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A woman with braided hair, likely navigating her postpartum recovery, is holding a newborn baby close to her face. She appears to be giving the baby a gentle kiss on the forehead. The baby is wearing a white outfit and seems content, with its eyes slightly open.

Postpartum Essentials: What You Really Need for Mom and Baby

These postpartum essentials for mom and baby can help make recovery, feeding, and newborn care easier after birth.

A newborn baby lying on a blanket is flanked by two adults, one on either side. The person on the left is kissing the baby's forehead while the person on the right looks at the baby. They are all lying on their sides on a bed, perhaps discussing their postpartum plan for this new chapter in life.

How To Make a Postpartum Plan

Close-up of a person wearing white underwear, revealing a horizontal scar on their lower abdomen. The scar appears to be a recent surgical incision, possibly from a Cesarean section. This image depicts part of the week-by-week c-section recovery process. The background is blurred.

C-Section Recovery: Week-by-Week Guide for Healing After Birth

A person sitting on a toilet with underwear around their ankles, visible through a slightly open door in a bathroom. The bathroom features a sink with a cabinet beneath, tiled flooring, and a shower stall. This private moment highlights the importance of perineal care for recovery and hygiene.

Perineal Care Postpartum: Tips for Healing After Birth

A woman with long curly hair, in the midst of gathering her c-section recovery must-haves, is holding a newborn baby wrapped in a light blanket. She is looking down and smiling at the baby while standing indoors.

15 C-Section Recovery Must-Haves

A newborn baby lying on a blanket is flanked by two adults, one on either side. The person on the left is kissing the baby's forehead while the person on the right looks at the baby. They are all lying on their sides on a bed, perhaps discussing their postpartum plan for this new chapter in life.

How To Make a Postpartum Plan

Close-up of a person wearing white underwear, revealing a horizontal scar on their lower abdomen. The scar appears to be a recent surgical incision, possibly from a Cesarean section. This image depicts part of the week-by-week c-section recovery process. The background is blurred.

C-Section Recovery: Week-by-Week Guide for Healing After Birth

A person sitting on a toilet with underwear around their ankles, visible through a slightly open door in a bathroom. The bathroom features a sink with a cabinet beneath, tiled flooring, and a shower stall. This private moment highlights the importance of perineal care for recovery and hygiene.

Perineal Care Postpartum: Tips for Healing After Birth

A woman with long curly hair, in the midst of gathering her c-section recovery must-haves, is holding a newborn baby wrapped in a light blanket. She is looking down and smiling at the baby while standing indoors.

15 C-Section Recovery Must-Haves

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A woman with braided hair, likely navigating her postpartum recovery, is holding a newborn baby close to her face. She appears to be giving the baby a gentle kiss on the forehead. The baby is wearing a white outfit and seems content, with its eyes slightly open.

Postpartum Essentials: What You Really Need for Mom and Baby

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A woman with long curly hair, in the midst of gathering her c-section recovery must-haves, is holding a newborn baby wrapped in a light blanket. She is looking down and smiling at the baby while standing indoors.

15 C-Section Recovery Must-Haves

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A collection of postpartum must-haves arranged on a soft beige couch includes a black nursing bra, Perineal Bath Herbs, a Perineal Care Spray, Earth Mama Bottom Balm, QuickClean Micro-Steam Bags, maternity pads, cloth wipes, a peri bottle, and a floral bag.

19 Postpartum Must-Haves for Recovery After a Vaginal Birth

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A pregnant woman performs a hands-and-knees exercise on a rug with the assistance of a physical therapist. The setting appears to be a home with a couch and potted plants in the background.

How To Care For Your Body and Pelvic Floor After Childbirth

A pair of black women's underwear with lace detail lies elegantly on a white surface. Surrounding it are a yellow flower, a halved grapefruit, and a clear spray bottle, creating a chic display. The scene evokes the delicate beauty of Momotaro peaches in bloom.

Natural Postpartum Healing with Momotaro

Two women are walking on a sidewalk, with one pushing a stroller. Both are casually dressed in athletic clothing and appear to be engaged in conversation, smiling. There is greenery and blooming flowers along the path—a perfect setting to boost your postpartum recovery.

Helpful Tips to Boost Your Postpartum Recovery

A woman is sitting on a couch in a dimly lit room, breastfeeding a baby, finding support during postpartum. She looks down at the baby with a gentle expression. The room has soft lighting and some plants in the background.

