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The Original Ten — The First Year

Ten ~32-minute audio courses covering the full first year of postpartum. Evidence-informed, maternal-development grounded, self-paced.

$25 each·Lifetime access·Self-paced

The Postpartum Body

The Original Ten · The First Year

32 minAudio courseLifetime access

The body after birth is not the body before. It has done something significant, and it is now recovering in ways the culture rarely names. This course walks through what is actually happening in the weeks and months after birth, from the uterus and the bleeding to the joints, the skin, the hair, and the belly. If you have lain awake wondering whether what your body is doing is normal, or felt alone inside a recovery no one warned you about, this is the starting place.

C-Section Recovery

The Original Ten · The First Year

32 minAudio courseLifetime access

Cesarean birth is major abdominal surgery, and its recovery is minimized in a culture that treats c-section as the easy way out. It is not. This course walks through what the incision is actually healing, what scar tissue can do over months and years, and the warning signs to watch for. If your c-section recovery has been brushed aside, if you have been told to be grateful and move on, this course takes it as seriously as it deserves.

Vaginal Birth Recovery

The Original Ten · The First Year

32 minAudio courseLifetime access

Vaginal birth recovery is assumed to be simple. It is not. Tears, stitches, granulation tissue, the terror of the first bowel movement, and the emotional weight of the six-week clearance all deserve real attention. This course walks through the physiology of healing after vaginal birth and names the specific things that can go wrong, so you know what to say and what to ask for. Whether your birth was straightforward or complicated, your body is doing significant work, and you should know what it is.

Postpartum Hormones

The Original Ten · The First Year

32 minAudio courseLifetime access

The hormonal shift after birth is one of the largest of a woman's life, and almost no one prepares her for it. The estrogen and progesterone cliff. The rise of prolactin. The return of the cycle. The second wave at weaning. Each one shapes how you feel in ways that are not simply emotional and not simply in your head. This course walks through the endocrine reality of postpartum so you understand what your body is doing and why. Naming it is often the first step toward feeling less crazy inside it.

Matrescence

The Original Ten · The First Year

32 minAudio courseLifetime access

Matrescence is the developmental passage of becoming a mother. It is as significant as adolescence, and until recently it has gone almost entirely unnamed. This course walks through what matrescence actually is, why it feels the way it feels, and how the death of the maiden self and the birth of the mother self unfolds over months and years, not weeks. If you have felt like a stranger to yourself since becoming a mother, this course gives you the language and the map for what you are living through.

Sleep and Nighttime Survival

The Original Ten · The First Year

32 minAudio courseLifetime access

Sleep in the postpartum period is unlike sleep at any other time in adult life. The fragmentation, the responsibility, the physiological demand on a body still recovering, all of it combines into an exhaustion that is not simply tiredness. This course walks through what is actually happening to your sleep, what safe sleep arrangements look like, and how to survive the nights until they change. No version of this makes your baby sleep through the night on demand. But there are real strategies, and they help.

Postpartum Nutrition and Hydration

The Original Ten · The First Year

32 minAudio courseLifetime access

The postpartum body has nutritional needs that are different from pregnancy and different from ordinary life. Recovery, milk production, and the emotional demand of caregiving all require particular foods, particular minerals, and particular kinds of nourishment. This course walks through what to eat and drink, why it matters, and how to actually manage it when you have almost no time. It also honors the traditional postpartum foods many cultures have relied on for generations, because they were right.

Sex, Intimacy, and Desire After Birth

The Original Ten · The First Year

32 minAudio courseLifetime access

The return to sex and intimacy after birth is rarely as simple as the six-week clearance implies. Desire changes. The body has done significant work. The relationship has been reorganizing under the surface. This course walks through the physiology of postpartum sex, the emotional and relational layers of intimacy, and how to rebuild what feels right in your own time. There is no correct timeline. There is only what works for the body and the relationship you actually have.

Relationships After Baby

The Original Ten · The First Year

32 minAudio courseLifetime access

Every relationship in your life is being reorganized by the arrival of a baby. Your partnership, if you have one. Your friendships. Your family of origin. Your professional life. This course walks through the specific ways each of these shifts, the invisible mental load that so often lands unequally on mothers, and what real communication and a fair division of labor can actually look like. If your relationships feel strained in ways you did not expect, you are not imagining it, and you are not alone.

Child and Mother Development

The Original Ten · The First Year

32 minAudio courseLifetime access

Your child is developing rapidly through the first year, and so are you. This course walks through the major developmental milestones of the baby's first year alongside the parallel developmental work happening in the mother. The two are linked in ways that are rarely named and deeply felt. If you have sensed that you are being formed by your baby as much as you are forming them, this course confirms what your body already knows.

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