DiscoverActive Mom Podcast: Pregnancy, Postpartum, Perimenopause, Menopause & Beyond
Active Mom Podcast: Pregnancy, Postpartum, Perimenopause, Menopause & Beyond
Claim Ownership

Active Mom Podcast: Pregnancy, Postpartum, Perimenopause, Menopause & Beyond

Author: Carrie

Subscribed: 47Played: 1,288
Share

Description

Welcome to the Active Mom Podcast — where real motherhood stories meet real science.


Hosted by Dr. Carrie Pagliano, double board-certified physical therapist, runner, mom of two, and internationally recognized expert in pregnancy, postpartum, pelvic floor, and perimenopause performance.


Whether you’re a mom navigating running with prolapse or leakage, a clinician supporting active women, or a lifelong athlete trying to stay strong through every hormonal season — this show gives you evidence-based guidance and real life mom stories without the fear, confusion, or shame.


Each week, Dr. Carrie brings candid conversations with researchers, clinicians, elite athletes, and everyday moms to explore what it actually takes to run, lift, jump, and live confidently through pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and beyond.


We talk about:
• Postpartum return to running & lifting
• Pelvic floor symptoms (leakage, prolapse, pain)
• Pregnancy exercise myths & safety
• Strength training at every age
• Perimenopause performance & hormone changes
• Mental health, identity shifts & motherhood
• The realities of being an active mom in a busy life

Real talk. Real science. Real moms.

Because you deserve to feel strong and supported — at every stage of your active life.


269 Episodes
Reverse
Send us Fan Mail Your baby is NOT sucking the calcium out of your bones. That's the line all over social. What's actually happening is your body mobilizing a small amount of calcium from bone to help make milk. And across 14 studies, it looks a lot more like a temporary loan than a permanent loss. This week I sat down with two first-time podcasters from Duke. Dr. Emma Kosbab started this systematic review and meta-analysis as a PT student. Dr. Laura Pietrosimone was her research m...
Send us Fan Mail Same run. Same treadmill. Same impact. So why do some women leak and others don’t? That’s the question Natália Cardoso Campos, PT, MSc, couldn’t let go of. She’s a physio and PhD researcher from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil, here in the US for ten months at UMass Motor Control Lab, Amherst on a Fulbright Scholarship under the supervision of Dr. Richard Van Emmerick to analyze new data. Her Master's study put 32 female runners on a treadmill with for...
Send us Fan Mail What do you do when there’s no evidence to build evidence-based practice? Dr. Chris Edwards has an answer: “We have conversations.” Chris, PhD, clinical exercise physiologist and researcher, works with tactical athletes: military, police, fire and paramedic teams. She once sold her company and her house, packed her car with her dog, and drove across Canada to do this work. Her PhD asked a question almost nobody was asking: does having a baby change injury risk for women whose...
Send us Fan Mail Brand new PT. Skilled nursing. Asking her patients what kind of exercise they enjoy. Women there for heart disease, osteoporosis, a broken hip. And over and over, the same answer. They hadn't exercised since they had a baby. That's where Dr. Lisa VanWiel's research started. She's a pelvic health PT and researcher at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, and her work links leaking to a lot more than your bladder. Mental health. How women see themselves. Even heart health. Not...
Send us Fan Mail She booked the appointment. She showed up. She wants something to change. And she still hasn't done her exercises. Sónia Coelho Cristóvão, physiotherapist and PhD researcher at the University of Gothenburg, kept seeing that in her clinic. So when she started building a digital pelvic floor program for Sweden's public healthcare system, she went to the research first. Her new review pulled together 18 studies to ask two questions: do digital pelvic floor programs actually work...
loading
Comments