NOVA Placenta Mama

08/13/2021

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12/13/2019

It's not worth the risk!

05/23/2018

CRYING.

05/14/2018

Happy Mother’s Day 🤣🤣🤣

05/12/2018

Southern mamas know what I’m sayin!

04/08/2018

04/07/2018

True story 🤣

It’s true.

03/16/2018

Good advice

22cm or 8.6 inches. That is the exact diameter of a paper plate, AKA the fine china in our house. It is also the average diameter of a placenta. After a baby is born, mothers are told to take it easy for at least 4-6 weeks. There are good reasons for that! One of those reasons is that after the baby is born, mothers are left with a wound on the inside of their uterus where the placenta was attached. That wound will take at least 4-6 weeks to completely heal. During that time they are still susceptible to infection and hemorrhaging. Even if they have a complication-free vaginal delivery and feel okay, they will still need to take care of themselves and not overdo it for those first several weeks postpartum. To those mothers, rest! To their husbands, partners, parents, in-laws, friends - let them rest! Help out as much as you can and don’t let them overdo it!

As the saying goes "one week in bed, one week around the bed, and 2 weeks around the house."

Edited to add: I am not a medical professional. This is only meant to be common sense advice to take it easy. I do not mean for women to lay around for 4 weeks not moving at all. Listen to your body and take care of yourself! Talk to your doctor or midwife if you have any questions.

Edited (again) to add: My reason for adding the last paragraph was because some people were commenting that women would get a blood clot if they laid in bed for that long. My point was to say that women should use common sense about what resting means. I did not mean that women should be completely immobile for 1, 2, or 4 weeks. You can rest and spend the majority of your time in bed (or a couch or whatever) without being completely still and causing a blood clot. You can still get up to use the bathroom, get up to eat, go for a short walk, etc. while still spending the majority of the time resting and not doing housework, etc. A strong support system and lots of help from your partner, family, and friends is key.

Also, I believe the problem isn’t that doctors aren’t telling moms to rest for those first few weeks (at least I was told), but the problem is that they aren’t telling them WHY they should be resting. If you read back through the comments on this picture, there are several reasons women give as to why they didn’t rest. A big one is that they didn’t have any help, which is completely understandable. But another big reason is that they knew they were supposed to rest and even had family or friends telling them to rest, but they didn’t listen because they didn’t realize WHY they should rest. And this post is only ONE of the reasons why.

03/15/2018

Dammit. (via Allie Pierce Watts)

03/10/2018

No truer words 🤣

😂😂😂

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