Retreat - Your postpartum environment

Why is the environment in which your postpartum period carried out important? How do you prepare your home to provide you with all the things that will support your recovery and optimise this most sacred and important time to bond with your baby, learn to feed and heal after giving birth. This is my musing on what #retreat means in the #postpartum period.

Her postpartum is an unrivaled time to go slow and allow the transformation that is occurring to continue in a safe space that anchors her as she learns her role as a Mumma. There will be an emergence of a new woman and she knows this time is sacred and is sacred to her life's journey.

She is vulnerable in her love for her baby and gives herself permission to bask in it as though she knows that it is part of her healing, her journey in Motherhood.

She gives herself permission to be cared for in an environment that is familiar, beautiful, simple yet provides all that she needs and keeps her feeling all the feels.

She unapologetically takes time, ALL the time she needs to heal her body and accepts that life will never be the same because how could she be - she is Mother now.

Going slow creates an attunement with her baby and allows her to learn at a pace that meets the new demands of life with her newborn. She has a peace and ease that fills her with love.

She has the best team around her who keep the other tasks that would normally be her responsibility at bay, so she is left to retreat without those worries. She is ready for this time to immerse herself in her new role as Mother.

Her meals are presented to her with love and beauty, her sheets freshly changed every other day, she gets sunlight daily and rests whenever she feels. Her baby feels her warmth as they both create a bond outside of the womb.

Her worries are heard with a loving ear that makes her feel wrapped in the most delicious warm hug knowing that all is well. She retreats to her room with her belly and heart full, slides into her freshly made bed and snuggles with her precious newborn.

More to follow on how to replenish during this time while she is in this most sacred space of retreat.