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INNATE Postpartum Care - Planning for the Fourth Trimester Course

for pregnant women & their partners/primary support people

(ideal for 12 - 32 weeks pregnant)

A community education series to plan and prepare for a nourishing, healing, and transformational postpartum time.

This 4 class series was created to educate pregnant women, their partners, and support systems (extended family and friends) on the 5 essentials of postpartum care with time-tested postpartum wisdom interwoven with modern science.

 

You take Childbirth Education classes, Prenatal Yoga, hire a Doula, and make a Plan for Birth, but what about YOU and your CARE on the other side of birth, with a baby and a whole healing journey ahead?

Most women are completely unprepared for postpartum. That’s why this course was created. Whether this is your first or fifth postpartum journey, there’s wisdom, science and time tested care practices to support your immediate postpartum and longterm wellbeing for the journey of motherhood.

Planning for postpartum lays a solid foundation for your wellbeing for years to come. The best gift you can give a baby is a well supported and cared for Mother. This begins with Planning for the Fourth Trimester.

Creating a Postpartum Care plan for yourself, that includes the core people who will be supporting you day in and day out, is a form of preventative medicine for many common postpartum symptoms rampant in our communities like postpartum depression and anxiety, digestive issues, pelvic pain/dysfunction, relationship challenges, and so much more.

The next Planning for the Fourth Trimester Course begins Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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Postpartum EDUCATION happens prenatally. Postpartum CARE happens in the Fourth Trimester, and beyond.

Meet the INNATE Postpartum Care Practitioners

(from left to right) - Lindsay Watkins, Brittany Zeer, Rachelle Seliga (creator of INNATE Postpartum Care), and Stephanie Yaremko, ND

 


  • This course was created by Rachelle Seliga, a Certified Professional Midwife with over 20 years experience in midwifery, holistic women’s care, and the creator of INNATE Postpartum Care.

    This course is taught around the world by certified INNATE Postpartum Care Practitioners with various backgrounds in pregnancy, birth, postpartum and holistic modalities for women and mothers.

    “The basis of INNATE’s system of care is the following: Maternal health is not only relative to Mothers themselves - but also to children and families - as children’s health is contingent upon Mother’s health. If we want to assure the health of the future generations, we need to begin by focusing on the health and well being of Mothers.” - Rachelle Seliga

    This course is being taught in Calgary, AB by Brittany Zeer (Main Instructor), Stephanie Yaremko ND & Lindsay Watkins (Guest Instructors)

    Learn more about Rachelle Seliga here

  • With over 3 years of hands on experience supporting mothers in the Fourth Trimester and beyond, for free-birth mama’s to scheduled/unplanned cesarean mama’s and all in between, Brittany has a gift for meeting you where you are to curate a unique postpartum experience for each mother/family’s needs.

    As the Main Instructor for Planning for the Fourth Trimester Course, Brittany will be focusing on:

    • Why Postpartum Care is a Necessity - Cross-Cultural Postpartum Care Traditions, and the 5 Essentials of Postpartum Care

    • Nourishment - Best foods and why, nutrient-dense and whole foods approach, recipe inspiration, meal planning tips, and tasty options to sample like bone broth, soup, muffins, teas, and elixirs

    • Warmth & Body Care - Why this is essential, accessible warming body care practices, culinary and medicinal herbs, and more

    • Community - Why Community is the FOUNDATION for postpartum care, creating supportive community, including your primary support in postpartum education (before you’re postpartum), and understanding the 3 phases of the Rite of Passage into Motherhood

    • Planning for your unique postpartum experience and community resources

    Learn more about Brittany here

  • Dr. Stephanie Yaremko is a mother of 3, is a naturopathic doctor and family wellness expert. Her practice is focused on growing healthy families and she has special interests in fertility and sleep. She works to educate her patients and the public about the tremendous power they have for their health and lives. She firmly believes that a person’s lifestyle is the greatest modifiable effecter of health.

    Dr. Stephanie will be focusing on:

    • Undestanding pregnancy, birth, and postpartum physiology, hormone changes, digestion, and how a lack of nutrional/lifestyle support impacts the occurence of postpartum depression/anxiety/perinatal mood disorders, and so much more

    • How Community Support is a biological imperative, understanding the nervous system, co-regulation, and the immaculate design of the mother-baby dyad

    Learn more about Dr. Stephanie here

  • Lindsay’s most important roles begin as being a mother, and a wife. Years ago, her womb journey started with her own health issues + pregnancy loss. Her work as a Womb Care Continuum Practitioner supports postpartum, belly/scar tissue, birth healing, digestive issues, pelvic pain, painful periods, back pain, breast care, and more.

