Postpartum Care
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What’s a Doula |Black Doulas and Midwives near me in NYC
Traditionally all Doulas and Midwives that birthed babies in America were Black women, over time the “business of birthing” gave way to whitewashing and monetization. Now it’s harder and harder to find a Black birth worker. The care of a Midwife for a low-risk birthing human greatly reduces the risk of complications in pregnancy and delivery. I didn’t hire a doula at my first birth, I thought I couldn’t afford one and I was also really afraid of having any more than the one stranger that ABSOLUTLEY HAD to see my vagina, get a peek at it. My midwife knowledgeable as ever showed up to my birth with a doula…
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Postpartum Care | Prioritize Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy
What is pelvic floor physical therapy exactly? Pelvic floor physiotherapy is a guided form of internal bodywork that focuses on strengthening the pelvic floor. Pelvic floor physical therapists are globally excepted as an integral part of postpartum care, except for in, you guessed it the United States. The way that it really clicked for me to visualize what pelvic floor physiotherapy really was, and why I should see a physical therapist was to think of your favorite net reusable bag, hang it on a hook and then place a bowling ball in it, and remove after 9 months. A sturdy bag may not break but signs of its former inhabitant…
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8 Cute Nursing Bras Found on Amazon for Plus size and Straight Size bodies
Searching for cute bras to nurse in is hard enough when you’re not in a pandemic. Guessing the exact size your boobs are going to balloon to coupled with the new measurement for your postpartum girth, is far from an exact science. After countless hours of research, conducted in the dead of night once my tiniest best friend woke me for a night feed I’ve found some pretty epic numbers How do you like your Nursing bras? The first step before searching for the perfect nursing bras whether it be on Amazon or elsewhere is to decide your preferred boob access. Essentially decide how exposed you want your boobs to…
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Binding Postpartum | Choosing The best belly wrap, faja, or girdle
Wrapping your belly postpartum is a very controversial polarizing concept. Many birth workers are divided on whether or not it’s best for postpartum women to wrap their belly. However, in most indigenous cultures around the world, some sort of binding is used postpartum, whether it be an intricately wound strip of fabric or a girdle. The closing of the womb and resetting of the hips is an age old tradition the world around. Wrapping your belly postpartum is a very controversial polarizing concept. Many birth workers are divided on whether or not it’s best for postpartum women to wrap their belly. However, in most indigenous cultures around the world, some…
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Postpartum Skin Care
So full transparency, I’m coming up on one month postpartum and have probably managed to bathe about four times. Absolutely no shame. On the other hand my postpartum skin care routine is next level. I may be covered in breastmilk from the neck down but my face is glowing like my new baby’s bottom. Trust me carving out time to care for my whole body may be a distant memory in my early postpartum days but the five minutes it takes to care for the skin on my face, I can find. After all on the rare chance that your little one will remember their birth, wouldn’t you rather they…
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Postpartum Care | Perineum Sitz Bath
It’s funny, but after delivering a baby all the attention shifts off of you on to the new life you have birthed. No one seems to concern themselves with that little person’s mode of entry into the words. Your nether regions. In order to soothe and care for the ordeal that has befallen your perineum that started with a little something ominously named “the ring of fire” and ending with the shoulders of a human exiting your body. You deserve a spa day. Your nether regions deserve to be lavished and pampered and essentially treated to teatime with the queen on the daily. Enter the postpartum Sitz Bath. A sitz…
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Postpartum Care| Breastfeeding Clothing
Postpartum my body changed a great deal sizing me out of not only my wardrobe but straight sizing. I gained so much weight during my pregnancy that my body type changed drastically making it hard to feel good in the clothing that did still fit. I felt bad about wanting a whole new wardrobe but also got so bummed out looking at my clothing that some days I’d just stand in my closet and cry. First-world problems aside, I became acutely aware that me finding the right breastfeeding clothing was an important part of my postpartum care. I’m ant maternity clothing because they’re only really useful for five months or…
