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The 4 Stages of Postpartum Depletion [Sneak Peak] EP 206

• Maranda Bower, Postpartum Nutrition Specialist

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Here’s the truth: Postpartum nutrition is the missing link in maternal health.

The postpartum care system is broken, and we cannot afford to keep ignoring postpartum depletion. In this episode, I’m sharing an exclusive behind-the-scenes sneak peek into snippets of our Postpartum Nutrition Certification Masterclass, where we deep dive into the 4 Stages of Postpartum Depletion.

 If you’re not talking about nutrition with your clients, you’re already behind. The market is shifting, and postpartum professionals who integrate functional nutrition strategies into their care are the ones who will thrive—and so will their clients.

If you’re supporting postpartum moms, this is your chance to step into the future of care. The Postpartum Nutrition Certification is the ONLY functional nutrition training designed specifically for postpartum professionals.

The Spring 2025 Cohort is now open for enrollment. Click the link below to become the next Certified Postpartum Nutrition Specialist. 

https://members.postpartumu.com/Certification

Check out the episode on the blog: https://postpartumu.com/podcast/the-4-stages-of-postpartum-depletion-sneak-peak-ep-206/


Key time stamps: 

00:00 – Welcome! Why postpartum care is failing & what needs to change.
 04:02 – The postpartum care market shift—why big corporations are profiting while moms suffer.
 09:54 – Breaking down the 4 Stages of Postpartum Depletion and how to prevent them.
 16:12 – Why salads & smoothies are some of the worst foods for postpartum healing.
 21:24 – The undeniable link between nutrition and maternal mental health.
 26:06 – Why community care starts with food—how other cultures got it right.
29:58 – The silent epidemic of postpartum depression—why we need to act NOW.
35:48 – How postpartum nutrition is transforming client outcomes and growing provider businesses.



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Speaker 1:

The postpartum care system is failing, leaving countless mothers struggling with depression, anxiety and autoimmune conditions. I'm Miranda Bauer and I've helped thousands of providers use holistic care practices to heal their clients at the root. Subscribe now and join us in addressing what modern medicine overlooks, so that you can give your clients real, lasting solutions for lifelong wellbeing. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm going to tell you that we just had one of the most amazing masterclasses ever, and today I'm going to give you a snippet of that masterclass. We do this twice every single year, and every single year it gets bigger and bigger, and we had hundreds of people on this call. We had hundreds of people all around the world being represented by different locations and also just different backgrounds and information. We have doulas and nutritionists and IV CLCs and it was just like it was such a whirlwind of people and experiences and backgrounds and places around the world and we were diving in and it was so absolutely epic and amazing. It always is, and if you weren't there, you are definitely missing out.

Speaker 1:

I'm gonna tell you this huge masterclass is part of the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Program launch. We are launching another cohort. We're in the middle of it right now and, honestly, I'm recording this information, but I don't know if there's any seats left. So if you're somebody who wants in, I cannot tell you whether or not it is. Right now we only have a couple of seats left, but I'm guessing by the time that you listen to this it'll be full. If you actually do get a seat by listening into this, I will be very, very surprised. You'll be like the luckiest person alive. We launched the program to our wait list very early on, right before the masterclass, and we were 90% full. It was insane and of course, I had to open up a couple of more seats and then most of those have been taken already. So anyway, I'm just sharing that with you to be like holy cow. This has been such an amazing whirlwind for me and for the industry and for the places that we are going and moving.

Speaker 1:

The postpartum world is changing. It's changing dramatically, it's changing fast. I shared recently on social media that if you're not talking about postpartum nutrition with your postpartum clients, you are going to be missing out. It's going to become, you're going to become old news and I don't want that. For anyone who is here, who's passionate, who's supporting people who are in this perinatal phase, like nutrition is such a foundational piece and so many people are talking about it, so I'm giving you a snippet of exactly that I'm going to share with you the market changes, some things that are going on, as well as a few of the things that I taught in the masterclass regarding the four stages of postpartum depletion. So take a listen and tune in, and if you are wanting to get into the postpartum nutrition certification, godspeed. I hope you already have a seat. And if you are wanting to get into the postpartum nutrition certification, godspeed. I hope you already have a seat. And if you don't, you can try and click on the links here. We will provide them here, and if it's not, you'll just get redirected somewhere else. So best wishes, godspeed, and come on over to the masterclass.

