Having a cold during the early postpartum days is the worst. You feel like you’ve been hit by a truck. All you want to do is curl up in bed and ignore the world…but you’ve got this newborn whose needs feel very urgent. It’s really common for new mums to ignore their own needs, especially […]
“The mother is also born” (and needs support to fly!)
“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) A mother is not born fully-fledged, like Athena springing from Zeus’ head. She is a newborn mother, a baby mother, a little chick mother, […]
When do traditional postnatal practices fail the new mother?
If you are an expectant mother, you probably want to feel valued, loved, and nurtured after giving birth. At the same time, you don’t want to give up your independence or adopt cultural practices that aren’t a good fit with your modern lifestyle. The drawbacks of traditional postnatal practices Recently, there’s been a surge of […]
Supportive spaces for newborn mums: where’s yours?
Sometimes the outside world feels chaotic and overwhelming, to a newborn mother. At Peaceful Postnatal, I encourage my clients to spend the first six weeks at home, drawing on ancient traditions of confinement. But it’s not always practical to spend several weeks at home. Maybe you need to do the school runs, or even just […]
