Rooted Family Podcast

Erin Kasungu and Christine Crook

The Rooted Family Podcast brings Rooted Family Wellness Centre’s heart‑centred approach to you, offering honest, evidence‑informed conversations for every stage of family life, from fertility and pregnancy to postpartum and parenting. Based in Ottawa, Rooted Family is a hub for holistic wrap-around care, emotional support, and education that helps families feel connected and confident. (rootedfamily.ca)

Episodes

  1. May 27

    Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist: The Kegel Trap and Habits that are Wrecking Your Pelvic Floor

    "You're cleared at six weeks." It's one of the most common things postpartum moms hear, and according to Slesha Shah, our pelvic floor physiotherapist at Rooted Family Wellness Centre, it's also one of the most misleading. Six weeks is not the all-clear most moms think it is. In this episode, Slesha walks Erin and Christine through what your pelvic floor actually is, why symptoms you think are normal are actually not, and what's really going on with leaking and pain. They also get into why C-section moms need pelvic floor care too, the Kegel trap, pediatric pelvic floor, and the daily habits wrecking your whole system. Rooted Family Wellness Centre Facebook Instagram TikTok

    32 min

  2. May 13

    Ontario Midwife: Why No One Is Checking on Mom and the Postpartum Care Gap

    Most birthing people have one six-week postpartum appointment focused on contraception and whether they want another baby. No one screens their mental health. No one asks how they're feeding. No one checks on them at all. In this episode, Ontario midwife Ola Levitin (15 years in practice) talks about the postpartum care gap that midwifery is designed to fill, the three care provider options most people don't know they have, and why the way we talk about birth shapes how we experience it. If you've had a baby and felt invisible after, or if you're pregnant and wondering who's actually going to look out for you, this is the episode for you. Rooted Family Wellness Centre Facebook Instagram TikTok

    51 min

  3. Apr 29

    The Birth I Pictured, the C-Section I Got, the Mother I Became

    Most birth plans don't happen the way they're written. In our first episode, Camille, host of The Kind of Bold podcast and one of Erin's first doula clients, shares her unplanned C-section, including the moment in the OR when she had to choose between holding her son or seeing him, and the postpartum anxiety she lived with for years before it had a name. We talk about matrescence, the love-and-grief paradox of becoming a mother, the failure of postpartum care to screen the birthing person for mental health, and the kind of postpartum support that should be standard everywhere. If your birth didn't go the way you pictured, or if you've ever felt like you lost yourself in motherhood, this one's for you.  Rooted Family Wellness Centre Facebook Instagram TikTok

    55 min
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About

The Rooted Family Podcast brings Rooted Family Wellness Centre’s heart‑centred approach to you, offering honest, evidence‑informed conversations for every stage of family life, from fertility and pregnancy to postpartum and parenting. Based in Ottawa, Rooted Family is a hub for holistic wrap-around care, emotional support, and education that helps families feel connected and confident. (rootedfamily.ca)

Information

  • Creator
    Erin Kasungu and Christine Crook
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Rooted Family Podcast
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    Rooted Family Podcast