Speaker 1:

I'm gonna tell you what you already know. Bear with me really quickly. This is the biggest slide, but it's so pertinent to the rest of everything that I'm going to share. Okay, so, frankly, you're here because you get it. You know postpartum care is failing. You know perinatal mental health concerns are skyrocketing. You know providers receive little to no training right, and you know food matters. Okay, hands, hands down. You know all of those pieces. If you've got that down. Give me, give me a two, a two. In the comments here You're like yep, got it. Lots and lots of twos. Okay, that's beautiful. Okay, I'm going to tell you what you may not know.

Speaker 1:

There's an evolving market here. Women are the target of loss, especially in recessions and after birth, this market is skyrocketing. So women are again. There was the pandemic. We've got lots of things. We're the target of loss, right, we're having to go back to taking care of our children. There's a lot of things that are happening in this market and women are demanding better care. They're saying what has happened in the last several years is not something that I'm ever going to stand for again. Right, and I bet you can feel that this is not happening anymore. And so when we have this demand for better care and I'm going to show you a few more things to back this up but what we have is a changing market, and I briefly mentioned this in the very beginning and when we have a changing market, what we have is this brief catapulting opportunity for your personal success in the work that you're doing and an ability to impact the world in a way that you have not done so, because women are saying this is not okay and I have to do something different. This is a billion dollar market.

Speaker 1:

Postpartum care has become a market. This has never, ever happened, right? Women are saying this is not okay, this is dangerous. I don't wanna give birth anymore, I'm dreading motherhood and if I'm going to do this, things have got to shift. Things have got to change right. So they're demanding more, and the thing is is that they're demanding better, more holistic care. That is not part of the system that we've already seen. So what does that mean? They're asking for herbs and they're asking for nutrition in a huge way, so much so that now we have a market, a multi-billion dollar market, of postpartum supplements. I want you to understand we have a market that is supplementation, right? Supplements are a market. Now we have a sub market of that. This has never happened before in the history of postpartum, in the history of care. We literally have an afterbirth care service market. We have a postpartum market, okay, and that means that there is people who are benefiting from this. There's massive companies, and I'm not okay with this. This is why I'm telling you this, right, because those massive companies that are often led by those men who are making billions of dollars off of women and what they are seeking. They know that this is what women want, and so they're going to give it to them in a way that's going to make them big money and that's going to shift the market in a way that we don't want.

Speaker 1:

I'm curious how many of you have your clients asking you specifically about nutrition? Asking you specifically about nutrition? Drop me a three in the comments. Each one Yep, all of it. Yes, look at all of that. So we know this is it Okay?

Speaker 1:

And then what we have couples with recent political events, especially here in the United States. We have women saying, nope, we demand more and it's not going to be part of the system that's already failed us. We want something different, so much so that there's now markets for it because women are demanding so much change, right. Then we have the political sphere saying, yep, we're changing. The landscape of care is changing. We're changing, the landscape of care is changing, and so what we have now is a recipe for a very powerful movement that will change the entire landscape of postpartum care, and we need providers and advocates like you to make this happen, to help lead it in the right direction. I shared this. I shared it on social media the other day.

Speaker 1:

If you're not talking to your clients about postpartum nutrition right now, you are already behind. You have to be talking about this because we do not want these powerful companies to come in, swoop down, tell women that supplements and all of this is enough and that's all they need, and continue making money and shaping the way women experience postpartum. They do not deserve to be a part of this market. So we have to come in and say something different. We have to tell the truth here. Are you guys feeling that? I really want to draw home that this is incredibly important and so all of this is about to shift immensely, and I wanna share that with you as we dive into what you're gonna learn here today. So keep this in mind as we move forward, okay, okay, all right, here we go.

Speaker 1:

Today, you are going to learn about three major gaps. We're going to talk about postpartum depletion how to identify depletion, the health decline, the predictable pattern. Okay, we're also going to get into the missing link between postpartum hormones, mental health, nutrient absorption. To get into the missing link between postpartum hormones, mental health, nutrient absorption the standard postpartum nutrition advice that is not working, and we're also going to get into a research-backed approach to healing that you can implement with your clients. Right now, I want you to be able to walk away with some tools that are going to help you immediately, and then I want you to stick around at the end, because I'm going to give you exclusive access to the postpartum recovery assessment tool. This is a game-changing resource. It's designed to help you advance your the way you provide care, okay, to help you identify nutrient deficiencies, hormone imbalance, nervous system dysregulation, nutrient deficiencies, hormone imbalance, nervous system dysregulation. All of that because you need more than just a symptom-based care. We know that that's not enough. I want you to have a research-backed system to guide you deeper. I want your clients to have real answers. I want you to have a framework so that you can confidently assess and address postpartum recovery. This is something that I generally only give to those who are certified, and so I'm going to give you a copy of this. So please, stick around to the very, very end, and we're going to dive deeper into it.

