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Speaker 1: Oh baby, my baby, belof I need you, Oh how

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Speaker 1: I need you? What do you you expect? As a production

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Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio, I'm your host, Heiny Murkoff, and

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Speaker 1: I'm a mom on a mission, a mission to help

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Speaker 1: you know what to expect every step of the way. Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: The heavy lift of pregnancy and the possibly even heavier

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Speaker 1: the easy lift. Instead of carting around a watermelon sized belly,

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Speaker 1: you get to snuggle your tiny bundle of joy and

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Speaker 1: out how to pee again, why your feet are so

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Speaker 1: puffy and why that nurse keeps coming into your room

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Speaker 1: pumping on your poor aching belly and calling it uterine massage.

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Speaker 1: Even if you sail through pregnancy and have the easiest

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Speaker 1: labor and delivery on record, and especially if you didn't,

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Speaker 1: your body has been stretched and pushed to the max

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Speaker 1: and it needs a chance to recover. Let's face it,

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Speaker 1: giving birth comes with more than a baby. It comes

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Speaker 1: with a whole lot of new symptoms and new questions,

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Speaker 1: wondering what you can expect when you're all finished expecting. Today,

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Speaker 1: M and I are here to deliver the good, the bad,

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Speaker 1: and the very unexpected about your postpartum recovery, whether you're

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Speaker 1: or just trying to plan ahead so you'll be ahead

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Speaker 1: of the game. We've got your postpartum questions covered, so

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Speaker 1: So as we all know by now, I didn't have

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Speaker 1: to Expect, so everything was the rise. Now, Emma, what

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Speaker 1: so I remember the first time I got out of bed,

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Speaker 1: And I remember I was like, wait a second, I

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Speaker 1: so when I asked my Facebook moms what surprised them

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Speaker 1: It's just kind of come naturally. And so many moms

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Speaker 1: I just couldn't do it, Like, I'm just not that person.

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Speaker 1: And also sit on a doughnut pillar. I cannot recommend

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Speaker 1: It's saved me. Okay, what about all of those emotions?

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Speaker 1: You definitely were not shy about sharing. Now. A lot

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Speaker 1: fundel massages um you get after delivery. Massage does sound

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Speaker 1: the less painful. Also, when you're on the potty, put

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Speaker 1: those called squatty potties. People like, yeah, I mean there's

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