Active Mom Podcast: Pregnancy, Postpartum, Perimenopause, Menopause & Beyond

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Welcome to the Active Mom Podcast — where real motherhood stories meet real science. Hosted by Dr. Carrie Pagliano, double board-certified physical therapist, runner, mom of two, and internationally recognized expert in pregnancy, postpartum, pelvic floor, and perimenopause performance. Whether you’re a mom navigating running with prolapse or leakage, a clinician supporting active women, or a lifelong athlete trying to stay strong through every hormonal season — this show gives you evidence-based guidance and real life mom stories without the fear, confusion, or shame. Each week, Dr. Carrie brings candid conversations with researchers, clinicians, elite athletes, and everyday moms to explore what it actually takes to run, lift, jump, and live confidently through pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and beyond. We talk about: • Postpartum return to running & lifting • Pelvic floor symptoms (leakage, prolapse, pain) • Pregnancy exercise myths & safety • Strength training at every age • Perimenopause performance & hormone changes • Mental health, identity shifts & motherhood • The realities of being an active mom in a busy life Real talk. Real science. Real moms. Because you deserve to feel strong and supported — at every stage of your active life.

  1. 4d ago

    The First Real Data On Climbing While Pregnant | JOY BLACK

    Send us Fan Mail Three years ago Joy Black came on this show to talk about climbing in pregnancy and postpartum, and quite honestly, we had almost no research to point at. She came back this time as a published researcher. Two papers, both in Sports Medicine, both with Dr. Margie Davenport's lab at University of Alberta. So we sat down and broke them open. The first is qualitative: 11 elite climbers, Olympic and World Cup level, on how they actually made decisions while pregnant. Not "is climbing risky, yes or no." Something much more interesting. They're assessing risk continuously, move to move, inside a single climb. The second one is big. 692 climbers. Roughly 64,000 hours of climbing during pregnancy. And it gives us numbers we have never had before. More than half of those climbers were never given a single recommendation about climbing during pregnancy by a practitioner. Not "here's how to modify." Not "here's what to watch." Nothing. And fewer than 40% were offered any rehab at all postpartum. We did not tell them no. We said nothing. Which they heard, correctly, as we have no idea what you do. 🔹 Why a fall in climbing is not what you think it is, and why that distinction changes everything  🔹 What the fall rate and adverse event rate actually were across 64,000 hours  🔹 The modifications climbers make on their own, top roping, vertical over steep, lower grades, not topping out  🔹 Controlled impact versus chaotic impact, and why a six week okay is not clearance for either  🔹 What to ask a climber in your clinic when you have never climbed in your life  🔹 The prolapse story that made me want to stand up and cheer, and maybe throw something I promise you, you do not have to be a climber to help a climber. Joy says it better than I do, and she says it about halfway in. Guest: Joy Black, climbing coach for pregnant and postpartum climbers, @climbingwithjoy, trainedbyjoy.com.  Her first time on the show was Season 2, Episode 12. Research collaborator: Dr. Margie Davenport, @drmargiedavenport Studies discussed:  🔹Davenport MH, Ray L, Black J, McHugh TL. "An Informed Risk Assessment": A Qualitative Exploration of Elite Climbers' Experiences During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period. Sports Medicine. 2025. 🔹Davenport MH, Osachoff L, Ray L, Black J, Cheung NKY, McHugh TL. To Climb or Not to Climb: A Cross-Sectional Investigation of Risks and Benefits During Pregnancy and Postpartum. Sports Medicine. 2026. The Active Mom Podcast — a real mom's guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond, for active moms and the professionals who help them get there. Quick-hit conversations with moms, providers, and researchers... because you don't have a lot of free time (you're probably listening at 1.5x right now). Follow so you don't miss an episode. Rate & review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — it's how the next mom searching for these answers actually finds them. Share it with the friend who needs it. Questions or topic requests? DM me 💌

  2. 6d ago

    REWIND Summer Finale// Pregnancy And Postpartum Exercise Research Is Years Ahead Of What You're Being Told: Why It Isn't Reaching You | MARGIE DAVENPORT, PhD