Speaker 1:

Okay, who is ready? We are going to get into this. Let's go, let's go. I'm so excited. Here's the thing. I'm just like you. I've spent 15 years in the field. I have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in education, certifications, trainings, experiences, blah, blah, blah. Okay, all the things and what I am teaching you here is basically everything and I'm putting it together in this space.

Speaker 1:

Okay, we all know the body changes after birth, okay, but no one is teaching us how these are impacting a postpartum mother and, more importantly, what we can do about it so that we can optimize healing in the years after having a baby. We know that there is some big biological changes that happen to the nervous system, okay, and that all of them are all connected. I'm going to tell you that there are more studies done on postpartum cows than there are on humans. When you think about that for a second, more studies done on postpartum cows than there are on humans. And just going to leave that with you. Take it for what it is, okay. So we know the gut is linked to mental and physical health. There's some big changes that are happening to our nervous system, and when our nervous system is in a state of fluctuation, that's what happens immediately after birth. We know fight or flight is happening within our bodies, okay, and when you are in a state of fight or flight. That means you can't be in a state of rest and digest. This is basic biology, these are normal biological changes and so when we don't have that rest and digest, then what we have is a recipe for I'm not going to digest my foods very well. Okay, we're not in that place. We're in a state of heightened nervous system function that we need in order to make sure our baby stays alive and to stop bleeding and make sure that the hormonal changes are there for our body. And we'll get into a little bit more. But I want to say really and I draw into this how little that we are actually trained in this piece, which I think oops, sorry is such a huge component, and I want to draw this point with the story.

Speaker 1:

I years ago, was with a group of colleagues. It was at a midwifery conference, like years and years ago, and I was presenting at this midwifery conference and I asked the question about how the physiological changes that are occurring in the weeks after birth, how they affect mom, like what are these physiological changes? And then, you know, there there was some standard talk like the uterus and the pelvis and the emotions, and all of those were really important. But then I started asking well, what about the nervous system and what about the detoxification systems? What about the gut? What about the brain? How are they interrelated? And it was very interesting, because all of these highly trained individuals who are like, shaking their head, like wait a second, why, why we? Yeah, we, I mean we know these pieces, right, like all of you know these things within the body, right, most of us are trained on those, but most of us are not taught about how these are shifting and changing in the postpartum period, right? And then how are they all connected to one another? Right? This is not something that we're trained on. So here's what you first need to know.

Speaker 1:

In the four stages of postpartum depletion, we have the first biologically normal change that's occurring. Okay, these changes cannot you cannot change this change. This change is going to happen. The physiological changes that take place in the body after birth are biologically normal and they can only be supported. Okay, this is the first step and it requires a massive amount of support. So let's talk about the next step, the postpartum gut transformation.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so when the nervous system shifts, it changes the biology of the gut. So I'm going to focus on the gut for today and my certification program. We dive into detoxification and thyroid and gallbladder and mental health and all of that, but we only have 60 minutes today, so for the sake of time, let's just focus on the gut. And I know that so many cultures around the world already know this. I just want to throw that in there. Right Terms, like you know digestive fire and warmth, chinese medicine, ayurvedic practices. It's just. Science has failed postpartum women so much and they have not really provided the right data in this specific field. Actually, we have a ton of information and data, but nobody talks about it in relationship to the postpartum body.

Speaker 1:

Okay, we know digestive juices, gastric acids, enzymes all of that become a deficiency in the postpartum body and the immediate postpartum body, and so that that in itself makes it really difficult for the body to digest foods. Right, and it's not just about digesting foods, it's also about absorbing the key nutrients. Okay, so there's two key factors here that most people miss one. Oftentimes we're really focused on things like let's just get you the most nutrients possible, which is why oftentimes we are told to recommend salads and smoothies, right, but I'm telling you those are some of the worst foods to consume. Because step number two is also about absorption. Okay, and salads and smoothies, yes, high in nutrient value, but very difficult for a body to absorb, those digestive juices and gastric acids and all of the things that break down that food, so that that mom can actually absorb those nutrients and use them for her body is not going to happen, okay, it doesn't happen at all. And so what we have oftentimes is that food sits in the gut longer and she experiences gas, bloating, right. This is how a leaky gut ends up happening.

