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Amidst the joys of a motherhood journey, there is an undercurrent of challenge unlike any other you’ll face in your life, requiring a different kind of strength than your pre-motherhood days. The current maternal healthcare system sets moms up to get weaker in pregnancy and start motherhood with a deficit of strength and energy. This means the vast majority of mothers are slogging through motherhood feeling weak and discouraged. It’s time for that to change. Each week, Pregnancy and Postpartum Exercise Specialists (and sisters!) Kendra Fitzgerald and Nicole Coons will bring you the deep conversations needed with the practical tips and knowledge moms need to make bold decisions, heal their bodies, and live their motherhood on THEIR terms.

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Nicole’s Story: How My Second Birth Made Me Feel Ecstatic

September 20, 2022 • Kendra Fitzgerald & Nicole Coons • Episode 2

What if we told you that, if you take the right steps, giving birth can actually be an ECSTATIC, empowering experience? That it can actually feel GOOD?

Today’s episode focuses on Nicole’s story. Nicole is the mom of a 13-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. She’s also a trauma-informed yoga facilitator, birth and postpartum educator, and our resident pregnancy and postpartum yoga expert and mindset ninja.

She used her disappointing first birthing experience to have an ecstatic second one using yoga techniques that, in this podcast, she’s going to share with the rest of us.

Our motherhood journeys were different in details, but each had a similar arc, with disappointing first pregnancies and transformative experiences the second time around. The hope is that, by sharing our stories, more women can avoid the mistakes we made and instead find joy, empowerment and strengths in their own journeys becoming mothers.

ADVANCE WARNING: this episode mentions infant loss and miscarriage for two minutes. If this is a sensitive topic for you, feel free to mute or skip over those two minutes, or refer to the show notes for highlights instead.

Notable Quote from Nicole

“Go for the best birth. Aim for it. Go for the best birth and postpartum experience you can imagine. Be bold, get help from people like myself and others of our generation who are seeing other possibilities. In some cases, that might mean you have to be willing to go first. You have to be that pioneer, the creative, the maverick, those archetypes right there.”

Resources & Links

Learn more about Nicole and Kendra on their website, or follow @devotedmamas on Instagram for pregnancy and postpartum coaching and inspiration. Have a question or story you want to share? Leave a note for us on our website!

If you’re postpartum and ready to start your core and pelvic floor recovery, check out our Postpartum Repair & Restore 8-week program with LIVE coaching. In this program, we guide you through the exact workouts you need to feel your muscles strengthening + the education and LIVE supervision you need to know you’re doing it right. For more information, go to devotedmamas.com/repair

If you’re currently pregnant, check out our Expecting to Flourish membership, a mom-driven and expert-guided virtual community that we created to help you stay your strongest during pregnancy, physically practice for birth and move easily into early postpartum. Find out more at devotedmamas.com/flourish