73. The Postpartum Non-Negotiables Every Woman Should Know

So let's go ahead and get into this week's episode.

You guys know last week I chatted for a quick minute about the kind of current news of the Lindsay Clancy trial.

And I'm actually going to do a bonus episode for you guys so that you can...

I just want to shed some light on this with a different perspective.

But in creating that, what it led me to was this week's topic, which we help so many women in.

And I think this is something that I could go and speak to the mountaintops.

I could literally do a petition to Congress about this subject.

And then I started thinking like, wait, do we even have a podcast episode about it? So now we will because we're going through it today.

And the topic is around postpartum support.

So there's a couple things just to lay on the table and get out of the way before we really dive into it.

But I want to tell you that you will benefit from the topics and the suggestions and the teaching that I'm going to give in this episode, even if you don't plan on having more babies.

Even if you are four, five, six years past postpartum, there will be pieces that will connect dots for you.

There will be things that you will be able to walk away with from this episode that will just...

I know they're going to provide clarity, but I also know you're going to be able to take action from that clarity.

So even if your last baby was, again... they're eight years old going into third grade at this point that's okay if you never walked through these steps for postpartum support your body is likely still needing them and so you can actually start doing the things i'm talking about right now and you'll see a difference so in general i think that most women would agree that their postpartum experience or even their postpartum education was likely lacking.

So I think one of the biggest pieces to just – like I said, we're just going to put some things on the table here is that it's something you go into with – a frame of mind, a frame of reference, and not often a ton of clarity on what am I going to need? How am I going to need it? What's the capacity of which I'm going to need it? And that can make anything difficult because you don't want to fall into fear and make fear-based plans or worry or anxiety before something even happens or shows up.

But then there's also not a lot of standardized ways understanding around, not from a fearful place, but from an educational place, what will my body be going through and what will it need to rebuild after this situation? It's very clear that a body that spends nine months giving all of its resources to another human and then has to move through the process of birth, which can look so different for everyone.

But typically any type of birth situation is going to create additional loss of sometimes nutrients, sometimes blood, sometimes integrity of your mucosal barriers, sometimes skin and scarring.

Like there's so many different components here.

And I think that a lot of times it feels because there can be such a variance there that maybe that's why the education's lacking.

I'm really not super sure.

But if you, I mean, even the sheer amount of appointments you have from the time you are told you're pregnant until delivery is massive compared to the type of appointments monitoring education options that you receive.

to recover from that very process of growing the baby.

And so it's treated as this huge event with a lot of attention to your body.

And I mean, understandably so, except that it's assumed the event and the risk and the need for continued care is gone once the baby is delivered.