013: Vanessa Merten of the Pregnancy Podcast
Are you pregnant? Thinking about getting pregnant? Do you love Your Parenting Mojo and wish there was a show that could help you to understand how scientific research can help you make decisions about your pregnancy? Well, there is! In this episode we chat with Vanessa Merten, who hosts The Pregnancy Podcast. She uses scientific research to examine – sometimes controversial – issues from all sides to help you decide what’s best for you. And best of all, she goes beyond looking at individual issues to really synthesizing the outcomes of the research in a way that will make your decision-making much more powerful. Do you know how receiving IV fluids during your delivery could lead to a pediatrician making the judgment that breastfeeding is not going well and you should supplement with formula? If you want to understand this as well as the links between all kinds of other issues related to your pregnancy, listen in to this interview with Vanessa and then head on over to The Pregnancy Podcast at http://pregnancypodcast.com/ (pregnancypodcast.com). Reference Dominguez-Bello, M.G., De Jesus-Laboy, K.M., Shen, N., Cox, L.M., Amir, A., Gonzalez, A., Bokulich, N.A., Song, S.J., Hoashi, M., Rivera-Vina, J.I., Mendez, K., Knight, R., & Clemente, J.C. (2016). Partial restoration of the microbiota of cesarean-born infants via vaginal microbial transfer. Nature Medicine 22(3), 250-253. Full study available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5062956/ Read Full Transcript Transcript Jen: https://www.temi.com/editor/t/8S0PDi_7tW41CQkQbFPd_joqJx0iaBf8_-ZuMqa6XwHhucD4bO3T9eZFsAMBJXrZ8ewVkvw-rlKnGh5vVV3yXwx_1Ys?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=22.771 ([00:22]) Hello and welcome to the Your Parenting Mojo podcast. Today’s guest, Vanessa Merten wrote to me after she heard my podcast to telling me about her podcast and as soon as I listened to it, I knew we had to work together. Her show is called The Pregnancy Podcast and let me say right now that this is an altruistic episode for you, dear listeners, because I am not pregnant and not planning to get pregnant either, but when I listened to the pregnancy podcast, I realized that Vanessa is essentially doing the same thing that I’m doing in Your Parenting Mojo, but for the stage before the baby is born and just after, which is to say that she looks at a particular issue and examines it from all sides using scientific research as her guide, so while my listeners are probably here because they already have a child, I realize that many of you may be thinking about having another one. Maybe you didn’t have the time to do much research before your first baby or maybe you didn’t know there was research out there that could guide your choices, or maybe you did the research, but it was several years ago now and you’re not sure how things might’ve changed in the intervening years if so, the pregnancy podcast is for you. Welcome Vanessa. I’m so excited to have you on the show. Vanessa: https://www.temi.com/editor/t/8S0PDi_7tW41CQkQbFPd_joqJx0iaBf8_-ZuMqa6XwHhucD4bO3T9eZFsAMBJXrZ8ewVkvw-rlKnGh5vVV3yXwx_1Ys?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=96.84 ([01:36]) Jen, thank you so much for having me. I am really excited to be here. Jen: https://www.temi.com/editor/t/8S0PDi_7tW41CQkQbFPd_joqJx0iaBf8_-ZuMqa6XwHhucD4bO3T9eZFsAMBJXrZ8ewVkvw-rlKnGh5vVV3yXwx_1Ys?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=101.07 ([01:41]) Thank you. So tell us a bit about yourself. Why did you start the pregnancy podcast? Vanessa: https://www.temi.com/editor/t/8S0PDi_7tW41CQkQbFPd_joqJx0iaBf8_-ZuMqa6XwHhucD4bO3T9eZFsAMBJXrZ8ewVkvw-rlKnGh5vVV3yXwx_1Ys?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=105.29 ([01:45]) Oh, I am a mom to my son Reef...