Placenta Accreta and Postpartum Healing holistically

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I am joined here with Becca. Becca, I'm so grateful that you're able to come and take a chat with me and take time out of your busy day. So I would love for you to introduce yourself. Awesome. So my name is Becca. I live in Texas. I have three boys. I'm never bored because I have three boys and nothing is ever clean.

But we have a lot of fun. Um, my oldest is 12. My middle one is 10 and my youngest just turned 5 last week. So I'm still a little bit in the little years. Um, but we're getting there, and I'm 44 years old, I am a, uh, silver hair, gray hair advocate for naturally growing out your hair, as you can see my, my, me right now, but I know people can't see me, but I like to put it out there for, encourage, um, people to be their authentic self.

Um, and I am a Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. That's basically me in a nutshell. Amazing. So, I would have never guessed that you're 44 years old. I mean, you look amazing and I love the grey and you got the pink in there too. I can't wait for people to see, like, your photo because you're gorgeous.

Oh, thank you. You're welcome. Um, and then, so, if people aren't sure, could you kind of tell people what your title means? Oh, sure. Yeah. So, um, certified functional diagnostic nutrition. Practitioner is a lot of words. Um, basically, I like to just say I'm a functional health coach. I use functional lab work, um, to assess the healing opportunities and someone's body.

And I create a health rebuilding roadmap for someone to follow based on their specific biochemistry. Like what's going on? Do they have a parasite? They have mold toxicity. Do they have a disease? Um, neurotransmitter imbalances. What's your digestion? You know, like what are your hormones? How about your adrenals?

You know, all that good stuff. Um, because people can get a little bit frustrated with all the guessing following gurus right and left. Um, and really not understanding what's appropriate for their specific biochemistry. So you take the guesswork out basically. I love that. So do you offer that testing or do they have to go to like a, Oh, you do.

I do. Okay. So how does that work? If we can just kind of dive into that real quick. Um, yeah, well, first you should know that I'm a massive science nerd. I love, um, all things health and wellness, but the lab kits are so easy because they come directly to your home. So it would either be like a stool sample or a hair sample or whatever.

Yeah. Um, saliva or urine sample so you can collect in the privacy of your own home. You're not having to go to a doctor's office. Doesn't have to feel awkward. I mean, sometimes it can feel awkward at home, but it shouldn't. Um, and you ship it off in the pack, uh, the prepaid packaging. The lab says, Hey, Becca got You know, Sarah's results and we go from there.

So I work with women all over the country. I'm a hundred percent virtual. And I was virtual before virtual was cool before COVID. Um, so I didn't have to do a lot of pivoting, which is really, really, really nice. Yeah, that's great. Um, so I also wanted to kind of dive into like your stories on your C sections and well, we can dive into your pregnancy too, if you'd like, like, did you do like that testing for yourself?

I did. So, you know, I was very much like a lot of women who, um, ended up getting on a pill at 18 because I had horrible cycles. And I started my period at the age of 11, and it was always 21 days. I was pretty much estrogen dominant from the beginning. Um, and I thought that the pill was my answer, or that I was told that it was my answer.

And I was on the pill for about, um, 10 years. And by the time I actually wanted to get pregnant, it was really hard. And, um, had a lot of chemical. Um, pregnancies. I could get pregnant all day. I just couldn't stay pregnant and it was frustrating and, um, ended up having my oldest, um, and then, uh, had one chemical pregnancy before, uh, he was, I got pregnant with him, had multiple between him and my second son, and then, um, we kind of decided, I think, we were, we were done, and, um, but then I got pregnant again, By surprise.

I mean, I know how it works, but it was still a surprise. And, um, ended up miscarrying at eight weeks. And I was like, you know what? Something's not right. And at that point, that was around the time when I was really diving into genetics, health and wellness genetics, and I thought, we're gonna look at my genetics because I just had this gut feeling like something was up, um, figured out some of my genetics.

I have, um, an empty MTHFR variant, which can impact a lot of things and fertility is one of them. Um, and it was impacting my body's ability to clot in, in a, Maybe the opposite way that you think my blood would plot a little bit too much. And so basically, I could conceive but I couldn't really have a successful implantation because my blood flow was too thick and Knowing what I knew I took that information to my OB and And she said, well, we can, you can give yourself blood thinner shots in your stomach.

And I was like, that's not happening. Um, and the second option then was, uh, low dose aspirin. Um, throughout, when you're trying to conceive, and then throughout your, your pregnancy, and did the trick. Like, it, it, it's wild. And the crazy thing is, as I kind of went through this journey, I found out some friends of mine also had similar.

issues. One of my friends had like seven or eight miscarriages and the way she got her baby cystic again was low dose aspirin, which you don't want to do without Dr. Supervision, of course, but, um, really, really fascinating. So, you know, I always recommend anyone I know that's struggling with fertility is like, get your genetics checked because it could be something really simple.

And, and, and MTHFR is very nutrient dependent. You have to support it with B vitamins, folate, B12. Um, and folic acid is in so many prenatals, but folic acid is the synthetic form of folate. And not only can it be toxic if you have NCHFR, but it actually blocks folate receptors on cells. So it's not actually doing you any good if you have an NCHFR variant especially.

Um, so, you know, prenatals with methylfolate is what you want, or even folic acid. Sorry, I'm getting a little sciencey here, but, um, you know, I just, in case somebody hears this and thinks, Oh, let me check my prenatal, stay far away from folic acid. That's the synthetic form of folate. So, um, so I was able to get pregnant, um, with my third child that way.

Um, first one, 42 weeks. Induction emergency C section number one, which destroyed me at the time because I'm like, Fippy, crunchy, granola, unmedicated, natural birth girl, right? That was my dream since I was a girl. And it didn't work. Um, still, but I thought, you know, okay, that's okay. And second one, I'm going to go for a V back.

So at 20 weeks. I got diagnosed with complete placenta previa, and they're like, yeah, it's not going to happen. And then, magically, I mean, I, I call it a miracle. In fact, they used this word, miracle, at my, uh, appointment a couple weeks later, or maybe a month later, and that, the, the previa had completely righted itself, which they say doesn't really happen very often.

Um, so I went for my VBAC, and I went into labor on my own, and, um, 34 hours of labor, 6 hours of pushing, I was a good pusher, nothing, nothing, never dropped into the birth canal, and went back for emergency C section number 2. Um, they said it was very good that we did that at that time because my placenta was paper thin and close to bursting, um, which can be very dangerous.

Um, so I thought, okay, this is just, you know, um, where we're at. And my doctor came back and said, you know, there's just something probably off in my hip structure, my anatomy that just doesn't allow a baby to get into birth. And I had to, um, come to terms with that and the fact that I had given it my all and that I had tried everything possibly I could try and there was nothing more I could have done, which is.

Not how I felt the first time the first time I was like, Oh, I should have tried this and I should have tried this and I shouldn't have let them push me into it. Well, I knew I had left nothing on the table the second round. So then when we were considering baby number three, I thought, Oh, piece of cake.

I'm going to have a gentle C section. It's going to be beautiful and it's going to be wonderful. And I'm not going to have this emergency aspect to it. What's that saying? Like, man plans, God laughs, or something, you know? So, at my 20 week ultrasound, um, I got diagnosed with, uh, placenta efrita, which can be life threatening, and, um, is really one of the number one reasons for, uh, maternal hemorrhage and death.

And so then I spent the rest of that pregnancy feeling a bit like a ticking time bomb, and, um, But, I had a great maternal fetal medicine specialist, like, he, every other word out of his mouth was an F bomb, which worked for me, like, he made me laugh every time, um, like, I, I didn't want someone to feel sorry for me, I wanted someone to, like, make sure I understood anything I needed to understand, but I wanted, I, I love humor, and I deal, I cope with humor, so, we were a great fit.

Um, so I had my surgery scheduled for a Monday because that's when all these are. Um, I had a whole care team, um, a gynecological oncologist because they are, um, more familiar with the vascularity of a pregnant uterus. I had my MFM. I had my actual OB. I mean, it was just wild and wooly. And it was scheduled for what's called a C HIF, which is C section followed by immediate hysterectomy is a life saving procedure.

Um, so that was a Monday, and I'd gotten the shots to, um, you know, develop baby's lungs because he was going to be early, you know, all that stuff. I'd gotten off the baby aspirin in plenty of time, you know, just I felt prepared. They also say if you start bleeding, you run. You don't walk. You run to the hospital.

So, my, uh, delivery was scheduled, or my surgery was scheduled for a Monday, but that previous Thursday, I get my son on the bus to school, and I realize I'm bleeding. And all hell broke loose. I was like, what is going on? This is not, this is not happening. I just kept thinking in my head like, no, no, no, no, no, this is not okay.

I didn't have my bag packed. I mean, literally because of last minute. And I thought, well, I have a weekend. I have a weekend to clean my house. I have a weekend to pack my bag. I was not prepared. I shoved my second kid off of the neighbors and threw like three things in a suitcase and we drove quickly. To the hospital, made it there.

Okay. Um, luckily that day, every single one of my specialists is there. Um, and they were able to kind of slow down the bleeding and I had, um, stents put in my ureters to protect them during surgery. A lot of times with, uh, CREDA, you can have bladder invasion. So the placenta, the uterus into the bladder. It can go into the colon.

And they thought based on ultrasound, so That my, uh, I might have some bladder invasion. I did not. I was millimeters away. So, woohoo, didn't have that. Um, because a lot of women have to have reconstructive surgery on their bladder or colon afterwards. Um, and that was not what I had to deal with, thank goodness.

But, um, and I had balloons placed in my femoral arteries up into the iliac arteries to inflate. Once they got baby out to stop blood flow to the uterus. And they never try to detach the, um, placenta because that's when you can bleed out. So they just literally cut out the uterus, fold it up into a little pocket, and send it off to the pathology.

I was also at a hospital where they don't see this much. And I was like a celebrity. There were, I mean, I had 20 people in the room when they were placing the balloons. I was like, y'all don't need to be looking at all of this. But it literally, it was like, I was Miss Popular. Oh my gosh. After you've had a kid, you're like, here's my goodies, like, whatever, who needs to see it, like, eh.

Um, exactly. He, he ended up being fine. He had to, um, he was, um, he didn't need any tissue time. Um, his blood sugar was a little bit low at the beginning, but, um, it was great. And I kind of front loaded some breastfeeding supplements and support. Um, and my milk came in actually faster than my previous two kids, which I was really concerned with having the hysterectomy, like with my milk, um, and it did, and, um, it was a rough recovery.

I didn't deal with any of that the way I should have. Um, I shoved it down. I pretended I was fine. Um, like I coped through humor. I mean, literally, my OB is like, they're putting the stents in. Or no, that was when they were placing the balloons. And she's like, folding my hand. And she's like, you know, do you want some music?

I was like, yeah, play some Pitbull. Like, let's have some fun. It's a party. And everyone's like, what is wrong with this person? Like, oh my gosh. Um, that's just how I cope. But, um, instead of dealing with all the... trauma and, you know, um, the, the death of my last birth dream of a gentle C section, um, I just shoved it down and I tried to bounce back and I tried to, um, just pop right back into life and ended up with severe postpartum depression.

Um, thankfully, I found a fantastic therapist who is a womb healing, therapeutic healing therapist and, um, I really credit her with saving my life. Um, I was never, like, suicidal or anything like that, but I had, uh, really gotten into such a big, bleak, dark hole of misery that I, um, I didn't recognize myself anymore.

Um, and I wasn't this friend, the mom, the wife that I wanted to be, and it wasn't me. I didn't recognize myself. I was like, who is this person? I don't know this person. I lost my joy for life. I've always kind of had, my mom says I have the joy gene, like I love life, and I lost That love for a while. Um, and so my littlest little love, he turned five last week and um, you know, here we are and it's, it's, it's not any way, shape or form that I could have ever imagined my birthing journey would be, um, but I'm here to tell about it and I'm alive and my children are alive and Um, I feel like I was able to process all of that finally, even the first two, you know, I didn't really process that either.

Um, and I feel like I'm finally at a place where it's, I can think about, like, his birthday was always triggering for me, um, coming up into that, that few days before, you know, and this was the first year where I really was like, Oh, I actually feel good. Like, I don't, I'm not stressing out about it. I'm not letting it take me back into really.

Yeah. Yucky memories like it was for the first year ever. His birthday this year felt like a normal kiddo's birthday should be so. Wow. That's a lot of heavy emotions to process. Oh my gosh. And so you said you did the womb. Was it a womb healer? Oh my gosh. She, so she is a, um, he's a previous pelvic floor therapist and she found in her physical work That there was an energetic piece missing, because as women, we hold grief, we hold trauma, we hold, um, you know, all of that in our womb space.

And, like, a lot of times, when you have fertility issues, or you have gut issues, you know, digestive issues, bloating, it's because you're holding that negative energy in your womb space. And, while I didn't have a womb anymore, I definitely saw it in his face and it had that energetic memory of still being there.

Um, and so it was unlike any sort of therapy I'd ever done. I don't want to sit there and like talk and yammer on about my problems. Like, it was like, it was like, I just say, I call her magic. She's magical. She was able to ask me the questions that needed to be asked, elicit answers from me that I didn't even know I had in me.

Um, we did breath work. Um, which I hated it at first and now I love it because I'm like, Oh my gosh, I just released like 10 years worth of stuff in one breathwork session. Now it's amazing. Um, and, um, yeah, I would, I would recommend her and she's virtual too. So I would recommend her to anyone so I can actually give you her name, you know, to add to whatever show notes you want to because she saved me from myself.

Wow. Wow. And how long did you see her for? I did a three month session with her. We were meeting every two weeks. Um, at some point, I'll probably be ready to go for another round. I felt like we went through so much in that first program I did with her that I had, I still have a lot to process from, uh, from that.

But, um, I definitely want to go in for a whole nother round because, you know, I got other stuff besides birth trauma to deal with. I think most people. Have plenty of things to unpack. And she doesn't just do birth trauma. She does, you know, any sort of... Um, you know, grief or energy work or, um, you never, you just always had a bad period and you don't, you don't have a good relationship with your cycle, or maybe you have a mother wound or a sister wound, or maybe you were sexually assaulted when she handled.

Wow. That's a lot. That's so good. Oh my gosh. Something like that existed. She was introduced to

me by a colleague. She's like, you have to meet Miriam. And then, um, in September I went to that, that colleague's wedding and I got to meet Miriam in person. I can even tell you like that first hug was so emotional for me. Like I'm going to, I'm not scaring up right now. I was thinking about it because just how much I needed to process.

And you just say place to process. And I had not had that yet. My husband blessed his heart. Didn't know what to do with me. He himself had his own trauma from that last pregnancy. I mean, he was terrified the whole time that I was going to die. Um, and you know, really had a lot of his own stuff to deal with and he didn't.

You know, he just didn't understand and he couldn't have understood really and truly because he's not female. Like, I just feel like he tried really hard but doesn't have the capacity that maybe, you know, a female would have. Yeah, and I agree. Like, it's so hard for even us to even realize what emotions we're feeling and where they're coming from, because after we have our babies, it's, it's like, we feel like we're expected to just keep going.

Like, we have to just figure out this new normal really fast because Now, you know, after, especially after you have multiple kids, it's like, okay, I got to get home. I got to, I got to take care of these other kids. I got to clean my house. I got to cook. I got, I still have all these daily life things that I have to do.

So even if we have this birth trauma that we experience, we shove it way down. We don't have the time. We're not gifted the time to deal with and our society does it wrong. I mean, we, we, I wanted to literally give birth like with what, what's her, um, INA may like in her midwifery, like village. That's what I wanted.

I wanted that, that, that tribal woman, magical communal experience. And we don't get that anymore. And I can tell you that my first C section way pushed into that. My, my doctor was like, I'm kind of tired of being here. I want to go home. Like literally. And also, I mean, my son's, um, was decelerating a little bit with every contraction, but he.

Um, I mean, my, my OB, I did, and when I talked to my OB, my, at my six week checkup, I was like, I want to go for a V back next time. It was like, you know, that's not all it's cracked up to be like, not supportive at all. Like, oh my gosh, yeah, needless to say, my second one, I was at an OB midwife, um, combo practice.

And that suited me a lot better. Um, but yeah, our, our, our, we, we are not gifting new moms with time. Um, Um, we don't have, a lot of people don't even have family that live close or they don't have good enough friends to kind of feel comfortable with asking for help. Um, and I feel like I just, do you ever just feel like we're doing it wrong?

We're just doing it all wrong. Oh yeah. Um, it makes me crazy. I know and because I have four kids and I had three C sections first and then I did have a vaginal birth. But yeah, every single one was different. Like the healing process and then there wasn't always family there. Like I feel like once I had the baby, I was at the hospital.

Everyone's like, Oh, I want to come see the baby. Or, you know, when you get home, I want to come see the baby. But it's like that first week or first few days. And then after that, it's like. Okay. Peace out. Everybody's gone back to normal. Yes. As if you're normal at that time. Yeah, yeah, and you're like healing from like either a surgery or, you know, your body is healing no matter what.

Like we go through almost 10 months of pregnancy growing this human and then all of a sudden in a day we're supposed to be back to normal or four to six weeks, whatever they say. No. And it's just not even possible. And I love how you spoke about Ina May because I love her. Oh my gosh. I feel like that's how we should give birth.

We should be nurtured by a community of women who have given birth and have that knowledge. And it's not, it shouldn't be a medicalized event. I mean, you know, don't get me wrong. I'm, I'm thankful for modern medical prowess because I feel like without that, with this one, I might have died easily. But I also have to think of if I hadn't been pushed into the diversity section and I had been allowed my body to do what it was, you know, naturally supposed to do, could I have actually done it?

Because so many women who have a creda, it's because you have scar tissue. So I have to think, well, if I didn't have the scar tissue to begin with, would I have had to deal with this? And I'll never know because there are some women in my creda support group who it happened with their first baby. Really?

They lost their womb. Yeah. Wow. Now, there might be a one or two that ended up having to have like a D& C with a miscarriage. Um, several have had like IUDs that caused scar tissue. Yeah. You know, it's not always the C section, but some have like literally nothing, nothing that could have caused the scar tissue.

Um, and, and they're devastated because they lost their womb. And for some of these mamas, they lost their babies too. Like they didn't survive because they went into labor really early, early and there was, it was just, it wouldn't, there was no hope. Um, and so I feel very lucky and blessed, even though I went through what I went through.

Um, many women had it way worse than I did with their greatest story. Um, and you know, I always say that I go through something so that I can walk through that thing with somebody else. Um, and it's the craziest thing because not six months after I had mine, a friend of mine called me. She's like, you're not going to believe this.

I'm like, I don't know what, what? He's like, I have a credo. I'm like, Oh, okay. That's okay. And when we talked all the time, walked her through things, um, you know, this hospital versus this hospital, he ended up having fur because of her placenta. And I twisted her uterus into a figure eight. She died on the table.

