HeyJaredThe Postpartum Years
Hosted by Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp, The Postpartum Years is a podcast exploring the physical and emotional realities that come after birth—those days, weeks, months and years when women’s bodies, hormones, and identities are transforming.
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Learning to Be a Mother Alone at 20, and What She Would Tell Every New Mom Now (opens the original)
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Julia was 20 years old when she had twins, alone in her recovery while her husband worked and her mother was still in another country. She figured out postpartum the hard way, by herself. It wasn't until her babies were nearly a year old that anyone named what she had been going through. In this episode, she walks through four pregnancies and two very different postpartum experiences, and makes a case for the one thing that actually changed her outcomes: the village. Disclaimer:The thoughts and
Intense, Guilty, and Not in Your Head: Jennifer Steiger on Postpartum Rage (opens the original)
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Postpartum rage isn't in the DSM, doesn't have a clean clinical definition, and almost nobody talks about it - which is exactly why Jennifer Steiger wanted to. In this episode, she joins Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp to define what postpartum rage looks like, why it happens, what contributes to it, and what actually helps. She also makes the case for why women specifically are least likely to name it: because we are taught from the start that anger is not ours to have. Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinio
The Trauma Doesn't Disappear When the Baby Arrives: Jennifer Steiger on Fertility and Postpartum (opens the original)
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Jennifer Steiger is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in perinatal and postpartum mental health. In this episode, she and Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp dig into the part of the fertility conversation that often gets skipped: what happens after the baby comes. The anxiety, the trauma that didn't disappear, the pressure to feel grateful at all times, and why telling someone who struggled to conceive that it all worked out misses the point entirely. Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions express
A Miscarriage, a Popeyes Parking Lot, and Six Units of Blood: Bev (Part 2) (opens the original)
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After a pregnancy loss and a new marriage, Bev's third pregnancy ended at 38 weeks in a Popeyes drive-through. Her third birth went fast and smoothly. Two days postpartum, she hemorrhaged. After six units of blood, a bag of platelets, emergency surgery for a cervical tear, and a Covid-era delay her OB refused to allow, Bev woke up in the ICU thinking about how women used to die from exactly this. Part 2 closes with Bev learning, for the first time in this conversation, that the symptoms she has
From Hemorrhage to Quarantine: Bev's First Two Birth Stories (Part 1) (opens the original)
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Bev's first birth ended in a postpartum hemorrhage she didn't know was happening, and her first postpartum period ended with a hospitalization and quarantine that forced her to stop breastfeeding after weeks of hard work. Her second birth was an accidental unmedicated delivery she wasn't planning, followed by a postpartum period complicated by a struggling marriage and a mental health journey she worked through in therapy. Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong so
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