What's in my Postpartum Toolkit
This week I am resharing an old post from my old site. I used all these tools again to maintain sacred space after my third baby this winter, plus one extra that I'll share at the end. ~lis The first time I was pregnant, much of my focus was on the Pregnancy and Birth instead of the Postpartum transformation to Mamahood and the Newborn. For me, newborn care and being a Mama was all pretty instinctive. But the shift, the transition, that was the messier part I hadn’t planne
How my 3rd time's a charm and your 1st time can be (part 1)
There are one thousand ways I have found myself a total newbie at parenting even on the third time around. The newness has been both baffling and a sweet gift, reassuring that we are always growing, life is always changing, affirming that I am a different person than I was when my first child was born, and that this babe is a different being. There are also many ways that becoming a mama for the third time has been easier. More joyful. Besides the baby having more faces to
What a Postpartum Doula Does
What does a postpartum doula do is a commonly felt, if not commonly asked, quandary. I couldn’t imagine what a postpartum doula did until about 1 week after my first son was born when I was home alone and just wanted to talk to someone that GOT it: the emotions, the birth journey, the spit up and breast feeding, the infinite solitude that was never really solitary. Someone that would come over and listen without the primary goal of snuggling on my cute baby. Someone that c
