Entering Motherhood: Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum Support

Join host Sarah Marie Bilger as she walks you through the noisy world of online birth advice and into a clearer, calmer place. From mucus plugs and dilation myths to when to call your provider, she shares real-world guidance, trusted resources, and the questions you should be asking so fear doesn’t steer your birth story.

This short, empowering episode offers practical steps to stop the scroll, build your birth team, and turn overwhelming information into confident choices. Your body, your baby, and your story deserve context, not chaos.

Find the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.enteringmotherhood.com/episodes

Relevant Links:

Register for the O.W.N Your Birth Childbirth Education Course

5 ways to prepare for an Unmedicated Birth

Download the FREE Comprehensive Birth Planning Preference Guide

Hypnobabies is a great tool to use hypnosis when preparing for childbirth. Use the code MOTHERHOOD20 to receive 20% off today!

Truly fuel your body with FOND Bone Broth a verified regenerative by land to market company dedicated to serving you rich and handcrafted items. Use code ENTERINGMOTHERHOOD for 10% off.

Looking to become a doula yourself and get into birthwork? Check out the Online Doula Training Program to get started on your path today.

Become certified through Postpartum University and help clients learn more about how to nourish their bodies in the postpartum period.

Want a baby carrier you can snuggle your baby tight in? Check out LoveHeld for their handwoven ring sling carrier you'll be sure to love.

In need of nursing tops and postpartum items? Kindred Bravely is the place to shop for all of your attire needs and more. 

Connect with Entering Motherhood:
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@entering.motherhood (IG)
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Sarah Marie Bilger and Leisha Drews flip the script on the fear-driven postpartum narrative and invite you into a story of nourishment, rest, and practical support. Through clear explanations of hormonal changes and lived examples, they weave science with warm, actionable steps. Giving yourself tips for sunlight, sleep, protein-rich snacks, and a simple plan for asking for help.

Listen for concrete checklists, gentle encouragement about older siblings and household tasks, and small rituals that make the fourth trimester feel less overwhelming and more like a sacred, recoverable season. This episode is a short, hopeful roadmap for turning postpartum from survival into a supported beginning for the whole family.

Find the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.enteringmotherhood.com/episodes

Relevant Links:

Register for the O.W.N Your Birth Childbirth Education Course

5 ways to prepare for an Unmedicated Birth

Download the FREE guide to Prepare for an Empowered Postpartum

Hypnobabies is a great tool to use hypnosis when preparing for childbirth. Use the code MOTHERHOOD20 to receive 20% off today!

Truly fuel your body with FOND Bone Broth a verified regenerative by land to market company dedicated to serving you rich and handcrafted items. Use code ENTERINGMOTHERHOOD for 10% off.

Looking to become a doula yourself and get into birthwork? Check out the Online Doula Training Program to get started on your path today.

Become certified through Postpartum University and help clients learn more about how to nourish their bodies in the postpartum period.

Want a baby carrier you can snuggle your baby tight in? Check out LoveHeld for their handwoven ring sling carrier you'll be sure to love.

In need of nursing tops and postpartum items? Kindred Bravely is the place to shop for all of your attire needs and more. 

Connect with Entering Motherhood:
The Entering Motherhood Website
@entering.motherhood (IG)
Entering Motherhood (FB)
Contact us Directly

Join host Sarah Marie Bilger as she takes listeners behind the scenes of celebrity motherhood to uncover the unexpected lessons that help shape our own parenting stories.

Through intimate snapshots of Meghan Trainor, Hilary Duff, Mayim Bialik, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Bell, and Reese Witherspoon, this episode explores mom guilt, creative identity, building a village, and the freedom of lowered expectations.

Whether you’re scrolling feeds or standing in a nursery at 2 a.m., this conversation invites you to reflect, borrow what helps, and craft a mothering life that’s both real and deeply yours.

Find the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.enteringmotherhood.com/episodes

Relevant Links:

Register for the O.W.N Your Birth Childbirth Education Course

5 ways to prepare for an Unmedicated Birth

Download the FREE Comprehensive Birth Planning Preference Guide

Hypnobabies is a great tool to use hypnosis when preparing for childbirth. Use the code MOTHERHOOD20 to receive 20% off today!

Truly fuel your body with FOND Bone Broth a verified regenerative by land to market company dedicated to serving you rich and handcrafted items. Use code ENTERINGMOTHERHOOD for 10% off.

Looking to become a doula yourself and get into birthwork? Check out the Online Doula Training Program to get started on your path today.

