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#41 Dad Staying Home is Not a Postpartum Plan


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When asked about their postpartum plan, so many women say "Well, my husband is taking 3 weeks off work...". While thats great (although we'd be more into all fathers being given paid paternity leave for at least a month), that alone should not be your postpartum support in an ideal situation.


We talk about:

  • How we envision the ideal postpartum time to look and feel
  • How sinking into this design can allow the blessing of a different time perception and brain wave state to come aboard. A delicious, relaxed, healing, state.
  • Postpartum is designed to be slow - we need to have enough support to hold the energy of slow
  • Partner needs slow as well! Mother can't fully relax if everyone around her is running around and feeling hectic.
  • Fathers need also need time to integrate as well! This is a huge transition for the whole family.
  • Father's can’t be doing constantly and expect to also have space to feel 
  • The theory of everyone in the postpartum time needing two layers of support
  • Creating healthy fatherhood begins with the birth of the father!
  • It's often more difficult, but extremely important for men to practice dropping from a space of doing to a space of being
  • Sometimes new fathers experience a crash as way of slowing down. We need postpartum support to allow them to stay present.
  • Your next tangible steps spelled out to creating sacred space for both parents postpartum


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Mentioned in the show:

 

Our Postpartum Planning Guide

Rachelle Garcia Seliga of Innate Traditions

Birthfit postpartum program

Wise Woman, Sacred Birth


A few of our relevant previous episodes:

Manifesting Your Ideal Postpartum Time

Your Motherhood is For You - with Nicole

The Vital Energies of Receiving in the Postpartum Time


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