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In the aftermath of the Lindsay Clancy trial, Julia and Eliza lock in for an investigation of the postpartum period, exploring the seismic changes that happen to your brain and body after giving birth. The girlies trace the shocking history of postpartum care, the highly misunderstood conditions of postpartum depression and psychosis, and the abysmal state of parental leave in America. Warning — this episode will leave you mad as hell!!! Digressions include welcoming new binchie babies into the world, being freed from the psychic torture of Tyra Banks, and having empathy for bad British food.
This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Kylie Finnigan and edited by Livi Burdette. 
If you're looking for postpartum support, Postpartum Support International offers support groups, provider directories, helplines, and other resources at https://postpartum.net/.
Carriage House Birth offers postpartum support groups and other resources at https://carriagehousebirth.com/.
To support the podcast on Patreon and access 50+ bonus episodes, mediasodes, and more, visit patreon.com/binchtopia and become a patron today.
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A scoping study of postpartum mental health problems and associated factors: opportunities for research and practice
Beyond "Baby Blues"
Biological Aspects of Postpartum Depression
Brooklyn Mother Sentenced to 20 Years to Life in Prison For Killing Her Three Children
Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2025
Fact Sheet: Maternal Mental Health
From Pregnancy to Postpartum: The Dynamic Reorganization of the Maternal Brain
Google Benefits
Inequities in CPS contact between Black and White children
Maternal Mental Health Conditions and Statistics: An Overview
Matrescence: Lifetime Impact of Motherhood on Cognition and the Brain
Mother Who Drowned 3 Children at Coney Island Is Sentenced to 20 Years Drownings at Coney Island Mark the End of a Mother's Descent
Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy
OECD Members and Partners
Paid Family Leave Across OECD Countries
Paid Leave: State Family and Medical Leave Laws
Perinatal Depression
Physiology, Postpartum Changes
Postpartum Baby Blues
Postpartum anxiety is invisible, but common and treatable
Postpartum Care: An Approach to the Fourth Trimester
Postpartum Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder: Review of Neurobiology and Expert Consensus Statement on Classification
Postpartum Psychosis: Madness, Mania, and Melancholia in Motherhood
Pregnant mothers with strong family support less likely to have postpartum depression, study finds
Prevalence and Course of Unwanted, Intrusive Thoughts of Infant-Related Harm
Protecting body and soul in medieval childbirth
Rachel Moran, 'Making Sense of Postpartum Politics': Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America
Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health: Current Status and Key Issues
The Baby Pinks: What to Know About Postpartum Euphoria
The Effect of Spousal Support on Postpartum Depression and Quality of Life
The hospital and the postpartum experience: a historical analysis
The Impact of Motherhood on Women's Career Progression: A Scoping Review of Evidence-Based Interventions
The Important Role of Partner Support in Women's Mental Disorders During the Perinatal Period. A Literature Review
The Intimate History of Confinement
The Landscape of Parental Leave-Taking in the United States
The phenomenology of postpartum psychosis: preliminary findings from the Massachusetts General Hospital Postpartum Psychosis Project
Understanding Infanticide in Context: Mothers Who Kill, 1870-1930 and Today
Waffle House Careers
What are Postpartum and Perinatal OCD?
What data does the BLS publish on family leave?
When can I go back to work after having a baby?
Who is Andrea Yates? A Short Story About Insanity
Women Should Rest for a Month After Childbirth—Myth or Fact?
Women With Postpartum Depression Experienced Brain Changes During Pregnancy, Study Finds

Binchtopia is on a little post-tour vacation this week, so we're releasing this healing episode from the vault This episode was originally released on March 25, 2026 as a Patreon exclusive. Become a patron today to support the show, keep us ad-free, and unlock our backlog of 50+ bonus episodes at patreon.com/binchtopia.

Julia is joined by Carina Hsieh, Deputy Features Editor at Women's Health and the writer widely credited with inventing the term "situationship," to revisit the term's origins and assess the current state of modern dating. They trace the history of dating from courtship and going steady to hookup culture and dating apps, unpack the anxious-avoidant trap, and examine whether dating advice reels, and other online rules actually protect women from heartbreak or just give them more ways to blame themselves. Digressions include the bygone thrill of being pinned, men who self-report as securely attached, and the horror of buying a cheater a PS5 with your own money.
Check out more of Carina's writing at Women's Health and follow her on Instagram @carinahsieh!
WE'RE GOING ON TOUR!!!! Find tickets for the Shake Up Your Life Tour at https://binchtopia.com/tour
This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Kylie Finnigan and edited by Livi Burdette.

Julia is joined by bestina and hospital chaplain Sarah Doumar to confront the only thing we are unfortunately promised in this lifetime: death. Together the girlies deconstruct how dying transformed from an intimate, familiar occurence to a hidden and medicalized taboo, unpacking the predatory funeral industry, the West's treatment of elders, and society's obsession with immortality. Plus, Sarah shares what sitting with dying patients has taught her about grief, fear, and spirituality. Digressions include tyrannical choir teachers, a sacred dream about Heath Ledger, and smoking hookah at the retirement village.
WE'RE GOING ON TOUR!!!! Find tickets for the Shake Up Your Life Tour at https://binchtopia.com/tour
This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Kylie Finnigan and edited by Livi Burdette. 
To support the podcast on Patreon and access 50+ bonus episodes, mediasodes, and more, visit patreon.com/binchtopia and become a patron today.
SOURCES
A Third of Young Adults Are Still Living With Their Parents—as Old Taboo 
Aging Out by Lucy Schiller
Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life
Becomes the New Normal Amid Soaring Costs 
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande 
Death Is Having a Moment 
Death anxiety. The worm at the core of mental health. 
Does The Internet Change How We Die And Mourn? Overview And Analysis 
Good Grief 
Growing Old in America by David Hackett Fischer
It's Mourning in America
It's Time to Let the Five Stages of Grief Die 
Longevity increased by positive self-perceptions of aging 
Mid-Late Victorian Mourning Dress
Mortal Remains: Death in America by Nancy Isenberg
Mourning during the Civil War 
New study challenges notion that aging means decline, finds many older adults improve over time 
Place of Death Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic 
Poor Relief and the Almshouse 
Senior Living History: 1930 - 1939 
TERROR MANAGEMENT THEORY 
The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford 
The Denial of Death and the Practice of Dying 
The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Ariès
The FTC Funeral Rule 
The other side of sadness: What the new science of bereavement tells us about life after loss. 
The Trouble with Nursing Homes 
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
U.S. centenarian population is projected to quadruple over the next 30 years 
Western Attitudes Toward Death From The Middle Ages To The Present by Philippe Ariès 
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Julia and Nick explore the dark side of shaking up your life — because sometimes, the shake TAKETH! From accidental military enlistment to having a warrant out for your arrest, they tell the stories of tremendous flops and binchies who rose from the ashes. Digressions include Nick's failed attempt at heterosexuality, a horrifying clown-centric production of Moby Dick, and Kaitlin Bennett x Soho House.
WE'RE GOING ON TOUR!!!! Find tickets for the Shake Up Your Life Tour at https://binchtopia.com/tour






This episode was originally released on May 13, 2026 as a Patreon exclusive, and we're unlocking it for you to make the most of the extra week in July AND in honor of the Shake Up Your Life Tour.
 
Become a patron today to support the show, keep us ad-free and unlock our backlog of over 50 bonus episodes at patreon.com/binchtopia.