Navigating Postpartum: Identity & Mental Health

Mama Knows

Cloud10

Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this conversation, Nina and Caitlin Schollmeier discuss the complexities of the postpartum period, focusing on the challenges of identity shifts, mental health awareness, and the importance of building support systems for new mothers. Caitlin shares her experiences as a nurse midwife and offers practical advice for navigating the transition into motherhood, emphasizing the need for self-care and community support. 00:00: Introduction to Postpartum Challenges 05:00: Navigating Identity Shifts in Motherhood 14:02: Mental Health Awareness in Postpartum 21:00: Building Support Systems and Resources 25:03: Practical Tips for New Mothers Caitlyn Schollmeier is a registered labor & delivery nurse, childbirth educator and certified birth doula with more than a decade of experience in maternal care. She is devoted to the health and wellbeing of parents and their babies, having served more than 500 families over the past 10 years, with deep expertise in early childhood development, pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum and women’s health. Caitlyn earned a B.A. in Human Development and pursued three years of graduate-level midwifery study, yet considers herself a lifelong student and advocate of pregnancy support and child development. You can find her on TikTok: themodernmidwife Episode Sponsor Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeodorant and get 15% off with promo code MAMAKNOWS at Lumedeodorant.com! #lumepod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.9	icky throats today. So apologize in advance if we sound rough on the mics today. But I have
1:18.7	Caitlin here today with me. She's a nurse midwife, right? Nurse midwife. And I love having
1:24.2	fellow nurses here, even though I'm an ER nurse and I know nothing about women's
1:29.4	body parts, mostly, because I work at the VA with mostly men. So I'm excited to chat with you today,
1:35.2	but today we're going to talk about postpartum and like navigating that postpartum period of like
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