Episode 2: Postpartum Care

Ashley and Anna offer a crash course in postpartum care for expecting and new mothers. 

0:00 Intro

1:04 What Ashley and Anna knew about postpartum life before studying Chinese medicine

2:33 What is postpartum like in American culture?

3:10 What you should be doing during the postpartum time

3:50 25% of women in the U.S. go back to work within 10 days of giving birth

4:39 What happens to your body during and after pregnancy

7:18 Ashley’s postpartum recovery miscalculation

9:17 Postpartum planning in the Netherlands and Belgium

10:46 The First Forty Days exploration

15:40 Anna’s birth injury circumstances

16:49 In a perfect world…

17:49 Things you can do to prepare for the postpartum period

18:52 Eating bone broth to rebuild blood and repair the body’s connective tissues

20:15 Why you should purchase waist and hip binders

21:10 Why you should stock up on cooling pads

22:34 Why you should use a Sitz Bath

23:39 Why you need a support system

26:18 Anna’s home birth plan and why you should be prepared

29:32 Ashley’s labor, penicillin experience, and getting C dif

30:52 The donor milk possibility

33:39 The key to making more breast milk

35:40 What really happens after you have a baby

38:00 All about the placenta

41:39 Wrap up