Post Partum Days

So many people focus on the new baby’s needs but so few are focused on the new mothers needs, especially at a time when she will be tired, her hormones are doing a new thing, she’s probably trying to learn how to breastfeed, the demands on her body and her time are HUGE, and all this while she may be healing from a birth injury.

I’m trying to make space for more ‘mothering the mother’.  Although postpartum is a beautiful and special time, we need also to acknowledge that it can be messy, exhausting and painful as well.