Beyond the 6-Week Check: The Evolution of Postpartum Care

The importance of postpartum care is no longer just an afterthought – and this conversation shows exactly why that matters for your practice. Today, Lynn Schulte is joined by Rachelle Seliga, a Midwife, Educator and the creator of INNATE Postpartum Care. Together, they unpack the dramatic shifts that have occurred in postpartum care over the past decade, the direction this field is going next, and what we can do as practitioners to keep up with the changing tides.

You’ll hear how pelvic health directly impacts mental health, why more moms are seeking care even when they don’t have symptoms, and what it really takes to close the gaps still leaving many women underserved.

From unexpected innovations to powerful collaborations across disciplines, this episode will expand what you believe is possible – and your role in it.

✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners:

• Where the gaps in postpartum care still remain.
• The connection between pelvic health and mental health.
• Your role and steps for supporting the full spectrum of postpartum needs.
• Innovation and diversity that is leading the shift beyond traditional postpartum care.
• The keys to thriving as a practitioner in today’s evolving healthcare landscape.

If you want to stay relevant and deliver deeper, more impactful outcomes then this is an episode you do not want to miss.

Have a comment or question about today’s episode? Message Lynn on Instagram or Facebook, or Email Lynn.

To learn more visit: InstituteforBirthHealing.com

About Today’s Speaker

Rachelle Seliga, CPM and Educator

Rachelle Seliga is a mother, midwife, and educator who is dedicated to midwifing a cultural shift through her teachings, trainings, and hands-on experiences. 

She is the creator and director of INNATE Postpartum Care, a globally recognized certification program that has trained thousands of practitioners who now support families around the world.

Her work is rooted in the belief that our physiologic design IS our divine design, which IS our "blueprint," which ARE our "original instructions" as humankind. These different ways to say the SAME thing acknowledge that there is an order, a structure, a map to LIFE that supersedes human will; it is Nature's Design. Through her teachings, Rachelle brings traditional knowledge to modern care practices, offering a deeply integrative approach to postpartum care.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of her INNATE Postpartum Care Training. It is the last year she will be teaching it as she has been, so if you are interested in joining – this is a great year to do so. As a member of the IBH Community, she is extending early-bird pricing to us even past the deadline of May 5th. For 11% off the full-price tuition, use coupon code: BIRTHHEALING

To register and for more information on INNATE Postpartum Care Training: https://www.innatetraditions.com/innate-postpartum-care-certification-training

Rachelle’s website: https://www.innatetraditions.com/

Visit Institute for Birth Healing to learn more about how to care for the pregnant and postpartum body: CLICK HERE

Transcript

Welcome to this episode. And today we are honored to have with us Rachelle Seliga, who is the founder of Innate Postpartum Traditions.

And Rachelle and I have been in communication several for almost 10 years. Hasn't it been, Rachelle? Like you were on one of my first early birth healing summits.

@8:45 - Rachelle Seliga

Yeah, I think it was the second one. My second one.

@8:48 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

So that was like 2018. So almost eight years ago that we have been in supporting one another in the work that we do.

I know I've been a part of your program and teaching. Pelvic Health in your innate postpartum traditions program, and you've been in my summit a couple of times, and it's just been wonderful to have this collaboration because I feel like we're both doing really important work when it comes to postpartum healing for moms.

And so we decided to get together and talk about the shifts and the changes that we've seen over the last decade in postpartum healing.

So Rachelle, what are your thoughts? Welcome to the podcast.

@9:33 - Rachelle Seliga

Thanks for being here. Yeah, thank you for having me. I mean, I would love to just like put the container around it too, right?

That both of us are working with healthcare practitioners, right? And you as a women's health physical therapist, right? Me, my background of midwifery, and both of us, you know, tell me if I'm tracking it incorrectly, right?

But both of us solve gaps or solve space for evolution within our respective fields. Right. And that's the impetus behind both of our work.

Right. So we're doing different things, but it's also to evolve the work that's being done in support of women's health care and support of postpartum health care.

And I think that's really notable and important to name because, you know, what you and I were talking about before we started recording is that, yeah, there's so many horrible things happening on the planet right now.

