You are still postpartum after loss
There is a lot of grief after miscarriage or stillbirth.
Mothers also experience everything that comes with pregnancy:
Hormones dropping dramatically.
Post bleeding.
Milk may come in.
Possible after-pains and your brain changes.
Possible healing from perineal injuries or tears or a c-section incision.
Experiencing all these while going through a trauma that can develop into anxiety depression or PTSD.
Support is the best thing to give. Whether it’s the coming over to check up on them or professional support with a counsellor.
Know that most of all, in a loss, they need your love, your willingness to listen & grieve along with them.
Remember you’re doing great mama!
❤Mama Muthoni
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What does your birth not going to plan mean?
We hope that you are reminded that mama, you and your body did not fail.
We know how quickly we can blame ourselves for what we could or couldn’t do in birth, and how easy it is to pick apart our birth stories. We also know the deep belly ache of longing that can be present when our birth plans didn’t go as we had always planned or dreamed.
You and your body did the absolute best it could. You are worthy of love and compassion. You are still a GOOD mother, and you are a survivor.
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Remember you’re doing great mama!
❤Mama Muthoni
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April is CS Awareness Month
CS is one of those things that society loves to hate. Yet many times they are necessary and they save many lives. Other times mom choses to have one and that’s ok too. But society makes us feel like we failed as mom’s when we have a C-section.
I had my first child via CS and I cried for MONTHS because I felt like my body let me down. I had planned a homebirth. Laboured for days only to get to hospital and find baby was breech. We did a CS as I was not psychologically ready to push and doc didn’t seem confident about breech vaginal birth.
After a few months I accepted that I did birth. Pushing a baby out is not what makes a birth. Pregnancy, process of getting the baby and post partum is what births both a baby and a mother. (There are other ways too).
My body did not fail me.
Your body did not fail you.
What’s your CS story?
