:10.723 [SPEAKER_00]: Awesome. 19:11.063 --> 19:16.046 [SPEAKER_00]: And then someone I know told me that her baby only pooped a couple times a week. 19:16.286 --> 19:20.548 [SPEAKER_00]: And she started using that after she saw me talk about it and her baby pooped every day. 19:20.648 --> 19:22.408 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think that there is something to that. 19:22.609 --> 19:24.309 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, we have a discount code with them. 19:24.349 --> 19:25.170 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the Leah tent. 19:25.250 --> 19:26.951 [SPEAKER_00]: So that one was a great resource. 19:26.991 --> 19:27.751 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought was really good. 19:27.971 --> 19:31.172 [SPEAKER_00]: And I wanted to tell you a little bit about mastitis because it's horrible. 19:31.412 --> 19:34.754 [SPEAKER_00]: And some things that maybe you can do to prevent mastitis. 19:34.954 --> 19:35.174 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 19:35.514 --> 19:39.056 [SPEAKER_00]: Because as I was day three and to mastitis and my 19:39.356 --> 19:44.298 [SPEAKER_00]: Third, round of antibiotics with an extremely high fever. 19:44.318 --> 19:47.860 [SPEAKER_00]: I think my fever was a hundred and three point something. 19:48.320 --> 19:49.801 [SPEAKER_00]: She's why I was on the antibiotics. 19:50.241 --> 19:55.723 [SPEAKER_00]: I had already gotten rid of the cog at that point, so it was just crazy that the infection was still there. 19:56.383 --> 19:58.264 [SPEAKER_00]: And I hope nobody ever asked to go through that. 19:58.604 --> 19:59.685 [SPEAKER_00]: I never have to go through that again. 19:59.725 --> 20:02.086 [SPEAKER_00]: It was truly miserable, so it's really good. 20:02.386 --> 20:11.331 [SPEAKER_00]: But here I talk to somebody who had mastitis, she has four kids, and I talked to her and she had mastitis, forty times. 20:12.291 --> 20:14.652 [SPEAKER_00]: Between all four of her kids, forty times you guys. 20:14.972 --> 20:17.294 [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, she gave me some fabulous things to do. 20:18.674 --> 20:21.955 [SPEAKER_00]: and try and utilize, so don't get that again. 20:22.075 --> 20:26.497 [SPEAKER_00]: She said that helps so much that after she figured this out, shouldn't get mastitis anymore. 20:26.597 --> 20:30.538 [SPEAKER_00]: So I am going to share them with you if you want to hear them. 20:30.578 --> 20:32.319 [SPEAKER_00]: I have them written down, which is why I picked it my phone. 20:32.699 --> 20:34.519 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so there's a few things. 20:34.599 --> 20:35.359 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, are you ready? 20:35.660 --> 20:36.760 [SPEAKER_00]: None of this is medical advice. 20:36.780 --> 20:39.181 [SPEAKER_00]: And you can just take this as you like. 20:39.301 --> 20:42.462 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, as soon as you start to think you are getting mastitis, 20:43.525 --> 20:47.639 [SPEAKER_00]: And some of these things I was already doing, but she gave me some awesome, awesome, or things to do. 20:47.961 --> 20:49.064 [SPEAKER_00]: To do at Canacea. 20:50.258 --> 21:02.564 [SPEAKER_00]: five times a day until feeling completely better and to use either like colonial silver or agent in twenty-three something like that a couple times a day on a teaspoon until your fever breaks and then you can cut that up. 21:02.924 --> 21:05.225 [SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, okay, that one I wasn't doing. 21:05.585 --> 21:06.786 [SPEAKER_00]: I had been doing the acne shum. 21:07.246 --> 21:10.588 [SPEAKER_00]: She said vitamin C about three grams a day. 21:10.948 --> 21:12.208 [SPEAKER_00]: I had been on that so it was good. 21:12.569 --> 21:14.410 [SPEAKER_00]: And then this one was interesting. 21:14.450 --> 21:15.150 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know about this one. 21:15.530 --> 21:25.436 [SPEAKER_00]: absence of pack on like where your the lump is on the infected breast, such underarm area three times per day until your fever breaks. 21:25.636 --> 21:26.076 [SPEAKER_00]: Interesting. 21:26.116 --> 21:33.781 [SPEAKER_00]: And then she gave me four homeopathic remedies that she said make a really big difference in helping the lymph drain. 