Category: Postpartum
What will the first hours with your newborn be like?
Are you currently pregnant with your first baby? It’s only natural that you are a little unsure of what to expect when you spend that first day with your baby. So, what will happen with your newborn during the first few hours, and how will you feel?
Does doing Kegel exercises help speed up postpartum recovery?
Kegel exercises are known to strengthen the pelvic floor, and they are often recommended to pregnant and newly postpartum mothers. What are the immediate, practical benefits a woman who has just had a baby? Does doing Kegel exercises help speed up postpartum recovery?
Therapy after birth trauma
“Just be glad that you have a healthy baby,” is something often said to women who have difficulty healing from a traumatic birth, and those suffering from postpartum depression. If you are trying to recover from birth trauma and had a healthy baby, this may well be what you are telling yourself, too. But birth [...]
Foods for postpartum weight loss
If you have just given birth, the chances are that you will have a few extra “left-over” pounds and some abdominal flab that you would love to get rid of as soon as possible. Although a weight-loss diet may seem like the obvious choice, recovering from childbirth really does take time. Starvation diets or diets [...]
Sex after having a baby – what if it hurts?
You might have been very eager to be intimate with your partner again after giving birth, having only barely had the patience to wait out the time until your six-week postpartum checkup… only to find that sex after having a baby is painful. There are many reasons why sexual intercourse can hurt after you gave [...]
Sex after an episiotomy
An episiotomy is a surgical cut made between the vagina and rectum, to increase the size of the opening. They are carried out to prevent vaginal tears and to make childbirth easier – although it is ironic that this method to prevent tears actually guarantees vaginal damage, and there are no indictions that delivery is [...]
Can you have sex during lochia?
Ask your obstetrician/gynecologist when you can have sex after giving birth, and you will most likely be told to wait until after your postpartum bleeding (lochia) stops. But, why are you not supposed to make love while you are bleeding? Do you really have to wait until lochia stops, which is usually around six weeks [...]
Great juicer recipes for postpartum mothers
There is no question about it – every postpartum body needs some tender, love and care! In the days after you give birth to your baby, you’ll feel sore, low on energy, and perhaps a bit blue as well as happy over the arrival of your little one. Pregnancy and birth can take quite a [...]
Postpartum recovery – how long will it take?
Childbirth is often compared to running a marathon. Not only does giving birth and going through labor require strength and endurance, your muscles (and other parts of your body) will also be sore after you have delivered a baby. Are you pregnant and hoping to take a look at what you will feel like postpartum, [...]
Sex after having a baby – do men feel a difference?
Some couples feel uncomfortable with making love during pregnancy, but having sex after having a baby is a different beast altogether. It is no wonder that women are anxious about the first time doing the deed after squeezing a baby out. Women may have concerns about pain, how it will feel, and wonder if their [...]
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