As a mother of two, I apperceive the airiness and bite of postpartum. I additionally apperceive how important it is for new mothers to booty affliction of themselves physically and emotionally during this stage. It’s additionally important to plan for abutment during postpartum. Because, in my opinion, it’s a date that not abundant families adapt for.
I’m chatting with Caitlin Simpson, a perinatal amusing artisan and postpartum baker in Houston, TX, in this episode. Through her business, Dish Doula, she supports new mothers’ concrete and affecting bloom with the ability of acceptable food. She creates specialty postpartum aliment and articles and delivers them every anniversary in the Houston area.
With casework like Caitlin’s, I anticipate communities could accept a bigger and convalescent alpha to parenthood. This is why I’m captivated to altercate the postpartum period with her. We’re talking about what women charge to apperceive and adapt for, as able-bodied as what foods they should accept in their fridge and freezer for optimal healing and wellness.
One of my admired things Caitlin said was, “We advise bodies how to amusement us. And back you ask for help, you appearance bodies that you are able and that you accept aplomb in yourself. When we ask for help, we accord added women or added bodies that we are allurement the abandon to ask us in return. We again get the advantage of demography affliction of one another.”
Here are the assets that Caitlin and I mentioned during this episode:
- Book: Baby 411
- Book: The Aboriginal 40 Days
- Podcast: Tales from the 4th Trimester
- Doula Resources: DONA or CAPPA or DoulaMatch.net
- Postpartum Affliction Plan Template
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