Doula Care Postpartum Service

Postpartum is a unique opportunity for profound change and transformation.
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The postpartum story is often told with struggle. As Postpartum doulas, we fill the societal gap in care during this transition to parenthood helping you have an easier and smoother transition to parenthood.
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We care for and provide practical, nonjudgemental support after the baby is born.
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Ask me how we can help you overnight or during the daytime as you settle into parenthood.

IBCLC Lucy Weber had a poll, and almost 10,000 parents responded.

We realize that almost every one of our children wakes up in the middle of the night. Not just yours!

Check your voter registration.
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for the win!

From researcher Henci Goer

“It has long been assumed that human newborn brains are as cognitively immature as the nerves that allow them to control their bodies, but this is not the case.
While human babies will be physically helpless for an extended period, their brains are far further developed than other animals at birth.

Like the learning process AI uses—but in this case, there’s nothing artificial about it—this quiescent period enables human babies to take in and process huge amounts of information that will set the foundations of cognition and prepare them to interact with the world when the period of physical helplessness is over.”

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Beautiful Poem about early motherhood
by
Tears fall more freely since we met.
But in some ways, free is also what l feel.
Which seems strange to say, when I once used the word ‘trapped’, to describe a bad day.
Or the fact that I can’t leave the house with only a few items anymore.
Or do anything actually without a detailed plan of ‘how’ and ‘when!
But you freed me in the ways that matter.
My eyes are open.
My mind is wild.
All of me is alive.
Even if I feel like l’m hanging by a thread some days.
My roar is no longer a tickle in my throat.
Sometimes we head to the park, just you and I.
I throw out a blanket and get out some small toy that rattles.
It’s just us. Nowhere else to go, nothing to do.
You’re so small, I wonder if you even know it’s not our backyard. But this is me, trying to leave the house.
This is our season, lost and found all at once. Alone in the park, with my gigantic bag, free to the hours l’ll soon miss.
We’d stare at each other a while longer, time to go home now, I would say.
It sounds like a lot to live up to, you being my world and all.
But you don’t have to do much other than just be you. That’s the beauty of it really.
And l’ll just be me too. Because she is who you need.
I haven’t forgotten the loneliness, I’ll never forget the love.
You’ve freed my heart to love like
once. Alone in the park, with my gigantic bag, free to the hours I’ll soon miss.
We’d stare at each other a while longer,
‘time to go home now, I would say.
It sounds like a lot to live up to, you being my world and all.
But you don’t have to do much other than just be you. That’s the beauty of it really.
And I’ll just be me too. Because she is who you need.
I haven’t forgotten the loneliness, I’ll never forget the love.
You’ve freed my heart to love like never before.
You freed me in so many ways.
Except the air in my lungs.
I’m still holding my breath, maybe I always will.

From Jessica Urlichs book
My After All: Poetry & Prose for Mothers (Jessica Urlichs: Early Motherhood Poetry & Prose)

YOU WILL FEEL BETTER AND BE WELL WITH HELP. Postpartum Resource Center of New York is here to help you get to the help and local resources you need.

They provide Free support from other parents. they are Peer Coaches with on-Call Phone Support available to New York parents to be and families for free with our Parental Mental Health Peer Support Program.

Contact them:
Postpartum Resource Center of New York’s State-wide Toll Free Helpline: 1-855-631-0001 or www.postpartumNY.org


Free, confidential, judgement-free zone with support from those who have been there.

FREE VIRTUAL SUPPORT GROUPS. Here’s a list of support groups you may want to join.
YOU WILL FEEL BETTER AND BE WELL WITH HELP.

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Some excellent reminders and advice from La Leche League


Breastfeeding works!
Unfortunately, too many come home from the hospital triple feeding, which means instead of some common sense advice to get you and your baby started on this journey, they tell you to start pumping, bottle feeding, and not enough breastfeeding.
That’s an exhausting and severe therapeutic intervention. The hospital staff is fear-based without the time to let you settle in with nursing. They don't tell you when to stop doing triple feeding.
When no one has tried and encouraged these methods first :
Skin to skin.
More frequent nursing.
Helping to get a painless latch.
Compression.