    Send us Fan Mail Labor Day is in the rearview, the temps are finally doing what they're supposed to do, and this is the last rewind of the summer. Quite honestly, this is the one I wanted to close out on. When Margie came on for this one, she spent a good chunk of the hour telling me she couldn't tell me things. I'd ask, she'd dodge. I'd ask sideways, she'd dodge nicer. At one point I told her she was like a mystery novel and I just wanted to know what happened on the next page. She said she'd love to tell me, but she can't. She wasn't being precious about it. The Canadian postpartum guidelines were still in peer review, and she walked me through exactly why researchers go quiet. Until a paper has been through that process, she is not going to stand up and tell you something is safe. She also told me the first draft went out to postpartum women for feedback and came back with a note that it was going to cause a lot of mom guilt. So they went back and reworked the messaging. As a mom herself, that was not a message she was willing to send. Listening back now, with the guideline published and Margie already back on the show this past summer to walk us through it, this one plays completely differently. This is the hour right before. 🔹 Why the assumption that elite athletes have the best of everything is mostly wrong, and what happens to the ones who get told they're done at the first trimester  🔹 The athletes nobody has studied: the ones who wanted to come back and couldn't. Margie's team put out the invitation and got almost nothing back.  🔹 The one thing Margie says she'd go back and do more of, in pregnancy, in postpartum, and now heading into perimenopause  🔹 Postpartum and perimenopause showing up in the same body at the same time, and how little we currently have to offer either one  🔹 In Canada, 7% of all grant funding goes to women's health. The postpartum guideline got none of it. It got built by volunteers and undergrads.  🔹 The PhD student she says to watch, and why sleep may turn out to matter as much as exercise in this window Margie is one of my favorite people to just throw questions at, and this is her at her most honest about what we still don't know. Margie first came on the show back in Ep 38 in 2022, and she was back this summer on Ep 252 to walk through the guideline once it published. If this one leaves you wanting the answers, that's the episode with them. Find her on Instagram at @drmargiedavenport. One thing this whole hour keeps circling: screening before somebody hands you a program. Nobody can tell you what your body is ready for without looking at it first. If you're in the Arlington area, come see me in the clinic. If you're anywhere else, telehealth and virtual consults are open.  This is education, not individualized medical advice. If you're having symptoms, get eyes on it. The Active Mom Podcast — a real mom's guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond, for active moms and the professionals who help them get there. Quick-hit conversations with moms, providers, and researchers... because you don't have a lot of free time (you're probably listening at 1.5x right now). Follow so you don't miss an episode. Rate & review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — it's how the next mom searching for these answers actually finds them. Share it with the friend who needs it. Questions or topic requests? DM me 💌

  3. Sep 4

    12 Weeks to Return to Run isn't Set in Stone - Solo episode

    Send us Fan Mail Somewhere between 2019 and now, "wait 12 weeks" turned into a rule. It is not a rule. It never was. I have been in pelvic health for 26 plus years, and right now I am watching that number get handed around in Facebook groups, on social, and quite honestly by a lot of professionals who are leaning really hard on it. I don't know that the foundation exists to do that. So this is a solo episode where I walk you back through how we got here. 🔹 Why the six week visit was a medical checkpoint, not a green light to run 🔹 What the 2019 UK document really is, and what it isn't 🔹 The 2024 international Delphi: 95 professionals, 12 countries, seven professions, and what they actually agreed on 🔹 Why "returning before 12 weeks is possible" is the line that keeps getting missed 🔹 The one in a hundred outlier, and why I will not shut her down 🔹 Gatekeeping. My own profession has been doing it, and I was a product of it 🔹 The 2025 Canadian postpartum guidelines, including why sleep got named a movement behavior 🔹 The four variables nobody puts on a timeline: sleep, fueling, support, mental health 🔹 What you control and what you absolutely do not 🔹 The line a kindergarten teacher gave me that I now use with patients If you are a mom trying to figure out when, this one gives you better questions than a date on the calendar. If you are a pro who has been leaning hard on 12 weeks, this one is an invitation to step back. And if what you really want to know is where YOU are right now, that is what the free Return to Run Readiness Screen is for. Balance, strength, impact. https://course.carriepagliano.com/R2Rreadyscreen IN THIS EPISODE (00:00) Why we are talking about 12 weeks right now (02:44) Where the six week mark came from (03:55) The 2019 UK document that was never a guideline (05:22) ACOG moved off six weeks in 2018 (08:50) The 2024 Delphi: what 95 professionals agreed on (11:16) The one in a hundred outlier (14:07) Gatekeeping movement in pregnancy and postpartum (16:08) The 2025 Canadian postpartum guidelines (18:06) Phase based instead of date based (20:26) All roads end up in the same place (22:03) Sleep (22:50) Fueling and energy availability (25:13) Support, childcare and logistics (28:32) Mental health, and what is going on physically (31:51) What you control and what you do not (39:28) Episodes to listen to next STUDIES MENTIONED Christopher SM, et al. Br J Sports Med. 2024;58(6):299-312. Deering RE, et al. Br J Sports Med. 2024;58(4):183-195. Davenport MH, et al. Br J Sports Med. 2025;59:515-526. Schulz JM, Thornton JS. Br J Sports Med. 2024;58:511-512. Christopher SM, Cook CE, Snodgrass SJ. PLoS One. 2021;16(8):e0255383. ACOG Committee Opinion No. 736. Obstet Gynecol. 2018;131(5):e140-e150. The Active Mom Podcast — a real mom's guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond, for active moms and the professionals who help them get there. Quick-hit conversations with moms, providers, and researchers... because you don't have a lot of free time (you're probably listening at 1.5x right now). Follow so you don't miss an episode. Rate & review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — it's how the next mom searching for these answers actually finds them. Share it with the friend who needs it. Questions or topic requests? DM me 💌

