The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother

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And then what I do with clients, as Sarah can remember is, I’ll say you know I’ll tell partners for instance, like don’t ask her if she’s hungry or what she wants. If she has to think about it she’ll say she’s not hungry. And that’s what happens. So what your job is when I’m not here for the 21 hours before you see me again is just put this beside her where she can reach it and it disappears. Sarah remembers like whoomph! Where is more? a faster rhythm provided by keyboards mainly and followed by drums and strings. When it finishes, a new episode While ‘The First Forty Days’ was the guide I needed to make my ideal postpartum happen, none of this would have been possible without my mom, bonus mom, and sister. Their help and encouragement brought my postpartum vision to life. I’m so grateful they were so deeply involved in my baby’s first few months. Learn more Four Relationship-Saving Questions To Ask Before Baby Arrives | Top 3 Episodes of the Fourth Trimester Podcast – Start here! I wrote each of our support people a note and framed a photo of them with our baby. We took them to their homes along with a bouquet of the most vibrant sunflowers.So you’re not sleeping eight to 12 hours at night. So sleeping when your baby sleeps is critical and sufficient but if you don’t sleep when your baby sleeps you’re not going to get enough sleep. So I think preparing friends and family and other care providers so that I will be sleeping when my baby sleeps. So if you’re going to prepare me a sitz bath that you know, don’t just make it and then tell me to get in it. nervous and captivating ballad; when the voice and the guitar complement each other harmoniously for a warm,

like a lot those contrasts within the same song, those different inner passages, exemplifying a man's soul and mind, No,” the boy said. “But I will see something that he cannot see such as a bird working and get him to come out after dolphin.”

Sarah Trott: [00:39:18] I think I just had these assumptions that I wasn’t thinking about anything negatively, it was just like ok well yeah I know it’s going to be hard. Like I’m aware there’s going to be a challenge. And let’s just do it and what’s awesome about what I’ve learned from Esther and the two of you and many many other women now that I’ve had the opportunity to speak with is that there’s a way to create your postpartum experience. There is a way to think about it and change it and make it exactly what you want. Create your sacred space, starting from your bed. You want to be as comfortable as possible, as peaceful as possible. The pathway between your bedroom to your bathroom will be well-trod. Make sure you have perinatal squeezy bottle, your sitz bath and witch hazel. These spaces will be your haven. Esther Gallagher: [00:09:02] I want to put in a plug for postpartum care right here because often family members are, of course you know they’re driven sometimes a little mad by the desire to see the new baby and get their hands on that new baby and say hi to you. But underneath that desire to say hi to you is often a real concern for their own child. Right. You’re their baby and now you’re going through a really enigmatic process. Pregnancy birth and postpartum. It’s enigmatic because they don’t even want to try to remember theirs. It was probably very fraught in some way or many ways but they’re really concerned that you are well cared for even if they don’t know how. And so what I find often is the case when I’m interviewing potential clients is that you know the parents-to-be are kind of not even considering that there is a process to be you know that they’re going to be going through because they’re so immersed in the pregnancy and focused on the birth. Esther Gallagher: [00:39:52] And that’s given that as I said before, it is enigmatic much like pregnancy. Much like birth. You can’t plan it. You don’t know what you’re going to be experiencing one hour to the next in terms of what your baby’s needs might feel like, what your needs and emotional state might be like. But you can know some things about it that are true for all of us, which is that you will be healing, you will be recovering, you will one way or the other be establishing a relationship around feeding your baby, You’ll need to sleep, You’ll need to eat, You’ll need to use the bathroom.

But now, I had a clear vision of what I wanted the first six weeks of my baby’s life to look like and could articulate it to the people who wanted to support us. Esther Gallagher: [00:27:58] We’re gonna call this the “Gourmet” issue. I raised pigs as a girl and I love every bit of a pig.

Fourth Trimester Podcast Episode 17: The First Forty Days

Make a list of your postpartum support community, those people you can count on to do some light cleaning, cooking, or who can entertain other children that may be at home. very fat sound, I think of Bob SEGER; the basic riff announces the break with a Zeppelinian, porcupinian sound, a And my whole take when I made the recipes was that we have that side and I know that it’s not for everyone. But then how do you really think about what you’re ingesting for one. And then other part is what’s comforting for you. So you know I love making just a simple kabocha red lentil with coconut soup because that serves my heart. And that serves like that just makes me feel really good. The first 40 days after the birth of a child offer an essential and fleeting period of rest and recovery for the new mother. Based on author Heng Ou’s own postpartum experience with zuo yuezi, a set period of “confinement,” in which a woman remains at home focusing on healing and bonding with her baby, The First Forty Daysrevives the lost art of caring for the mother after birth. And then when they can say to their parents well we’ve enlisted this person or these people to support us in just these particular ways that we believe are going to be particularly nourishing and supportive, they can calm way down you know and they’ll be happy to Skype to see the baby and then come out and visit in three months. So that little intervention can be taken down from a really fraught emotional place between parent and child who’s becoming a parent if you’ve had this process.