As a pelvic health acute care PT and a mom of two, Dr. Meredith Grady, PT, DPT knows the gap between what childbirth recovery is supposed to look like and what it actually is, because she lived it herself. A hard delivery left her with urinary retention, an unplanned ED visit, and a pudendal nerve injury that took months to heal. She was the clinician who would have caught it in someone else. Instead, she became the patient that nobody caught in time. So she built the program she needed: a full-time pelvic health PT on the postpartum floor at University of Utah Health, seeing moms within 24 to 48 hours of delivery, catching urinary retention, tearing, nerve injuries, and mobility issues before they ever leave the hospital. Getting there meant winning over nurses who didn't know her yet, earning trust from midwives one conversation at a time, and proving to a hospital that never had a PT on this unit that the role was worth keeping. In her live presentation and Q&A, Dr. Grady will share what that actually looked like from the inside: her own story, the mistakes she made early on, and the daily rhythm of a program built specifically around the pelvic floor needs of moms in the first hours and days after birth. Come hear how one PT is changing what postpartum care looks like, starting with her own hospital and her own recovery. REGISTER HERE

In this training, participants will learn how to evaluate and treat intimacy as a core component of postpartum care, starting in the first couple of weeks after birth. Intimacy is one of the most overlooked areas of postpartum assessment, and when it is addressed at all, it is often limited to brief counseling on birth control, leaving a significant gap in whole person care. Participants will learn how to assess what intimacy means to each client, including their ideal vision of connection with a partner, and how to identify the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual factors that may be impacting intimacy in the early postpartum period. The training then translates these findings into recommended interventions matched to each stage of early recovery, so clients can work toward their stated intimacy and connection goals safely and on their own timeline. All content is grounded in current rehabilitation scope of practice and emphasizes client-centered communication, clinical reasoning, and functional outcomes related to intimacy and connection during the early postpartum period. Join us on September 29th at 5 PM MDT for the third training in this incredible series. REGISTER HERE

We’re highlighting what can happen when an OT student is taught to do more than treat the next patient on the schedule. Emily Gill used her doctoral occupational therapy capstone at Banner Gateway Medical Center in Arizona to help initiate both OT and PT after Cesarean birth. She worked with nursing leadership, OB providers, and rehabilitation staff to build support for the service, promote referrals, and expand access to rehabilitation for mothers during their hospital stay. Since January 2026, the program has generated 43 referrals, and hospital leadership plans to continue the work after her capstone ends. During this session, Emily will share what she did, who she approached, what helped move the program forward, and what she learned about building an interdisciplinary maternal rehabilitation pathway inside a hospital. Emily is a recent occupational therapy graduate from A.T. Still University whose work focuses on education, program development, and improving access to OT and PT after Cesarean birth. Join us on September 15th at 7 PM ET to hear how one capstone project helped create a pathway for an entire patient population. REGISTER HERE