Postpartum Care

     Oftentimes, childbirth becomes the singular focus of pregnancy. A tremendous milestone and an opportunity to not only meet your baby, but also to birth yourself and your family into a new chapter. Preparing for and giving birth are powerful times to research your options, call in your support systems, and gather your strength.

Birth in itself is an all consuming act, requiring the full attention of mother, baby, and the team of specialists supporting them to make the passage safely. 

     Once baby is born earthside, the delicate dance of postpartum begins. Birthing your placenta, holding your baby for the first time, becoming a mother, or integrating a new soul into an already existing family structure. Breastfeeding, tending your healing body, learning to manage your daily tasks while caring for yourself and your baby. Powerful, intense, beautiful, overwhelming, postpartum is one of the most formative times of a woman's life. The support she receives or does not receive during this time are crucial to her ability to bond with her child, to bond with her new self, to heal her body, and to emerge from the cocoon of labor, birth, and postpartum, whole and prepared for the next stage of life. Too often this support is overlooked, mother and baby left alone or in their nuclear family wrestling with all the newness. As a mother of three, birthed at home naturally, I experienced a drastic comparison between my first and second child. With my first, I was only just developing some sense of community, unsupported by my birth family in my choices to labor at home, and largely without resources to lean into besides my Spiritual Midwifery book, I experienced what felt like extreme isolation during my postpartum journey. Although I had a supportive partner, integrating all the newness was too much for just the two if us to manage. Beautiful moments shined in between the tears, but the yearning for supportive women around me was undeniable. 

     By the time I birthed my second child, I had developed a beautiful moon lodge circle of women. 15 women came twice each, every other day of my postpartum healing. Stretched out in this format, I was gifted 60 days of meals, listening ears, safe arms to hold my baby, and shoulders to cry on. This support changed my life, and instilled in me a fullness and gratitude that can never be matched. This tribal style of mothers tending mothers is invaluable to our society as it allows families a positive and empowered beginning to set the tone for all that they will offer to the world in the years to come. These experiences led me to passionately explore postpartum doula work, whose themes are often echoed in my work with plant medicine integration. These fragile times of new beginnings are worthy and requiring of support, I am so honored to be able to offer this to mothers as they heal.