Hosted by Mary Ellen Kramp DPT, CLT · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 31 episodes
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Hosted by Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp, The Postpartum Years is a podcast exploring the physical and emotional realities that come after birth—those days, weeks, months and years when women’s bodies, hormones, and identities are transforming. As a doctor of physical therapy and pelvic health specialist, Mary Ellen sits down with fellow clinicians, physicians, lactation consultants, and other women’s health experts to have candid, evidence-based conversations about the challenges nobody talks about enough—from breastfeeding and pelvic recovery to hormones, pain, and postpartum mental health.
Mary Ellen Kramp DPT, CLT hosts The Postpartum Years, a health show with 31 episodes published.
Getting back to intimacy after having a baby is one of the most common things Liz Jones and Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp see in their practices - and one of the least talked about. In this episode, Liz brings 20 years of treatin
Dr. Liz Jones, DPT is a pelvic floor physical therapist in Bismarck, North Dakota who accidentally became the region's go-to hemorrhoid specialist - and she is very okay with that. In this episode, she and Dr. Mary Ellen
Dr. Shirin Towfigh is a hernia specialist and one of very few women in her field. She joins Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp to talk about what actually happens to the abdominal wall after pregnancy -- what gets missed, what gets mi
Audra Zastrow is a pelvic floor PT who spent the better part of a decade navigating pregnancy loss, a major birth injury, prolapse, and four very different deliveries. All while working in the field she was simultaneousl
Stacey Gayer is a holistic pelvic health physical therapist, and her own postpartum story is one she is only now putting fully into words. After an emergency C-section and a psychiatric crisis six months postpartum, Stac
Pamela Newman is a therapist who spent her first postpartum experience deep in anxiety, envisioning worst-case scenarios, refusing help, convinced she had to manage everything alone. All without recognizing what was happ
After nearly 50 hours of failed induction and a C-section, Kate Harris came into the postpartum period with two dreams: holding her baby right away and breastfeeding. Neither went as planned. In this episode, Kate shares
In Part 2, Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp picks up the postpartum story with her daughter Elena. She walks through a recovery that was far harder than anyone around her acknowledged -- physically, cognitively, and emotionally -- a
Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp's youngest daughter Elena -- an occupational therapist -- turns the tables and interviews her own mother about the birth that almost went catastrophically wrong. Part 1 covers the full birth story. P
At 29 weeks pregnant, Rachel Kaufman noticed her baby had stopped kicking. Trusting her gut, she called her doctor and headed to the hospital, where fetal monitoring revealed her son was in serious distress. With amnioti
In this episode, Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp is joined by her niece Gabriela, who opens up about her unexpectedly intense postpartum journey. Gabriela shares what it was like to experience postpartum anxiety and OCD, conditions
Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp sits down with Swathi Raman, a pediatrician who learned firsthand just how broken postpartum care can be, even for those who work inside the medical system. Swathi shares the story of her difficult d
Lynn Schulte and Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp are back for part two of their deep dive on diastasis recti, and this episode gets into territory that most postpartum exercise programs completely ignore. They talk about how the br
In this episode, Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp sits down with pelvic health physical therapist and educator Lynn Schulte to dig into one of the most misunderstood postpartum conditions: diastasis recti. They break down what actua
In this episode of The Postpartum Years, Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp and internationally board certified lactation consultant Catherine Halek explore the many paths of weaning. From choosing not to breastfeed at all, to gradual
In the final part of the series, Mary Ellen and Vanessa examine the current research on diastasis recti and exercise. They break down studies evaluating abdominal training, pelvic floor strengthening, and postpartum prog
In part two, Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp and Pilates educator Vanessa Pinkham shift the focus from diagnosis to rebuilding. They discuss why many postpartum women struggle with exercise, how progressive strength training suppor
In part one of this three-part series, Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp is joined by Pilates educator Vanessa Pinkham to break down what diastasis recti actually is — and what it isn’t. They discuss how abdominal separation is measu
In this episode of The Postpartum Years, Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp and Cat Halek unpack one of the most misidentified causes of severe nipple pain during breastfeeding: Raynaud’s. They discuss the hallmark color changes — whi
In this episode of The Postpartum Years, Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp sits down with Leah to share an honest, deeply personal look at postpartum recovery across three very different births. From diastasis recti and chronic back
Kate Harris
water quality programs manager · Colorado Insurance Division
1 appearance on this show
Gabriela
Bioveterinary Sciences student · Intention Attraction Journal
1 appearance on this show
Lynn Schulte
birth healing specialist and pelvic health physical therapist · Institute for Birth Healing
2 appearances on this show
Leah
baseball expert · @thefaustinfam
1 appearance on this show
Cat
product manager and community builder · Colorado 4x4 Girls
1 appearance on this show
Mary Ellen
1 appearance on this show
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