592: Bad at Being Pregnant
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Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo
1h 19m
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Laniato. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium, and animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no bullshit mystical advice for living your very best life. Jane, welcome to the podcast.
What would you like?
Oh yeah, my pleasure. What would you like a reading about?
I will just go ahead and read my question that I submitted. Hey Jessica, I'm 27 weeks pregnant and I can't shake the feeling that I'm doing a bad job in pregnancy. I feel a lot of shame and guilt around finding pregnancy physically and emotionally grueling and I'm worried that these persisting negative emotions will somehow harm my baby. I'd be grateful if you can offer support in helping me manage my expectations versus reality of my situation and provide coping strategies for getting through the rest of pregnancy and moving into parenthood.
I want to just, first of all, congratulate you on being pregnant. I'm assuming it's your first pregnancy. Thank you. Yes, it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I want to ask like a couple questions before we dive in. The first is in terms of like your natural pre-pregnancy hormonal lifestyle, do you tend to get like big hormonal emotional fluctuations around your cycle that you've noticed or that you remember? Yeah.
Not specifically around my cycle, but I do definitely experience big emotions. Like I get really pulled into big emotions, which I feel like is maybe not surprising.
No, I mean, we're going to look at your chart in a minute, but you are a double Scorpio. So no surprises there. Not specifically with hormones, because, you know, before we get into any kind of woo woo stuff. big feelings that are just like outsized and really hard and different. Some of that is just hormones, right? Like some of that is like a normal experience of not a fun experience and maybe an under talked about experience, but a normal experience of going through this bananas thing that you're going through because creating life in your body and incubating life in your body, if we're being honest,
What feelings does Jane express about her pregnancy?
what is that like what literally is we act like it's normal and it's not miraculous and insane but it is I mean there's like a human growing in you that's crazy it's crazy yeah I spent so many years being like that's alien stuff like how do we just grow other humans that can't be real
With bones.
I mean, to me, it's like the bones and the like fingernails. To me, that's the thing that just like it takes me too far. Like, like building a soul inside of you, I can accept more than the bones. Like, how are you growing somebody else's bones? It's weird.
I don't know. It's happening. But yeah, to your question, I feel like my husband and I were just talking about this. He was like, I'm really surprised at how I perceive you to be very much yourself in this pregnancy so far, apart from all of the difficulties around it in terms of I think he had some expectations or ideas about what that hormonal change could look like. And I did too. And I don't necessarily feel like I can pinpoint, oh, this must be from just these hormone changes. I haven't really had any specific behaviors or emotions come up that feel like they're related to that.
How can Jane manage her expectations versus reality during pregnancy?
So yeah, I don't know why.
You don't feel that the emotions you're having around being quote unquote bad at being pregnant are hormonal. You think there's something else. I'm going to start this reading off. We're going to pull up your chart in a second saying, I think some of this is hormonal and I'm going to back it up astrological. Okay. So let me pull up your chart. Hold on. Sure. Okay. So for those who are not watching, you were born October 26, 1992 in Santiago de Compostela. Is that right? Did I say it right? In Spain at 1 p.m. local time. We don't believe that time of birth, but we're working with it. OK, so there's a lot of things I want to say, but I'm going to start off by defending my thesis that actually a big part of what is motivating this fear that you're doing it wrong somehow is just how your hormonal intensity is presenting itself.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–2:16
2
What feelings does Jane express about her pregnancy?
2:16–3:31
3
How can Jane manage her expectations versus reality during pregnancy?
3:31–8:28
4
What role do hormones play in Jane's emotional experiences?
8:28–15:32
5
How does Jane's past influence her feelings about parenting?
15:32–25:31
6
What strategies can help Jane cope with feelings of shame and guilt?
25:31–26:02
7
How can Jane prepare for the physicality of childbirth?
26:02–31:01
8
How can Jane communicate her needs to her partner effectively?
31:01–1:19:11