Perinatal in Practice: Supporting providers through the entire perinatal arc
Perinatal in Practice is a weekly podcast for healthcare providers who work with families across the perinatal period, from fertility and pregnancy through birth and early parenting. Most episodes are short and practical, offering tips and techniques that providers can apply immediately. Once a month, the show features a deeper conversation with perinatal professionals on a specific topic. The podcast aims to help all disciplines recognize perinatal mental health challenges and respond with compassion, appropriate referral, or treatment.
Episodes
The Grief Nobody Warns New Parents About
Most conversations about perinatal grief focus on the loss of a pregnancy or a baby. There is another kind of grief running through the transition to parenthood, and parents rarely hear that it is normal.In this episode, Rebecca walks through the ambiguous grief that shows up at every stage of becoming a parent, from conception and pregnancy through birth and the postpartum period. Think of a clie
Perinatal Screening: It Isn't Just for Mental Health Professionals
How a new parent looks when they walk into your room tells you very little about how they're coping. Screening is how you find out, and any professional working in the perinatal period can do it. In this episode, Rebecca walks through why a client's appearance is a poor guide to how a new parent is coping, and why the pressure to look put together makes it harder for mothers to say they
What Is Perinatal Mental Health, Really?
Perinatal mental health is getting more attention, but general mental health training doesn't prepare you to spot what makes perinatal mood and anxiety disorders different. What gets missed in that gap can be serious.In this episode, Rebecca is joined by perinatal psychotherapist Gaby Beaujeu for the show's first guest conversation, exploring what perinatal mental health actually covers
Perinatal Anxiety vs. Normal Worry: What to Look For
Almost every parent worries. Perinatal anxiety is something different, and knowing how to tell the two apart changes what you do next.In the first episode of Perinatal in Practice, Rebecca lays out how to distinguish the normal uptick in worry that comes with pregnancy and new parenthood from a perinatal anxiety disorder. She explains why anxiety naturally increases during this period, from an evo
Postpartum Psychosis: What Every Provider Needs to Know
Postpartum psychosis is having a moment in the media, and most of what gets said about it is wrong on the two points that matter most: how rare it actually is, and what it has to do with how someone feels about becoming a mother. Neither is what you'd think.In this episode, Rebecca gives a clearer, more accurate picture of postpartum psychosis: why "rare" is the wrong word for somet
A Postpartum Planning Tool for Your Client Sessions
Birth plans get all the attention. Postpartum planning gets almost none and that gap is where a lot of avoidable conflict and confidence loss shows up in the fourth trimester.In this episode, Rebecca breaks down why postpartum planning deserves the same attention as birth planning, and how to introduce it with clients without it feeling like one more task on their list. She covers the confidence d
Welcome to Perinatal in Practice
Welcome to Perinatal in Practice, the podcast for professionals working alongside people on the journey to parenthood.Whether you're a therapist, midwife, doula, lactation consultant, health visitor, GP, or nurse, if you work with pregnant people, new parents, or families in the perinatal period, this show was made for you.Hosted by Rebecca Reddin, chartered psychologist and founder of the Pe
