Rooted Family Podcast

Hours of crying, an uncomfortable baby, with no real explanation. Stephanie was told what so many parents are told: he's just colicky, he'll grow out of it. She didn't accept it. In this episode, she shares her journey in getting to the bottom of it and why she believes "colicky baby" is usually a clue, not an answer. If you've got a baby who cries and a gut feeling t...

If you've been told your baby has colic or torticollis, you've probably also been told to "go see someone," with no real idea what that visit involves. In this episode, registered massage therapist and infant bodyworker, Kelly Gibbons, clears it up. She explains why "colic" is usually a catch-all for a baby trying to tell you something, the difference between true tor...

"You're cleared at six weeks." It's one of the most common things postpartum moms hear, and according to Slesha Shah, our pelvic floor physiotherapist at Rooted Family Wellness Centre, it's also one of the most misleading. Six weeks is not the all-clear most moms think it is. In this episode, Slesha walks Erin and Christine through what your pelvic floor actually is, why s...

Most birthing people have one six-week postpartum appointment focused on contraception and whether they want another baby. No one screens their mental health. No one asks how they're feeding. No one checks on them at all. In this episode, Ontario midwife Ola Levitin (15 years in practice) talks about the postpartum care gap that midwifery is designed to fill, the three care provider options m...

Most birth plans don't happen the way they're written. In our first episode, Camille, host of The Kind of Bold podcast and one of Erin's first doula clients, shares her unplanned C-section, including the moment in the OR when she had to choose between holding her son or seeing him, and the postpartum anxiety she lived with for years before it had a name. We talk about matrescence, t...