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🎙️ Coming in hot at #5 on our list of top podcasts for 2024: My solo episode tackling one of the most DEBATED postpartum fitness questions: 

Do you REALLY have to wait 12 weeks to start running after baby? 🏃‍♀️  

After 25 years of experience as a pelvic floor PT working with postpartum moms (& as someone who’s been there postpartum), I've read the research, talked to the experts, & lived the reality. 

Here’s the scoop: the "12-week guideline” might be helpful for SOME, but it’s definitely not a one-size-fits-all answer.  

In this episode, I break down:  
✔️ Where the 12-week guideline comes from (& if it applies to you)
✔️ Why pelvic floor education is changing postpartum recovery 
✔️ What we can learn from pro athletes vs. the rest of us mere mortals
✔️ Managing prolapse, leakage, & scaling exercises without losing your mind
✔️ The mental side of running postpartum: motivations, identity, & starting where you are

If you’re a mom trying to navigate the chaos of “when to run,” this episode has your back (& your pelvic floor). 🙌  

👉 Listen now —& let’s keep rewriting the postpartum running playbook together.  

Time Stamps

1:00 Introduction 

3:04 recommendations pre-2019 

11:13 the current view 

16:51 remembering mental health 

19:30 where to find information 

24:25 who needs to wait 12 weeks? 

29:50 the symptoms 

37:20 doing the things to help your symptoms 

45:24 what to do when you return to run 

51:06 what to do next 

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