Preparing For a C-Section
How do you care for a newborn after a C-section while also caring for your busy toddler? Amalah shares her most recent postpartum experience.
How do you care for a newborn after a C-section while also caring for your busy toddler? Amalah shares her most recent postpartum experience.
Because the weirdness doesn’t end with pregnancy. Join us for the launch of Bounce Back, Amalah’s sequel to Zero to Forty, where postpartum is not a four-letter word.
Postpartum is NOT one-size-fits-all. Even if you’re the only “all” we’re talking about.
This week, Amalah and Alexa discuss preemies, extended hospital stays, casseroles, stupid relatives and Google University.
Coping with regret, sadness and the sense that you’re being ridiculous when you don’t get the birth experience you dreamed of.
How to know if it’s Thrush.
Okay, somebody probably did try to tell me, but I probably wasn’t paying attention. PAY ATTENTION, YOU!
That first time, I clung to that six-week no-sex window for as long as I could. The second time… not so much.
…exercise? Get pregnant again? Eat sushi? A quick n’ dirty rundown of postpartum timetables.
Is it worthwhile, a load of nonsense…or something akin to a medieval torture chamber?
Of all the postpartum fallout to my body, my c-section scar is actually pretty low on the list of things that bother me. But it’s still there. And I did wonder if there was anything I could do about it.
Amalah recounts her recent adventures in the glamourous land of postpartum girdles.
On post-everything hair, skin, body issues…and how to not let them define your self-image.
Midwives are telling this mom that she will probably have difficulty breastfeeding post an elective c-section. She wants to know if that’s true?
A postpartum mom is now experiencing pain and other symptoms after sex and wants to know if this is normal after a c-section or whether this is something she should be more concerned about.
A new mom is very upset about the traumatic birth of her baby and we believe she may be suffering from postpartum depression and needs to seek help immediately.
How do you care for yourself post-c-section when you are congested and coughing? We have some practical and been-there-done-that advice.