by Liza Janda | Mar 7, 2019 | Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Essential Oils, Healing From Traumatic Birth, Hemorrhoids in Pregnancy and Birth, Swelling |
If you had a vaginal birth, your postpartum “Lady Bits” are going to be sore, and swollen. These tips can help you heal faster and feel better postpartum. Drink Lots of Water. The more water you drink after your baby arrives, the less acidic your urine...
by Liza Janda | Sep 14, 2017 | Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Postpartum, Postpartum Depression |
A DOSE OF REALITY – BABY BLUES You anticipated the arrival of your new baby for months. You envisioned blissful joy and infinite love. But SMACK! Reality just hit you hard. 80% of new moms will have the Baby Blues in the postpartum period. The postpartum period...
by Liza Janda | Jul 26, 2017 | Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Uncategorized |
New Baby In The House? If you’re a new parent, like I was 25 years ago, you may be stressing over a lot of things. The biggest thing for me with a newborn was desperately trying to figure out what she needed when she was apparently unhappy. I was so relieved when my...
by Liza Janda | Jul 9, 2017 | Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Postpartum, Uncategorized |
The birth of a baby can prompt a plethora of powerful emotions – joy of being a mother and anxiety or stress because of the sudden and huge changes in life. However, childbirth can also result in something you do not expect – depression. From the time you had a...
by Liza Janda | May 2, 2017 | Breastfeeding, Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Postpartum |
by Liza Janda If you’re like most women in the U.S. you probably had a cascade of interventions during labor and birth to help get your baby out. The use of these interventions – IV, epidural, pitocin, analgesia, antibiotics – can often be very helpful but...
by Liza Janda | Feb 16, 2017 | Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Labor and Birth Advice, Postpartum |
I get this question frequently in my childbirth classes, ”Should I store my baby’s cord blood?” Let me tell you, I know next to nothing about this subject. I know a lot of information about having a normal, safe, and healthy pregnancy, labor, and birth, but that’s...
