About The Workbook
After giving birth we need REST, SUPPORT, and CARE.
Postpartum planning can make REST, SUPPORT, and CARE possible.
The Build Your Nest workbook offers expectant parents a planning process with crucial information about the postpartum time and lots of ideas about how to make a plan, specific to their own parenting style, family structure, culture, and community.
This workbook is a practical and empowering tool, designed to be written in. Circles, stars, and cross-outs encouraged!
The Workbook:
Honors postpartum time with a newborn as precious and sacred.
Addresses your needs for nourishment, rest, baby bonding, and community.
Supports you in personal reflection.
Affirms your inner wisdom and parenting style.
Helps you uncover resources you may not realize were there.
Invites dialogue between you and your partner, supporting alignment.
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Postpartum Planning Is Important.
There is no one right way to do postpartum. The Build Your Nest workbook can help to create a plan that is right for you.
Some of the resources in the workbook include:
Holistic tips for healing.
Practical solutions to common challenges.
Journal exercises.
Planning calendars and worksheets.
A pregnancy-to-do list.
A complete template for your postpartum plan.
Glossary of terms and resources.
Meal Train guide.
Even if you have the most attentive work-at-home partner or your mother is coming for two weeks or you’ve hired a postpartum doula, The Workbook will be enormously helpful. You will see how their support fits into your larger plan and ease the transition when you no longer have their support. Creating a broader base of support will help you feel more connected to your community.
You may have older children and you have been through all this before. While in some ways experienced mothers can welcome a new baby with more confidence and ease, it is important to remember that each birth and each baby is a whole new experience. Usually, families with older children receive less support even though their parenting load is growing. Careful planning and calling in support is beneficial to the whole family, helping older siblings adjust to life with a newborn.
Postpartum practices from around the world:
In Spain, all parents get 6 months Paid Leave the first year of their baby’s life.
In Vietnam, mothers traditionally went back to live with their own mothers to be taken care of for 3 months.
Somali mothers have a “afantanbah” or 40 days of staying in and being cared for.
In Sweden new parents get 480 days of paid leave, and 60 of them must be used by dads or else they’re forfeited.
In Mexico, mothers are traditionally given the “Cuarentena” or 40 days of being cared for.
Canadian mothers get 50 weeks of maternity leave.
In China, the mothers have the ” zuo yue zhi” or the “sitting month” of staying in and being cared for.
In Bali, new mothers do not enter the kitchen until their baby’s cord stump has fallen off.
These practices show honor, care, and love for mothers.
This is not too much to ask for. After we give birth WE benefit from being well taken care of. Our babies benefit when we are well taken care of. Our other children and our partners benefit when we are well taken care of. The whole world is benefits when we are taken care of.