Become certified through Postpartum University and help clients learn more about how to nourish their bodies in the postpartum period.

Want a baby carrier you can snuggle your baby tight in? Check out LoveHeld for their handwoven ring sling carrier you'll be sure to love.

In need of nursing tops and postpartum items? Kindred Bravely is the place to shop for all of your attire needs and more. 

Connect with Entering Motherhood:
The Entering Motherhood Website
@entering.motherhood (IG)
Entering Motherhood (FB)
Contact us Directly

When furlough and a newborn collided with the start of a global pause, one engineer found herself at a crossroads. In this episode, Sarah Marie Bilger walks you through the small, decisive moments, the midnight doubts, the Zoom calls, and even the in-person meetups that nudged her from a structured corporate life into the messy, luminous work of birth and postpartum support.

Follow the breadcrumbs of mentorship and community as Sarah names the women who quietly reshaped her identity, taught her business frameworks, and helped her hold two truths at once: mothering fiercely and building with ambition. It’s a candid, human story about learning to choose differently, trust intuition, and redesign a life that fits her children instead of fighting their schedules.

Tune in for an honest, hopeful journey of transformation. It's proof that motherhood doesn’t erase your dreams; it can reveal new ones.

Find the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.enteringmotherhood.com/episodes

Relevant Links:

Register for the O.W.N Your Birth Childbirth Education Course

5 ways to prepare for an Unmedicated Birth

Download the FREE Comprehensive Birth Planning Preference Guide

Hypnobabies is a great tool to use hypnosis when preparing for childbirth. Use the code MOTHERHOOD20 to receive 20% off today!

Truly fuel your body with FOND Bone Broth a verified regenerative by land to market company dedicated to serving you rich and handcrafted items. Use code ENTERINGMOTHERHOOD for 10% off.

Looking to become a doula yourself and get into birthwork? Check out the Online Doula Training Program to get started on your path today.

Become certified through Postpartum University and help clients learn more about how to nourish their bodies in the postpartum period.

Want a baby carrier you can snuggle your baby tight in? Check out LoveHeld for their handwoven ring sling carrier you'll be sure to love.

In need of nursing tops and postpartum items? Kindred Bravely is the place to shop for all of your attire needs and more. 

Connect with Entering Motherhood:
The Entering Motherhood Website
@entering.motherhood (IG)
Entering Motherhood (FB)
Contact us Directly

Come along with Sarah Marie Bilger as she transforms the mystery of labor into a clear, comforting story. From the first subtle signs like lightening and losing the mucus plug to the unexpected surge of nesting energy and Braxton Hicks. This episode opens with the quiet moments before labor, so you know what to watch out for and how your body may be preparing for the process ahead.

Walk through each stage as if you’re moving room by room: the long, gentle settling of early labor at home; the growing intensity of active labor; the raw, fierce panorama of transition; the focused, release-filled pushing stage; and finally the calm closing chapter of delivering the placenta. The episode is filled with practical tips like when to stay home, how to rest, and positions that help. It's all woven into the narrative so you feel anchored, not overwhelmed.

Short, reassuring, and vividly real, this episode aims to replace anxiety with confidence. Whether you’re expecting your first baby or returning with a new story to tell, tune in to learn how to listen to your body, trust the process, and step into birth feeling prepared and supported.

Find the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.enteringmotherhood.com/episodes

Relevant Links:

Register for the O.W.N Your Birth Childbirth Education Course

5 ways to prepare for an Unmedicated Birth

Download the FREE Comprehensive Birth Planning Preference Guide

Hypnobabies is a great tool to use hypnosis when preparing for childbirth. Use the code MOTHERHOOD20 to receive 20% off today!

Truly fuel your body with FOND Bone Broth a verified regenerative by land to market company dedicated to serving you rich and handcrafted items. Use code ENTERINGMOTHERHOOD for 10% off.

Looking to become a doula yourself and get into birthwork? Check out the Online Doula Training Program to get started on your path today.

Become certified through Postpartum University and help clients learn more about how to nourish their bodies in the postpartum period.

Want a baby carrier you can snuggle your baby tight in? Check out LoveHeld for their handwoven ring sling carrier you'll be sure to love.

In need of nursing tops and postpartum items? Kindred Bravely is the place to shop for all of your attire needs and more. 

Connect with Entering Motherhood:
The Entering Motherhood Website
@entering.motherhood (IG)
Entering Motherhood (FB)
Contact us Directly