December 2023 Date TBD

Final Class to be taken at the end of your 4th Trimester
to seal your Rite of Passage as the new mother

Mother-Centered Care for Family Wellness;
Rooted in Revitalized Community Support

INNATE’s Planning for the Fourth Trimester Course focuses on the 5 Essentials of Postpartum Care. These 5 Essentials of Postpartum Care are found throughout the world’s ancient postpartum traditions and are deeply rooted in women’s physiologic and psychological needs postpartum.

These 5 Essentials of Mother-Centered Postpartum Care for Family Wellness are:

• An extended resting period. An extended resting period in the postpartum time safeguards women’s long-term pelvic health and hormonal health. The natural rhythm of Earth and of Life- is that there is a period of growth and a period of rest. Pregnancy represents the period of growth, postpartum represents the period of rest.

• Warm in temperature, warm in nature, easy to digest, nutrient-dense food. Our digestive system is profoundly altered through pregnancy and birth. Warm in temperature, warm in nature, easy to digest, nutrient-dense food in the postpartum time supports the long-term health of the digestive system. As women, we grow humans inside our bodies through gestation and outside our bodies through lactation. Eating the right foods helps us to grow life without depleting ourselves.

• Bodywork. Because we are resting in the postpartum time, it is bodywork that facilitates healing through the movement of blood and lymph. Bodywork elicits our relaxation response, allows our nervous system to down-regulate and boosts our immunity. Nature’s Law is based in reciprocity. Bodywork gives to Mothers so that Mothers can give freely to their babies.

• Warmth. In birth and the postpartum period, we lose a large amount of blood. Breastmilk is made from the same substrate as blood. Mothers are babies primary heaters – until babies are between 5-9 months of age, when they can regulate their own temperature. Warmth in the postpartum time facilitates the production of Oxytocin. Oxytocin facilitates healing. Warmth causes our tissues to expand, which facilities the moving of blood and lymph, which facilitates healing.

• Community. The above 4 essentials of postpartum care are PILLARS, and these pillars require a strong foundation – to stand up straight and strong. This foundation in the postpartum time is COMMUNITY. COMMUNITY means: people that Mother feels good and safe with, that will be with her on a daily basis in the postpartum period. When Mothers feel good and safe, they are able to give up their hyper-vigilance. This allows the nervous system to down-regulate, which allows the body‘s energy in the postpartum time go into HEALING, bonding and attachment.

This innate wisdom shared in this course is what I personally implemented to have my incredibly healing and amazing fourth trimester with my most recent birth. This is how to have the postpartum experience the way we were designed - to THRIVE and not just survive.

Postpartum Care is a necessity not a luxury

I invited Zach Thorp as a guest speaker for the third class to speak to the partners from a lived experience. He has been immersed in all things female physiology for the past 3 years, and through implementing what is taught in this course has LIVED firsthand these benefits.

Zach Thorp is a Certified Man UNcivilized Men's coach. 
He is a husband of 12 years and a father to two, one 7 yr old girl and a 3 yr old boy. 
He has overcome a 10+ year porn addiction enabling him to help men from a more grounded and aligned place. 

Currently, he and his family are developing 5 acres of raw land into a home of sanctuary for healing and connection.

Please email me at hello@audreythorp.com if you are in need of a payment plan