Postpartum Food

Food and Emotional Support During Postpartum

A woman is lying-in on a bed with her eyes closed, resting on a white pillow. She holds a sleeping baby on her chest, supporting the baby with one hand. They are both wearing light-colored clothes, and the background shows white bedding.

Postpartum Tips

What is Lying-in? A Plan for Postpartum Recovery and Support

A woman with short hair is bottle-feeding a baby while sitting on a bed. Another woman with shoulder-length blonde hair, dressed in a white uniform, is kneeling beside them, touching the woman's knee and smiling. It’s moments like these that are often shared on postpartum doula podcasts.

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A pregnant woman performs a hands-and-knees exercise on a rug with the assistance of a physical therapist. The setting appears to be a home with a couch and potted plants in the background.

How To Care For Your Body and Pelvic Floor After Childbirth – Podcast Ep 154

A woman with braided hair, likely navigating her postpartum recovery, is holding a newborn baby close to her face. She appears to be giving the baby a gentle kiss on the forehead. The baby is wearing a white outfit and seems content, with its eyes slightly open.

Postpartum Essentials: What You Really Need for Mom and Baby

A recently postpartum woman is sitting on a toilet in a bathroom, leaning forward with her head resting on her hand, and appears to be in discomfort. Her pants are pulled down to her ankles, and there is a roll of toilet paper on the floor next to her. She might be worried about postpartum hemorrhoids after birth.

Postpartum Hemorrhoids: How To Treat Them and Get Relief

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A woman with long blonde hair is holding an infant in her arms near a sunlit window. She looks down at the baby with a gentle expression. Wearing a watch and a dark top, she epitomizes self-care for moms, ensuring both of them are enveloped in love as the baby is wrapped in a light-colored blanket.

21 Postpartum Self-Care Tips for New Moms

A person sitting on a toilet with underwear around their ankles, visible through a slightly open door in a bathroom. The bathroom features a sink with a cabinet beneath, tiled flooring, and a shower stall. This private moment highlights the importance of perineal care for recovery and hygiene.

Perineal Care Postpartum: Tips for Healing After Birth

A close-up photo showing the lower bodies of a baby wearing a light pink onesie and an adult, whose c-section scar is visible above striped underwear, lying next to each other on a white fabric surface.

How to Care for Your C-Section Scar for Healthy Healing

A woman rests in a hospital bed holding a newborn baby wrapped in a colorful blanket on her chest. She wears an identification bracelet on her wrist, having just overcome postpartum hemorrhage. In the background, a child in a red shirt faces away from the camera.

Understanding Postpartum Hemorrhage and How To Recover

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A person with curly hair is sitting on a teal couch during their postpartum recovery period while holding a sleeping newborn baby dressed in white clothing. The person is wearing a purple sleeveless top and dark pants. The scene appears calm and intimate.

Postpartum Recovery Period: 7 Things No One Tells You

A person wearing a black shirt and black pants is adjusting a grey Mamaway abdominal binder around their waist. The background includes a bed with white bedding and partially visible beige furniture.

The Nano Bamboo Postnatal Recovery & Support Belly Band From Mamaway

A pair of black women's underwear with lace detail lies elegantly on a white surface. Surrounding it are a yellow flower, a halved grapefruit, and a clear spray bottle, creating a chic display. The scene evokes the delicate beauty of Momotaro peaches in bloom.

Natural Postpartum Healing with Momotaro – Podcast Ep 77

A person with long hair is lying down, holding and kissing the forehead of a sleeping baby dressed in a white outfit. The baby, enveloped in the warmth of the fourth trimester, rests on the person's chest, with one hand gently touching the fabric.

The “Fourth Trimester” Survival Guide: How to Survive the First Weeks

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Two women are walking on a sidewalk, with one pushing a stroller. Both are casually dressed in athletic clothing and appear to be engaged in conversation, smiling. There is greenery and blooming flowers along the path—a perfect setting to boost your postpartum recovery.

Helpful Tips to Boost Your Postpartum Recovery – Podcast Ep 72

A woman with long dark hair holds and kisses the forehead of a baby, finding solace and pain relief after childbirth. She is seated on a patterned sofa in a neutral-toned room. The baby is dressed in white, and both appear affectionate and calm.

