Today I speak with Sonal Patel, MD. She is a pediatrician, neonatologist, & breastfeeding specialist who founded NayaCare in 2018. NayaCare is a home health clinic focused on improving postpartum care. She wrote her first book, The Doctor and Her Black Bag that examines maternal mortality in historical and personal context and solutions to reduce maternal mortality. She is also a co-founder and co-executive director of Center for 4th Trimester Care, a national physician-led non-profit with the mission of improving postpartum care. Having four kids, her message is for people to understand why the 4th trimester is so important and why we are losing more moms in this trimester than the first three combined.We talk about:-personal experience with birth and the 4th Trimester-things that change, but stay the same-expanding accessibility-moms getting lost in the 4th Trimester-correlations with mother’s mental health-over tracking everything-cultural differences in the 4th Trimester-the value of home services-being okay asking for help-the dangers of birth in the USTime Stamps1:00 introduction3:12 4th Trimester expectations versus realities5:45 how postpartum has evolved9:30 expanding pelvic health care10:34 common challenges for moms14:30 impacts of mother’s mental health18:35 breastfeeding apps21:42 the comparison trap29:26 making an impact on change 33:20 Center for 4th Trimester Care35:55 moms not knowing what they needCONNECT WITH CARRIEIG: https://www.instagram.com/carriepagliano/Website: https://carriepagliano.comCONNECT WITH SONALIG: https://www.instagram.com/nayacare/Website: www.nayacare.org The Active Mom Postpartum Podcast is A Real Moms' Guide to Postpartum for active moms & the postpartum professionals who help them in their journey. This show has been a long time in the making! You can expect conversation with moms and postpartum professionals from all aspects of the industry. If you're like me, you don't have a lot of free time (heck, you're probably listening at 1.5x speed), so theses interviews will be quick hits to get your the pertinent information FAST! If you love what you hear, share the podcast with a friend and leave us a 5 start rating and review. It helps us become more visible in the search algorithm! (Helps us get seen by more moms that need to hear these stories!!!!)