And there's also so many beautiful things happening and really such a rise in consciousness. And the way that I track it is that what I witness happening now in terms of the care that women are receiving is drastically different than how it was 10 years ago.

And 10 years is not even that long. Right. I mean, 10 years is a decade. And but when I can look back and reflect, you know, when I first.

just. And. So I started teaching in a postpartum cares training, like it started as an idea, right? And I was like, oh, I want to share this thing.

And my friend was like, oh, why don't you put it on Facebook? And I think I had like just opened a Facebook account.

Okay.

@11:15 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

What year is this, Rochelle?

@11:18 - Rachelle Seliga

2015. 15.

@11:20 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Okay. So I founded the Institute for Birth Healing in 2016.

@11:23 - Rachelle Seliga

Totally. Yeah. And that was the first year that I taught, right? So we're both at a decade, right? Of that particular work.

And, you know, I put it out and I thought it will be this one day thing, right? And it, and I had never, it had never even occurred to me to teach or anything of that nature.

But my friend was like, I think that that would be a good thing. So I was like, okay. So I put it out there and I had like 30 women write to me immediately of like, oh my God, I'm so interested.

And I was like, great. Okay. Well, how do you do registrations?

@11:55 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Because it was like, I didn't know how to do anything, you know?

@11:58 - Rachelle Seliga

Right.

@11:58 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

And then that one day.

@12:00 - Rachelle Seliga

I had to postpone it because I was like, there's no way that I can teach this in one day.

And that one day thing, right, evolved into a four day training, which turned into a five day training and then a week long training.

And then I've been teaching it over nine months for the past years. Right. But the point is, is that at that time, if you would have talked to, you know,% of the population about postpartum care, they'd be like, what are you talking about?

@12:26 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Right. Yeah.

@12:27 - Rachelle Seliga

clearly there's still massive deficiencies in this arena. But if you mentioned postpartum care now to a woman in her twenties, they've heard of it.

Right. Yeah. And even if you go on social media, it's like, there's so much out there now that was not right.

@12:49 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

10 years ago.

@12:49 - Rachelle Seliga

I remember first seeing clients back in 2000, probably 12, 13, you know, somewhere in there and really looking online for.

@13:00 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Anything postpartum. And I think the only thing I found was Julie Tupler's diastasis recti rehab program. And that was it.

There was nothing back then. And so it is, it's been incredible to see the amount of information that is now being shared online and how we are supporting.

And I don't know, in my practice, I am seeing pregnant moms coming in just because I want to get checked to make sure I'm okay for labor.

And then moms coming in just to get checked postpartum because even though they don't have anything going on, typically we tend to see only people who have issues.

And, and so it is, I find it so rewarding when I get those moms that come in to go, I just want to make sure I'm okay and ready for exercise.

Like, Oh, gosh, I want to see the day where every postpartum woman gets that type of checkup, not just like you go to the OB for the six week, I would almost say I want to see pelvic health PTs, pelvic health PT and OTs, mom seeing them at three weeks postpartum, like, this is normal, everybody does that, and then you go see your OB at six weeks, you know, because that's where we can make the, and some would even say we need to, like, Rebecca Seagraves is doing such amazing work in getting PT and OT in the hospital, we now have, what was, is it 130, I think, I forget the exact number, but there's 130 hospitals that are now offering PT and OT rehab to moms in the hospital.

@14:48 - Rachelle Seliga

Yeah, see, like, this was not existing 10 years ago, right? Yes, yeah. And I, and I do feel right, like, so my program, it works with all different.

We of women's health care practitioners, right, so women who are doing hands-on care, but women who are mental health care practitioners, right, like the whole spectrum of what it means, and I feel like so much of what innate postpartum care has brought out into the world is that kind of understanding of, after birth, this is the kind of care that we need, so even the women who are mental health care practitioners in my training, they're not ever going to do hands-on hands-in care with women, but they have a baseline to understand, right, and part of, you know, like what I built into a certification process is like, even if you're not going to offer this care, you need to have a resource list for your clients, right, because, you know, at a time I was offering continuing education units for my training through NASW, which is like the biggest mental health care practitioner kind of organization in the state, and they had to look through all my curriculum.