    Lindsay will be focusing on:

    • Pelvic physiology for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, the physiological need for rest postpartum, body work as essential for postpartum care

    • Why pelvic work is essential and how this supports whole body wellbeing

    • Closing of the Bones as a physical and energetic closing/holding to honor the postpartum body

    Learn more about Lindsay here

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WHEN & WHERE

Tuesday, October 21 - November 11, 2025

  • 4 consecutive tuesday’s - 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

  • Samples of bone broth, soup, snacks, teas & elixirs will be provided

At the Sanctuary in Vitality BioMed

#280, 7015 Macleod Trail SW, Calgary, AB (near Chinook Mall)

Please Note…

A fifth class will take place once everyone is out of their Fourth Trimester, sometime in early 2026. The purpose of this final class is to gather in community once again to hold, honor, witness, and celebrate you as Mothers and Fathers while sharing your postpartum experience.

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INVESTMENT

INNATE POSTPARTUM CARE - PLANNING FOR THE FOURTH TRIMESTER course

Early Bird Pricing

$397/couple

$147/additional support person

Early bird pricing available until Friday, October 11 at 11:59pm

Regular Price

$447/couple

$197/additional support people

Registration Closes on Monday, October 20 at 11:59pm

 

Please note…it’s mandatory that the Partner (or primary support person) be present for each class.

This class is really more for them than it is for you, so they know how to support you while you focus on healing and bonding with your baby.

Additional support people who are invited (and encouraged) to attend can be your mother, grandmother, aunty, sister, or friend

Or any loved one who will be there for you most in the postpartum time, so they too have an understanding of your needs and how to better support you/mothers in your communities.

 

In this course you will learn:

  • Time-tested cross-cultural postpartum wisdom interwoven with modern science to support women’s long-term health and vitality

  • Empowering education, not only for mothers, but husbands/partners, and the community that will be supporting you

  • How to create a solid foundation for an optimal postpartum time to support thriving family systems and intergenerational healing

  • How to use the 5 Essentials of Postpartum Care as PREVENTATIVE medicine, and to support healing and thriving life in general

  • Tangible tools and resources to support you for whatever may come in the postpartum journey

  • AND you will gain a community to learn and grow with, who will also hold and witness you in your Rite of Passage into motherhood and fatherhood

 

Gather in community with highly skilled instructors to plan for the Postpartum of your dreams.

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WHY PLAN FOR POSTPARTUM?

An abundance of time, energy, and resources are spent on planning and preparing for pregnancy and birth, but few people apply the same time, energy, and resources to planning for postpartum.

INNATE Postpartum Care - Planning for the Fourth Trimester offers essential information to women and their families on the 5 Essentials of Postpartum Care to support mother’s long-term health, wellness, and vitality.

The basis of the INNATE Postpartum System of Care is rooted in the understanding that maternal health is not only relative to mothers, but to children and familial health, as a child’s health, and ultimately a family’s health, is contingent on the WELLNESS of mothers.

As mothers are the center of the family, if mothers are appropriately cared for and supported, the baby and family unit will also be cared for and supported.

Most mothers and families are blissfully unaware of the resourcing required to support and tend to new mothers, especially with their first baby, but also with a new baby while still tending to your other children. Just because you CAN do something on your own (because that’s all you’ve seen others do), doesn’t mean you should or have to.

Many common postpartum symptoms mothers face, like postpartum depression/anxiety, incontinence, pelvic and body pain, digestive issues, and more are usually rooted in a LACK of support, nourishment, and resourcing.

However, even though these are common symptoms and experiences that have become normalized, they are preventable and repairable with the proper tending to in the Fourth Trimester and beyond. If you can lay the foundation for healing and thriving life in your Fourth Trimester, not only will you emerge more whole and intact, but so can your relationships with your partner, your baby/children, and your community.

The purpose of creating a Postpartum Plan isn’t to support your baby, it’s to support YOU in getting your most basic needs met so you can emerge from the Fourth Trimester empowered, confident, and nourished to carry you through all the highs and lows of your mothering journey.

This creates a ripple effect of intergenerational and community healing, both forwards to future generations, and backwards for the mothers in your family/community who didn’t have this education and care available to them.

May you plan and prepare for postpartum so you can emerge from the Fourth Trimester more nourished, grounded and empowered, rather than exhausted and depleted, laying the foundation for thriving life for generations to come.

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