Rebuilding immune systems in my family has been an area of focus with the flu and colds that have come our way this Winter. What better way to rebuild our systems than through fresh food that we grow together. My goal is to create a medicinal garden with flowers and herbs that I can use to make soaps, salves, balms, and use in our every day eating.

Maternal postpartum care is essential to safeguarding the mother-baby dyad. Postpartum care supports the co-regulation of baby’s systems and helps baby feel safe in the world. When mom thrives, baby thrives, and when baby thrives, mom thrives. “Infant social, emotional and neurological development is shaped by the mother-child dyad.”

These 4 tips for healing your postpartum body will help give you a stronger foundation from which to center from as a new mother:

1. Educate yourself about your postpartum body.

2. Create your own postpartum care.

3. Trust…

Yoni steams, also known as vaginal steam, are believed to help heal the postpartum body by cleansing uterine walls, increasing blood circulation, tonifying the pelvic floor, and supporting organs to return to their pre-pregnancy position. Learn how to make a steam at home to help your postpartum healing.

Postpartum bodywork helps provide care and support to speed up recovery after having a baby. After having a baby, many things within the body go back with proper rest and nutrition, but postpartum bodywork can help provide additional support to speed up recovery and get the body back to functioning properly and feeling good.

What is Craniosacral Therapy and how does a session work? CST is light touch therapy that helps removes restrictions in the body to enable the cerebral spinal fluid to move freely and optimize the functioning of the central nervous system. In short, it helps the body reset and let go of what it is holding on and holding in. When we no longer hold on to things that are making us feel bad we can find more joy and aliveness in our body.

Taking care of your newborn also means taking care of you. Including these five postpartum care essentials into your daily practice as a new mom will help you recover faster and more fully as well as provide for your long term health.

Your body wants to be in a state of health, and Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a way to optimize the health of your body by releasing blocks and tension within the craniosacral system. CST is used to help regulate the Central Nervous System and has been known to help treat headaches, chronic pain and inflammation, insomnia, anxiety, sinus infections, digestive disorders, and more.

Moms juggle a lot of hats which can take a toll. Here are 5 easy ways to cleanse the soul and support your nervous system for optimal health. You can include these tips in your day to day and even do them with your kids because thriving life starts with thriving mothers.

As an expectant mother, no one tells you that breastfeeding can make or break you as a new mother. Not being able to nurse can feel deflating and defeating, but you are not alone and you are NOT defeated.

Breastfeeding tips to support breastfeeding success:

What A Breast Crawl Is, Skin to Skin to support bonding and, uterine contraction, 5 Healthy Latch Tips and More.

As a new mom, we need to slow down and rest when baby rests, but why? Rest in the early postpartum, time after birth, is essential in our recovery as a new mother. Rest promotes a number of key benefits, including healing and bonding with our baby.

When you think mom brain, you don’t necessarily think of its superpower, but as new mothers, we are getting a brain upgrade, and our mom super brain allows us to take on the tremendous work of raising a new human. Our brains are creating new connections, as many as or more than we did during pubescence, so it is time to discard the negativity around “mom brain” and talk about how extraordinary and intelligent the “mom super brain” is.

In today’s day and age, prenatal and postnatal care focuses on ensuring that the baby is okay, but how can our babies be okay if our mothers are not okay? Many new moms are struggling in their transition to motherhood. What can we do to provide mother-centered care after baby is born?

What makes you laugh? What makes you feel alive?

Doing something daily that brings you joy can go a long way. It helps you lay the foundation for taking care of you, so you can take care of others. So, what makes you laugh, smile, or just plain feel good? What allows you to breathe and relax? Well, go DO that!

New moms, especially, struggle with the idea of accepting help, and after talking with a lot of moms about their challenges postpartum, I found a common thread in that many new moms do not know what help to ask for. Here are some tips of what is really helpful for new moms.

Creating community is essential to the health of new mothers. I have had a number of mamas tell me that they found their medicine when they found their community. Women need women, especially at the onset of motherhood. We are stronger in the collective when we share, laugh, cry, and join together in this discovery of ourselves and of our newborns.

I started Mothering Life with the purpose and intention to help new moms and to make sure that they have the support and care they need to thrive. When I was young, I always loved working with kids and had the grandiose vision to help all the children of the world. I believe that in order to help the children of the world, we need to start with the mothers. If mothers thrive, children will thrive, and if children thrive, the world at large will thrive as well. I feel like this work is my life’s purpose, and I am grateful for any impact I can make.