Right. And verify things, and then I had to have a phone interview with them for them to ask me questions, and one of the, you know, one of the questions I was asked was they were looking through like the pelvic health module I have, and these are mental health care practitioner peoples, right, and the woman was like, you say, here's something about mental health being connected to pelvic health, and I don't, you know, I'd like you to explain that to me because she just didn't see how that could be.

True, you know, I told her really bluntly, I was like, look, if there's a mom who's peeing or pooping in her pants involuntarily, that is absolutely going to affect her mental health.

If there's a mom with a prolapse, that's absolutely going to affect her mental health, and no amount of talk therapy that she goes to with the world's best mental health care practitioner is going to resolve her prolapse or her fecal incontinence, right?

@16:57 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Right. And so we have have to be like creative.

@17:00 - Rachelle Seliga

We these bridges between healthcare professions, even if we're not going to be the ones to offer specific care, we know how to have these resource webs for women to receive the care that they need.

And I feel like that's so much of what innate training has brought forth is this kind of baseline education, right?

From community level to practitioner level, so that, you know, that understanding of, oh, okay, I, nothing feels wrong.

@17:30 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

And as part of like me taking care of my female body, I'm going to get support. Yeah. Yeah. And, and I love that the networking of the birth professionals, I, that's why I really enjoy working in this field is because knowing the doulas and the, and the lactation consultants and the, you know, um, both postpartum and birthing doulas that, and the midwives, like having that community of connection.

And I know I have you to refer if moms having lactation issues or sleep issues for the baby or like we have to have that network of referral sources for our clients.

@18:18 - Rachelle Seliga

It goes both ways, right?

@18:20 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

So yeah, I hope everybody listening in has their network of people that they can refer to for your moms.

That's like one of my standard questions, everyone coming in, how's sleep going? How's breastfeeding going? And how's your nutrition?

How, you know, along with all my pelvic health questions, but it's, it's checking in with all those areas for, to, to support moms and to have the people to refer them to, to give them that support is so necessary.

It takes a village, right?

@18:52 - Rachelle Seliga

Absolutely. Yeah.

@18:54 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

So, so tell us what are, now you've trained thousands of practitioners. Over the years, all over the world, what are some of the fun stories or things that you're hearing from your, your students?

Yeah.

@19:10 - Rachelle Seliga

Well, what comes up first, you know, is the different practitioners who have taken my training, Because I really designed it so that it could be for so many different kinds of practitioners, because I realized when I was creating it that this conundrum of maternal health dis-ease is so large that there was not like one thing that, that was going to fix it, right?

And that we needed really, I mean, all of humanity on deck, but like all women's healthcare practitioners on deck so that everyone could see, feel, you know, receive through their own embodiment of like, what can they bring forth to up a level, the kind of care that's being offered, right?

And so I just feel called to share these stories because this was beyond even what I envisioned, right? When I created.

But I've had a PT take my training who already was working with horses and PT for that kind of rehabilitation.

And then she brought in the maternal health piece. And so then she started working with moms, obviously not just like at six weeks postpartum, but like a few months down the road for core rehabilitation, but with the horses.

Yeah. And then one woman took my training and she was an architect, right? And like everyone's registering. So I read through everyone's registration form and I was like, why are you wanting to take, this is like a healthcare practitioner training.

And she was like, because architecture is so male dominated, right? And when we talk about wanting to create a different structure for society, we have to understand that like the very structure of society has been created through patriarchy.

Right. And, and I'm talking about like patriarchy in the sense of what is not inserted. Because people are going to go off on the healthy aspects of patriarchy.

That's not what I'm talking about, right? But it's like patriarchy solidified. And she's like, if we want to create mother-centered communities and world, then we have to create structures that are actually in support of that.

So she's like, I want to understand female physiology better so that I can create buildings that are actually mother-centered, that invite a structuring of society to be mother-centered.

@21:31 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Whoa, that is so cool. So cool, right?

@21:35 - Rachelle Seliga

So cool.

@21:36 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Yeah.

@21:37 - Rachelle Seliga

So those kinds of things for me are just like so deeply fulfilling because again, that was the whole purpose of why I created this, right?

Just so that it's like, I'm, I'm one channel, right? But like, so that this material can go through everyone's individual channels, you know, and then people can bring forth what they're most inspired by, right?