  4. Sep 2

    REWIND // "Cleared at 6 weeks" doesn't mean cleared to run — what the research actually says — DR. SHEFALI CHRISTOPHER

    Send us Fan Mail Shefali got hate mail. Not a snarky comment on a post. Emails. From other people who work with postpartum runners, coming at her over a single number in a consensus paper. The number was three. As in, after a minimum three week period of rest and recovery, some people might be ready to start doing some things. Drills. Not a 5K. Not a race. Some things. And she wasn't even giving her opinion. She surveyed clinicians and exercise professionals, coded what they said, and reported it back. That is the entire job of a Delphi. I'm bringing this one back for the Summer Rewind because there are so many new moms getting back to running right now, and the six week clearance conversation has not moved an inch. It is still the default. It is still a date instead of a plan. And I promise you it is still costing women the strength they walked in with. 🔹 What a Delphi study actually is, and why it exists when the research is thin 🔹 Where the six week rule came from and what it never accounted for 🔹 The consensus on what "postpartum" means, and on who gets to call herself a runner (you'll like this one) 🔹 Why detraining is a real cost and not a theoretical one 🔹 The bias every one of us carries: the moms who were doing great were never in your caseload 🔹 Shefali on her own two pregnancies, and what changed between them If you have ever been handed a date instead of a plan, press play. And if you're the one handing out the dates, I especially want you in this one. Which date were you given, and did anybody explain it? The Active Mom Podcast — a real mom's guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond, for active moms and the professionals who help them get there. Quick-hit conversations with moms, providers, and researchers... because you don't have a lot of free time (you're probably listening at 1.5x right now). Follow so you don't miss an episode. Rate & review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — it's how the next mom searching for these answers actually finds them. Share it with the friend who needs it. Questions or topic requests? DM me 💌

  5. Aug 28

    Do Hypopressives Lower Intra-Abdominal Pressure? Here's What the Research Says with Silvia Saraiva

