Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming healthcare, including postpartum care. This period is crucial, marked by physical recovery, infant adjustment, and significant mental health risks. The question is not whether AI can be impressive but whether it can be evidence-based, safe, and clinically appropriate. This blog explores the current evidence supporting AI in postpartum care, its potential benefits, and what “clinical-grade” should mean in practice. My Journe

Dr. Patel at a home visit. A mother’s birth story is a critical driver of postpartum health outcomes, explaining everything from current anxiety triggers to ongoing physical pain and bonding stressors. Healthcare providers are often trained to ask the practical questions: bleeding, pain, feeding, mood, sleep, wound healing. Those matter. But there’s another question—one that’s easy to overlook and just as essential to postpartum recovery: “How was the birth?” For some mothers

Why Emotional Safety Matters More Than Your Supplement Routine Honestly, it’s more common than people realize: Your body doesn’t just respond to what you eat or how much you move. It responds to your emotional environment. We spend so much time in wellness spaces obsessing over the "perfect" routine. We track our macros, swap out plastics, stress over seed oils, and curate the perfect supplement list. But there is one massive, invisible factor that we almost never talk about: