Ep. 150: Listener Q&A – Part 2: Postpartum + Baby




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Summary: On today's episode, I'm answering YOUR questions about my postpartum experience and early days with baby!<br> <br> <br> <br> We're back with our 150th episode of the Fed+Fit Podcast! Remember to check back every Monday for a new episode and be sure to subscribe on iTunes!<br> <br> Find us HERE on iTunes and be sure to "subscribe."<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Episode 150 Sponsors<br> <br> ButcherBox - for $15 off + free bacon (!!) with your order<br> Wine Fellas - use the code "fedandfit" for $10-off your first wine club shipment!<br> <br> Episode 150 Transcription<br> <br> Today’s show is brought to you by my friends at Wine Fellas! Wine Fellas is your wine club for small allocation, hard to find, natural wines from around the world. They specialize in organic and biodynamic wines that are made using traditional wine making methods, but with minimal interventions. They’re free of added sugar and chemical additives. They’re low in sulfites. They’re bottling the wine world describes as “natural wines.” These are wines as they were meant to be enjoyed, with nothing standing between you and pure, expressive fruit.<br> <br> What I love most about Wine Fellas, aside from the fact that they only source the best, natural wines in the world, but they also go the extra mile by giving you a fact sheet on each bottle that contains authentic alcohol content, residual sugars, sulfur dioxide in parts per million, pH, and acidity. Learn more about Wine Fellas by visiting them at www. WineFellas.com. Be sure to use the code Fed and Fit for $10 off your first wine club shipment. <br> <br> <br> Cassy Joy: Welcome back to another episode of the Fed and Fit podcast. I am your host, Cassy Joy Garcia. And I am thrilled to have you join me today. Today is part 2 of what is likely to be a 4-part listener Q&amp;A series. So what we did is I collected some questions; you guys submitted awesome ones via a call for questions a little bit ago on social media. And we’ve got them organized. Last time we had a Q&amp;A podcast episode; you can find part 1, of course, on the blog or in iTunes. Wherever you're listening to this from. You can find that; that episode really focused on all of your pregnancy questions. We talked about pregnancy, pregnancy fitness, and pregnancy nutrition. And I’m apparently very long winded {laughs}, which is why we think this series might take a little bit longer. <br> <br> So today we’re focusing on a semi-related. We’re focusing now on postpartum. Your questions about postpartum, postpartum fitness, and baby. Ok. And then the last couple of episodes that we will zero in on will have to do with beauty, business, cooking, Gus, mindset, nutrition of course, and then a little bit more about safer skincare. <br> <br> Alrighty. Let’s go ahead and jump in without further ado. Our first question is from Stacy_Marie. She asks, “What are your must-have items for postpartum baby or self-related. It seems a lot of people buy all these gadgets that get used once or twice, and that’s it. Also, do you pump for night, so your hubby can help with the feedings, or are you doing it solo?” Great questions, Stace. I hope it’s ok; I just abbreviated your name even further! {laughs} <br> <br> Ok, so must-have items for postpartum. Goodness. Or baby. You know, when we went; on my blog, if you have not already seen this article. Or this blog post I put together. I posted my entire baby registry. And I think the post is called My Baby Registry. I shared that entire baby registry. I had done, of course, a lot of research on safer products for baby. I tried sources wherever possible materials that didn’t emit VOCs, volatile organic compounds. <br> <br> So the mattress was very important to me. The changing table pad. Everything from the disposable diapers we’re using while she’s really young, to the cloth diapers we’re planning on using later. And then I also,