The New Rules of Pregnancy featuring Dr. Jaqueline Worth, OBGYN

07/03/19 • 50 min

Today we’re chatting with Dr. Jacqueline Worth, an ob/gyn and a passionate advocate for women’s health especially surrounding pregnancy. In her practice, Jacqueline specifically works with women who are pregnant. She also just released a new book, The New Rules of Pregnancy: What to Eat, Do, Think About, and Let Go Of While Your Body Is Making a Baby. She shares her candid advice to help expecting mothers learn what they really need to know about during their pregnancy. You’ll walk away from this episode feeling a lot less stressed about pregnancy and having the tools and knowledge to be able to experience your pregnancy with more joy.

What’s In This Episode:

Incorporating motherhood into her work
The demands of her career and how it has affected her family
Helping moms to see the joy of pregnancy
Feeling underprepared for motherhood
The trends that Dr. Jacqueline sees in her practice
Making sure that you trust your doctors
How the pain of labor is managed differently now
The higher rates of c-sections
Bringing a doula for spontaneous labor
How to avoid having a c-section
The hazards of being overdueChange has been a huge part of my in pregnancy
Strategies that encourage spontaneous labor
The new rules of pregnancy
What Dr. Jacqueline wishes she knew when she was pregnant
Asking for support and focusing on your own wellbeing and health
Say no to obligations and giving yourself space
Involve your husband and let him help you

What’s In This Episode:

Incorporating motherhood into her work
The demands of her career and how it has affected her family
Helping moms to see the joy of pregnancy
Feeling underprepared for motherhood
The trends that Dr. Jacqueline sees in her practice
Making sure that you trust your doctors
How the pain of labor is managed differently now
The higher rates of c-sections
Bringing a doula for spontaneous labor
How to avoid having a c-section
The hazards of being overdueChange has been a huge part of my in pregnancy
Strategies that encourage spontaneous labor
The new rules of pregnancy
What Dr. Jacqueline wishes she knew when she was pregnant
Asking for support and focusing on your own wellbeing and health
Say no to obligations and giving yourself space
Involve your husband and let him help you

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Celebrating 1 With Our Better Halves

Today we’re celebrating the 1 year anniversary of the Generation.Mom podcast. We can hardly believe it ourselves that we have been at this for over a year and have produced over 50 episodes. To help us celebrate this milestone, we’ve decided to bring some amazing guests on the show today. Since we’ve spent the month of June celebrating fathers, we thought we’d round off this series with some special guests, the ones who made us mothers, who are also our husbands. We chat about their lives as fathers, what surprises them the most about our podcast and we also play a fun game to see who knows us best, our husbands or each other.

What’s In This Episode:

How their life and career has transitioned due to fatherhood
Being above the line or below the line
How expectations of fathers have changed in the modern age
Their thoughts on their wives transition to motherhood
What has surprised them about Generation.Mom
Topics that they would like to hear more about
What Tim and Taylor wish their wives understood about fatherhood
How they feel about dad guilt
Adjusting to having children in the picture and the challenges of balance
A game of who knows who best, husbands vs. co-host
Their favorite dad hacks
Tim and Taylor’s dad crushes
What they are struggling with right now as a dad and a recent dad win
Their best memories with their children so far
What Tim and Taylor’s biggest dreams are for their children
The #1 thing that fatherhood has taught them
Learning efficiency and appreciating simple pleasures

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Bonus: Monthly Round Up June 2019

In the month of June, we switched things up a little bit and for the first time we brought on a few inspiring guests to share their wisdom about fatherhood. Guests included Sean Donahue, Brad Johnson, Doug French and to round it all out for our one year anniversary of the podcast, we brought on our husbands Tim and Taylor to get their take on fatherhood. We start this episode with some rapid fire questions and then discuss each guest and what we loved about their episode.

What’s In This Episode:

Highlights from each episode in June
Rapid fire with Jenn and Lara
What products they are loving right now
Their current mom crushes
Current mom hacks
The evening hours of motherhood
Figuring out the transition from work mode into mom mode
Their mom wins for the month
Why parenting looks different today than for previous generations
Parenting modern-day teens with guest Sean Donahue
Being aware of what kids are exposed to in this day and age
Prioritizing parenthood with Brad Johnson
Hit the stop button and really be present with your family
The importance of having 1-on-1 time with your children
Embracing the challenges of parenthood today with Doug French
Co-parenting and how being a caregiver is different for men
Challenges for modern fatherhood
Having the ability to be able to ask their husbands about fatherhood with Jenn and Lara
Their husbands' thoughts on how they transitioned to motherhood
What Tim and Taylor wish they knew about fatherhood
How they feel about Dad guilt