21:34.121 --> 21:38.304 [SPEAKER_00]: This is all stuff you would do as soon as you get mastitis, like as soon as you suspect it. 21:38.464 --> 21:41.406 [SPEAKER_00]: So one is called energy, lymph drain eggs. 21:41.786 --> 21:42.726 [SPEAKER_00]: I know you're going to ask for this. 21:42.747 --> 21:43.727 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll put them in the show notes. 21:44.087 --> 21:45.028 [SPEAKER_00]: Energy, limp. 21:45.388 --> 22:07.450 [SPEAKER_00]: a par energy infect this thought that's hard to say okay energetics released on so it's all limp so you take those four homeopathics at a dose of it's a liquid ten drops every fifteen minutes for two hours and then every hour for the rest of the day she told me that like when I wake up in the middle of night take the homeopathics 22:07.650 --> 22:09.471 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, that was what she recommended. 22:09.491 --> 22:10.512 [SPEAKER_00]: It did really help. 22:10.852 --> 22:22.761 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I was at the tail end of, by the time I talked to her, I was more like, it's a tail end of my mastitis journey because obviously antibiotics weren't even working at that point, so I was desperate for more help. 22:23.101 --> 22:27.484 [SPEAKER_00]: So anyways, I have those on hand if that ever happens again, hopes that never happens again to me. 22:27.884 --> 22:30.405 [SPEAKER_00]: But she did say these are the two things to help prevent it. 22:30.625 --> 22:32.265 [SPEAKER_00]: None of this is medical advice. 22:32.385 --> 22:36.426 [SPEAKER_00]: Do your own research to say what you would like to do for mastitis, but maybe it's helpful for you. 22:36.786 --> 22:41.907 [SPEAKER_00]: She said that your breast tissue, yeah, breast tissue actually has its own microbiome. 22:42.207 --> 22:49.409 [SPEAKER_00]: So there's two different probiotics that make a difference to prevent mastitis so that you don't get it again. 22:49.429 --> 22:50.149 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. 22:50.549 --> 22:56.751 [SPEAKER_00]: So one is premier research labs probiotic and the other is transformation probiotic that you take those daily. 22:57.973 --> 23:01.211 [SPEAKER_00]: You can get those on full script so if you go 23:02.640 --> 23:08.283 [SPEAKER_00]: to the website, theabrigment.com, go to favorites, and then scroll down to supplement dispensary. 23:08.483 --> 23:10.124 [SPEAKER_00]: You can create a free account there. 23:10.444 --> 23:12.345 [SPEAKER_00]: Look up those two probiotics and grab them. 23:12.606 --> 23:16.328 [SPEAKER_00]: And colyn actually makes a difference as well. 23:16.348 --> 23:18.009 [SPEAKER_00]: It's staying consistent on it. 23:18.089 --> 23:24.492 [SPEAKER_00]: So you guys know, I take body bio PC, which you can also get on full script, which is as fast as possible. 23:24.852 --> 23:27.174 [SPEAKER_00]: She did say, you can also do sunflower listed in. 23:27.354 --> 23:30.556 [SPEAKER_00]: She said sometimes that works for people, sometimes it doesn't work for people. 23:30.836 --> 23:31.336 [SPEAKER_00]: Interesting. 23:31.476 --> 23:37.159 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, that is my education on mastitis because that is horrific. 23:37.199 --> 23:38.680 [SPEAKER_00]: Hope none of you get that. 23:39.060 --> 23:46.645 [SPEAKER_00]: And the last thing I think would be helpful for you in that is probably going to be how do you repair your gut. 23:47.581 --> 23:49.182 [SPEAKER_00]: post in my Alex, because I'm doing it. 23:49.422 --> 23:51.823 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that deserves to own episode. 23:51.963 --> 23:52.483 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you think? 23:52.843 --> 23:54.224 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it deserves this on episode. 23:54.344 --> 23:56.605 [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm going to give you a little cheat sheet. 23:56.725 --> 24:00.666 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we'll do a whole episode on the breakdown of why. 24:01.006 --> 24:02.607 [SPEAKER_00]: So this one doesn't get insanely long. 24:02.947 --> 24:09.551 [SPEAKER_00]: So there's a few things that I really focused on in terms of supporting my gut postpartum or post antibiotics. 24:09.911 --> 24:17.035 [SPEAKER_00]: And that was helping my body rate fuel the good bacteria versus just like taking a ton of probiotics. 