The INNATE Postpartum Care:
Planning for the Fourth Trimester Course
Taught by Certified Practitioners of INNATE Postpartum Care
INNATE's Preparing for the Fourth Trimester Course is for pregnant Mothers and families - to prepare for a nourishing, regenerative postpartum period.
This course focuses on the 5 Essentials of Postpartum Care - which are found throughout the world's postpartum traditions AND are deeply rooted in women's physiologic and psychologic design.
These 5 Essentials of Mother-Centered Postpartum Care are:

Essential 2: Warm in Temperature, Warm in Nature, Easy to Digest, Nutrient-Dense Food
Our digestive system is profoundly altered through pregnancy and birth. There are specific foods that should be eaten - and that should not to be eaten in the postpartum time to support long-term digestive health.

Essential 4: Warmth
Warmth in the postpartum time facilitates the production of Oxytocin. Oxytocin facilitates healing. Warmth causes our tissues to expand, which facilitates the moving of blood and lymph, which facilitates healing.
The first 4-classes of INNATE’s Preparing for the Fourth Trimester Course happen PRENATALLY. Information/education about postpartum physiology and psychology is shared, and each family is supported to develop a postpartum plan that meets their unique needs.
The 5th and final class of INNATE’s Preparing for the Fourth Trimester Course happens in the postpartum period. The families that participated together in the first four classes meet again, once everyone is at-least 6-weeks postpartum. The purpose of this final class is for MOTHERS and Fathers to be WITNESSED and CELEBRATED by this community.
In this way, we bring honor and a layer of completion to our rites of passage into Motherhood and Fatherhood.
INNATE POSTPARTUM CARE – PLANNING FOR THE FOURTH TRIMESTER COURSE:

- Offers essential postpartum education to women and their families with time-tested postpartum wisdom interwoven with modern science – supporting women’s long-term health and vitality.
- Nourishes with truthful information, helping to lead families in the right direction for an optimal postpartum period- in the name of creating a solid foundation for thriving family systems.
- Helps families create postpartum care plans tailored to the unique to the needs of each family.
- Supports the creation of or fortification of COMMUNITY.
- Offers CONTINUITY OF CARE. The INNATE Postpartum Care – Certified Providers teaching this class series, come from a variety of birth and health care providing backgrounds, and are able to provide you and your family with support in the postpartum time. Continuity of care within the medical world is understood to ‘improve clinical outcomes.’ Meaning that: continuity of care helps to facilitate healing.
- Offers discounts when Fathers/partners/friends/family who will be supporting Mother through and after birth, attend this class series with Mother. It is ESSENTIAL that NOT just pregnant Mothers are receiving this postpartum care education.
INNATE Postpartum Care works from the foundational understanding that: maternal health is foundational to society’s health. When Mothers are healthy and well, families are healthy and well. When families are healthy and well, communities are healthy and well – and this concentric ring of wellness continues to move outward to encompass the whole of the Earth. In optimally taking care of the Mothers, we are taking care of the future generations.
Click HERE to visit our Practitioners Directory to find an INNATE Postpartum Care – Certified Practitioner near to you. Or click HERE to see which INNATE Practitioner is teaching the next Preparing for the Fourth Trimester Course.
Planning for the Fourth Trimester - Certified Practitioners
Alli Shafer
Class Dates:
Weekend Immersion October 21-22, 2023
Saturday 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Sunday 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Location:
Audrey Thorp
Class Dates:
Location:
Sarasota, Florida
Alexandra Davis & Katherine Skilar
Class Dates:
Tuesday Evenings from 5:30 to 8:30 PM, CST.
October 10th, 17th, 24th, November 7th.
Communiy Celebration date TBD
Location:
In-person at Minnetonka, MN + LIVE Online Globally
Janel Maruk
Class Dates:
Sept 8 & 9 2023 (last class date TBD)
Location:
Saskatoon Saskatchewan, Canada
To register, email [email protected]
Megan Doyle
Class Dates:
Location:
In-person
Nampa, Idaho
Email:
[email protected]
Madeline Gustafson
Class Dates:
July 30, August 6, 13, 20 (5th class date TBD)
Location:
Sandpoint, Idaho
Cara Yellin
Class Dates:
May 6, 13, 20, 27 - 2023
Saturdays 12-2 pm EST
Final class date TBD
Location:
Carlotta Benzzotti
Class Dates:
23rd, 30th April and 7th, 14th May
at 4pm GMT/9am PT/11 EST
The final class date will be agreed upon with the participants.
Location:
Jordan Spencer
Class Dates:
Sundays March 12 & 19, 22th, 2023
March 8th, 15th (no class on March 1st)
12:00 to 3:30 pm
Location:
To register: Email JordanSpencer [email protected], Call/text (207) 228-5841
Tish Linstrom
Class Dates:
In-person: March 18th + 25th, 2023 (final class scheduled postpartum)
10:00 am - 1:30 pm
Online: April 15th + 22nd, 2023, 11:00 am est - 3:00 pm est
Location:
Alexandra Grajeda
Class Dates:
February 6th, 20th, 2023
March 6th, 20th, 2023
2:00to 4:00 pm Mountain Time
Location:
Prairie Wolfe
Class Dates:
February 8th, 15th, 22th, 2023
March 8th, 15th (no class on March 1st)
5:45-7:30 pm Mountain Time
Location:
Alyssa Mancini & Mary Sanker
Class Dates:
TBD
Location: