The Complete Guide to Postpartum

The moment after birthing your baby, you enter postpartum. It’s the blurriest of transitions – there’s joy and awe but also intense physical recovery, fluctuating hormones, a brain that can’t find the right words, and so much to learn. It’s beautiful and it’s hard.

The Complete Guide to Postpartum is your comforting and enlightening guide to navigating this entirely new life, from the earliest moments post-birth to many years later. Full of expert advice, mothers’ stories, and evidence-based information that will guide you into motherhood with confidence.

This illustrated companion includes:

• Your postpartum checklist
• The fourth trimester
• Mental health
• Hormones
• The pelvic floor
• Postpartum with your partner
• Feeding
• Sleep
• Taking care of yourself and boosting your confidence
• Trusted postpartum resources

Full of expert advice, trusted resources, mothers' stories and evidence-based information, this invaluable guide will help you prepare, establish realistic expectations and find answers as you navigate birth recovery, the fourth trimester, mental health, and infant feeding and sleep. At a time when you may feel as vulnerable as your newborn, this book will support you into motherhood with confidence and reassurance.