Today, I speak with Dr. Ashley Winter, Board certified urologist who specializes in sexual medicine and postpartum hormones. After realizing that many of the common concerns that patients were brining to her clinic were not being addressed by the information she was being taught, she decided to do a fellowship in sexual disfunction. After working in managed health for five years following her fellowship, she decided to branch out into the tech side of medicine to help improve sexual health care for everyone. We talk about: -foray into parenthood -normal hormone levels -failures in postpartum care -impacts of estrogen  -knowing when it’s something else -topical estrogen and breastfeeding -finding the right provider -the benefits of Telehealth Time Stamps 1:00 Introduction 7:33 parallels of hormones levels in pregnancy and postpartum 16:00 after the baby comes 22:30 genitourinary symptoms in lactation 25:24 barriers to obtaining vaginal estrogen 34:50 finding the right provider 45:02 listening to patients 50:33 rapid fire questions CONNECT WITH CARRIE IG: https://www.instagram.com/carriepagliano/ Website: https://carriepagliano.com CONNECT WITH ASHLEY Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleygwinter/ Twitter at @ashleygwinter The Active Mom Postpartum Podcast is A Real Moms' Guide to Postpartum for active moms & the postpartum professionals who help them in their journey. This show has been a long time in the making! You can expect conversation with moms and postpartum professionals from all aspects of the industry. If you're like me, you don't have a lot of free time (heck, you're probably listening at 1.5x speed), so theses interviews will be quick hits to get your the pertinent information FAST! If you love what you hear, share the podcast with a friend and leave us a 5 start rating and review. It helps us become more visible in the search algorithm! (Helps us get seen by more moms that need to hear these stories!!!!)