🐉Happy Lunar New Year🐲
To all our clients celbrating the year of the dragon.

Parenting and caring for a newborn is not simple, unlike the illusion presented on social media.
You can learn to change a diaper, bathe, soothe, feed your newborn, and understand their cues. Parenting isn’t always straightforward. Postpartum doulas help and assist you with non-judgemental, sensitive care.

Meet our wonderful client, Robin, who has a booth at the Union Square Market . She is an inspiration!
A Dash of Pep apparel, accessories, and stationery promoting mental health, self-expression, and empowerment.

This image and video has been making the rounds on Instagram and TT.
😬 it is a close call!
The father was lucky he turned around and caught the baby before it fell.

will learn about infant safety with our PPdoulas. I can assure you any Postpartum Doula will instruct you exactly how to create a safe environment for your newborn. They will organize the dresser under the the changing table so you never have to leave the baby’s side and all the clothes and diapers are there in arms reach .
Always keep your hand 🖐🏼 on the baby.

NYC deserves local Birth Centers!

It only takes a moment.
Want to help a local non-profit Bronx group. Please vote so they can win a $25,000 grant
The Birthing Place
The Birthing Place

February 2023 Health & Wellness Grant Awarded to The Birthing Place - WomensNet | Grants for Women in Business | Small Business Grants The Birthing Place (TBP) is a team of experienced BIPOC doulas and birth professionals who came together in 2020… Our goal is to create a sanctuary that offers personalized loving support for the planning, expectant, and newly-blossomed family…. TBP is a business that will help save or substanti...

Your Postpartum Doula can bake you a healthy cookie treat. Yummy, Tahini, almond flour sesame cookies made with honey.
No one needs “lactation cookies” we recommend addressing milk supply with your doula and if needed we refer to an IBCLC .
Please eat cookies because you want a delicious cookie!

NYC postpartum Doula

A common cause of discomfort for babies is gas. Here are some tips to assist in alleviating it.

These guidelines are straight from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine's
Protocol #8.

So what does "optimal" vs. "perfect conditions" mean?

Optimal conditions means, we know this is a safe guidelines for all to follow at the temperatures listed.
Perfect conditions means that the environment in which the milk is being expressed and stored in is VERY clean.
This includes: the bottles being pumped into, the pump parts, the area where milk is being put into for storage, where it is being stored. It means we can rely on the temperature to stay consistent and not fluctuate.

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Love how the Empire State Building pops up when you turn a corner walking in midtown .

“A randomized controlled study on the effectiveness of lactation cookies”
Hint: not effective!

Like many certified lactation counselors and IBCLCs say, if you want a cookie to eat a cookie. But if you want to increase your milk supply, put down the cookie, pick up the baby and call a lactation consultant to help you!
Lactation cookies are not effective.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36921902/ #
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The NY Times has an article today on the dangers of the year after giving birth.

Did you know Complications After Delivery happens?

Things to pay attention to and what you need to know:

You are at risk for up to a year, research has shown. But the first six weeks are the most perilous.

What are the most common warning signs?

A number of symptoms after childbearing may indicate very serious medical complications and should prompt women to seek care immediately.

They include:
* a headache that doesn’t go away or gets worse;

* dizziness or fainting;

* changes in vision;

* a fever of 100.4 degrees or higher;

* extreme swelling of the face or hands;

* trouble breathing;

* chest pain or fast-beating heart;

* severe nausea and vomiting;

* severe belly pain;

* severe swelling and redness or pain in an arm or leg;

* heavy vaginal bleeding or discharge;

* and overwhelming fatigue.

If you can’t reach your usual health provider, go to the emergency room and make sure you say you were pregnant within the last year

Did you know that learning daily activities to restore body balance can help make room for the baby? Babies then put themselves into their best positions possible for childbirth – within the space available.

Check out the link tips on daily activities!
https://www.spinningbabies.com/pregnancy-birth/daily-activities/