039: As a brand new naturopathic doctor AND mother, Dr. Kate Purvis walked through the transformational fire of her first postpartum experience after a beautiful birth. Through her personal trials and by working with babies and mothers separately over the years, she's come to realize this *isn't* how postpartum care is best served. Her vision of support for reimagined postpartum care and the ripple effect it has on families and society is amazing AND possible. Listen in to ignite your own imagination to make postpartum the beautifully transformative experience it can be.

Feeling the Pulse on

• How Dr. Kate's first postpartum experience led her to her life’s work
• What was different about her second postpartum experience
• Practicing embodiment beginning with basic body needs
• How we’ve normalized postpartum feeling crummy
• What we need to unlearn and how we can reframe what postpartum can be like
• What support can actually look like for a mother baby dyad
• Mother wounds and what Dr. Kate experienced working with hers
• Dr. Brittney’s experience with her mother wound and womb healing
• Healing other aspects of your pelvic health in postpartum, including sexuality, and thinking of it as WHATEVER you want it to be
• Grieving AND celebrating the maiden phase
• Collaborating with other providers for the most holistic support
• Tips for pregnant women: gather your providers before birth!
• How important looking at both mother and baby is, AND how to involve the partner in postpartum
• Having the conversation, making the implicit explicit

Connect with our guest, Dr. Kate Purvis

• Instagram @drkatepurivs
• Website https://www.drkatepurvis.com/

Follow the show @‌pelvicpulsepodcast

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