In episode 25 of Oh Mama, we are coming in hot at 33 weeks pregnant. There’s been a real shift this week where I’m no longer nervous about taking time-off post baby, and instead am actually really looking forward to maternity leave and allowing myself to be fully immersed in that newborn bubble without guilt of needing to be “doing more”.

And while the postpartum phase is certainly on its way, there’s a BIG important piece we need to go through first: labour and delivery. That’s right - the birth of baby. And one of the things I’m doing to get ready for that is organising my hospital bag for labour.

Okay mama, here’s all the things we’re talking about:

• Update at 33 weeks pregnant
• Similarities between the first and third trimester
• Nursery shopping and preparing for baby
• What I’m packing in my hospital bag for labour
• The four sections of your hospital bag prep: labour, mama, baby, other

OH MAMA MANTRA: “My body and my baby are working together”

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*Please note: this podcast is not medical advice. Instead, think of it as having a pregnancy chats with your BFF, where we keep things wildly honest, and we share what we're really thinking and experiencing as we grow a tiny human. If an episode is helpful, amazing, but it's in no way here to tell you what to do or how to be/feel/act/think. Your experience is unique and perfect to you. No comparison necessary here, but we hope hearing the experiences we share makes you feel a little less alone in the moments when you might wonder if it's only you that's going through it. I promise you mama, it isn't. You're not alone, and we're in this together - one big mama squad.