She lost all of her blood multiple times. They were able to bring her back, but with all of her blood loss, um, she has pituitary damage. Um, and her, you know, husband has that memory of watching her die. You know, it's, it's, I'm not trying to be dramatic, but that's just the reality of it is. And I think what so many of us are FIDA survivors want to do is to just advocate for, um, um, Spreading the knowledge of it.

You know, so many women have never heard of it. They're not being told at their doctor's office, if you have a C section, this could potentially happen. Nobody is talking about it in the medical community. No one is warning women. No one is saying, Hey, you know what, this is last resort. No, it's first resort for convenience.

Mm hmm. So often it's about convenience. Yeah, it blows my mind. You're setting women up for disaster. Yeah, and I had that with my first c section too. I was young. I was 16 when I had my first and so I was completely uneducated. I was like a deer in the headlights, you know, and so I went in there and I distinctly remember my doctor saying how and she looked at her watch and was like, I gotta get to my dinner.

Like it's almost five o'clock talking to the nurse and that's it. You know, I'm over here laboring away and, and then she's like, Oh, well, the baby's had a heart, a couple heart decels. I didn't really like, and I didn't realize that in birth when you're, when you're in labor, heart decelerations. Our normal and you know, but she was like, Oh, we, we have to get you in a C section like this baby needs to come out now.

And so, you know, I'm like, she's like, well, your baby's going to die if we don't do this. So I hear that and I'm just like, well, let's do it. Like, you know, why are we still sitting here? I did not know. I just heard your baby's going to die. And I'm like, well, I don't want my baby to die. And. So anyways, and I remember when they were, you know, operating on me on the table, she said, Oh, well, now I'll get to get to my dinner on time.

And I was just like, what? Crazy. To me, that should be medical malpractice. If they're not willing to be late to a dinner, then why are they in that profession of birthing babies to begin with? Right. I don't understand it. Like, choose something else. Go do something where it's a nine to five. Mhm. You know what you're getting into when you go into labor and delivery.

It's not like a surprise. No, you know, I don't get it. I don't either, but like you also, I had the placenta previa with my second at the 20 week ultrasound. They said, Oh, well, your placenta is fully covering your cervix. There's no, cause I wanted to go for a V back too. And they were like, no, there's no way like you'll die.

Your baby will die. Like you'll bleed out all, you know, all the things. And so I was like, well, okay. But come to find out later that my placenta

had moved out of the way, but they never told me. Um, so we scheduled a C section and yeah, Oh, that makes me so angry, you know, like at least like my doctor said, Oh, it's a miracle it moved. They told me to not tell you again, medical malpractice. I, I don't understand the mentality of, Oh, well, C sections are easier.

So we're just going to kind of finagle this. We're going to manipulate this scenario to kind of go towards the C section. Like it's. It's horrible. I mean, I, after my baby, I mean, the balloons and all that stuff. I mean, I look like I had been in a severe car accident. I had bruising from my mid thigh up to my belly button.

I looked eerie. Um, I mean, and I still believe to this day that I have gut issues because I have so much scar tissue. And when you have the C hyst, your normal, you know, c-section scar that would be like five inches, you know, now is eight inches. Um, and I have a lot of adhesions and mm-hmm. , you know, no one told me that either.

Like, hey, as soon as your incision's healed up, you know, you should get some scar tissue work. You know, you should get, do self massage. Something they are not educating us on. Mm-hmm. what to do. Yeah. Being an open book. I'm like, y'all got to do this. Like, everybody, like, like, learn about this. Educate yourself because they're not going to educate you.

Exactly. I know. And, you know, that's one of the reasons why I, I try to use this platform is to help spread the information that I wish I had. And, you know, just that little nudge to be like, just do some research, do some research because it's not, they're not coming. They're not giving you the information up front.

And it's really sad that we have to dig. Deep to try to find the information for ourself because I don't know. I feel like it should just be out there. I completely agree, but you know, it's not just maternity. It's all health. Um, you know, I what fall of 2019. I had a three month migraine that would not go away.

