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Intra-Abdominal Pressure: Is Running Worse Than a Cough? Are We Even Measuring What We Think We're Measuring? | DR. SABINE VESTING

2026-10-0256:48

Send us Fan Mail Don't jump. Don't lift heavy. Exhale on the way up. Protect your pelvic floor from all that pressure. Funny thing, though. Nobody ever tells you not to cough. So where did the "too much pressure" advice actually come from? Dr. Sabine Vesting, a physio in Gothenburg, Sweden, and researcher with the MFM lab at the University of Ottawa, went back through studies dating to 1978 to find out. More than 4,000 papers screened. 52 that measured it. And not one measured it directly ins...

My Personal Pessary Search: 5 Miles Downhill in the Dark, Maybe Bears | Solo Episode

2026-09-2547:11

Send us Fan Mail In June, my very first mom friend texted me about a relay for her 50th. I said yes. THEN I asked what I'd signed up for. 3 running legs in less than 24 hours including night running. And I'm a morning runner, because over the years, evenings are exactly when leakage sneaks in for me, even on a walk. So I did what I'd do with any patient. I fit myself for a pessary. It took 4 devices, a lot of frustration, self-talk, and a brain trust of PT friends talking me off the ledge.&nb...

Kegels to CrossFit: A Pregnancy & Postpartum Exercise History | Crossover with Practice Brave, Brianna Battles

2026-09-1801:13:53

Send us Fan Mail Carrie was taught to go gentle. Brianna was taught to go harder. Neither one worked. Bri Battles reached out and said let's chat about history. I said okay. So here we are, two podcasts running as one episode, looking back at the last 10, 15, 20 years of how pregnant and postpartum athletes have been advised. And I promise you, we barely scratch the surface. Bri came up through the barbell side. I came up through the clinic side. Same women, opposite ends of the field, and fo...

The First Real Data On Climbing While Pregnant | JOY BLACK

2026-09-1101:15:09

Send us Fan Mail Three years ago Joy Black came on this show to talk about climbing in pregnancy and postpartum, and quite honestly, we had almost no research to point at. She came back this time as a published researcher. Two papers, both in Sports Medicine, both with Dr. Margie Davenport's lab at University of Alberta. So we sat down and broke them open. The first is qualitative: 11 elite climbers, Olympic and World Cup level, on how they actually made decisions while pregnant. Not "is clim...

REWIND Summer Finale// Pregnancy And Postpartum Exercise Research Is Years Ahead Of What You're Being Told: Why It Isn't Reaching You | MARGIE DAVENPORT, PhD

2026-09-0957:23

Send us Fan Mail Labor Day is in the rearview, the temps are finally doing what they're supposed to do, and this is the last rewind of the summer. Quite honestly, this is the one I wanted to close out on. When Margie came on for this one, she spent a good chunk of the hour telling me she couldn't tell me things. I'd ask, she'd dodge. I'd ask sideways, she'd dodge nicer. At one point I told her she was like a mystery novel and I just wanted to know what happened on the next page. She said she'...

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