Jodi Hillebrand

So my journey into postpartum care started after the birth of my first child.

When I realized there's a lot of emphasis put on childbirth education and birth and

Literally nothing for when postpartum happens.

And the postpartum period is actually the first 12 months after a baby is born.

So that's a lot longer than people tend to think.

Sure.

So when I found out that there was little support and little education and things like that, it really inspired me to want to do more.

20 minutes.

20 minutes.

Well, birth is intense.

Yes.

Right?

So you want to go into it feeling empowered.

You want to make sure that you have information that you need.

If you're going to go into a hospital to deliver your baby...

you are going to need to advocate for yourself.

Hospitals have policies, and those policies are for the hospital, not necessarily for the woman or the birthing person.

And a lot of times when you go in, what happens is what they call a cascade of interventions, right?

Got it.

So you go in and you kind of interrupt this natural process.