24:17.776 --> 24:22.678 [SPEAKER_00]: So I actually focused on turkey tail, which helps feed the good bacteria. 24:22.939 --> 24:32.004 [SPEAKER_00]: And I focused on Chinese school cap, which is an herb that basically just helps support that gut to rebuild, but also helps 24:32.364 --> 24:33.405 [SPEAKER_00]: come in and take a look there. 24:33.685 --> 24:36.607 [SPEAKER_00]: And I did digestive enzymes and bitters. 24:36.887 --> 24:41.490 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason why is I did bitters with every meal to basically help support stomach acid. 24:41.550 --> 24:45.733 [SPEAKER_00]: So my gut was uninhabitable to any bad gross disgusting bugs. 24:46.054 --> 24:50.657 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I just did enzyme to help break down my food as I was rebuilding my gut back here. 24:51.037 --> 24:52.458 [SPEAKER_00]: There's so what I'm currently doing. 24:52.578 --> 24:55.760 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I will eventually bring in some probiotics. 24:56.060 --> 24:58.082 [SPEAKER_00]: But gut actually feeling pretty darn good. 24:58.402 --> 24:59.503 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's awesome. 24:59.903 --> 25:00.684 [SPEAKER_00]: What else did I do? 25:00.724 --> 25:01.325 [SPEAKER_00]: Anything else? 25:01.345 --> 25:03.447 [SPEAKER_00]: So you took a tail, did a strangleist? 25:03.687 --> 25:04.528 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's a strangleist. 25:04.608 --> 25:06.950 [SPEAKER_00]: I literally didn't even tell you a strangleist has another herb. 25:06.990 --> 25:10.734 [SPEAKER_00]: Same thing, just helps your body build up that good gut bacteria. 25:10.794 --> 25:11.875 [SPEAKER_00]: Actually, I was already on that. 25:11.895 --> 25:19.083 [SPEAKER_00]: If you guys were listening to postpartum support supplements, I was taking postpartum adjuvenation from walnuts, which has a strangleist in it. 25:19.323 --> 25:20.164 [SPEAKER_00]: Hence, I was already on it. 25:20.524 --> 25:31.008 [SPEAKER_00]: But I really do think that the bitters in the enzymes did fabulous job of just helping my gut not become the perfect host for overgrow because you're in a vulnerable time on antibiotics. 25:31.368 --> 25:32.789 [SPEAKER_00]: And then it was on the antibiotics. 25:33.129 --> 25:35.010 [SPEAKER_00]: I took the probiotic called sac. 25:36.170 --> 25:50.887 [SPEAKER_00]: Who lardy and the reason why I did that is it just it's really good to help prevent like antibiotic diarrhea and just help any type of your body not have any yeast overgrowth or anything like that while you're on antibiotics and so that's why I was on tech be 25:51.287 --> 25:54.570 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I would take it two hours away from my antibiotics. 25:54.750 --> 25:59.795 [SPEAKER_00]: I used the brand Seeking Health, and I took two capsules, two times a day, two hours away from antibiotics. 26:00.115 --> 26:01.036 [SPEAKER_00]: And you can also get them on. 26:01.176 --> 26:01.897 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll skip the same place. 26:02.157 --> 26:04.939 [SPEAKER_00]: I need to like create like cheat code links so you can get there for us. 26:05.300 --> 26:08.102 [SPEAKER_00]: But basically, just go to my website or go to the show notes. 26:08.402 --> 26:12.967 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure there's a link there that says Leah's favorite supplements are something along those lines. 26:13.047 --> 26:13.207 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 26:13.667 --> 26:15.169 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, you guys are awesome. 26:15.389 --> 26:18.612 [SPEAKER_00]: Have I diagnosed anything where I get my herbs, my bitters? 26:19.012 --> 26:23.977 [SPEAKER_00]: So I really like the bitters and trying to school cap those tinctures from subluna. 26:23.997 --> 26:31.364 [SPEAKER_00]: You guys have heard me talk about that a ton of times I love subluna and you can use discount code Leah to save there, but I love them. 26:31.704 --> 26:33.305 [SPEAKER_00]: They're fabulous highly recommend. 26:33.586 --> 26:34.987 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, guys, hope that was helpful. 26:37.655 --> 26:40.759 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank 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