Your Anxious Mind During Pregnancy, with Parijat Deshpande

When you’re expecting, anxiety and worrying seem to take center stage, especially if you are categorized as high-risk. What can you do with these feelings? Can they affect your and your baby’s health? How do you make the mind-body connection work for you, to put this anxiety in its place? Parijat Deshpande has answers. Check it out!

 

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What we talked about:

  • The mind-body connection during pregnancy
  • Stress vs. Relaxation response
  • Changes to your nervous, immune, and endocrine systems during pregnancy
  • How does uncertainty play into the delicate balance
  • Distinguishing between fear and anxiety
  • You are not a victim to anxiety
  • Signs that you have higher anxiety
  • The mind-body connection is a two-way street
  • Anxiety in your mind vs. anxiety in your body
  • You are in control!
  • Ways of dealing with anxiety
  • Ways anxiety can manifest in your body during pregnancy
  • When triggers come from your team (or strangers on the street)
  • Listening to your body after your appointments
  • Is your provider truly on your team?
  • Building trust in your body

 

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About Parijat Deshpande

Courtesy of Parijat Deshpande

Parijat Deshpande is the leading high-risk pregnancy expert, mind-body health specialist, trauma professional, speaker and author who teaches women how to deactivate their stress response before, during and after a high-risk pregnancy so they can give their baby a strong start to life. Her unique approach has served hundreds of women to manage pregnancy complications and reclaim a safety and trust in their bodies that they thought was eroded forever. Parijat is the author of the bestselling book Pregnancy Brain: A Mind-Body Approach to Stress Management During a High-Risk Pregnancy. She is also the host of the popular podcast Delivering Miracles®, which discusses the real, raw side of family-building including infertility, loss, high-risk pregnancy, bed rest, prematurity, and healing once baby comes home.

Learn more about Parijat Deshpande and her work at www.parijatdeshpande.com
 

 

Title music: “Vibe Ace” by Kevin MacLeod, from the Free Music Archive / CC BY (edited for length).

Sponsorship music: “Air Hockey Saloon” by Chris Zabriskie, from the Free Music Archive / CC BY (edited for length).

 

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