2021-01-11
Birth + Postpartum Preparation: Some Less Common Suggestions to “Ready” Yourself
Written & Provided by: Lo Mansfield, @thelabormama As most of us approach new mamahood, it isn’t uncommon that birth (and the way we hope it looks) takes precedence. There're so many dreams for us there: skin to skin, vaginal delivery, midwifery, doulas, music, water birth, cesarean birth, epidurals, interventions, the smell of a vernix covered newborn finally on the outside. The list is long, large, and all-consuming - and then we blink, the birth has happened, and we are suddenly in a postpartum season (in a pandemic no less) that, it turns out, is the rest of our lives. So how can we prepare? How can we really do some “good things” to be ready - for both the brevity...