Postpartum is a physically and mentally challenging time for mothers.
In the weeks and months after having a baby, it is common to struggle with
Sleep deprivation
Fatigue
Increased stress
Lack of emotional resilience
Feelings of isolation and/or lack of support
If you’re breastfeeding, the baby is increasingly tapping in to your nutritional reserves. Disrupted sleep results in fatigue, which impacts your ability to handle stress. The constant demands of nurturing a newborn make it hard to adequately take care of yourself, which can include eating well, getting exercise, social contact, and rest. All of this can compound into feelings of lack of coping, especially in situations where family support is lacking.
Where most doctors would reach for an antidepressant to help stabilise your mood, there is a more holistic approach which can help support you through this phase.
Dietary advice
- Helps you to focus on essential foods to take care of your energy needs
- Helps the baby to settle if there are issues with foods you may be eating that are affecting bub;Herbal tonics
- Calm your nervous system, assist sleep and improve stress resilience;
- Support iron levels;
- Promote milk supply with herbal teas;Homeopathy
- Homeopathic preparations given directly to the baby can help settle many acute issues for newborns such as colic and reflux;
- Emotional balancing and processing grief;
- Postpartum issues such as mastitis;Nutritional supplements
- Top up depleted physical resources by taking key vitamins to supplement dietary intake and help with energy, sleep, mood and milk supply.
- Specific probiotics to help with mastitis, thrush (oral, vaginal or nipple) or post-caesarian birth (for baby)Support
- Having a professional to talk to about your experience can help break your isolation and open your world to ways of coping better through lifestyle suggestions and other holistic referrals.
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