Speaker 1:

Okay, digestive issues and oftentimes. How many times have we called those normal? Oh, it's just your hormones changing and we're going to blame all of that and relaxin and estrogen leaving you know all of those things on the fact that you're gassy and you're bloated and you're having a hard time with your nourishment. And I can't tell you how many times moms come to me and say, no, I had the right postpartum meals and and I'm going to show you what that means here a little bit later but the foods that were high in nutrient value and that were easy to digest and absorb and I didn't have any of those symptoms.

Speaker 1:

First we have the physiological changes, biologically normal, but when it's not supported, we enter into a state of nutrient depletion. Nutrient depletion and when a mother lacks nutrients and postpartum it impacts her breast milk, her overall healing time, her hormone imbalance, her exhaustion levels, immune response right, there's toxic buildup. That happens because in the pregnancy right, your body is not going to detoxify as it did in order to protect that baby. If your, if your detoxification pathways were open as it is normally without a pregnancy, then you risk losing your baby. Right, your body might think that your baby is toxic and needs to be expelled. This is why a lot of people with immune issues have trouble getting pregnant, one of the many reasons. Right, it's very nuanced, but our bodies and our immune function goes down a little bit, which impact our detoxification pathways, and so what happens in postpartum is that those detoxification pathways open up massively and then it goes into a purge. Right, it's dumping all of those pregnancy hormones. Right, and it's dumping all of those toxic buildups from our our liver, from our intestines, everything that it wasn't able to do, that's kind of stored in the cellular structures of our bodies. Right, because that's what happens Our body will wrap that up in our cells and hold on tight until it's able to disperse of it appropriately.

Speaker 1:

I'm getting a little off topic, I apologize. I love to talk, I love to teach all of these things, but when we have a body that is not getting the right nutrients, our liver cannot function properly, our detoxification pathways cannot open right, our hormones cannot function well without nutrients. Your body is in a or mom's body is in a state of hormone fluctuation Again a normal biological thing. That's going to happen for everyone. It's not in a state of imbalance. What happens is is when that that normal hormonal fluctuation is not supported with key nutrients nutrients required to actually create nutrients or create hormones and actually eliminate hormones that are not needed, then we have a state of imbalance. That's what happens. That is what is occurring here, and so we have to focus on nutrition. Nutrition is the foundation to hormone health, it's the foundation of detoxification, it's the foundation of immune system. Breast milk, all of the things, right, all of the things.

Speaker 1:

And I want you to get a little bit deeper here, because how you nourish your body also speaks about the quality of your life. How many times I've seen this and maybe you've seen this too where you witness stories of illnesses and mothers and thinking. For example, this is me. I grew up with a mom who was very sick. She was always sick like, always had the flu, always had some stomach bug, always had some issue. And when I became a mother, I believed that being a mom meant I was, I had to be sick, I had to be ill all the time, and that affected my food choices. Hey, I know you are crazy busy, but if you just have a second, could you simply hit subscribe and leave a review for us? I'd be so grateful.

Speaker 1:

I can't tell you how many times clients come to me and say I am now focusing on nourishment and we're diving into how to take care of my body and I realized that I don't want to eat well, because if I ate well, then I would become healthy and then my husband would no longer give me the attention and support that I needed and I'm afraid, or that they would come to me and say, oh, I'm sorry, I can't be here, I can't do this thing anymore, because if I get skinny then I'm more likely to get raped again. Right? And so there's this connection we have to food and how we nourish our body. That goes so beyond just food, and I want you to connect in with that. I want you to understand that what we're talking about during such a sacred time is so phenomenally deep. Okay, and I know you know this right you are here because it's time for a deeper, more effective approach and something that makes it more powerful what you're already doing and meeting the urgent needs of your clients, and so these are the tools that I'm giving you to help revolutionize postpartum care in a way that no other training has.

Speaker 1:

If you're following along with me, let me know in the comments here. Drop me what number are we at? Four, drop me a four if you're like yes, got it Beautiful. Look at all that. It makes sense. I just want to make sure that this is all making sense here. So here's we have stage three. We have dysregulation of vitals.

