Dr. Reema Ranka (PT)

I've been on both sides of this. I'm a physiotherapist, and I'm a mother.

I know what the textbooks say about the fourth trimester, and I know what it actually feels like at three in the morning. That combination is most of why I work the way I do.

Fifteen thousand women later, the thing I'm most certain of is this: most of what frightens you about pregnancy is either normal, or fixable, and almost nobody tells you which is which. A great deal of what women are told to simply live with — the pain, the leaking, the sense that your body now belongs to someone else — is treatable, and treatable with evidence rather than reassurance.

My work bridges evidence-based physiotherapy with holistic maternal wellness. I founded ReBorn Institute of Women’s Health as a platform to educate, empower and support women through structured programmes, consultations and community — and to train the next generation of clinicians who will do this properly.

That's also why the programmes are deliberately small — five to twenty women at a time. You get answers to your questions, not a broadcast.