Fourth Trimester: The First Months and Beyond | Parenting | Newborn Baby | Postpartum | Doula

This conversation is about building a well-resourced postpartum support system.
Learn 'what I wish I knew and what I'd do differently if I could have a do-over' about birth and the fourth trimester.
Learn who to line up before birth, which questions to ask, and what warning signs your support people should know. Author and advocate Casey Keen, MS, shares the practical support plan she wishes she had, drawing on her lived experience with birth trauma, postpartum preeclampsia, postpartum depression, and postpartum anxiety.
Free download: Get the Postpartum Support Quick Reference we wished existed
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Connect with Casey Keen Website | Instagram | Postpartum Alchemy on Substack
Book The Alchemy of Motherhood
Resources mentioned ACOG Postpartum Conditions to Watch | CDC Urgent Maternal Warning Signs | Postpartum Support International | Postpartum University | Birth Trauma Association
Learn more Preeclampsia Prevention and Postpartum Risk | Postpartum Care at Home | Resilient Parenting | Micro Destressing for Busy Parents
Resources FREE DOWNLOAD Customizable Birth Plan | FREE DOWNLOAD Customizable Fourth Trimester Plan | Postpartum Soups and Stews Collection
Partner Deals Discount Codes | Prenatal & Postnatal Vitamins | Every Mother | Affiliate Disclosures
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The first step to creating change is often creating awareness - and by giving the shift into motherhood a name, we are raising awareness about how profound the change is.
Becoming a mother can bring enormous love alongside uncertainty, grief for a former life, identity shifts, and a new mental load. Giving this transition a name can make it easier to understand what is changing and ask for the support you need.
Nurse educator and maternal mental-health researcher Kelsey Green, DNP, joins Esther and me to explain what matrescence means, why it continues as children and families change, and how a whole-person view of motherhood can help parents feel less alone.
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Book mentioned Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
Learn more Postpartum Identity | Mental Load of Parenting
Resources FREE DOWNLOAD Customizable Birth Plan | FREE DOWNLOAD Customizable Fourth Trimester Plan | Postpartum Soups and Stews Collection
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Learn how to feel more confident in your feeding experience with support, realistic expectations, and a plan that can change with your family's needs.
We talk with perinatal psychologist Dr. Shoshana Bennett about feeding pressure and guilt, protecting sleep and mental health, working with partners and professionals, and knowing when to ask for more help.
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Connect with Dr. Shoshana Bennett DrShosh.com
More episodes with Dr. Shoshana Bennett The Myths Of Motherhood | Intimacy After Baby in a Way That Feels Right for You | When Perimenopause And Postpartum Overlap | Transition to Grandparenthood with Confidence | The Mental Load of Parenting
Resources Postpartum Support International: Get Help | National Maternal Mental Health Hotline: 1-833-TLC-MAMA | CDC: Postpartum Depression and Breastfeeding | LactMed: Drugs and Lactation Database
Fourth Trimester Resources FREE DOWNLOAD Customizable Birth Plan | FREE DOWNLOAD Customizable Fourth Trimester Plan | Postpartum Soups and Stews Collection
Partner Deals Discount Codes | Le Lolo | Prenatal & Postnatal Vitamins | Every Mother
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In this episode, we're joined by women's health industry executives Rachel Braun Scherl and Jodi Neuhauser of 51& who share details of the innovators and resources you can access right now to have a better-supported pregnancy, birth and fourth trimester.
We also talk about the broader systems around women's health innovation - understanding how the business of healthcare works means being in a better position to take control of your own care, and to be able to influence the future.
Women have more power when they organize their economic and civic influence. Let's make an impact together.
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Join In Women's Health or sign up for the Women's Health Mini MBA
Connect with Rachel Braun Scherl and Jodi Neuhauser 51and.com | Business of the V | In Women's Health (IWH) (Code SARAHTROTT for 20% OFF)
Rachel's book Orgasmic Leadership: Profiting from the Coming Surge in Women's Sexual Health and Wellness
Resources and companies mentioned SimpliFed | Seven Starling | Nadia Care | Pomelo Care | Origin | Hinge Health | Milk Stork | Postpartum Support International | March of Dimes Maternity Care Deserts Report
Learn more How to Maximize Maternity Leave & Paternity Benefits with MAMAttorney Daphne Delvaux | The State of Postpartum Maternal Health with Dr Amanda P Williams | Fourth Trimester Economics with Dr Sonal Patel Pediatrician | Reproductive Psychiatry: Optimizing Your Mental Health with Dr Ida Eden
Resources FREE DOWNLOAD Customizable Birth Plan | FREE DOWNLOAD Customizable Fourth Trimester Plan | Postpartum Soups and Stews Collection
Partner Deals Prenatal & Postnatal Vitamins | Every Mother | HIRO Diapers | Yoga for Your Yoni with Britt Fohrman | Affiliate Disclosures
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Postpartum identity can shift how you experience independence, equality, work, family, and your sense of self. In this episode, Sarah Trott and Esther Gallagher talk with cultural and medical anthropologist Andrea Ford about the pressures new parents absorb from the culture around them and why stepping back from those expectations can create useful perspective.
Andrea draws on her experience as a doula and her work as the author of Near Birth: Contested Values and the Work of Doulas. The conversation explores postpartum identity, autonomy and interdependence, asking for help, cultural differences in postpartum support, birth debriefing, and intuition as knowledge built through experience.
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Connect with Andrea Ford University of Edinburgh research profile
Andrea's books Near Birth: Contested Values and the Work of Doulas | Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary (Theory in the New Humanities)
Resources Mentioned 51& | Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood | FemTech Innovation | EUmetriosis | Endo1000 | WISH*
Learn more A Parent’s Guide to Building Self-Trust | The Birth Doula’s Guide to Navigating New Motherhood | Postpartum Bodies Change and That’s a Good Thing
Fourth Trimester Resources FREE DOWNLOAD Customizable Birth Plan | FREE DOWNLOAD Customizable Fourth Trimester Plan | Postpartum Soups and Stews Collection
Partner Deals Prenatal & Postnatal Vitamins | Every Mother | HIRO Diapers | Yoga for Your Yoni with Britt Fohrman | Affiliate Disclosures
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