Speaker 1:

Okay, what is generally considered to be common in the years after birth is not supposed to be normalized. I'm telling you these things that we see. Look at all of these things exhaustion, major hair loss, thyroid disorder, depression, anxiety, fatigue, autoimmune disease. Did you know that women are at a 30% increased risk of developing an autoimmune disease in the first year after having a baby? Percent increased risk of developing an autoimmune disease in the first year after having a baby.

Speaker 1:

Why is no one talking about that? Right? And we look at all of these things. Every single one of these things are linked to nutrient having enough nutrients. Right, food and nourishment is so insanely deep in postpartum. Right, this is going to the root of so many things that women experience and so many things that we have normalized in postpartum, and this is exactly why cultures around the world use normalized in postpartum and this is exactly why cultures around the world use food in postpartum. For these very reasons. And in the modern world we've forgotten about all of this. We've become so disconnected from food. Right, food is the source of nourishment, it's the source of love. It's how we care for people. Right, we talk about community care and postpartum all the time. We've forgotten that community care and postpartum started with food. That was how people connected within a community. Right, you go eat with your friends. You go make someone a meal, you deliver that meal, you eat with them. That is community. Someone a meal you deliver that meal, you eat with them. That is community right, and traditions and cultures around the world. That is how women got the community care. Actually, that would be beyond women, right, that is just how people got community care. Okay.

Speaker 1:

I want to ask in the comments here do you see the direct link to postpartum mental health and healing and nutrition? Do you see how all of this is all interconnected? A hundred percent. Look at all of that. Beautiful, totally. Yes, oh my gosh, I love these. A hundred percents Beautiful, okay.

Speaker 1:

So what we have here in the fourth stage is long-term health implications. Right, we have a clear scientific link between the significance of nutrition and mental health. Postpartum depression and anxiety is a biologically normal response that develops from lack of proper nutrient support and care. Depression and anxiety has been labeled a precursor to disease, including autoimmune and gut health. I want you to take that in for a second. We can actually predict when someone is going to get depression or anxiety based on their inflammation levels and biomarkers in their body, on their inflammation levels and biomarkers in their body, and those inflammatory markers are connected to lack of nutrients.

Speaker 1:

Yes, all the things right, it's all interconnected, okay, and so I'm going to connect all of these pieces together. You're right, it's not the only thing. There's so many other components. We've got to make sure that moms are getting sleep. We're nervous system reset right, making sure that they're living cyclically within their cycles as women because it's not the go, go go male masculine world and I won't get into it and we want to make sure that they have whole body support, practical support, hands on support, you know, massage, and making sure that they also have somebody to talk to and making sure that they have somebody to help take care of their older kids. We know all of these are so interconnected. Right, all of these are very important. But here's the thing If a mom is not getting the nutrients that she needs, if a mom is not getting the nutrients that she needs, she is not going to be able to sleep as well as she would otherwise.

Speaker 1:

Right, because her nutrients affect hormones and hormones affect sleep and affect sleep cycles. So she's not going to be able to fall asleep as fast as her body is supposed to, right? And her nervous system cannot be in a state of balance because she is not going to be. If the nutrients required for hormonal regulation and nervous system regulation are not there, she can do all the nervous system reset work and there's still going to be issues. It's not going to get deeper, right? She can have all of the community care, all of the therapy how many of you know and have seen this Mom's going to go get therapy, counseling, join community groups, and it works, it's helpful. I'm not saying it's not, but it only goes so far. And you have mom saying but there's more. I'm still not there yet. It's still not feeling well. Right, we can go get all of the support that we need, but if we don't have nutrition as the foundation, these things are only gonna go so far, right. So if we can do all of the things, we can make sure our clients get better sleep. Game changer right, we can make sure their nervous system is functioning well. Game changer, we can make sure that their whole body support they're getting the support that they need. Right, all of that perfect, beautiful, but it will never be enough if depletion is there. If they are depleted of key nutrients, all of those things will only get so far. And so this is what I want to share with you Maternal mental health right now is a silent epidemic.

Speaker 1:

Right, I was a doula for many years and I remember, you know, at the end of your contract. Right, you're sitting with your client, you're asking them questions, making sure that they have everything they need, and I remember sitting with moms all the time and I would ask them and I would say, okay, how are you doing? Like, how you know it's the end of our session, like how are things going? And she'd be like, oh, I'm great. And I would remember thinking to myself yeah, but are you really like? Are you really like? How often do we ask that Like, are you really okay? And in my head I would leave these sessions thinking, but are they really like? I don't really know, because they're not sharing, they're not divulging, they're they're not like. Yeah, I'm okay, I'm great. And I remember doing the exact same thing.

