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Hosted by Mary Ellen Kramp DPT, CLT · health · EN · 42 episodes
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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHosted 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.
The Postpartum Years is hosted by Mary Ellen Kramp DPT, CLT. The show has published 42 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "From Breech to Home Birth to Pandemic Baby: Marnina Walks Through All Three" (20 October 2026, 32 minutes), "A Surprise Pregnancy at 44, COVID in the Hospital, and the Perfect Storm That Followed: Kelli's Story" (6 October 2026, 18 minutes), and "Postpartum Without a Baby: Dr. Julie Bindeman on Pregnancy Loss" (29 September 2026, 41 minutes).
The Postpartum Years publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 29 minutes across 42 episodes.
Booking probability for The Postpartum Years is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Postpartum Years requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Postpartum Years's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Postpartum Years are Health & Wellness Services and Therapists & Other Health Practitioners. The Postpartum Years has a health audience.
Mary Ellen Kramp DPT, CLT hosts The Postpartum Years, a health show with 42 episodes published.
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The Postpartum Years
Marnina grew up with a mother who was a childbirth educator and doula. Birth education classes happened in her basement. So she came to her own pregnancies knowing more than most. What she didn't anticipate was her...
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Kelli had never been pregnant in her life. At 44, she got pregnant naturally, and had what she would describe as a fairly uneventful pregnancy and a scheduled C-section. Forty-eight hours later, she tested positive for...
The Postpartum Years
When you lose a pregnancy, your body doesn't know that. It still goes through the hormonal shift, and depending on how far along you were, your milk may still come in. Dr. Julie Bindeman is a psychotherapist who...
The Postpartum Years
Julia was 20 years old when she had twins, alone in her recovery while her husband worked and her mother was still in another country. She figured out postpartum the hard way, by herself. It wasn't until her babies were...
The Postpartum Years
Postpartum rage isn't in the DSM, doesn't have a clean clinical definition, and almost nobody talks about it - which is exactly why Jennifer Steiger wanted to. In this episode, she joins Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp to define...
The Postpartum Years
Jennifer Steiger is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in perinatal and postpartum mental health. In this episode, she and Dr. Mary Ellen Kramp dig into the part of the fertility conversation that often gets...
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After a pregnancy loss and a new marriage, Bev's third pregnancy ended at 38 weeks in a Popeyes drive-through. Her third birth went fast and smoothly. Two days postpartum, she hemorrhaged. After six units of blood, a...
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Bev's first birth ended in a postpartum hemorrhage she didn't know was happening, and her first postpartum period ended with a hospitalization and quarantine that forced her to stop breastfeeding after weeks of hard...
The Postpartum Years
Mary Lisan had two C-sections in the early 1980s under very different circumstances: One emergency, one urgent, and two postpartum experiences that looked almost nothing alike. She spent four years being dismissed about...
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Breastfeeding pain is common. It is not normal, and you don't have to push through it. Dr. Kellie Soltis is a pelvic PT who found the Thompson method after a painful first breastfeeding experience with her own child...
The Postpartum Years
Amanda's first birth left her with a significant tear, an infection, mastitis, and two years of assuming urinary incontinence was just her new normal. Her second birth - after pelvic floor PT, birth prep work with Dr...
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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...
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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...
The Postpartum Years
<p>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...
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<p>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...
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<p>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...
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<p>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...
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<p>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...
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<p>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...
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<p>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...
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