    Send us Fan Mail This one is going to ruffle some feathers. Hypopressives. Low pressure fitness. Whatever your algorithm is calling them this week. The theory has been the same since 1984: you do the breath, you hold the posture, your intra-abdominal pressure drops, and your pelvic floor switches on because of that pressure drop. Nobody had measured the pressure. Silvia Saraiva did. She trained 36 women who had never done a hypopressive in their lives, gave them two weeks to practice, then brought them into the Motor Function Measurement lab at the University of Ottawa with an intra-abdominal pressure sensor, EMG inside and out, and ultrasound running. Supine and standing. With the hypopressive posture and without it. The pressure didn't drop.  The pelvic floor did turn on. Just not through the mechanism we have all been teaching. Here's what makes this conversation worth your time: Silvia is hypopressives-trained. She still teaches them. She has patients who seek her out specifically to learn them. She is not here to tell you to stop. She is here to tell you the explanation doesn't hold up. 🔹 What a hypopressive actually is, broken all the way down  🔹 The theory, and where it came from  🔹 Why the measurement tools matter more than most of us want to admit  🔹 What happened to intra-abdominal pressure lying down versus standing  🔹 How hard the pelvic floor actually worked, compared to a max contraction  🔹 Whether nailing the posture changed anything  🔹 If the pressure didn't drop, what IS causing the contraction  🔹 What Silvia tells the patients who ask her to teach them  🔹 Where hypopressives fit if strength is the goal Silvia Saraiva, BScPT, MScHK, is a pelvic health physiotherapist and researcher who completed her Master of Science in Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa under Dr. Linda McLean. Her paper is out now in Physiotherapy, and there is a second one coming. When you learned hypopressives, or taught them, was the pressure drop the whole point? I want to know what you were told and what you think after listening to the pod! Saraiva S, McLean L. Intra-abdominal pressure and pelvic floor muscle activation observed during hypopressive exercises performed in supine and standing: An observational cohort study. Physiotherapy. 2026 Sep;132:102316. Silvia on Instagram: @thepelvicgirl The lab: @mfm_lab  00:00 Intro  01:00 Why we have never covered hypopressives  01:45 Meet Silvia Saraiva  02:25 Ottawa to northern Ontario  05:45 How far the nearest pelvic floor physio really is  06:55 Why hypopressives are big in Brazil, Spain and France  07:35 What a hypopressive actually is, step by step  09:00 The theory: pressure drops, pelvic floor turns on  10:00 Why how you measure it matters  10:50 The tools: pressure sensor, EMG, ultrasound, dynamometry  14:40 Crosstalk, motion artifact, and the problem with earlier studies  16:15 What clinicians miss when we skim to the conclusion  18:45 Who was in the study  21:05 Training beginners, and the expert who flew in  23:45 Are hypopressives easy? No.  28:15 The findings  30:00 Did position or posture matter?  31:30 If the pressure didn't drop, what is causing the contraction?  32:40 "You're just not doing it right"  33:30 What Silvia tells patients now  35:35 What about a high tone pelvic floor?  37:40 Prolapse and first line care  38:20 What she would study next  42:30 When the explanation is wrong but the results are real  43:40 Where to find Silvia  The Active Mom Podcast — a real mom's guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond, for active moms and the professionals who help them get there. Quick-hit conversations with moms, providers, and researchers... because you don't have a lot of free time (you're probably listening at 1.5x right now). Follow so you don't miss an episode. Rate & review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — it's how the next mom searching for these answers actually finds them. Share it with the friend who needs it. Questions or topic requests? DM me 💌

  6. Aug 26

    REWIND // You're Not Running Wrong: Running Myths Debunked | RICH WILLY, PT, PhD

    Send us Fan Mail Okay, so this one is a Summer Rewind, and I'll be honest with you, I went back and forth on which episodes to bring back. This one wasn't a hard call. The original aired in September 2022. I re-listened before we re-ran it and quite honestly? I'm still hearing every single one of these myths in clinic. Every one. A couple of years later. Rich Willy has spent 20+ years treating injured runners and publishing the research the rest of us end up citing. And the thing I love about him is that he opens by admitting he used to believe most of these myths himself. That's the whole reason it holds up. So I asked him to name the running myths he most wishes would just disappear. Stretch more. Strengthen your glutes. Land softer. You're running wrong. Here's what we get into: 🔹 Why stretching isn't the thing standing between you and an injury, and what to do with that warm-up time instead  🔹 The calf, not the glute. Running is a plantar flexor sport, and Rich tells you exactly where to spend your strength minutes if you only have a few  🔹 The bone force number that flips "just land soft" completely on its head (this one genuinely changed how I talk to runners)  🔹 Why your single biggest injury risk factor is the injury you already had, back in your 20s, in high school, in a body you don't have anymore  🔹 REDs, energy availability, and why a normal body weight tells you almost nothing  🔹 Return to participation, return to sport, return to performance. The three-stage model most of us skip right past  🔹 What actually happens when you tell a runner to change the way she runs And I promise you, this is a pelvic health episode. If the calf and the quad and the hip aren't holding up their end of the bargain, the pelvic floor is left holding the ball. You can hyperfocus on the pelvic floor and still completely miss the boat. So if you're a mom who's five or ten years out and still hasn't gotten back to running, this is for you. And if you're a clinician who's been quietly wondering whether the thing you've taught for a decade is actually still true... this one's for you too. No judgment. I've been there. Come find Rich on Instagram: @montanarunninglab The Active Mom Podcast — a real mom's guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond, for active moms and the professionals who help them get there. Quick-hit conversations with moms, providers, and researchers... because you don't have a lot of free time (you're probably listening at 1.5x right now). Follow so you don't miss an episode. Rate & review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — it's how the next mom searching for these answers actually finds them. Share it with the friend who needs it. Questions or topic requests? DM me 💌

