How To Prepare For Having a Baby & “The First 40 Days” Post-Birth Quarantine Practice | Sandra Sharpe

Ep 124. What is the best way to prepare for having a baby? Sandra Sharpe, Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner, and Health Coach, specializes in comprehensive, holistic, mind, body, and spirit postpartum support. In this episode, Sandra dives into all the nitty-gritty details of preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum. She talks about the global infertility crisis and how poor mental health and undernourishment could be two of the main contributing factors. Sandra highlights the importance of the first 40 days after giving birth, highlighting practices utilized across cultures to support the pregnancy and postpartum journey, showcasing a beautiful alternative to the commonly heard “bounce back” mentality.   HERE’S THE JUICE: How pregnancy and motherhood often heighten mental health issues and insecurities, so addressing those problems BEFORE pregnancy can be incredibly beneficial  Why cultivating awareness in our bodies and being vocal about what we need can be the catalyst in changing the perfectionist “I Can Do It All” mindset How Diet culture from the 90s has created an undernourishment epidemic (and nourishing our bodies is so crucial for pregnancy!) Tangible ways to identify support and communicate your needs to make the postpartum period smoother  Sandra’s health journey and the changes she made in her postpartum healing from her first child to her second Why journaling and writing letters can be healing and how to utilize this practice as a tool during preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum What Middle Eastern cultures practice in the First 40 Days postpartum to promote healing   Watch the full episode on What’s The Juice YouTube Channel  To shop our new PCOS protocol “The Cysters Kit” at 15% off, click HERE   To support our ad-free show, shop Olivia’s line of herbalist-formulated supplements for digestion, anxiety, thyroid support, and more by visiting www.organicolivia.com.   Connect with Sandra: Instagram Website Connect with Olivia: Follow Organic Olivia  Olivia’s personal IG Organic Olivia on TikTokRead Olivia’s blog posts  

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Welcome to the juiciest conversations in wellness with Olivia Amitrano, founder of Organic Olivia. “What’s The Juice” is a podcast as multifaceted as its listeners — a fierce community on a courageous path of self improvement, learning, and healing. Here we share conversations that bridge traditional wisdom and modern science, offering a balance of tangible advice and perspective-shifting philosophies that will optimize your health and change the way you see the world. One week we’ll spill the (herbal) tea on functional medicine for hormone imbalance, while the next we’ll dive deep into psychedelic assisted therapy, codependency and learning how to say no. Olivia is a clinical herbalist, formulator, entrepreneur, and, most notably, an educator. Each episode is an opportunity to synthesize her education in herbalism, psychology, and a lifetime of health issues into actionable tips on how to not only heal but thrive. Interviews with doctors, therapists, holistic practitioners, astrologers, artists, and storytellers are brimming with raw, human moments and empowering information. Candid and ever curious, Olivia is on a mission to understand the human condition and share what she learns along the way. Above all, her goal is to connect you with the paradigms, practitioners and teachers you can rely on to help get you to the next level. Peeling back the layers isn’t always pretty, but the juice is worth the squeeze.