@21:58 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

So women.

@22:00 - Rachelle Seliga

Who have gone through my training, right? Have gone on to create like whole postpartum food businesses. Like actually right now where I live, there was a pregnant mother in my community.

And she asked me, she said, do you know anyone who'd be willing to come and stay in our like ADU unit after my baby's born to help take care of us for a month?

And she's like, really what we want help with is cooking. And so I was like, actually I do, you know?

And so a woman who's gone through my training is here right now, staying with this family and cooking all their meals for them for a month, right?

@22:34 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

So women are doing that.

@22:36 - Rachelle Seliga

Women are doing in-home postpartum care. Women have brought this work into their mental health practitioner practices and have created ways to offer group therapy.

Like they've cracked the code, right? To figure out like, how can they turn this into group therapy for billing purposes?

And they figured out how to offer postpartum education and also.

@23:00 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Therapy, right?

@23:01 - Rachelle Seliga

In the post-partum for moms, but like with this material infusing their understanding, right?

@23:09 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Yeah. Kids have gone through this training, right?

@23:11 - Rachelle Seliga

NICU doctors, NICU nurses that can bring this in.

@23:15 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

And what does that change?

@23:16 - Rachelle Seliga

It changes their attunement to mothers and babies, right? So that as they're offering their work, they're offering it with just like a deeper understanding of the mother-baby dyad, right?

@23:27 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Yeah, that's awesome. I know we have one of your students who is offering a postpartum plan through your coursework and offering, I think it's a several week long program that she's offering for pregnant mamas to get them the support that they need to start thinking about it.

Because we know pregnant mamas are so concerned about the birth plan, but the postpartum plan is just as important.

And I do. Who appreciate how much more that information is getting out there. Thank you to your work and the ripple effect that both your work and my work has really put out into the world.

It's, you know, sometimes I think for myself here, I forget how much that my students are actually doing. And, you know, I get the occasional email of, you know, telling me how much my courses helped influence them and how the results they're getting in their clinic and with their moms has just skyrocketed from taking my courses.

And that's exciting. But what's even more exciting is that the moms that they're reaching, right, each student having their impact and touch on all the moms that they're seeing.

So, yeah, it's pretty astounding, isn't it?

@24:54 - Rachelle Seliga

Yeah, exactly. You know, and that to me, again, you know, we were talking about this before. We started recording, but it's like, what's in our, what's in our capacity to impact and to affect within our one lifespan.

Right. And to me, like, I love this model as well. Right. Like how you're doing things and how I'm doing things because you're working with practitioners and I'm working with practitioners, but then they're going into their communities, like you're saying.

Right. And they're working with mothers and families. So to me, you know, if there's a thousand women who are trained in a certain modality, then you know that they're impacting tens of thousands of families.

Right. And to me, like, I love that model because it is, it's like when you throw a rock into the water, And it makes a ring and then another ring and another ring.

@25:44 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

it's a huge ripple effect.

@25:45 - Rachelle Seliga

Um, that to me has felt and still feels like such an efficient and effective, um, model of transmission.

@25:56 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Yeah. Yeah. The ripple effect. It's just been. Wonderful. And I think sometimes I forget. I don't know about you.

Right.

@26:05 - Rachelle Seliga

Because you're doing the work. You're just, you're doing it.

@26:07 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Just like, you know, I have to say it's been a little frustrating lately because I'm having to cancel a live course that we had scheduled because not enough students are signing up.

And, you know, and it's just, it's been a little frustrating recently. And it's just like for me at the heart of my, my being, I just want to share this work with people and I just want to teach.

And I love getting together and doing the live courses. And I just looked at my schedule for the rest of the year.

I'm like, I only have five more live courses to teach. And, you know, let's hope that they all get, um, registrants so that we can hold those and be able to, to facilitate this work, getting into more hands.

And, um, so, yeah, it's just interesting. What do you do for yourself as, you know, you. Encounter struggles in your getting this work out into the world, Rachelle, because we all have them.

@27:08 - Rachelle Seliga

Well, I mean, you know, I moved through my own stress vortexes for sure, right? But what I, well, first of all, like what really helps me in my life in terms of navigating like business and, you know, these bigger things is having friends who are younger than me.

