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Welcome to birthful mighty parent or parent-to-be. I'm Adriana Lozada. And as we continue

with our movement and body wellness series, You may remember from our previous episode with

Deb Fleschenberg how we talked about the difficulties of dealing with pubic synthesis pain

and also how knowing your exercise history and leaning into specific movement and exercises

and stretches along with additional body work can really help improve your discomforts.

Well, today's story with Julia Cooper gives you a good idea of what that would look like

in practice since Julia experienced relentless pubic synthesis pain during her pregnancy

and also a drawn-out labor. And figuring out how to support

her body to help her baby move on down, that alone would have required a lot of dedicated focus

and intentional movement from Julia. But on top of that, she had the extra complication of not

having a big part of her support team with her when

labor started. Yeah, so many things. This is a multifaceted, multi-layered story because it

turns out that at 38 weeks, both her husband and her mom had planned to be away on separate

trips, and Julia had been nervous about the possibility of

labor starting while they were away four weeks.

Now, you know what's coming?

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