Pregnancy for Professionals Podcast

Feb 12 2024 34 ep. 34 mins 7
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A one-stop shop for maternity care providers, improving knowledge translation between different medical specialties, practitioners and allied health providers.

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Jen's Birth Story

Feb 12 2024 55 mins  
Today we bring in another patient voice. Jen is a labour and delivery nurse sharing her own patient experience via her two birth stories, the first a planned Cesarean section and the second, a very empowering Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC). Though Jen is a maternity care provider, going through childbirth herself has given her a multitude of valuable insights on both the proce

Navigating Ocular Health in Pregnancy

Jan 29 2024 34 mins  
Today’s topic might be something that many of us haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about - what kind of changes can occur within eyes during pregnancy? If a patient has a pre-existing condition, either physiological or specifically ocular, are the eyes particularly susceptible to damage during pregnancy and should specific precautions be taken? Could eyesight worsen during p

Postpartum Care Models: Impact on Maternal Morbidity and Mortality

Jan 15 2024 36 mins  
We need to have a serious conversation about postpartum care models in Canada. Statistics suggest that maternal morbidity and mortality rates are on the rise. Digging deeper into the numbers calls into question all sorts of gaps within our currently care models, how we can better address patient needs through interdisciplinary, collaborative care, the benefit of looking at other mo

Vitamin K in Newborns

Jan 08 2024 14 mins  
On today's concise episode, Drs. Alicia Power and Sarah Lea discuss why newborns are given Vitamin K right after birth, what Vitamin K does in the body, the types of Vitamin K, the causes, effects and treatment of Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding (VKDB), and how to address parent's potential concerns around administering Vitamin K at birth. Feedback: Please take a moment to fill out t

Top 7 Strategies for Managing Chaos at Home and Work

Dec 18 2023 11 mins  
Drs. Sarah and Alicia come together to share some more insights from their work with Revive Physicians, a community raising up and empowering female physicians to become long-term change makers and leaders. They share their top seven strategies for managing chaos at home and at work, to avoid living in a state of constant hyper arousal, and practicing these strategies so they can b

Nutrition in Menopause: Managing Your Middle

Dec 04 2023 62 mins  
Kristen Yarker, Registered Dietician and founder of The Kristen Yarker Nutrition Agency, talks about the way menopause and perimenopause affect the body and how common symptoms can be managed or even lessened through nutrition. She shares the evidence around the significant hormonal changes that can lead to changes in fat distribution and muscle loss during this time, the consumpti

Top 3 Time Efficiency Hacks for your Clinical & Personal Life

Nov 20 2023 9 mins  
Pregnancy for Professionals was created for providers, by providers. With the rates of physician and allied health team burn-out higher than ever, to be able to provide good care we must first ensure to take care of our own mental and physical health. With that mission in mind, Drs. Power & Lea created Revive Physicians, a community for raising up and empowering female physicia

Top 5 Questions Parents Ask Around Starting Solids

Nov 06 2023 24 mins  
Our guest on today's episode, Nita Sharda, is a Registered Dietitian and one half of Happy Health Eaters, an online community aiming to help parents feel confident about feeding their baby solids, providing the necessary nutrition, and dispelling common myths and misconceptions. Nita and Dr. Power discuss frequent concerns such as how to advise parents to begin solids, nutritional

Supporting Gender Diversity in Pregnancy

Oct 23 2023 39 mins  
As care providers, most of us are doing our best to exercise kindness and inclusivity in our practice and personal lives. But it can be difficult at times to know how to best live within these values, in an ever evolving world. On today's episode we speak to Trystan Reese, trans educator with a focus on reproductive justice, fertility, and family-building, about his pregnancy, the

Home Birth

Oct 09 2023 51 mins  
Today's episode is all about home birth! What is involved, who is a good candidate, how best to prepare for a home birth, and what happens postpartum. Thank you to registered midwife Heidi Machnee for joining us and sharing her research and expertise. Feedback: Please take a moment to fill out this very short anonymous survey (>1 minute). We want to optimize Pregn