Understanding Your Pain Relief Options After Childbirth

A woman is sitting on a couch in a dimly lit room, breastfeeding a baby, finding support during postpartum. She looks down at the baby with a gentle expression. The room has soft lighting and some plants in the background.

Food and Emotional Support During Postpartum – Podcast Ep 59

Postpartum Food

A newborn baby lying on a blanket is flanked by two adults, one on either side. The person on the left is kissing the baby's forehead while the person on the right looks at the baby. They are all lying on their sides on a bed, perhaps discussing their postpartum plan for this new chapter in life.

How To Make a Postpartum Plan

A woman in a hospital gown smiles while holding a newborn baby. The woman is lying in a hospital bed, and a person in blue medical scrubs is partially visible in the background, suggesting a hospital setting. Despite the challenges of perineal tearing, her joy is palpable.

Perineal Tearing: How To Reduce Tearing and Heal After Birth

A woman with long curly hair, in the midst of gathering her c-section recovery must-haves, is holding a newborn baby wrapped in a light blanket. She is looking down and smiling at the baby while standing indoors.

15 C-Section Recovery Must-Haves

A woman is lying-in on a bed with her eyes closed, resting on a white pillow. She holds a sleeping baby on her chest, supporting the baby with one hand. They are both wearing light-colored clothes, and the background shows white bedding.

What is Lying-in? A Plan for Postpartum Recovery and Support – Podcast Ep 18

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A woman lies on her back, looking off into the distance with a neutral expression. An infant rests on her chest, asleep with its head snuggled into her shoulder. The background is softly blurred, capturing the tender postpartum moment between mother and child.

How To Take Care of Yourself After Birth

Close-up of a person wearing white underwear, revealing a horizontal scar on their lower abdomen. The scar appears to be a recent surgical incision, possibly from a Cesarean section. This image depicts part of the week-by-week c-section recovery process. The background is blurred.

C-Section Recovery: Week-by-Week Guide for Healing After Birth

A baby is lying on a person's legs with the person's hands holding the baby's hands. The baby is looking up and smiling. The person, who appears to be in c-section recovery, has a scar on their lower abdomen.

C-Section Recovery Tips for a Smoother Healing

A woman with short hair is bottle-feeding a baby while sitting on a bed. Another woman with shoulder-length blonde hair, dressed in a white uniform, is kneeling beside them, touching the woman's knee and smiling. It’s moments like these that are often shared on postpartum doula podcasts.

What Is a Postpartum Doula? – Podcast Ep 7

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A person with red nail polish holds a handful of dark-colored placenta pills. They are wearing a blue shirt with sleeves rolled up and a white undershirt. A tattoo and bracelets are visible on their left wrist.

Placenta Encapsulation: What You Need To Know

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A woman recovering from childbirth is lying on a bed with her eyes closed, holding a sleeping baby on her chest. The baby is swaddled in a light-colored blanket and resting peacefully. The scene appears calm and serene, with soft lighting in the room.

7 Things You Should Never Say to a Woman Recovering from Childbirth

A collection of postpartum must-haves arranged on a soft beige couch includes a black nursing bra, Perineal Bath Herbs, a Perineal Care Spray, Earth Mama Bottom Balm, QuickClean Micro-Steam Bags, maternity pads, cloth wipes, a peri bottle, and a floral bag.

19 Postpartum Must-Haves for Recovery After a Vaginal Birth

A pregnant woman wearing a white tank top and pink pants is lying on her side on a blue mat. Another person is gently massaging her neck and shoulder area, as part of a postpartum recovery program. The woman appears to be relaxed and comfortable.

Why Every Mom Should Participate in a Postpartum Recovery Program

Three pairs of women's Kindred Bravely postpartum underwear in black, blue, and purple with beige lace trim are laid out on a white, furry surface. A card with the text "You are strong, important, magical, & BRAVE" is placed above the underwear.

Why Every Mom Needs THIS Postpartum Underwear After Baby

The image shows three sanitary pads: two are wrapped in yellow packaging with a floral design, and one is unwrapped, revealing a white absorbent surface with a light lavender border. They are arranged on a gray textured surface, perfect for creating postpartum padsicles.

Padsicles Recipe: How to Make Soothing Pads for Recovery

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