Casey Keen shares how to build a postpartum support system with informed care, practical resources, and people ready to help
The Transition to Motherhood Is Bigger Than Most People Expect
The transition to motherhood can reshape identity, relationships, routines, and support needs. Learn a compassionate way to understand the change.
What Is Matrescence? Why Becoming a Mother Changes Everything – Kelsey Green, DNP
Becoming a mother can bring enormous love alongside uncertainty, grief for a former life, identity shifts, and a new mental load. Kelsey Green, DNP, explains matrescence and how naming the transition can help parents feel less alone.
Breastfeeding and Mental Health: Your Needs Matter Too
We talk with perinatal psychologist Dr. Shoshana Bennett about feeding pressure, sleep, mental health, and building a feeding plan that can change.
Breastfeeding With Confidence While Protecting Your Mental Health
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.
Postpartum Care Innovation: Expanding Access for Families
Postpartum care innovation is expanding access to mental health, pelvic floor, telehealth, benefits and navigation support for growing families.
Women’s Health Innovation: The Future of Pregnancy and Postpartum Care
Rachel Braun Scherl and Jodi Neuhauser of 51& share women’s health innovationresources for better support during pregnancy, birth, and the fourth trimester.
Feeling Like a Different Person After Having a Baby? An Anthropologist Explains Why
Feeling like a different person after having a baby can reflect a real shift in identity, relationships, and support needs. Andrea Ford, PhD, explains why.
Postpartum Identity: Why You’re Not Supposed to Bounce Back with Andrea Ford, PhD
Becoming a mother can change your relationship with independence, equality, work, family, and your own identity. Andrea Ford explains postpartum identity through an anthropological lens.