BDA Baby (Before, During and After Baby)

BDA Baby (Before, During and After Baby)

BDA Baby™ (Before, During & After Baby) is an interview-based series hosted by New York Times bestselling author, mother, wife and advocate, Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt. Each week, Katherine has meaningful conversations with experts, notable specialists, and friends, covering topics that resonate with the BDA Baby community surrounding pregnancy, sex, partner relationships, birth experiences, fertility challenges, health and wellness, and so much more.

Episodes

September 24, 2026 32 mins
We all want to feel joy, but what does it really mean to be joyful? Kate Bowler joins us today to break down what joy really is.

Kate’s new book, Joyful, Anyway, explores what it means to be joyful and the fact that joy often comes into our lives alongside other emotions like grief and sadness. Today, Kate shares her definition of joy and happiness as well as how we can recognize the difference. We also di...

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Breast cancer and all of its unknowns can feel scary and overwhelming. In her upcoming book 
Beyond the Pink, Dr. Elonora Teplinsky gives women an easily accessible guide to understand 
their or their loved ones’ cancer diagnosis.

In today’s conversation, Dr. Teplinsky walks us through the risk factors for breast cancer and 
why more women are getting diagnosed with breast cancer at a younge...

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So many women are nutritionally deficient and don’t even know it. Today, Needed co-founder Julie Sawaya breaks down these nutrition gaps and what Needed is doing to help women catch back up. 

As a nutritionist and mother to three, Julie knows firsthand just how nutritionally depleting pregnancy, postpartum, and breastfeeding can be. Women are often lacking nutrients before becoming moms, and taking car...
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Moms are often the first to notice when something is changing in their children, their families, and their communities but so much of what mothers experience goes unseen and unmeasured. 
 
Today, Lauren Prentiss of Count on Mothers joins me to share what their first national benchmark reveals about motherhood in America today. From the overwhelming early years of parenting and the financial pressures families a...
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Feeding our kids in today’s world can feel overwhelming. From worries about the contents of our food to making sure they get the right nutrients, there’s so much to consider. In her upcoming book Feed Them Well, Jennifer Anderson simplifies mealtime from infancy to the teen years. 
 
As a registered dietitian and the founder of Kids Eat in Color, Jennifer has a wealth of knowledge to share on kids&r...

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In her upcoming book, Ambitious Mother, Dr. Anne Welsh breaks down what it means to be an ambitious mother and how women can thrive in their careers as well as at home. Today, she joins us for an honest conversation on the demands of parenthood and redefining ambition. 

As a licensed psychologist, Dr. Welsh has a wealth of experience guiding mothers and parents through all of life’s challenges. In toda...
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In his new book, Tiny Shifts, Dr. Goldstein explains how to make small meaningful shifts in our lives to enhance our calm, connection, and longevity. Today he walks us through his philosophy of tiny shifts and how small shifts can make a huge difference in our lives. 
 
Dr. Goldstein walks us through his Four Rs of emotional regulation and how we can integrate them into our daily lives. He also offers some ins...

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From gentle parenting to authoritative parenting Jon Fogel has studied it all. Today, he joins us to walk through his parenting philosophy and how he became a trusted parenting source online. 

Jon explains how he got his start online after sharing parenting tips on TikTok, and how he’s built a parenting platform with more male followers than most. Jon tells us that dads have a different parenting persp...
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Kay and Tay Dudley have been a beloved internet couple for years, and today they join us to break down their journey on social media. From making family content to protein bars, Kay and Tay have done it all. 

The couple explain how they got their start on the internet, and how they’re balancing social media life with personal life now that they make their living online. We also get into the decision to...
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racking your cycle and understanding hormones are key building blocks to women’s health. Today, Alisa Vitti, the creator for FLO Loving, joins us to explain how women can understand what’s happening in their bodies and optimize their health. 

Alisa explains her journey with PMOS which led her to start cycle tracking, and why she created FLO Living and the MyFLO app to help other women get a handl...
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Dr. Tracey Dalgleish joined us in this episode to explore the challenges in maintaining intimacy after birth, and her solutions to bring couples back together in the postpartum period. Dr. Dalgleish encourages partners to talk openly about intimacy after baby before the postpartum period begins and also encourages couples to seek therapy sooner rather than later. She explains that therapy can be like maintenance for your relat...
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Sometimes moms just need a moment to themselves, and no one knows that more than today’s guest, Dr. Cassidy Freitas. As a licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. Cassidy brings professional experiences and personal insight to her work in maternal mental health. 

Today, we walk through Dr. Cassidy’s new book Mom Needs a Moment and what she hopes every mom can take away from reading it. Dr. Cas...
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From surviving the toddler years to parenting teenagers, Cat and Nat have been through it all. In this episode, they joined us to talk through all things motherhood. They share their journeys as moms and as sisters, and what they’ve learned along the way. Cat and Nat have such great insight for parents looking toward the teen years, and they hope they can help other parents realize that parenting teens is just as rewardi...
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Lauren and Jason Kennedy are open and honest about their relationship highs and lows in their new podcast The Kennedy’s. Today, we discuss some of the real unfiltered challenges and joys of parenting and building a relationship in our next installment of The Ultimate Unbalancing Act, our four-part series with Yahoo.  
  
Lauren and Jason give us some background on what inspired them to start sharing ...
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In this episode Kacie Barnes, creator of Mama Knows Nutrition and pediatric nutrition expert, joined us to share practical tips for feeding toddlers. She tackled everything from managing picky eaters to navigating holiday meals. She also gives great strategies for handling food allergies and quick, nutritious meals that the whole family will enjoy.  

Please join us on YouTube for our full conversation and ma...
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Nick and Natalie Viall have been busy — building businesses together, growing their family and navigating it all very publicly. The couple, who share daughter River Rose, and are now expecting twin girls, open up about the highs and lows of expanding their family and how their relationship has evolved through every stage. One of the biggest surprises? Nick, who has always described himself as anxious, talks about how fa...

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This episode was recorded in the aftermath of the 2023 Maui Wildfires. 

In this episode, Sunny Chen of Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Hawaii joined us to share vital information in the aftermath of the 2023 Maui Wildfires. Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Hawaii was and still is doing important work to support mothers and babies in Hawaii. Whether it’s disaster relief or birth support and education, Hea...
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As the creator of Poppi, Allison Ellsworth has had to learn how to balance both motherhood and running an ultra-successful business. Today, she shares some of what she’s learned along the way and whether or not there is such thing as balance in our next installment of The Ultimate Unbalancing Act, our four-part series with Yahoo. 

Allison walks us through her business journey from starting Poppi to pit...
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Dr. Diana Bianchi, director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, joined us to walk through all the concerns many moms have surrounding medical treatment during pregnancy and postpartum. We cover the lack of studies on medications in pregnant and breastfeeding women, and how to make sure you’re informed when starting or continuing a medication or treatment. Dr. Bianchi em...
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Pumps, sore nipples, and milk supply. Breastfeeding and pumping can feel like the wild west of motherhood, so thank goodness we have Tamari Jacob, Certified Lactation Counselor and creator of One with the Pump, to bring some info, support, and much-needed humor and good energy to the topic! Tamari walks through all of the common concerns and questions new moms have when they start their breastfeeding or pumping journey and how...
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