You're listening to the Happy Homebirth Podcast, episode 93!
I’m excited to switch things up today. This podcast episode is going to be all about fertility awareness, and why understanding our menstrual cycle can be hugely empowering. We’ll be discussing this with my good friend Sophia Zafares, who is a Fertility Awareness Method Educator. So… basically the perfect person to get the low down on what this all means.
And exciting news! Check out the happy-Homebirth podcast on nstagram this week, as Sophia and I will be holding a giveaway together. You don’t want to miss it. Literature and a useful tool!
Show Notes:
Sophia is a fertility awareness method educator.
FAM- understanding the biomarkers of your fertility to avoid pregnancy, achieve pregnancy, or keep up with your general hormonal cycles.
Training through FEMM: Fertility Education and Medical Management
Pills, IUD, Shot, Implant: It’s important to know that they have basically the same forms of synthetic hormones.
These hormones do not interact with our bodies in the same ways that our natural hormones do.
These hormones are administered at consistent levels, whereas during our natural cycles, the hormones go through rhythms instead of a steady-state.
Hormonal bc: steady state, masculine stability
FAM: tuning into the body and noticing what it’s doing, feminine rhythm
Hormonal bc (side effects/ EFFECTS): Remember that hormones are involved in every part of our bodies and all of our systems
Prevent ovulation - without ovulation, certain hormones cannot be created. Depleted nutrients, lower ability to absorb and use the nutrients
Affects attraction and mate selection- choose someone they wouldn’t typically choose, come off of bc and are very unhappy
Depletion of bone density
It takes several years for a girl’s cycle to fully mature. If a young girl is put on bc, her maturity stops, and her cervix will be aged.
Lisa Hendrickson-Jack: The Fifth Vital Sign, Fertility Friday
Follow Sophia: @sage.fertility on Instagram
Website: www.sagefertility.co
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Ep 122: Appreciating Rites of Passage, Releasing Fear and Healing During Pregnancy
Ep 121: Mama Midwife: When Your Midwife is Your Mother
Ep 120: Navigating Homebirth While Being Youtube Famous
Ep 119: A Homeschooling Mama's Seventh Pregnancy and Supported Homebirth
Ep 118: A Last Minute Homebirth, A Heartbreaking Loss, and a Rainbow Baby
Ep 117: Fixing Your Period
Ep 116: Unexpected Pregnancy, A Husband's Deployment, and Reframing Birth
Ep 115:Covid Positive at 37 Weeks... Where Will Kate Give Birth?
Ep 114: Pivoting in Birth and Preparing for Postpartum with Pure Motherhood Co.
Ep 113: Homestead Homebirths: A Long Labor and A Precipitous Birth
Ep 112: A Homebirth Not in Your Home: Kadie's Airbnb Birth
Ep 111: Nicole Attempts a Homebirth After a Previous Hospital Transport
Ep 110: From Fearful to Fearless: Franchesca Overcomes Anxiety and Gives Birth at Home
Ep 109: Prepare Your Partner for Homebirth with The Paternal Partner
Ep 108: Labor logistics in the Home vs. the Hospital with Julia Pelly
Ep 107: Ready to Unpop! Two Homebirth Stories and An "Unpopular" Book with Tori Smith
Ep 106: Preparing Your Relationship for Postpartum
Ep 105: Teen Pregnancy, Threats from the Hospital, Home Miscarriage and a Rainbow Homebirth with Alissa Otto
Ep 104: Birth as a Rite of Passage with Dr. Rachel Reed
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