I was miserable. Um, I went to my regular doctor multiple times. I went, I got an MRI. I went to the neurologist, all of this stuff. Nobody helped. I tried five different medications. Nothing helped. They're like, well, we could do Botox shot. I'm like, no, that's not, I'm like, that's not addressing why I'm having them.

That's band aiding. I don't want a Botox shot. I want to understand why I'm having them. So again, like, well, here I go. I guess I get to, you know, help myself again. Um, turned out I had histamine intolerance. Um, which most people think histamine of like itchy, sneezy, you know, pollen, you know, things like that, but histamine is actually a neurotransmitter and it can build up in your body.

Um, it can cause anxiety, it can cause fatigue, it can cause migraine, insomnia, joint pain, all of these things three days into a low histamine diet, because there's also histamines in food. My migraine was gone, no medication, no Botox, no. Was my neurologist going to suggest I get, you know, figure out what's going on with my histamine?

Absolutely not. Um, and she, my, and my cholesterol at the same time was like bottom of the barrel because I had sent her my blood work. It was bottom of the barrel. It was extremely low. And she congratulated me on extremely low cholesterol. I was like, I didn't have the energy at the time to be like, that's not good.

You need cholesterol. Cholesterol is the precursor for all of your hormones, your adrenals. Your sex hormones, like bottom of the bearable low, low, low, low cholesterol is not good. Why are you congratulating me? Like it's part of the problem. Um, because they're just not trained to, to look at things that way.

Um, and it goes back to my genetics. Um, I'm predisposed to have a buildup of histamine in the body. Um, and then I see it. I, I really feel like it's become kind of this undiagnosed epidemic. , um, amongst postpartum moms. So many of my clients, whether it's you know, three months postpartum, a year postpartum, or five years postpartum, are struggling with histamine issues because stress drives up histamine in the body.

High estrogen drives up histamine in the body, and a lot of times it takes a while for your estrogen and your progesterone to balance out. Um, gut issues, so certain gut bacteria, riba, histamine, all the shifts in hormones from conception to pregnancy to delivery to breastfeeding, all of that can mess up your gut in the short term, you know, it's like it, I had one client who was struggling with debilitating anxiety, like not quite suicidal, but thought, you know, maybe a little bit like not functioning anxiety and she has three sweet, four sweet babies at home, kids.

And thought she was trying to be healthy and going to the gym and we did some, um, food sensitivity testing and we shifted her diet and she was like, Becca, I feel worse. Like, well, what did you shift your diet to? I said, and she told me and I said, okay, I think I know what's going on, but we should get your genetics test back any day now.

And I'll correlate it with that. Fair enough. She was prone to histamine issues and she was priding herself on eating an entire giant bucket of spinach every week. That's what spinach is. Super high histamine one week. I'm getting goosebumps that you can't see, but I'm getting them one week into a low histamine diet, which is not sustainable long term, but in the short term can really jumpstart you.

Her anxiety was gone. Wow. After years, years, you know, and I'm seeing this. So, so, so much with, with postpartum because when it's stressful, because again, we don't have our tribe, you don't have our community, we don't have, I know, you know, I'm not out there like gardening and like tending to the earth, like we are about to do.

Um, and, and really remembering who we are as women, um, and having that community and we come back from birth and we're stressed and our guts are a mess and our hormones are a mess. Um, and then we wonder why we're anxious and we're not sleeping and we have bloating and IBS and anxiety and all of these things because we're not being taken through an adequate healing process.

You know, we're not again gifted with the time. You know, there are what's other countries like mom stays in bed for 30 days. Bonding with baby. She was taken care of. Yeah. So we give birth or have dramatic surgery and go right back into being the caretaker. Yeah, I know. It's crazy. That's my TED talk. No, I love it.

But I do feel like there's a shift coming because there are some places that are, or some people that have created like, I don't know if you've heard of them, but they're called Be Her Village. Oh, but I want to know about that. Okay. So they're amazing. They have created a registry, but for services. So this includes doula support, birth and postpartum doula support, lactation support.