Speaker 1:

I was so scared to talk about my postpartum depression, my anxiety, right when I got postpartum bipolar. I will tell you, that was the only time where I was so freaking afraid of what was happening in my body that I had to tell somebody, like I had to tell my provider like this is happening to me and I'm freaked out, like this is awful, right, but how many women are on the cusp of that, but not quite there yet and don't say anything, right. And so we need to be able, as providers, to see where they are in this stage and and make sure that we support them in all of these places so that they don't get there, so that we don't wonder if they're silently struggling. Right, because we don't want to walk away from our clients and our clients leaving us and we're thinking was that really enough? Did I do it? You're here because you know that what we're providing without nutrition is not enough and that there is an effective approach. Right, nutrition is the answer and we have to act fast on this.

Speaker 1:

Okay, we have some big lies in our medical world, right, we operate in a vacuum we don't talk about. We compartmentalize our body, right, like, oh, you need to go see a mental health therapist for this. Right, like, mental health is over here. Your pelvic floor physical therapist is over here. Right, and we've compartmentalized all of these pieces. Right, and not a single one of them are trained in postpartum nutrition or even general nutrition, unless you're a nutritionist, right, and so we have substantial evidence that links nutrition between physical, emotional and hormonal recovery, where I was even talking with um, a pelvic floor physical therapist, about how nutrition depletion affects pelvic floor care, right, and how it's absolutely.

Speaker 1:

I don't even want to go into stories because I will dive off and we're already so far in. I'm already a little behind here because I'm telling you all the things, but really I want to share with you that we can't stand around waiting for the system to change for the better. It's changing right now. The market is right here. It's massive and we have to take charge because we know that these corporations, these people, are going to destroy the sacredness and the truth and the understanding about postpartum nourishment and the postpartum body right and healing our women and our families, and we have to take back control. We, we know, we have the knowledge right, we have the training, we have the background, we are in it, we are doing this work and now we have to implement this other way. And now that you know it, it becomes it becomes unethical not to tell clients about it.

Speaker 1:

Okay, truly, and I want you to look at some of the other people who are doing this, who are saying this is massively supporting my clients, this is growing my practice, it's building my wait list, it's being the true postpartum experts in the field and developing a legacy, because women are feeling the difference. These are everyday people. This is you, this is me, this is us together. Okay, and this is exactly what happened to me. I was supporting moms. I was a doula, I had a coaching practice and I was working with moms all the time, giving them what they need, and I I'm not a person who loves to cook I'm not in the kitchen cooking for people but I love educating, and so this is what I did.

Speaker 1:

I created the postpartum nutrition plan. Many of you might know this already, right? How many of you know the postpartum nutrition plan? Are you familiar with that? You can drop that in the comments. And it took nine months to create that right. And I worked with providers all over to really revolutionize and make sure that that was tweaked Right and it was put together. Look at all those yeses, thank you.

Speaker 1:

And and we had, we had so much happening with that and I started sharing that with with moms and they were getting off medications, they were losing weight, they were making progress on trauma that they haven't been able to move in therapy for years just because of postpartum nutrition, and I was telling them like the here's, here's the plan, here's what we're going to do, and they were like, yes, yes, yes. And these were happening. And then they were telling their providers. That's why I'm here today is because they were telling their providers and their providers were calling me and saying wait a second. I've been working with this client for years. I've been doing this thing. Why? How are you doing this? What is happening here? They've never seen anything like it, right.

Speaker 1:

They were asking for copies of my book. They were asking me to teach them, and after a few years, that's exactly what I did. I opened up the postpartum nutrition certification program and now I've taught hundreds and hundreds of providers and educators and advocates, and over 55 countries. It's truly mind blowing. But that didn't happen just because I did it, because that's what was asked of me, because I was implementing postpartum nutrition, and this is what happened, because it's so incredibly powerful. Thanks so much for being a part of this crucial conversation. I know you're dedicated to advancing postpartum care and if you're ready to dig deeper, come join us on our newsletter, where I share exclusive insights, resources and the latest tools to help you make a lasting impact on postpartum health. Sign up at postpartumu the letter ucom, which is in the show notes, and if you found today's episode valuable, please leave a review to help us reach more providers like you. Together, we're building a future where mothers are fully supported and thriving you.

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