Um, because, you know, we, we collectively talk about consciousness shifting, right? And whatever language we want to use it, we talk about, we want there to be cultural change.

@27:40 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

We need change on earth. We want to birth a new earth. Okay. Everyone's going to have different language for it.

Yeah.

@27:45 - Rachelle Seliga

But, you know, when we talk about these things, I feel like a lot of times people talk about that as if it's something that happens like out there, like we want that.

But what I've realized is that all of that actually happens through our own. mean? you Right. It happens through our own bodies, actually.

Right. It happens through our relationships. Right. It's like relationships don't just change or like the nature of relationships changes or evolves because we're doing the nitty gritty work in our relationships for that to happen.

And so then when it comes to business. Right. And really even relationships for me, I really like being in relationship with people in their early 30s.

Right. Because they've come out of their 20s and maybe they're just coming into parenthood like that. So, you know, they're they're mature with their feet on the earth and they're riding to me what feels like a new wave of consciousness, a new wave of understanding, a new orientation to things.

And so I know that business how we've been doing it or health care practice as we've been doing it is not going to work how it has been working.

And I'm not saying that I know, right, I'm saying that I'm in the inquiry, like, you know, through those relationships that I have and through what I'm witnessing in my work and through our conversations, you and I, Lynn, and, you my conversation with other women entrepreneurs of, right, everything is evolving right now.

And so is business. And so, to me, the way that I think about resilience is, what do I need to adapt to, right, within the current reality to be able to thrive?

And to me, that's resilience. And so, again, I don't have the answers yet, but I just know, like, this moment in particular, we're at a really new time on earth.

We're having to recreate how we're doing business, how we're doing healthcare practice, how we're doing so many things. So, how do I handle it?

I be in the inquiry of what do I need to... Embody, to be in alignment with the evolution that's happening on earth.

@30:06 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Yeah, it does. It's all inner work, isn't it? And, and I kept, you know, I have a girlfriend who's very spiritually connected and she's been telling me for years that there's a new way of doing things, Lynn, you know, there's a new way.

And I'm just like, okay, great. I get that. What that mean?

@30:28 - Rachelle Seliga

Right.

@30:28 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

And it's like, I want to be open to it. So I do, I just stay open and see what, and, and then you keep trying things and you try them and whether they work or they don't, then, you know, and you move on and you try something else if it didn't work well.

So, um, I think we just, I keep putting one foot in front of the other. And with that being said, it, it also is a very much internal process that, that needs to happen to whenever I'm, um, encounter.

And countering resistance or blocks or whatever it might be. It's, it's like, I need to turn in and see what's really going on within me.

And, and by being quiet, by going within the answers come. And, and I totally agree with you that there is, there's, there's, there needs to be a shift.

@31:23 - Rachelle Seliga

And we're not quite sure what that shift is yet. No, feel like we're in the very messy moment. I mean, one thing that did come up for me though, as you were talking, um, I do feel like, um, moving forward in business.

Right. And, and even like in women's healthcare practice stuff, like I do. Okay. The way that I think about it is, um, you know, in a survival context, right.

We come together for safety.

@31:53 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Right.

@31:54 - Rachelle Seliga

And, and really what that is, is like, there's, um, connection, but there's like a collab. And I'm finding in my work that what feels like it safeguards me, for lack of better words, from stress and to offer new perspective is coming together with people, right?

And so it's starting to feel like my work in particular is going to make more of like a collaborative movement or direction for both like survival purposes, right?

And for thriving, you know?

@32:32 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I've always, I mean, that's when I started the birth healing summit, that was all about collaboration, you know, and sharing ideas.

And, and I'm a big, big fan of that, because we're not here meant to do it on our own.

@32:48 - Rachelle Seliga

And especially we as women, we're really good at collaboration. And I think we need to depend on that more and more.

@32:57 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

And so for those, for those of you listening in that. Have your own practices or want to start your own practice, recognize that you can't do it on your own, that you need the support of your referral sources or just other people doing it and getting input and learning from each other, right?

