Sep 21, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 19 segments
Hungrier before your period? Craving more chocolate and carbs? Feeling energised one week and completely flat the next? Your menstrual cycle could have more to do with it than you think. In this…
Jackie FrangeskakisGuest
Millie PadulaHost
Like wanting to have a baby, even you can be the healthiest thing and things still go wrong.
And so just being in that space and really understanding how the body works, really, you know, wanting to try for a baby, know your cycle.
Yeah, the huge jump in hormones when you're pregnant, then the quite big crash postnatally.
Even all of that is so fascinating and not known by a lot of mums, you know, and then that takes its whole own path and it's a place that we can be supported.
And I think a lot of the times women are brushed off for being welcome to motherhood.
And how that interplays with how you feel, breast milk production, hormones, trying for baby number two.
And then a lot of people now are having babies later and they go from postnatal into perimenopause.
And I think now's the time everyone, women are standing up and opening up with that.
And now's the time that we educate and we're finally getting a say in the studies.
And how amazing that we do have resources available and people like yourself who are specializing in this area.
And to what you said before, particularly postpartum and you have that incredible, incredibly shocking, you know, decline.
Like wanting to have a baby, even you can be the healthiest thing and things still go wrong.
And so just being in that space and really understanding how the body works, really, you know, wanting to try for a baby, know your cycle.
Yeah, the huge jump in hormones when you're pregnant, then the quite big crash postnatally.
Even all of that is so fascinating and not known by a lot of mums, you know, and then that takes its whole own path and it's a place that we can be supported.
And I think a lot of the times women are brushed off for being welcome to motherhood.
And how that interplays with how you feel, breast milk production, hormones, trying for baby number two.
And then a lot of people now are having babies later and they go from postnatal into perimenopause.
And I think now's the time everyone, women are standing up and opening up with that.
And now's the time that we educate and we're finally getting a say in the studies.
And how amazing that we do have resources available and people like yourself who are specializing in this area.
And to what you said before, particularly postpartum and you have that incredible, incredibly shocking, you know, decline.
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