The postpartum period is also known as the fourth trimester. You’ve spent around nine months growing and then birthing your beautiful baby. Your body has done an incredible job, but after birth the amazing work is far from over!  You now have a lot of healing and recovery to do, breastmilk to produce (if you are breastfeeding) as well as navigating everything it means to be a new mother. You have a sweet new baby who is completely reliant on you for their every need, each moment of every day and night. It’s a lot! With sleep deprivation added to the mix, it can be quite overwhelming.

At least for the first six weeks postpartum, but ideally for longer, all of your energy will be used up looking after your baby (gazing lovingly, feeding and cuddling them) and looking after yourself (eating, sleeping and occasionally showering). Anything more and you are eating into your reserves.

You may be fortunate enough to have a devoted and experienced partner or family member who has time off work and will bring you nutritious meals and cups of tea, listen attentively whenever you need to talk, change all the nappies, settle baby whilst you toilet, shower and sleep as well as take care of all the household chores… all without wearing themselves out! But most of us don’t have that luxury!

That’s where I come in! I want you (and your family) to be so well supported that you stay in that beautiful love bubble and have a postpartum period that you remember as being one of the most wonderful times of your life.

I’ll come to your home and tend to any light house keeping duties required, make you a cup of tea, listen to you as you share how you are feeling (through tears or laughter), lovingly hold your baby whilst you take a shower or sleep, answer any questions you have about breastfeeding and provide balanced evidence-based information on all aspects of physical and emotional postpartum mother and baby care. I also provide unlimited support via email, text or phone between visits!

I have completed the Possums & Co Neuroprotective Developmental Care (NDC) program for providers and educators, have a current Blue Card and am triple Covid vaccinated.