Postpartum University® Podcast · Maranda Bower, Postpartum Nutrition Specialist

Postpartum Truths: Transforming Care When Modern Medicine Fails Moms | Janelle Lara EP 225

July 22, 2025·48 min

Miranda Bauer discusses the postpartum mental health crisis, reframing postpartum depression not as a biological inevitability but as a preventable symptom of inadequate support, nutrition, and nervous system care. She notes statistics showing 1 in 3 women now experiencing postpartum mental health disorders (up from 1 in 7 pre-COVID). The episode critiques current healthcare's inadequate 6-week postpartum checkup model and explores systemic exclusion of women from medical research. Miranda explains postpartum physiology including nervous system rewiring, gut changes, and hormonal shifts, arguing that comprehensive holistic care addressing all these factors can prevent depression.

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A serious postpartum care conversation that treats maternal suffering as a care issue, not a personal failure.

The episode treats postpartum care as a system that often fails mothers, with depression, anxiety, and autoimmune conditions at the center of that failure.

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If you want a clearer picture of why postpartum care keeps missing the mark, start here.

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