Newly Nested Postpartum Doula Services

(( Edit: I am writing this as a white woman. I am not sharing this article for folks to appropriate other cultures’ postpartum traditions. I am sharing to honor and respect those traditions. Ask your mother or your auntie what their postpartum practices are. If there aren’t any in place, create your own, based on your own family’s comfort foods and traditions of nurturing. ))

How Food Traditions Nourish New Moms Parents still turn to old recipes and customs for postpartum recovery.

This. ❤️

Especially in the first few days home, don't even try. She probably doesn't even feel that she is making sense. She doesn't need to. She just made a whole human INSIDE HER BODY!!!! She may have just pushed out a tiny human that looks like you...or maybe like your dad. :) Or perhaps she had MAJOR ABDOMINAL SURGERY that she is trying to recover from.
And did you know her hormones have completely flipped? Nothing she had going strong in pregnancy is even being made in her body right now.
And then her breasts are doing new things. BIG things.
So don't ask her what is wrong. She DOESN'T KNOW.
Just love her. It won't last forever. Offer her helpful things, but don't try to fix it. You can't anyway.

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You can and you will. ❤️