Episode 8-Preparing for your Postpartum and avoiding “Postnatal Depletion” with Dr Oscar Serrallach

The postnatal time should be one of replenishing, restoring and bonding right? Yet in Western Cultures it seems this time is rarely treated as such. We live busy lives, are surrounded by the “social media super mums”, receive little education surrounding the postpartum and culturally don’t view it as a right of passage or even a time of “rest and restoring”. But at what cost is this to the health of the Mother?

What is the Postpartum? What is Postnatal depletion? How can we best prepare for this time?

To answer these questions and so much more I am honoured to be joined with Dr Oscar Serrallach for today’s episode. 

Dr Oscar Serrallach

Dr Oscar Serrallach is a functional medicine Doctor who is well known in the Postnatal field. 

His journey into this area was inspired following his partner Carolines home births and her postpartum experience. Through his own personal and professional experience Dr Serrallach realised the huge impact that nutrition, lifestyle and environment have on the postnatal period. He is the author of the Postnatal Depletion Cure” an incredible book where he shares his knowledge surrounding the postpartum and his unique protocols developed to avoid and/or treat postnatal depletion.

In this episode we chat about:

• Dr Oscar’s own personal experience with the home births of his children and how his partner Caroline’s postpartum experience was the catalyst of his journey into learning about the postpartum.
• How he identified the lack of information and studies surrounding the postpartum
• His research into traditional cultures with postpartum care
• Neuroinflammation- what is it and what are its affects?
• How he developed the term Postnatal Depletion
• What Matresecence is and how we need to honour this as a right of passage
• What is happening hormonally and neurologically during pregnancy
• What is happening hormonally with the birth of the placenta
• How to prepare for the postpartum and avoid depletion
• The myth of the “super mum”
• Why we need a village and how to create it in 2023!
• His tips for Dads and their role in the postpartum period
• How to set us up for a supportive postpartum
• How nutrition through pregnancy needs to be prioritised and how important that is for the postpartum

And so so much more…

Episode Resources

The Mothercare Project 

The Postnatal Depletion Cure by Dr Oscar Serrallach

Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering by Dr Sarah Buckley

Mother Brain: Separating Myth from Biology – the Science of the Parental Brain- by Chelsea Conaboy

Healthy Home Healthy Family: Is Where You Live Affecting Your Health? by Nicole Bijlsma

This episode is a must listen and share!! I guarantee it will inspire and inform you.

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Please note all information shared on this Podcast by myself or guests is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for medical advice