  7. Aug 21

    STILL A RUNNER, NOW A MASTERS HYROX ATHLETE, AND NOT SLOWING DOWN AT 55 | HILARY CAIRNS

    Send us Fan Mail Hilary Cairns races Hyrox at the pro weights, which means the farmer's carry is a pair of 53 pound kettlebells and she is essentially hauling her own body weight down the floor. She is the top ranked American in her age group. She also has three kids in their twenties and has been racing in DC since 1993. Now the part nobody handed her. She nursed all three kids for years and trained hard the whole time. She got a stress fracture after her second. Nobody sat her down and talked to her about how to eat while doing both, because back then almost nobody was having that conversation at all. This is the first in a new series where we sit down with the athletes in our own backyard here in the DMV. Hilary is a very good place to start. 🔹 What running through three pregnancies looked like when there was no information to work with  🔹 The stress fracture after baby two, and what she says she would eat differently now  🔹 The eating disorder she had in high school and college, what doctors offered her instead of answers, and what she wishes she had understood about long term cost  🔹 The commute stacking trick that made training possible when the kids were small  🔹 Going through menopause and having no idea what to attribute anything to  🔹 Raising a 26 year old competitive runner and hoping she gets the longevity without the glitches  🔹 Starting the Aging Athletically podcast with ultrarunner Michael Wardian, and the one question they keep asking older athletes If you are deep in the baby years doing the math on whether you get to keep any of this, Hilary is what the far side can look like. Not because she got lucky. She will tell you she has been fortunate on injuries, and then she will tell you about 30 years of showing up. Come find me after and tell me which part of her week you would steal first!  CHAPTERS  0:00 A new DC series, and meet Hilary Cairns  0:58 Minnesota to DC, tennis to track to triathlon to Hyrox  2:22 Ranking the three sports she is doing right now  4:08 The workout you dread is usually the one you need  5:38 Ten kinds of gel and the old school one she keeps picking  7:36 What she eats after: chocolate milk and salty things  8:29 Running in DC, Rock Creek and the Tilden hill  9:48 Banneker track and the free Wednesday workout  10:57 What she has now that her 30 year old self did not  12:08 Her Cherry Blossom result this year  12:34 Running through three pregnancies with no information  15:39 What changed in 26 years of postpartum advice  19:12 A stress fracture after baby two and the fueling gap  20:37 Strength training before it was standard  22:13 Energy availability, REDs and lactation  23:31 Going through menopause and not knowing what to attribute  25:36 Why peers stop racing, and why she has not  27:23 Eight ten mile races, all within 80 seconds  29:12 Her full training week, including the 100 burpees  32:05 What training looked like when the kids were little  34:04 Commute stacking and being the low maintenance queen  36:05 The eating disorder in high school and college, and what she wishes she had known about REDs  39:17 Raising a competitive 26 year old runner  40:24 The mental piece she works on with her kids  45:13 Starting Aging Athletically with Michael Wardian  49:05 Feeling 30 at 55  50:41 Why Hyrox, and what a first race is like  53:41 Pro weights, world championships and top American times  55:01 Station by station: erg, farmer's carry, sled, burpee broad jump  59:25 Shoes, and why not Alpha Flies  1:02:08 The thing she never could have planned  1:04:51 Where to find Aging Athletically and Track Pack DC  LINKS Pelvic floor assessment, Arlington VA clinic Telehealth PT and virtual consults All free resources and courses Hilary Cairns on Instagram Track Pack DC on Instagram Aging Athletically Podcast This podcast is education, not medical advice. Always consult your healthcare provider with medical questions. The Active Mom Podcast — a real mom's guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond, for active moms and the professionals who help them get there. Quick-hit conversations with moms, providers, and researchers... because you don't have a lot of free time (you're probably listening at 1.5x right now). Follow so you don't miss an episode. Rate & review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — it's how the next mom searching for these answers actually finds them. Share it with the friend who needs it. Questions or topic requests? DM me 💌

  8. Aug 19

    REWIND // Pelvic Girdle Pain, Relaxin & Pregnancy Support: What Women Really Need to Know — with DR. SINEAD DUFOUR

