Health & Wellness

Helpful Tips from your Postpartum Experts

The Health & Wellness category is where you’ll find reflections, insights, and guidance on caring for your body and mind as you grow your family. You’ll read about things like pelvic floor health, stress and anxiety, sleep deprivation, vaccines, and how to choose care providers wisely. The tone is honest — it admits when life feels overwhelming, when recovery is slow, when worry is constant. Your well-being as new parents is front and center here. The point isn’t to be perfect, but to offer support, tools, and a sense that you’re not alone as you try to stay well in the midst of change.

Holiday Gatherings with a Newborn 2022: How to Lower Risks of RSV, Covid + Flu

Should I bring my newborn to holiday gatherings? If you’re a new parent, there’s no doubt this question is on your mind this year. COVID changed everything about how parents make decisions about introducing their baby to the outside world. In 2022, new parents also have to consider the impacts...

Postpartum Exercise: What to Know about Exercising after Birth

No matter how your pregnancy and birth unfolded, one thing's for certain: your postpartum body will feel different! Some women are hit with a tough recovery, while others land more gently into new motherhood. No one adjusts to life with a new baby on the same timeline. Mentally, emotionally, and...

Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions for New Parents

The last two years have been hard. Parenting was already difficult before COVID, and the pandemic has made it an even more challenging and isolating experience. New Year’s resolutions of the past like “drop the baby off at the gym daycare four times a week and work out” are laughable...

Breast Cancer and Breastfeeding

The decision to breastfeed can be difficult, and sometimes it's not a decision at all. Parents who adopt, use surrogates, are separated from their baby, or have certain medical issues are not physically able to breastfeed. Most of the times, when talking about the benefits of breastfeeding, the focus is...

Signs of Miscarriage: How to Cope

If you’re reading this while experiencing potential signs of miscarriage, first take a long, slow breath. Not knowing how to cope with the physical and emotional pain of threatened miscarriage is completely valid. The best gift to give yourself is to stay in the present: try not to think too...

Buckle Up For Safety

Buckle Up for Safety Written by Laurel Segal, The Seagull Nest, CPST Child Passenger Safety Month With September being National Child Passenger Safety Month, I am given the opportunity to address the importance of vehicle related safety. Naturally everyone wants to keep their children safe in vehicles and I hope...

Postpartum Depression Affects Fathers, Too

Depression is a serious mental illness that affects how a person feels, thinks, and acts. People with depression can experience feelings of persistent sadness, numbness, irritability, or hopelessness. Some people are more prone to depressive episodes than others, based on genetic factors. But this disease does not discriminate: anyone can...

Dressing a Newborn for Spring Weather

At Well Supported Family home base, we live in New England. And New England has fun things called seasons. Spring officially starts in March but let’s face it, it doesn’t feel like spring until May! The weather in spring on any given day could be in the 30s or in...

Making your Work from Home Sanctuary

When you’re working from home with kids, chaos can seem like it’s par for the course. Frequent interruptions, folding laundry on work calls, and distracting background noise can make any kind of productivity feel impossible. Read on for tips on how to make your work from home space a sanctuary,...

Make a Mom Friend

Did you know that Feb 11th is Make a Friend Day? Let's learn together how to make a mom friend! I work with a lot of parents, mostly with moms. I also have been a mom for 6 years and thus, have six years of first hand experience with other...

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Health & Wellness

Helpful Tips from your Postpartum Experts

Holiday Gatherings with a Newborn 2022: How to Lower Risks of RSV, Covid + Flu

Postpartum Exercise: What to Know about Exercising after Birth