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The Build Your Nest: Postpartum Planning Workbook can help families get the most out of this important time. It’s a step-by-step guide to building a customized strategy and is packed with valuable resources.
One part crucial information, including topics like infant feeding, mental health, cesarean recovery.
One part ideas for building circles of support, addressing practical aspects of life, holistic recovery practices, and the challenges that can arise.
One part key questions and useful templates that help empower each family to make their own unique postpartum plan
What if all parents planned for REST, SUPPORT, and CARE after giving birth?
Do you work with families?
You can integrate the workbook into prenatal care, use it as a tool in your classes, or offer it for resale in your office.
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About The Workbook
At 6 weeks postpartum, many postpartum challenges haven’t been resolved or may not have even set in.
It is becoming more and more evident that mothers, birthing people, are struggling and need a new model that takes a holistic, community-based approach.
The Workbook can:
be used to discuss specific topics during prenatal visits.
improve your clients’ overall postpartum time.
widen your clients’ base of support.
help your clients understand how your care and services fit into their overall plan.
How you can offer the workbook to your clients or patients:
Include it in your care for all of your clients.
Offer it for purchase in your office.
Include it in specific packages or class series.
It’s a tool to expand what you offer to your clients and can be easily integrated into your practice.
The workbook provides information about breastfeeding, multiples, mental health, cesarean birth and recovery, time in the NICU, and traditional postpartum practices. It addresses siblings, grandparents, and single motherhood.
To get a sense of the workbook, take a peek on Amazon, and please download the Meal Tree Guide and Glossary of Postpartum Terms for free.
“I love and highly recommend the Build Your Nest postpartum planning workbook. It is wonderful to have a comprehensive tool like this that can help families experience more ease and support in the postpartum period. I have been craving a resource of this kind to offer to my clients for years and hadn’t been able to find anything that really met the need. Thank you Kestrel, I am so happy with this workbook!”
The Workbook:
Honors postpartum time with a newborn as precious and sacred.
Addresses your needs for nourishment, rest, baby bonding, and community.
Supports you in personal reflection.
Affirms your inner wisdom and parenting style.
Helps you uncover resources you may not realize were there.
Invites dialogue between you and your partner, supporting alignment.
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After giving birth we need REST, SUPPORT, and CARE.
Postpartum planning can make REST, SUPPORT, and CARE possible.
The Build Your Nest workbook offers expectant parents a planning process with crucial information about the postpartum time and lots of ideas about how to make a plan, specific to their own parenting style, family structure, culture, and community.
This workbook is a practical and empowering tool, designed to be written in. Circles, stars, and cross-outs encouraged!
Even if you have the most attentive work-at-home partner or your mother is coming for two weeks or you’ve hired a postpartum doula, The Workbook will be enormously helpful. You will see how their support fits into your larger plan and ease the transition when you no longer have their support. Creating a broader base of support will help you feel more connected to your community.
You may have older children and you have been through all this before. While in some ways experienced mothers can welcome a new baby with more confidence and ease, it is important to remember that each birth and each baby is a whole new experience. Usually, families with older children receive less support even though their parenting load is growing. Careful planning and calling in support is beneficial to the whole family, helping older siblings adjust to life with a newborn.
Postpartum practices from around the world:
In Spain, all parents get 6 months Paid Leave the first year of their baby’s life.
In Vietnam, mothers traditionally went back to live with their own mothers to be taken care of for 3 months.
Somali mothers have a “afantanbah” or 40 days of staying in and being cared for.
In Sweden new parents get 480 days of paid leave, and 60 of them must be used by dads or else they’re forfeited.
In Mexico, mothers are traditionally given the “Cuarentena” or 40 days of being cared for.
Canadian mothers get 50 weeks of maternity leave.
In China, the mothers have the ” zuo yue zhi” or the “sitting month” of staying in and being cared for.
In Bali, new mothers do not enter the kitchen until their baby’s cord stump has fallen off.
These practices show honor, care, and love for mothers.
This is not too much to ask for. After we give birth WE benefit from being well taken care of. Our babies benefit when we are well taken care of. Our other children and our partners benefit when we are well taken care of. The whole world is benefits when we are taken care of.
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Get just one, or if you serve families consider the bulk options.