Did you know that once you’ve had a baby, you’re always considered postpartum? What about the fact that the first 12 weeks postpartum are the critical healing period? Yet, for some reason, we’re cleared by our doctors 6 weeks postpartum to resume workouts, have sex and go about our lives with little to no information …
The Best Prenatal and Postpartum Fitness Essentials
Wondering what you need to stay fit during pregnancy? Or maybe what equipment you need to slowly work your way back into fitness postpartum? Whether you’re currently pregnant or entering the phase of postpartum when you can begin working out again, you have different needs than your average woman. Your body has gone through some …
Postpartum Recovery Part 2: The Blood Clot
If you haven’t already read Beau’s birth story or my Postpartum Recovery Part 1, I highly recommend you do. Reading these stories in order definitely helps set the precedent for the story to come. This one personally was the most intense of the three, and I still cannot believe it happened. The story of my …
Postpartum Recovery Part 1: Postpartum Hemorrhage
If you missed it, I suggest you start first with Beau Philip’s birth story. This will help set the precedent of the following story. It’s important to see just how relaxing, peaceful and empowering his birth went to understand the trauma of my postpartum recovery and hemorrhage. That being said, this part of my birth …