294. Fourth Trimester Preparation and Learning to Let Go with Leisha Drews

Hello, welcome back to the podcast.

We are going to have a conversation today around postpartum because I think that The conversation in the media right now is really kind of very, very scary and negative around postpartum.

And so today, Sarah Marie, who is a doula and I, we both are moms.

We both have experienced postpartum.

We both work with clients in postpartum.

We just wanted to have a real conversation about postpartum.

how postpartum can be a really good and beautiful season and how the hard parts of it can be part of that beautiful season and just help you just be a little more prepared in a positive way for a thriving and peaceful postpartum.

And so we're just going to dive into that.

Yeah, I think it's such an important topic.

And like you said, especially right now, things that are circulating and people being worried and scared and nervous about what is to come and not knowing how our hormones are going to be or how our emotions are going to be or what kind of support we're going to have or what that looks like.

And I think a lot of those unknowns, especially if you're you know, preparing for it for the first time is hard to comprehend.

And this is something new and something that you've never been through before.

And even if you have been through it before, maybe your first experience was negative, or maybe you did feel really overwhelmed.

And so now you're trying to figure out, you know, how can I prepare for it differently? And what should I be looking out for? What should I be doing to prepare for that?

Yeah, absolutely.

Something that I want to actually just bring out like very first thing is I hear women on like other podcasts or just in conversation talk about postpartum depression as postpartum.

But postpartum is just the time frame after you have a baby.

But when it's like such a synonymous term, I think that that can be scary in and of itself for women to almost like just have that term in their heads as the same thing and expect for it to be negative.

So I do want to touch on, I guess, just kind of like postpartum mental health.

Let's talk about that first and why postpartum can be so difficult and the hormone changes and what can happen, but also how it doesn't have to be that way.

Even if you have had a pregnancy before where you've had anxiety or depression or your friend has or your sister has, there's so much that we can do to support your body so that you're in a stable place.

But then also there's so much we can do with community support and like preparing your home and your meals and all those things beforehand.

So I'll just start with essentially kind of like the difference between a typical postpartum and what's happening with your hormones and then what can happen when things kind of go off track and why.

Typically when you are pregnant and like I say typically like this is what happens when you're pregnant, your estrogen and progesterone specifically go very, very high.

You are making a baby.