Postpartum care is important! I don’t think there is enough education for new moms on postpartum care. We are left to our own devices (you know I mean googling) to find out what is best for our bodies both physically and mentally/emotionally. The amount of contradicting information I personally found and read was anxiaety inducing. I was at a point in my pregnancy when I thought, ” I have all of these things for the baby;diapers, clothes, mechanical contraptions (we still barely use at 7 months old might I add), and everything else under the sun you would have to prepare for a baby, but I didn’t have anything to prepare for myself as a new mom. I’m not close with my own mother and it made this pregnancy hard. My body was about to go through the biggest change in my life and the only advice I had gotten about postpartum care was “don’t get depressed, keep busy”, “nap when baby naps”, “make sure you ask for help”. But ask for help with what? I wanted to know how to keep my vagina from feeling like it was on fire, keep my bowels from wanting to explode out my side, and how to pee without it burning like the heat of a million dying suns. I wish someone had told me to keep up with my hobbies and not to lose myself. Off to Google I went for what felt like the hundredth time. There was a lot of different pages and posts that I found that were honestly helpful in educating me on my postpartum journey. Most things I read had to do with buying things and buying things I did a lot of. I didnt have anything else to do after all. I didnt know at the time that postpartum care would me more of a mental and emotional game then a physical one. I’m still finding my way around the mental and emotional scars postpartum. Postpartum care is important. And it shouldn’t end when the physical scars heal.
Maritime Mama 