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12. Tasha D’Cruz: Postnatal nutrition | Malaysian cultural postnatal practices | Rest more and clean less!
This week I’m chatting with Tasha D’Cruz. Tasha is a nutritionist, specialising in maternal health. Tasha also has a 15 month old baby.
We talked about how Tasha prepared for the time postnatally. Tasha did a La Leche League three day course during pregnancy. She also did an NCT course as a way of creating a network of mum friends. Tasha also did a hypnobirthing course to prepare for birth
We talked about postnatal doulas – with retrospect Tasha thinks it would have been helpful to have had one, particularly a few months in when her dad had gone home and she needed some practical and emotional support.
Tasha talks about her experience of those early days of motherhood. She said for the first month she felt like she was in a bubble, everything was in soft focus and she wasn’t really aware of anything else that was going on around her.
Tasha had three days to herself without visitors, she thinks this helped with getting used to one another and adjusting to parenthood.
Tasha is Malaysian, her dad came over from Malaysia three days after Tasha gave birth, with a suitcase full of Chinese confinement herbs for him to cook confinement recipes for her. Tasha talks about eating a strict menu in those early stages postnatally to help her body to recover.
Tasha says she felt her dad wasn’t really strict about this, he was doing it in a supportive way to help her to heal. Tasha talked about this being commonplace in Malaysian culture.
Tasha wishes she had prepared for the emotional changes she would experience postnatally. Particularly regarding her relationship with her partner.
Tasha also talked about coping mechanisms. She described a behaviour where she found herself often counting to 4 when she was patting her baby or doing other things. She recently read about maternal OCD and felt what she was doing was compulsive counting. Tasha said she thinks she was using this as a technique of avoiding thinking about the massive responsibility of parenthood.
I asked Tasha if there is anything she would have done differently; she said she would rest more. Tasha describes having a quick recovery after birth so sprang back into action quite quickly. Tasha wishes she had done a week in bed, week on the sofa and a week in the house.
Top tip - get a cleaner if you can afford it.
Where to find Tasha
Website - https://tashadcruz.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tashadcruz/
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By Maisie NichollsThis week I’m chatting with Tasha D’Cruz. Tasha is a nutritionist, specialising in maternal health. Tasha also has a 15 month old baby.
We talked about how Tasha prepared for the time postnatally. Tasha did a La Leche League three day course during pregnancy. She also did an NCT course as a way of creating a network of mum friends. Tasha also did a hypnobirthing course to prepare for birth
We talked about postnatal doulas – with retrospect Tasha thinks it would have been helpful to have had one, particularly a few months in when her dad had gone home and she needed some practical and emotional support.
Tasha talks about her experience of those early days of motherhood. She said for the first month she felt like she was in a bubble, everything was in soft focus and she wasn’t really aware of anything else that was going on around her.
Tasha had three days to herself without visitors, she thinks this helped with getting used to one another and adjusting to parenthood.
Tasha is Malaysian, her dad came over from Malaysia three days after Tasha gave birth, with a suitcase full of Chinese confinement herbs for him to cook confinement recipes for her. Tasha talks about eating a strict menu in those early stages postnatally to help her body to recover.
Tasha says she felt her dad wasn’t really strict about this, he was doing it in a supportive way to help her to heal. Tasha talked about this being commonplace in Malaysian culture.
Tasha wishes she had prepared for the emotional changes she would experience postnatally. Particularly regarding her relationship with her partner.
Tasha also talked about coping mechanisms. She described a behaviour where she found herself often counting to 4 when she was patting her baby or doing other things. She recently read about maternal OCD and felt what she was doing was compulsive counting. Tasha said she thinks she was using this as a technique of avoiding thinking about the massive responsibility of parenthood.
I asked Tasha if there is anything she would have done differently; she said she would rest more. Tasha describes having a quick recovery after birth so sprang back into action quite quickly. Tasha wishes she had done a week in bed, week on the sofa and a week in the house.
Top tip - get a cleaner if you can afford it.
Where to find Tasha
Website - https://tashadcruz.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tashadcruz/