Cover Navigate the challenges of postpartum life with these insightful, specialist-driven podcasts. (Photo: Freepik)
Navigate the challenges of postpartum life with these insightful, specialist-driven podcasts. (Photo: Freepik)
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From mental health to recovery tips, these podcasts guide you through the realities of postpartum life
The weeks after childbirth can feel disorienting, even for the most prepared new moms. Recovery, identity shifts and emotional upheaval all collide in the postpartum period, making honest, informed support essential. According to a 2022 report in Frontiers - Public Health, the estimated global prevalence of postpartum depression (PPD) is at 17.22 per cent. Within Asia, South Asia has the highest prevalence at 22.3 per cent, West Asia at 19.8 per cent, East Asia at 17.4 per cent and Southeast Asia at 13.5 per cent. A 2025 study in the Ewha Medical Journal found Laos, Cambodia and South Korea on the upper end of PPD prevalence in the region.
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Strong community support can help with symptoms of PPD or any postpartum health and wellbeing questions in general—it takes a village, as they say. Consider these podcasts as extensions of your support group, with their practical guidance, expert voices and candid conversations. For new moms who want clarity and honest, relatable stories, they offer a thoughtful soundtrack to life after birth.
1. ‘Learning To Mom Pregnancy and Newborn Life Podcast’
Hosted by Laila, this weekly show spans pregnancy through your baby’s first year, addressing the postpartum period with thoughtful precision. Each episode features an expert—midwives, pelvic-floor therapists, paediatricians—who answers questions you’re actually asking.
Recent topics include what toys help (and hinder) baby development, realistic C-section recovery, postpartum workouts that balance safety and resilience, overcoming mum guilt and setting up solid baby routines like sleep and introducing solids. It’s a toolkit of lucid, pragmatic support for new moms demystifying the postpartum transition.
2. ‘Navigating Postpartum Wellness’
Hosted by Jaree Williams, a postpartum wellness coach, this show blends personal experience with practical, expert-backed strategies for the weeks and months after birth. It centres on the postpartum moment without celebrity gloss, focusing instead on recovery, emotional wellbeing, identity shifts and sustainable self-care.
Recent episodes explore burnout prevention through realistic routines (“The Best Strategies for Avoiding Burnout & Simplifying Motherhood” with Jheanelle Howell) and evidence-based postpartum planning with Dr Kelsey Marr. The tone is warm yet direct, offering new moms tangible steps to restore balance and agency.
3. ‘Mom and Mind’
Dr Katayune Kaeni—Dr Kat—offers one of the most unvarnished takes on perinatal mental health. The weekly show tackles heavy-hitting subjects: postpartum depression, anxiety, trauma, postpartum PTSD and myths of the “super-mum”. The format blends honest personal narrative, therapeutic insight and accessible language: the recent story of a mother’s experience with postpartum psychosis and misdiagnosis provides clinical clarity alongside emotional validation. It’s stigma-crushing content grounded in professional care and empathy for new moms’s psychological complexity.
4. ‘Hello Postpartum’
This is a thoughtful, expert-led podcast led by Carley Schweet, a two-time mother and self-care author, who identified critical gaps in conventional postpartum care and set out to fill them. Drawing on insights from midwives, OB-GYNs, doulas, therapists and nutrition specialists, each episode tackles a facet of recovery after birth—from C-section healing and nourishing your body to navigating relationship changes and mental health. Recent shows include C-section recovery strategies that blend physical restoration with emotional processing, the impact of nutrition on hormone balance, gut health and postpartum depression and honest explorations of how relationships shift after a baby.
5. ‘I Am One Podcast’
From Postpartum Support International, this series centres on lived experience as a form of expertise. Dani Giddens and Emily Jankowski interview perinatal mental health advocates, counsellors and birth workers who share frank, affecting stories. Recent episodes profile a licensed therapist-turned-gestational-surrogate navigating intrusive thoughts and sleep deprivation, and a mother-turned-advocate who received an unexpected cancer diagnosis during pregnancy. These conversations provide insight into systemic barriers, resilience and how connection—rather than perfection—drives healing.
Postpartum recovery is rarely linear, and even the most prepared new moms can feel unmoored in the months after birth. These podcasts don’t promise quick fixes or picture-perfect narratives. Instead, they deliver expertise, lived experience and pragmatic guidance that can help you navigate this unfamiliar terrain with more clarity. Whether you need reassurance, practical strategies or a reminder that you are not alone, these voices offer perspective worth hearing.
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Chonx Tibajia is a senior editor at Tatler Asia’s T-Labs team, where she writes widely on lifestyle subjects including beauty, style, entertainment and travel. She has a long career in journalism, including roles as a columnist at The Philippine Star, and is the founder of the creative platform Pineappleversed. Beyond Tatler, her bylines appear in regional lifestyle and business publications, showcasing a broad portfolio that spans beauty trends, travel guides and culture pieces.
