Okay, so episode 27 has to be my favourite episode of Oh Mama to-date. Seriously, the emotional outpour was unexpected this week people, but it happened and honestly I’m so glad I was recording when it did. I guess the old pregnancy hormones are hitting hard this week!

We’re getting all kinds of deep together as we discuss how I’m feeling a mere couple of weeks (or days, who knows!) away from becoming a mother, and the emotions, excitement and overall identity shift that comes with that.

Okay mama, here’s all the things we’re talking about:

• Update at 38 weeks pregnant
• How I’m preparing my postpartum meal prep
• Birth and labour affirmations I’m using daily to help keep a positive mindset
• How I’m feeling as I get ready to meet our daughter for the first time
• Why I know I need to rest and look after myself as much as possible before baby comes
• Using a TENS machine for the first time and why I wanted it for labour
• What my Mother’s Blessing Ceremony was like
• Why you might want to do a Blessingway instead of a baby shower
• Am I feeling Braxton Hicks at night or is it nothing?
• Things I didn’t know about pregnancy, like birthing the placenta!
• Waiting for contractions and why everything seems like the start of labour
• When I went on maternity leave and how it’s going so far
• Things I’m doing in the last few weeks before baby arrives
• Oxytocin release and things to help go into spontaneous labour

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*Please note: this podcast is not medical advice. Instead, think of it as having a pregnancy chats with your BFF, where we keep things wildly honest, and we share what we're really thinking and experiencing as we grow a tiny human. If an episode is helpful, amazing, but it's in no way here to tell you what to do or how to be/feel/act/think. Your experience is unique and perfect to you. No comparison necessary here, but we hope hearing the experiences we share makes you feel a little less alone in the moments when you might wonder if it's only you that's going through it. I promise you mama, it isn't. You're not alone, and we're in this together - one big mama squad.