The MamasteFit Podcast

Birth Story 2: Jordan's Birth Story: Breech, Successful ECV, and Labored C-Section Birth In this episode, Jordan shares her birth story of her first baby! Jordan discovered her baby was breech during the third trimester, after planning an unmedicated hospital birth. She did ALL the things, but baby did not flip headdown, so opted to try for ECV! The ECV was successful and she went into spontan...

Episode 11: Casey's Birth Stories: Unplanned C-Sections and Healing After Birth. Join us as Casey Backus, one of our founding members shares her infertility story and journey to motherhood and the birth stories of her sons. Casey's first birth started with a 37-week induction due to preeclampsia, a prenatal complication, that ended in an unplanned cesarean birth. Casey prepared for her sec...

Birth Story 1: Danielle's Two Birth Stories: Unmedicated Hospital Birth and Home Birth to Scheduled Cesarean with Placenta Previa Danielle, one of the founding members of MamasteFit gym and doula client, shares her two birth stories that have inspired her to enter birth work after retiring from the US Air Force. Danielle shares how she advocated for her care and birth during her first pregnanc...

Episode 10: Gina’s Third Birth: Home Birth of Sophie During Hurricane Ian Listen as Gina shares about her third birth, second home birth, during Hurricane Ian in October 2022! Gina shares about her pregnancy, and being “overdue,” finally going into labor at 41+2. Third births are commonly considered to be the “wild card” birth, where anything can happen! Gina also shares about the emotions in earl...

Episode 9: Pelvic Floor Prep for Birth with Hayley Kava, Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist In this episode, we are chatting with Hayley Kava, pelvic floor physical therapist, about how we can prepare our pelvic floor for birth! Spoiler alert, doing kegels are not included in our recommended birth preparation exercises. We can learn how to RELAX and RELEASE the pelvic floor as we prepare for birth an...

Episode 8: Roxanne's Second Birth Story: The Birth of Colin in a Freestanding Birth Center. Roxanne shares her second birth story, where she gave birth in a freestanding birth center in Monterey California. Roxanne's second pregnancy started out eventful with bleeding towards the end of her first trimester, which resolved in the second trimester with no further complications! Roxanne and h...

Episode 7: Processing Your Birth Story with Dr. Alyssa Berlin, Perinatal Psychologist. In this episode, we chat with Dr. Berlin, a perinatal psychologist, on how we can begin to approach processing our birth story if it was not the positive experience we had been preparing for. In this episode: How we do begin to process our birth story Dual emotions can coexist: you can absolutely love your baby...

Episode 6: Gina's Second Birth Story: The Birth of Eoghan  In this episode, Gina shares her second birth story, a home birth story during the COVID pandemic !  Gina was originally planning to give birth in a military hospital, but after the pandemic stopped all her in-person prenatal care (only virtual was offered until 36 weeks), she and her husband switched to home birth with a midwife.   Re...

Episode 5: Pelvic Pain: Overcoming Pelvic Pain During Pregnancy.   You do NOT need to be in pain during pregnancy!  There is a common misconception that pelvic pain is something that needs to be suffered through during pregnancy, and the only solution is birth.  This is NOT true!!  There is a LOT we can do to overcome pelvic pain during pregnancy. In this episode we will be discussing: Common caus...

Episode 4: Roxanne's First Birth Story!   Roxanne's first birth was an unmedicated birth in a military hospital.  MamasteFit had supported her first pregnancy, and we had learned so much since Gina's birth that we were able to support a much more positive experience for Roxanne.  Roxanne shares her positive birth story and what contributed to her positive experience. Read Lily's Bi...

Physically preparing for birth is more than just doing a lot of squats and prenatal yoga.  Learn how incorporating internal rotation into your prenatal workouts may be more beneficial for labor prep and preventing labor stalls! In this episode, we break down: 3 things that you should include in your prenatal fitness program 3 pelvic levels and how to open the pelvis for birth  Plus exercises that...

Join Gina and Roxanne as Gina describes her first birth - an experience that left her feeling confused, defeated, and traumatized. Though she was grateful at the end of it all to meet her first, happy, healthy baby, this experience ultimately gave birth in its own way to what would become the perinatal fitness/birth education company that is MamasteFit! Trigger Warning: If you are still processing...

Welcome to The MamasteFit Podcast! Join Gina (perinatal fitness trainer and birth doula), and her sister, Roxanne (labor & delivery nurse and student midwife), as they discuss topics that will empower you on your prenatal fitness, birth, and postpartum journeys. In today's episode, we will also introduce Casey Backus, physical therapist/yoga instructor and C-section mom (x2), who was there...