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Welcome to the mom room podcast podcast. My name is Renee Rina and I am the mom friend you have always wanted.

After having my son in 2018, I was so surprised at all the

things I was experiencing, whether it was the physical recovery of childbirth, the postpartum anxiety,

not wanting visitors to come over after we got home from the hospital. And I wondered to

myself, is anybody else going through this?

Am I the only one that feels this way? I literally found myself thinking about everyone I knew

that had a baby and wondering if they had gone through these things that I was experiencing.

When I had my son, I was almost done my PhD in psychology, but I still decided to take the

full 12-month maternity leave

and only focus on him for those 12 months. Well, once those 12 months were up, I finished my PhD, but I also

started a blog where I wrote about all these things that I was experiencing in postpartum. I started an Instagram account at the dot mom.

So I would post about the blogs and these topics on Instagram and the response was overwhelming.

I most definitely was not the only one that did not want visitors after coming home from the hospital.

But what I was finding was that so many people had these

feelings but kept them to themselves and felt guilty for saying no to visitors. So many other moms

experienced postpartum anxiety but had never really heard about it before giving birth. So it was

extremely unexpected, just like it was for me. I wrote a blog about

pelvic floor physiotherapy and how it should be a standard care practice for women who are

pregnant and have given birth. I wrote about screen time. I dove into the research, shared what I found,

because I was tired of feeling guilty for having a screen on in the house.

I continued to write the blogs and post on Instagram as I finished my PhD and then days before

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