How to Rebuild Your Body After Pregnancy? The Recovery Plan You Must Know About | Dr. Lara Morgan Lee | #176

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What if we stopped treating birth like a finish line and started treating it like the middle of an athlete's comeback?

Dr. Lara Morgan Lee, board-certified sports medicine physician and former team doctor for the Cleveland Cavaliers, LA Kings, and USC Trojans, to talk about the enormous gap in postpartum care whereas she lived this gap through her own C-section recovery, and now she treats moms the way we treat elite athletes with a rehab-to-rebuild-to-return plan, not a timeline. Because what happens in those first months echoes all the way into perimenopause and beyond.

What we explore:

- The six-week postpartum clearance: why it misses functional recovery.

- Postpartum recovery: why it should start during pregnancy.

- The postpartum "mini-menopause": hormone drops and breastfeeding.

- Diastasis recti and pelvic floor dysfunction: the long-term midlife impact.