Postpartum
Helpful Tips from your Postpartum Experts
Postpartum recovery involves more than rest. It’s a complex mix of physical healing, emotional adjustment, and rebuilding daily routines. This section shares evidence-based information on postpartum care, including pelvic floor recovery, nutrition, mental health, sleep, and partner support. Each article is designed to help you understand what’s normal, when to seek help, and how to support your long-term wellbeing during this stage.
Postpartum Depression vs. Baby Blues: What’s the Difference?
If you’ve recently given birth, but you aren’t sure if what you’re feeling is Postpartum Depression or just ‘baby blues,’ it's extremely helpful to learn the key differences, common symptoms, and treatment options so you can ask for the right help. To describe the multitude of postpartum feelings would take...
How Your Postpartum Recovery Is Different After a C-Section
There is a quiet reality many parents aren’t prepared for. Whether you planned your C-section or had an emergency surgery, you are not only recovering from childbirth, you are healing from major abdominal surgery while caring for a newborn who needs you constantly. There will be a multitude of people...
Healing From A Traumatic Birth: A Gentle Guide for Parents
Trauma was not in your birthplan. Not even close. Whether you experienced sustained injuries, nerve damage, blood loss, emergency surgery, or another difficult experience, your recovery can feel overwhelming and confusing. Maybe your body feels unfamiliar, or you can’t get out of bed to reach your crying baby. Maybe you’re...
Using Overnight Newborn Care to Prepare for Returning to Work (Before Baby Arrives)
Planning your return to work before baby arrives can make the early parenting transition more sustainable. Here’s how families use overnight newborn care proactively. There are many parts of planning for birth and postpartum where “you’ll just have to wait and see” is a perfectly reasonable strategy. Will you go...
Overnight Newborn Care For High-Achieving Parents Who Can’t Ease Back Into Work
For parents in high-responsibility roles, overnight newborn care isn’t a luxury or convenience; it’s a resource that can be used to protect clarity, decision-making, and well-being during a period of heightened demands. Professional support can help parents in demanding roles protect sleep, decision-making, and mental clarity during early parenthood, especially...
Why Nights Feel Harder: Hormones, Circadian Rhythms & Parental Exhaustion
The transition to early parenting can feel overwhelming and exhausting, especially at night. Learn how circadian rhythms, hormones, and emotional load make nights feel harder. It’s a familiar scene: you’ve spent the entire day taking care of your new baby – feeding, soothing, watching the clock, and holding it all...
How Overnight Newborn Care Help Parents Get More Sleep (and Why That Matters)
When you're caring for a newborn, sleep can feel like a distant memory. Those nighttime feedings, diaper changes, and soothing sessions can stretch on for hours. Just when you get back to sleep, it’s time to start the cycle all over again. By morning, many parents feel like they’re running...
Postpartum Anxiety: Symptoms, Treatment, and Caring for Yourself & Your Baby
Not all postpartum distress is depression. Discover how Postpartum Anxiety shows up differently, and how to find relief and reassurance. It is absolutely normal to be nervous when transitioning to being the parent of a newborn. This tiny, helpless creature is totally dependent on you, and everywhere you turn there...
Can Sleep Deprivation Cause Postpartum Depression? What Newborn Parents Should Know
New parents expect sleepless nights, but chronic sleep deprivation is more than exhaustion - it’s a known risk factor for postpartum mood disorders like Postpartum Depression. Postpartum Depression (sometimes called Perinatal Depression or PPD) is a mental health condition that can cause deep, ongoing sadness and loss of interest, affecting...
Bringing Your Newborn Home from Hospital: Tips from a Postpartum Doula
Are you worried about bringing your newborn home from the hospital? We get it! You may have spent your entire pregnancy dreaming of the moment when you get to put your little baby in the beautiful nursery you crafted for them, but as the date draws closer a fear can...
Sleep Deprivation After Having a Baby: Survival Tips
After nine long months of pregnancy, your baby is finally here! For the first few days, adrenaline and pure excitement are your fuel. At the hospital you’re learning how to breastfeed, healing from birth, and getting to know your little one. Nursing staff is available 24/7 to help you. But...
How’s Your Pelvis? Pregnancy & Postpartum Pelvic Floor Therapy
How’s Your Pelvis? Maya Lespinasse, PT, DPT is dying to know. Dr. Lespinasse is a Pelvic Floor Therapist and the founder of How’s Your Pelvis?, based in Foxboro, MA who services the greater Boston and Rhode Island areas. You might be wondering what a Pelvic Floor Therapist does and why...
Surprising Postpartum Moments
Why didn’t anybody tell me about this? You might find yourself thinking that pretty frequently over the first few weeks (months or years) of your postpartum journey. No matter the amount of classes you take, parents you talk to or books you read, there are some moments that can catch...
What to Expect Your First Night Home with Your Newborn
The day is finally here! It's time to bring your brand new baby home from the hospital! The first time you walk through the door with your newborn will come with a flood of emotions. After days in the hospital with around the clock nursing care, you may feel both...
Postpartum Support Groups in Miami, FL
If you’re a new parent in Miami, FL, first off congratulations! Creating a new life and expanding your family is an amazing and beautiful time in your life. It can also be a very difficult time to navigate as you move from pregnancy into navigating how to care for a...
Doula Interview Questions Every Parent Should Ask
Choosing to hire a doula is one of the best investments you can make in your parenthood journey. Doulas help ease the transition to parenthood with specialized educational, emotional, and physical support. Doulas have a variety of training, experience, and philosophy that they bring to their practice. Every doula, like...
How to Find Your Perfect Night Nurse in Manhattan
Nighttime support is a game-changer for new parents. These skilled professionals provide overnight care for your newborn, allowing you to get much-needed rest during those challenging early weeks and months. If you're looking for a NYC baby night nurse in Manhattan, here's what you need to know. Understanding Night Nurse...
