Postpartum Talks

In this episode, Rotem talks with Alyson, a birth and postpartum doula and lactation counselor who became a new mom during COVID. Alyson takes us back to her pregnancy during lockdown, when she planned a home birth that turned into an exhausting hospital transfer by fire truck, and how she came home to a house that didn't feel like hers. They talk about the "sundown scaries", that wa...

In this episode, Rotem talks with Shosh, a Stanford economics professor and mom of two, about how different her two postpartum experiences were. Shosh takes us back to that unforgettable third day with her first baby, when he wouldn’t stop crying, and she had no idea what was wrong. They talk about breastfeeding, pumping, sleep, carriers, and the moment Shosh realized she didn’t have to figure eve...

In this episode, Rotem sits down with Leti, an Italian mom living in the US with her husband and three kids. Leti shares her honest journey through two very different births, the overwhelming love and reality of early postpartum, contact naps, baby wearing, harvesting colostrum, breastfeeding twins, and navigating safe sleep with an intense fear of SIDS. She also opens up about social media's...

In this episode, I sit down with Carolina, who gave birth thousands of miles away from her family in Chile. She shares the stark contrast between her birth experience, long, unexpected, but deeply supported, and her postpartum journey, which she vulnerably describes as horrendous . From breastfeeding struggles in the very first days to the emotional rollercoaster of postpartum hormones and the wei...