The FIRST
Season 1 Episode 1
Welcome Mama's to the inaugural recording of No Mama Left Behind The Podcast where we support you from clit to crown. Oh, we went there. It's our first episode today. So we dive into who we are, why you should listen to us and our potty mouth and our mission. We are so excited to start this podcast and share all of our information and knowledge and tips and tricks for your vaginas. We are here to help heal the mamas because, let's face it--we need help. We're trying to revolutionize the way that moms are treated. So enjoy our first podcast and many more to come.
Hi name is Marcy. I'm a pelvic floor physical therapist. Yes, PT's is work on vaginas. It's a thing. Yep, I have been working in this field for over a decade. I'm actually a really terrible physical therapist, if you have like a shoulder problem or an ankle problem. Don't ask me an anything about that. But tell me everything about your vagina. I want to know about your pregnancy. I want to know how your last poop was, all the things. I love working with mamas through all stages of their lives. And really, my mission is to just do right by the moms. We really get the short end of the stick when it comes to preparing for birth and recovery. We're here to change the way that we are treating mamas. And that's what I do. I help vaginas and I help moms. And, you know, I'm here for it. I love it.
And I am Alyson, and together we are No Mama Left Behind. But Marcy already touched on how mamas are left behind. So yes, we're here to save the day. I was a psychotherapist before I had my daughter, sweet, sweet Ellie Jane. I am also a military wife. So I have moved like, I don't know, seven or eight times in the last nine years. After Ellie was born, I got postpartum depression. And I felt better using this program that I created for myself, and I realized that I could help moms virtually. I could take my business wherever I wanted, and I could still be in the field of mental health and use my training. So I became a mom coach, which was kind of like a unicorn, you know? Like, they don't really exist.
Ever since we met, Alyson and I have been figuring out ways how we can use Alyson's expertise as a mental health provider and my expertise as a physical therapist, to really just make life better for moms. I had wanted to do a podcast for a long time and I wanted to find the right partner. I just knew Allison was a really great complement.
Our mission: We both have our own separate missions, Marcy's being vaginas and physical health, and Alyson's being mostly mental health, and we tied our missions together after Alyson realized that her physical complications postpartum affected her mental health. Together we also realized that there is no standard of care. There is one appointment at six weeks where you're cleared to have sex, and given birth control. And then at six weeks, your provider might say, "okay, you can do everything you did prior to baby" at which point, it has been almost a year since you have done those things. In any other situation, any other sort of musculoskeltal injury, or even just a sprained ankle, or a surgery, that NEVER happens.
Alyson worked out her entire pregnancy and was in really great shape thinking that recovery was going to be easy. But she didn't do anything for at least eight weeks after her daughter was born. So all her muscles atrophied. And everything was gone. We lose strength and motor control and muscle mass quicker than we build it, right? Which is why it's so fucking hard to be a runner, because if you stop running for a weekend, you're like, "Oh, my God, clearly, I've never run before in my entire life". The problem is that during pregnancy, so many changes are happening physiologically in our bodies, that the way that we're recruiting muscles, and moving is so much different than not being pregnant. We discovered that the message we currently hear as postpartum moms is to get back to your prepregnancy body, which is bullshit. You just had a fucking baby.
One thing Alyson always says is to think about what you looked like when you were 16 or 20 years old. How different was your body back then? We can't expect to look the same way we looked like ten to fifteen years ago, how should we expect to look differently after having a baby? It's like we're already set up to fail. The message we always hear is to lose the baby weight, get back in our pre-pregnancy jeans, and look like you did before you had a baby. Fuck that.
We are so happy to be here with you, and putting out more content for your Mamas. Like us, suscribe to our podcast, and smash those buttons like you will smash the patriarchy. Email us at nomamaleftbehindthepodcast@gmail.com