There's, there's a bunch of other support services on there. So what it is, is people would like, it's kind of like a GoFundMe almost, but The money goes to the mom, and then she's able to pay directly to her service provider. That is amazing. Yes, so it's a gift registry, but not for just all these things that we're never going to use.

It's for services that we need. That is so brilliant. I love this so much because yeah, you know, it's like, especially the first time mom, you're like, I need all of these things. Billions of pieces of equipment and then by the second one it's like you got diapers, you know, like yeah rocking chair. That's about all I need Um, exactly.

I'm not gonna lie. I love my bobby stroller. Um, but yeah the services because that could make or break Someone's experience that could make or break someone's ability to heal and recover that could make or break someone going into postpartum depression or not um That's amazing. I love that. All right.

I'm gonna have to tell people about that one too now. Yes. Let's spread the word. Oh my gosh. Well, thank you so much. I want to be able to connect the world with you. So how can people get ahold of you? Um, yeah. So I have a website. My brand is Holistic Obsession because I'm literally obsessed with all the things holistic.

Um, so holisticobsession. com. Um, I am very passionate about connecting with people and especially women. Women is my main niche and, um, my, uh, mission is to help driven women. It's mostly because I'm type A, so I kind of, you know, I resonate with some type A mommas. Um, but I help driven women overcome health obstacles so they can make a difference for their families, their communities, and the world.

Because it is, I truly believe that women Um, are the path to making the world a better place and it has to start with women's health because the healthier that the collective womanhood is, to me, healthier the world is going to be because we create those generational legacies of better health. We teach our families, we teach our children, we're telling our friends, you know, and, um, if, if women aren't healthy.

You know, then our communities aren't going to be healthy and our workplaces aren't going to be healthy. Our families not going to be healthy. Um, and so, um, uh, yeah, I, so, so I offer free connection calls, like, literally, let's, let's chat, like, let's chat about your struggles. Let's chat about your goals. Um, and I love them because, again, I don't ever want anyone to feel alone in their health issues because you're not, I promise I've probably had all the, all the issues I've probably had them myself.

Um, and so, um, yeah, I offer free connection calls and, um, I also have a free Facebook group, which is super fun. Um, it is, uh, uh, if you go to my website and go under services, there's a direct link to that, um, free Facebook group. , it's preventing, um, burnout with holistic health, you know, strategies. So, because I think as women too, we get burnt out so fast because we are wearing all the hats, um, and don't have any problems.

Um, and, and, and it's so easy to, to experience all the symptoms of burnout. Um, so yeah, holistic concession.com, I'm on Instagram. My holistic obsession is my handle. I'm on Facebook. Come find me and let's have a chat. Beautiful. Oh my gosh. Thank you so much. And I think the work you're doing is so needed. Oh my gosh.

I love it. And I, of course, will link everything in the show notes. So everybody can just find you at the click of a button. Oh, perfect. I love it. Um, it's, um, I think we need to get back to that tribe community. I think we need to get back to the collective. Womanhood. Um, not only tending to the, you know, maybe even figurative earth, but tending to ourselves and tending to our age, tending to each other.

Um, and it's in that collective that we rise. There's that saying, a rising tide sails all ships. You know, it's not about competition. It's not about, um, you know, somebody dimming our light. It's about pulling your fellow woman off alongside of you so we can rise together. Exactly. Oh my gosh. You just gave me chills.

I love it. I think that's exactly needed. Yeah. I always tell people I'm like, you know, exactly how I feel, you know, I'm not gonna, you know, I'm not gonna mince words. Like, you know, you know, my thoughts on things. And I, I truly believe that. Well, thank you so much for joining me in this beautiful chat.

You're so welcome. Thank you for having me on. It's been so much fun. Of course. All right. I'll chat with you soon. Bye. Bye.