Totally. Yeah, that's what's going to help us. And I think we have to stay open to and allow that intuition, that creativity from within to help us to figure out how we move forward and how we do business in this new age.

mean, it just, I don't know about you, Rachelle, but this world is just feeling a little chaotic, a little overwhelming, you know, it's, it's, I don't feel like it's ever been the same since 2020 and, um, and we are needing to find a new way and what that is, is still needs to be revealed, but staying open and.

Staying as grounded and as centered as we can inside of ourselves, that's how we're going to survive this. That's how we're going to figure out what the next step is.

@34:10 - Rachelle Seliga

Totally. Yeah.

@34:11 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

But we also need to recognize the good that we've been doing, the good that has happened over this last decade, and that there's massive shifts going on.

Even though I have to say, we were talking about this before we hit record, there's still negativity coming out, and we just need to be aware of that.

You know, there's a couple of social media posts of a woman in labor who, you know, has a court, she goes on a Zoom court call because the hospital is challenging her decision-making ability.

That, to me, was eye-opening. And then, you know, still the maternal mortality that we're dealing with in this country is just unexcusable in my mind.

And, but, so we know that that negativity is still there and is still happening. But yet, we also need to tune into the light and the goodness that is coming around and the hospitals that are offering more support, the innate postpartum traditions, practitioners who are out there doing the support for postpartum moms, the therapists who are helping to support postpartum moms with recovery.

You know, there is good happening and we need to continue to keep spreading our work, spreading our love and sharing it with as many people as we can.

And hopefully the tides will turn.

@35:33 - Rachelle Seliga

Yeah. Well, I'm so grateful for you, Lynn, and all of your work over all these years and your contribution to collective wellness.

Thank you.

@35:43 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

And back at you, sister. Back at you. It's been wonderful to be on this path with you, Rachelle. And, you know, let's let's continue the support and continue the beautiful work that we do.

So tell us a little bit about your your. Your nine-month program that you're putting out into the world so more people can know about it.

This is the 10th year of innate postpartum care certification training. Wow.

@36:10 - Rachelle Seliga

It's a nine-month-long program. And I just decided actually over the past month that this will be the last year that I'm teaching it in this format.

Because, again, it's like that change meeting the times and creating change. And what I mean when I say that is, you know, when I first started teaching innate training, it was all in person.

And then I brought my class online for the first time in 2018. And I've always taught everything live. And this will be the last year that I do that.

And then from next year on, it will be recorded videos and I'll do like live mentorship calls.

@36:50 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Uh-huh.

@36:50 - Rachelle Seliga

Um, but also an adaptation I made was two years ago, I brought in assistant teachers. So there's four women who teach with me now for innate postpartum care.

One. One. One is a naturopathic doctor. One is a midwife. Two are biodynamic cranial sacral practitioners and pre and perinatal educators.

And we all, you know, like I kind of appointed them, right, as the emissaries of specific topics to cover in the curriculum.

And we meet online once a week for nine months. And there's two mentorship calls per month on top of that.

And the way that I created innate training is that it's a translation of a postpartum woman's physiologic design, right?

So we start at the root of the body, we go through the root of the body, we go to the stomach to digestion, we go to the breast, we go to the throat, we go to the brain and hormonal health.

We cover all of the major bodily systems to look at what's happening to our physiology through pregnancy, yes, but really in the postpartum time.

And... then what support would be adequate and appropriate to meet those changes as the body transitions from gestation to lactation and then early motherhood, right?

So, yeah, the way that I talk about it is it's holistically understanding postpartum physiology and psychology to understand the requirements of maternal wellness, right?

So like outside of ideas or opinions or expert advice, it's really just looking to the body and then translating what the body is saying to help us create that understanding.

@38:36 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

Yeah. Oh, that's amazing. And so this is your last year of doing it live online throughout the time. So everybody, if you want the live version, please jump in and join Rochelle and team.

This time, registration's open. When does it close, Rochelle?

@38:55 - Rachelle Seliga

Early bird registration will close May 5th. And then I think we're closing registration. Thank you, and super grateful for you.

Yeah.

@39:20 - Lynn Schulte, PT (lynnschultept@gmail.com)

All right. Thanks everybody for listening in and let's keep up the great work of supporting our moms to have smoother births and better recoveries.

All right. Take care. Bye. Bye. We'll see you on the next episode. All right.