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

Does breastfeeding weaken your bones? What 14 studies say | Dr. Emma Kosbab, PT & Dr. Laura Pietrosimone, PT

Send us Fan Mail Your baby is NOT sucking the calcium out of your bones.  That's the line all over social. What's actually happening is your body mobilizing a

Still Leaking When You Run? Should We Be Looking at the Ankle and Hip? | Natália Campos

Send us Fan Mail Same run. Same treadmill. Same impact. So why do some women leak and others don’t? That’s the question Natália Cardoso Campos, PT, MSc, couldn’t let go

Return to Duty After Baby: Pregnancy and Postpartum for Military Women and Tactical Athletes | Dr. Chris Edwards

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when there’s no evidence to build evidence-based practice? Dr. Chris Edwards has an answer: “We have conversations.” Chris, PhD, clinic

Leaking Isn’t Just a Bladder Thing. What the Research Says About Heart and Mental Health | Dr. Lisa VanWiel

Send us Fan Mail Brand new PT. Skilled nursing. Asking her patients what kind of exercise they enjoy. Women there for heart disease, osteoporosis, a broken hip. And ove

It Can't Just Be Motivation: New Research on Pelvic Floor Apps and What Actually Helps Moms Stick With It | SÓNIA COELHO CRISTÓVÃO

Send us Fan Mail She booked the appointment. She showed up. She wants something to change. And she still hasn't done her exercises. Sónia Coelho Cristóvão, physiot

Intra-Abdominal Pressure: Is Running Worse Than a Cough? Are We Even Measuring What We Think We're Measuring? | DR. SABINE VESTING

Send us Fan Mail Don't jump. Don't lift heavy. Exhale on the way up. Protect your pelvic floor from all that pressure. Funny thing, though. Nobody ever tells

My Personal Pessary Search: 5 Miles Downhill in the Dark, Maybe Bears | Solo Episode

Send us Fan Mail In June, my very first mom friend texted me about a relay for her 50th. I said yes. THEN I asked what I'd signed up for. 3 running legs in less th

Kegels to CrossFit: A Pregnancy & Postpartum Exercise History | Crossover with Practice Brave, Brianna Battles

Send us Fan Mail Carrie was taught to go gentle. Brianna was taught to go harder. Neither one worked. Bri Battles reached out and said let's chat about history. I

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 a

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, t

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

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 i

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

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 ha

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 o

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 pe

THE POSTPARTUM EXERCISE GUIDELINES MOMS ACTUALLY ASKED FOR | DR. MARGIE DAVENPORT

Send us Fan Mail This should not be revolutionary in 2026. They asked the women. Went out across Canada, asked postpartum women what they were actually desperate to kno

REWIND // EP 251: POSTPARTUM RUNNING RESEARCH YOU ACTUALLY NEED: WHAT SCIENCE SAYS ABOUT RETURNING TO SPORT | RITA DEERING

Send us Fan Mail Not everybody has time to sit down and read the whole paper. Not everybody wants to. I get it. But you do need to read beyond the abstract, so let'

Everything We Now Know About Women's Health. Nobody Told the Women. | MEGHAN RABBITT

Send us Fan Mail Meghan Rabbitt has been a health journalist for 25 years. And the thing she said to me about reporting this book was: why don't I know this? If sh

REWIND // Everything you've been afraid to ask about prolapse — answered by a urogynecologist — DR. CHERYL IGLESIA, MD

Send us Fan Mail Prolapse might be the single most fear-loaded word in postpartum health. Not because of what it is. Because of how little anybody tells you about it. T