Jul 18, 2020
Join SP Mama, Kim Perez on this week’s episode of the podcast. As a Functional Nutrition Therapist and new, first time mom, she dives into her experience with cycle syncing and the impact of hormones on health and wellness. She shares about connecting to her intuition and finding joy in food and movement. She also opens up about the intensely challenging experience of navigating her son’s oral ties and discovering that the journey to feeding her son was going to look different than she’d ever imagined.
Content Warning: Our desire with this podcast is to share the many different pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experiences of the people in our community. Therefore the nature of the podcast, although very personal, has what could be sensitive and/or triggering content including, but not limited to, experiences with medical emergencies, loss, miscarriage, PPD and anxiety.
Topics:
3:29 - Welcome/Intro
4:40 - Who is Kim Perez
7:29 - Work with hormone balancing in her journey to fertility and conception
14:15 - Being pregnant and navigating nutrition and fitness intuitively
21:35 - Cycle Syncing
23:14 - What she did to mentally prepare for birth
30:35 - Henry’s Birth Story
40:18 - Using breath, her voice, and touch from her support team in labor
46:49 - Discovering her son’s tongue tie and that breastfeeding was not going to go as planned
1:00:45 - Lessen your stress
1:01:29 - The role Street Parking has played in her journey
IG Handle:
@rootandbranchnutrition
Links:
https://www.foodperiod.com/blogs/the-monthly-times/preconception
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-balanced-babes-podcast/id1474385785?i=1000452036498
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