01/31/2025
You can read the whole post to see why, just answer me this. What is something you WISH someone would have told you you might experience post partum?
- For me, I wish someone told me I might not feel all happy/bubbly AND that it was okay. Just because your baby is here doesn’t mean you will automatically be floating on baby bliss clouds with rainbows & butterflies.
While at a post partum follow up visit, I had such a strange feeling. The best word I can use to describe that feeling is ✨incomplete✨. I felt like this cannot be where my support stops. Here I am hyping these mamas up, providing ALOT of birth education, a little post partum education, helping them through labor and THEN what? I text a good bit checking in on the new moms and typically do one in person follow-up post partum visit to see how everyone is adjusting, but you know what? It’s not enough. I’m not through with these mamas, I can’t be. We spend all this time on labor and then we slowly drop off. I understand hiring a doula is not a life time relationship deal normally, but there’s a GAP in the post partum care in our world. We as friends, family, sisters, doulas- maybe we aren’t stepping in or up as much as we should. I’m partnering with my friend Paige Langlinais McCafferty and together her and I want to create a condensed handout on PostPartum. We want to talk about boundaries, how to frame boundary sentences, things you might experience, things you might want to reflect on, how your partner can help, LOCAL resources, SAFE LOCAL mother/ child outings, the list goes on! We know there’s books, but in reality who has the time AND willpower to read a book? Especially if you’re already struggling and/or overwhelmed.
What can you do? You will see polls and posts coming up speaking heavily on post partum. We WANT your input!! Help us connect in this community and let us all give these mamas a step up BEFORE they need it. This is the beginning of what we hope is a beautiful, new shift in our community- be part of it!
