Welcome to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology, to re-educate your brain and help you live your best-to-love life.

And I'm your host, Ford Certified Female Urologist, Dr. Casperson.

Thank you. board certified female urologist, Dr. Casperson. Good morning, everybody.

I'm so excited to be here today with Dr. Sonal Patel.

She's a pediatrician, mom of four, and an entrepreneur.

She lives in Denver, Colorado, and she started a company called NIACare, which is created to support

moms and families entering life's new chapter. She's a board certified pediatrician and neonatologist,

and I just love, love women physicians who own companies. It's like my total jam. So welcome today.

I'm so excited to have you. Oh, thank you so much. And I've been totally stocking

on your podcast. So amazing educational work. So thank you so much for having me. Oh, thank you.

Absolutely. So tell me why you started Nyacare. I think it always goes back to what you feel is missing

in your life and how you can improve it. Everything that when it comes from that position, it elevates your mission.

So I have four beautiful boys, but each of my four postpartum journeys were from pleasant

to like, oh my God, why am I doing this again?

And I just realized there was so much more in

my own space in postpartum care that I was not educated upon. For example, I think the morbidities

of having a baby and the consequences of that, pelvic physical therapy, the importance of that,

that knowledge was not presented to me.

And now, as an aftermath, I'm dealing with all of those things. So going back to the real impetus

and the push became with my fourth. And through my fourth, I had suffered a preeclampsia.

And this baby came earlier. So culturally speaking, in our culture and my mom's

OB, it just anticipated that the maternal side will come and help you or you go to the

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