In this episode of Transformed by Birth, I sit down with Menopause Society Certified Practitioner, Nurse-Midwife, Lactation Consultant, and Professor of Nursing, Sarah Shealy, to explore the often-overlooked connection between postpartum recovery and long-term health. We talk about how pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and perimenopause are not separate experiences, but deeply connected physiological transitions. Sarah shares why postpartum is a critical window for healing, how postnatal depletion impacts the body for years to come, and what becomes possible when we approach postpartum care as preventative medicine. This conversation offers a broader lens on recovery, one that extends far beyond the first six weeks and into the decades that follow.

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