    Send us Fan Mail Relaxin is one of the first words you learn when you find out you're pregnant. Somebody hands it to you like a fact. Your joints are loose, your pelvis is unstable, be careful, this is just what pregnancy does. Here's the problem. Everyone has relaxin. Not everyone has pelvic girdle pain. This Summer Rewind is with Dr. Sinead Dufour, a Canadian pelvic health physiotherapist, researcher and co-founder of The Womb, and she has spent years trying to drag the actual state of the science on pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain out of the journals and into somebody's treatment room. The systematic review on relaxin and pain has been sitting there since 2012. The authors of the guideline that made the relaxin story famous have since gone back and said they didn't interpret the data correctly. And moms are still being told their pelvis is coming apart. Sinead also gets into virtual pelvic health care (she was doing it well before 2020, and no, it is not the discount version), the new Canadian guidelines on obstetrical anal sphincter injuries, and the fact that cesarean birth is the number one surgery performed in Canada and was not in the physio curriculum until last year. That one still gets me going. 🔹 Where the relaxin theory came from, and why it will not die  🔹 What the 2017 antepartum guideline said we should assess first (it is not a joint)  🔹 The guideline update Sinead is leading right now  🔹 Virtual care: who it actually serves best, and where it genuinely falls short  🔹 Third and fourth degree tears, and the new Canadian recommendation to refer to pelvic health PT  🔹 Why she thinks women should understand their pelvic floor long before they're pregnant If you've carried pelvic pain through a pregnancy and been told it's just relaxin and it'll go away when the baby comes, trust me, there is more to it than that. And if you're a physio, this one is for you too. If you're pregnant right now and someone blamed relaxin for your pain, what did they tell you to do about it?  CHAPTERS 0:00 Summer Rewind intro 1:19 Meet Dr. Sinead Dufour 1:38 The Womb, and how a twin pregnancy changed her career 4:46 Virtual pelvic health care before the pandemic 9:28 Treating with your hands behind your back 11:39 What patients say after the first virtual visit 14:37 Pattern recognition, distance, and the licensure compact 19:46 Snow days, sick kids, and moms who stop cancelling on themselves 21:43 Pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain 24:21 Why pain science gets dropped the second the patient is pregnant 25:37 The relaxin myth, unpacked 31:35 The antepartum guideline update Sinead is leading 32:11 We underdosed exercise in pregnancy for years 33:51 Symptoms are not damage: FIFA, athletes, and diastasis fear 37:23 Sport, sponsors, and the fear of being pregnant in public 42:17 When postpartum and perimenopause overlap 43:56 OASIS injuries: what third and fourth degree tears mean 45:57 The new Canadian guidelines and the referral recommendation 48:17 What ACOG's fourth trimester guidance left out 52:11 How access to pelvic PT actually works in Canada 56:49 Cesarean is the number one surgery. It wasn't in the curriculum. 59:49 Rapid fire: podcast pick, trail walks, one piece of advice 1:08:13 What it means to be an active mom LINKS Pelvic floor assessment, Arlington VA clinic: https://carriepagliano.com/ Telehealth PT and virtual consults: https://carriepagliano.com/ All free resources and courses: carriepagliano.com Dr. Sinead Dufour on Instagram: dr.sinead This podcast is education, not medical advice. Always consult your healthcare provider with medical questions. The Active Mom Podcast — a real mom's guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond, for active moms and the professionals who help them get there. Quick-hit conversations with moms, providers, and researchers... because you don't have a lot of free time (you're probably listening at 1.5x right now). Follow so you don't miss an episode. Rate & review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — it's how the next mom searching for these answers actually finds them. Share it with the friend who needs it. Questions or topic requests? DM me 💌

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Welcome to the Active Mom Podcast — where real motherhood stories meet real science. Hosted by Dr. Carrie Pagliano, double board-certified physical therapist, runner, mom of two, and internationally recognized expert in pregnancy, postpartum, pelvic floor, and perimenopause performance. Whether you’re a mom navigating running with prolapse or leakage, a clinician supporting active women, or a lifelong athlete trying to stay strong through every hormonal season — this show gives you evidence-based guidance and real life mom stories without the fear, confusion, or shame. Each week, Dr. Carrie brings candid conversations with researchers, clinicians, elite athletes, and everyday moms to explore what it actually takes to run, lift, jump, and live confidently through pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and beyond. We talk about: • Postpartum return to running & lifting • Pelvic floor symptoms (leakage, prolapse, pain) • Pregnancy exercise myths & safety • Strength training at every age • Perimenopause performance & hormone changes • Mental health, identity shifts & motherhood • The realities of being an active mom in a busy life Real talk. Real science. Real moms. Because you deserve to feel strong and supported — at every stage of your active life.

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