The Postpartum experience is personal to each and every Mother, each of whom will have their own journey to traverse. This means that each day a Mother will have unique needs to be tended, which can and will change. For this reason, no two postpartum home visits will be the same and there is no standard template as to how time with me will look. However, as a guide my time with a Mama may include some of the following:
- Support in integrating the Five Cross Cultural Practices for Postpartum Care into your postpartum experience.
- Newborn education and support (rooted in physiologic understanding of baby and mothers needs such as normal infant behaviour & sleep, breastfeeding, bathing, soothing techniques, nervous system regulation, coregulation etc).
- Foot soaks, loving touch and relaxation rubs for mum.
- Baby bonding support, including baby massage techniques.
- Help with basic housework (laundry folding/straightening up the house, dishes).
- Help with baby in order for mum to catch up on sleep/shower/take a breath.
- Emotional and physical support with birth recovery, birth story sharing, relationships and all the things that will come up during your transitioning to newborn life.
- Cooking of nutritious and healing postpartum meals and snacks.
- Listening ear and safe space holder for you to stretch your mother-hood wings and find your style.
- Aiding you in incorporating self-care into your day and maintaining healthy co-regulation with your baby and family.
- Assisting with attending appointments if needed.
- Being your personal advocate for building, believing in and trusting your own intuition, strength and value as a mother. Someone to remind you, when needed, that often the answers are within you.
- Being a support person who is there first and foremost for YOU, not the baby – my care will focus on “mothering the mother”. My desire is to help create the optimal environment for you and your baby to bond and fall deeply in love.
What doesn’t a Home Visit include
- Medical diagnoses or advice. I do not replace your medical practitioner.
- House cleaning (other than basic tidy up jobs as mentioned in home visit list).
- Child sitting. Ideally older siblings will be tended to by someone else while I am with you
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