Organizing Your Social Media to Only Include What Gives You Life
Being selective and organizing your social media create a more constructive and beneficial feed for you and your baby.
Author: Meghan Ratliff
Meghan is the mother of three beautiful children and a postpartum doula. She is passionate about improving the care that new moms receive during the 4th trimester, and believes that all moms and babies deserve the best start together possible. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
How to Make Your Own Postpartum Recovery Kit
Make your own postpartum recovery kit to help with healing after labor and breastfeeding during the fourth trimester.
What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood
Drs. Alexandra Sacks and Catherine Birndorf explain the psychology behind the emotions women feel while pregnant and after birth in What No One Tells …
Postpartum Belly Binding
Belly binding is one technique that can help facilitate post-partum healing. Just as it sounds, the practice refers to wrapping or splinting your abdo…
The Postnatal Depletion Cure
The Postnatal Depletion Cure by Dr. Oscar Serrallach treats the nutrient depletion, sleep loss, and emotional shifts women face after giving birth.
The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body
In The Fourth Trimester, Kimberly Ann Johnson provides a road map to help new mother's heal and balance their emotions during postpartum.
5 Tips for Hiring the Right Postpartum Support Person
Looking to hire a postpartum support person or relying on a family member/friend for care in the fourth trimester? Consider these questions and guidel…
The Forgotten Trimester
The fourth trimester, the 2-3 month period after birth, is equally important to mom’s and baby’s health and development as the other trimesters.
6 Common Perinatal Mood Disorders
Postpartum depression isn't the only disorder under the perinatal mood disorder umbrella. Meghan reviews the six of the most common perinatal mood dis…
Skin to Skin Baby Care
Dr. Nils Bergman discusses the benefits of skin to skin baby care which include increased breastfeeding success and reduced risk of postpartum depress…
Newborn Travel and Vacation Tips
Traveling with a newborn and remembering all the gear you need can make vacation stressful. Check out these tips that'll help make your trip a breeze.
Prayers and Hopes for My Children
This is an ongoing list of precepts that I keep in the notes section of my cellphone in hopes of one day sharing them with my children.