Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths - 31. Fertility Coaching, Pregnancy, Postpartum Recovery with Ivy Joeva

31. Fertility Coaching, Pregnancy, Postpartum Recovery with Ivy Joeva

10/25/19 • 56 min

Shattered Conception: Navigating Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Healing Paths

My guest is Ivy Joeva. Ivy specializes in providing support throughout the woman’s reproductive life cycle, including fertility coaching, preparation for labor and birth, postpartum recovery, and pregnancy loss counseling. She brings to her practice a profound appreciation for the mind-body connection and a holistic approach including physical, emotional, sexual and spiritual aspects of care.

She directs the Meditation program at the Jonathan Beach Club and facilitates pregnancy loss support groups at LOOM, a Pregnancy, Parenting and Reproductive Empowerment Center where she also offers Pregnancy Coaching and serves as the lead Loss Doula for LOOM in Los Angeles.

Ivy graduated from UC Berkeley and the Institute of Integration Nutrition. Ivy has served as a doula since 2009. She is called to this work because she believes thriving parents create happier families and a kinder, more peaceful world.

Ivy Joeva can be reached through her website: www.ivyjoeva.com

IG: @ivyjoeva

Ivy Joeva can be reached through her website: www.ivyjoeva.com

IG: @ivyjoeva

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30. NICU and Healing Trauma with Mara Tesler Stein, Psy.D., PMH-C

My guest is Dr. Mara Tesler Stein. Dr. Stein is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Chicago. She specializes in the emotional aspects of coping with crisis around pregnancy & parenting, parent education, child development, and relationship-based and developmentally supportive care to babies and their families. She presents internationally on these issues and consults to health care providers and hospitals, guiding their efforts to improve the level of psychological support and care to families during and subsequent to perinatal crisis. She is the co-author of Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: The Emotional Journey (Fulcrum, 2004) and Intensive Parenting: Surviving the Journey Through the NICU (Fulcrum, 2013).

Dr. Stein is a certified EMDR therapist, EMDRIA Approved Consultant and EMDRIA Approved Trainer for the Institute for Creative Mindfulness where she is on faculty. She is also certified in Emotion-Focused Family and Couple Therapy, is a Gottman Certified Therapist, and continues to pursue training in Clinical Hypnosis, Advanced applications of EMDR, and Ego-State therapies.

She brings a wealth of clinical expertise and insight along with all she has learned interviewing families around the world for her two books to her EMDR Basic Trainings and advanced practice workshops. All of this is grounded in her personal perinatal journey, which began 25 years ago and took her through infertility, twin pregnancy, prolonged hospital bedrest, the NICU, and years of raising NICU graduates. Those children, identical twin girls born 10-weeks early who spent 10-weeks in the NICU, and a son who was almost full-term but not quite, are out of their teens and making their way in the wider world.

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32. Improving Maternal Health Care Through Advocacy with Joy Burkhard, MBA

My guest is Joy Burkhard, MBA. Joy is the founder and Executive Director of 2020 Mom. Joy founded 2020 Mom in 2011 after her personal, volunteer and professional worlds collided. She is also the Chair of Mom Congress.

In this role, Joy has used her knowledge of the complex health care system to advance change in maternal mental health. She has over 20 years of experience working in several roles with the health insurer, CIGNA, including working in service delivery, quality improvement, and regulatory affairs. She has a passion for scaling change and putting the patient and customer first.

She is a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology Expert Work Group on Maternal Mental Health and the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative Executive Committee.

Joy has been recognized for her leadership and vision with several awards, receiving the "Emerging Leader" award in women's health from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Women's Health (2016), The California American Mother, Mother of Achievement Award (2019), a Women in Business Stevie Award (“Silver”) for Non-Profit/Government Leadership, Cigna's Volunteer of the Year Award (2016), and the Junior League of Los Angeles' Founders Cup (2014) and Community Achievement Award (2016).

She spearheaded the three important legislation laws that passed recently, including the Maternal Mental Health Screening and Support Act (AB 2193) that went into effect as of July 1, 2019. This law requires an OB-GYN to screen their patient for a Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorder during their pregnancy and/or at their followup visit after their baby is born. It also requires private and public (Medicaid) health plans (HMO's) and health insurers (PPO's) to create maternal mental health programs.

1 in 7 women will experience a postpartum mood and anxiety disorder up to a year after giving birth (studies are now concluding postpartum symptoms may last longer than once believed). Suicide is the second leading cause of death in postpartum women. Screening will save lives. Postpartum depression is a misnomer as women can experience "postpartum" during the perinatal period (during pregnancy). When including women who have had a miscarriage or stillbirth, around 900,000 women suffer from postpartum depression annually in the United States - this is not taking into account, traumatic births and the post-traumatic stress symptoms and disorders that also can develop regardless of the birth outcome or loss of the pregnancy.

Joy Burkhard can be reached through her website: [email protected]