28/07/2026
It is important to set yourself up for your postpartum.
To prepare the nourishing meals for the freezer, to have on hand warming herbal teas, to arrange for healing massage and bodywork and to have your favourite remedies on hand. Make plans to call on your friends, family and community to support you, to clean, to cook, to bring meals, to care for your other children. To have your partner plan time to be home.
All of this is so important.
But it won’t make postpartum easy.
Postpartum is not really meant to be easy. It’s a period of transition, a rite of passage and they are not traditionally easy- just ask anyone who has been through one involving intense pain, long periods of deprivation of sleep and food, physical and mental tests of endurance.
Actually, that sounds pretty close to the postpartum experience!
But all that preparation is still important. All the nourishing foods, teas, essential oils, remedies and bodywork will help you to rebuild on many levels. The community of support will allow you to rest, to be more still.
Preparation allows you the space for the rite of passage to unfold. It allows you to be held as you unravel physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and gives you the space to begin to integrate this deep change, as you reform into the new version of you, into the mother this baby needs you to become.