After Birth Plan Checklist: How to Prepare for Bringing Home Baby
Are you ready to bring home your baby? There's so much to do, buy, and prepare to feel ready for your baby's arrival. It can feel overwhelming, no matter how excited your are! To ensure a smooth homecoming, it's essential to have a well-thought-out postpartum plan in place. You've got...
Best Online Newborn Care Classes
Becoming a new parent is one of life's most exciting and overwhelming experiences. Whether you're welcoming a baby through pregnancy, surrogacy, or adoption, those first few months can feel like a whirlwind of immense joy - and stressful uncertainty. That's where Baby Care Classes comes in - providing expert guidance...
What to Expect after Cesarean Birth: First 72 Hours
After much anticipation and waiting, your baby’s birthday is finally here! Giving birth comes with many significant physiological events, and a whirlwind of emotions as well. In the first few days after giving birth, your body will undergo major changes as your baby also learns to adjust to life outside...
What to Expect: First 72 Hours After Vaginal Birth
After much anticipation and waiting, your baby's birthday is finally here! Giving birth comes with many significant physiological events, and a whirlwind of emotions as well. In the first few days after giving birth, your body will undergo major changes as your baby also learns to adjust to life outside...
Babywearing Counts as Tummy Time
As a new parent, you’ve probably heard of “tummy time” – the time that infants spend on their stomachs to help them develop the muscles they need to crawl, roll over, and sit up. Tummy time is essential for optimal infant development, both physically and cognitively. Tummy time offers an...
The Eco-Conscious Postpartum Guide
It’s so easy to overlook your own postpartum recovery needs. Many parents thoughtfully prepare a baby registry, but totally forget to think about the products they’ll need for postpartum healing. The hospital will provide some of what you need, but disposable products create a ton of waste. Maternity pads, mesh...
How to Make Life Easier With a Newborn
Having a baby is one surefire way to rock your world. New parenthood is not for the faint of heart! People often talk about how hard it is to have a newborn, but why is it so hard to have a new baby? The truth is, with a new baby...
Mindfulness for New Parents
Mindfulness for new parents, really? When you hear the word mindfulness you might picture someone sitting peacefully and uninterrupted, meditating. Now imagine the haze of raising a newborn - endless diaper changes, mountains of used burp cloths, sleepless nights - and the two just don’t mix. You know that mindfulness...
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...
The Secret to Enjoying Your Baby
It’s no secret that parenthood is hard. Between sleep deprivation, huge new responsibilities, and shifting relationships, becoming a parent is one of life’s most stressful transitions. But it’s also one of the most absolutely rewarding ones. The secret to enjoying your baby is having the practical and emotional support to...
Gift ideas for New Dads
Father’s Day is Sunday, June 19th 2022. New dads are in the thick of a difficult season: sleepless nights, new responsibilities, and much less time for self-care. On Father’s Day, they deserve a relaxing day and a thoughtful gift! But what’s the perfect gift for a brand new father? Let’s...
What is a Doula?
Doulas make birth and the postpartum experience better for new parents. The term doula is on the rise as more and more parents embrace the vital role that these professionals serve. But even as the demand for doulas increases, the work that they do is not always clear to new...
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...
What to Expect for Your First Postpartum Period
Pregnancy puts your body through major changes. In less than a year, your uterus goes from the size of a pear to a watermelon and back again. New hormones come online. Others, like estrogen, climb to six times higher than pre-pregnancy levels. It’s a lot to adjust to, but there...
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...
5 Meaningful Ways to Celebrate His First Father’s Day
Is your man celebrating his first Father’s Day this year? You want to make it a special occasion for him, but don’t know where to start. Don’t stress - there are countless simple and meaningful ways to let your guy know he is loved and appreciated. Read on for 5...
5 Amazing Facts About Doulas in Honor of World Doula Week
It’s time to celebrate the doulas in your life! Every year, March 22-28 marks World Doula Week - a time to spread awareness around the many ways that these essential non-medical support people better the lives of parents and babies. Doulas work tirelessly and passionately, using their vast knowledge and...
A-Z Guide for Postpartum Wellness
It takes nine months to grow a baby and prepare for birth. You’ve researched pediatricians, strollers and asked your provider dozens of questions about your pregnancy. Soon your baby will be here and planning for your "fourth trimester" is essential to postpartum recovery. This A-Z Guide for postpartum recovery includes...
Do you have a plan for your postpartum recovery?
Sleep. Good food. Clean home. Happy baby. These four elements together allow for a calm transition into new parenthood. For a new mom, sufficient sleep is a vital part of your postpartum healing and maintaining your milk supply. Eating healthy, balanced meals and drinking plenty of fluids helps your body...
Turn motherhood into a community
Three examples. Ready? Set? Go. The Professional Example Interesting how this executive frames up SoulCycle here: One of the key values at SoulCycle is non-competitiveness. Cyclers don’t compete with each other. Rather they share the burden of the exercise together, pressing down on their peddles and bopping on their handlebars...
How much sex should you be having after having a baby? (A honest discussion.)
People don't bring up this topic enough -- and it's actually really important to couples and relationships. Not discussing it just causes problems. So, let's discuss it! First up: best practice is to wait six weeks after having a baby, although many doctors say "set your own timeline." OK, so let's say...
Helpful tips from your team at Well Supported Family.
Expert postpartum and newborn advice you can trust.
Since 2016, Well Supported Family has provided newborn care to thousands of families. Our team of certified Postpartum Doulas and Newborn Care Specialists offer daytime, overnight, and 24/7 in-home support across 12 U.S. states. Whether you're recovering from birth, establishing feeding routines, or just trying to get more sleep, we're here to help—one family at a time.
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