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Your Postpartum
The definition of postpartum care is helping a woman regain both physical and emotional balance as she transitions from maiden to mother. This transition is a massive undertaking and needs to honored, but also relies on a healing touch that can welcome new mammas with open arms. This is spiritual time that deserves reverence, humility, care, and warmth that enables the postpartum mamma to heal and seal the birth process.
A Mother Roaster is a caregiver that nurtures new mothers after birth while supporting their recovery and journey into motherhood. Every woman deserves to be welcomed into motherhood through gentle loving care.
Mother Roasting #1
Nurturing & Warming Food As Thy Medicine
There is an ancient ayurvedic tradition that states that as a mother is pregnant, she is in a state of heat but that after she gives birth, she shifts into a state of cold, as the warmth leaves her body with the baby. It is custom to focus on warming the mother's postspartum body through a diet of foods rich with warming and healing properties to bring the body back into balance.
Mother Roasting #2
Sacred Belly Bind
Wrapping the belly is an effective and important part of a mamma's recovery that aids the body to shrink and recover in a shorter time period, normally 6-8 weeks. A sacred belly wrap provides a postpartum body with 360 degree support to assist the abdominal wall muscle retraction, improve posture to the torso while vital organs return to pre-pregnant size and position.
During pregnancy a mom's body retains water, fat, and air, which cause her body to swell and expand, including the organs in the womb area such as the cervix and vagina. The water retained by cells supported the amniotic fluid; and the purpose of the air was to cushion the baby, mom's internal organs and bones, as her center of gravity shifted as the baby grew. This is why a mamma gets swollen during the last months of pregnancy. When baby is born, excess water, fat, and air are no longer needed and the cells will naturally release and shrink back to their pre-pregnant size. The belly bind will speed up this process with constant pressure on the abdomen and torso area.
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The longer design of the wrap provides holistic support to all of the abdominal and pelvic organs, muscles, and pelvic floor. Supporting the pelvic floor is very important in the immediate weeks after birth as the pressure of the longer wrap on the hip area helps the cervix to shrink and allows the pelvic floor to heal without being further compromised.
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Steady, pressured support on the hips allows the body to "close" more easily than if just left in its expanded state. The bengkung style of binding, based in Malaysia, is known for help in healing diastasis recti with the constant support of the abdominal area. It also helps with spine and posture realignment, pelvic floor relaxation, and back support.
Mother Roasting #3
Ceremonial Bathing
One of the most common closing rituals is a ceremonial bath, which honors and recognizes a mamma's strength and selfless sacrifice she went through to birth her child into the world.
Each mamma is considered perfect just as she is, even after birth when many women do not feel beautiful. The ceremonial bath is candle lit and a milk and honey or malay floral mixture is added to her bath. She may soak alone and contemplate her new role or she can bring baby in for cuddles.
Mother Roasting #4
Hot Stone Abdominal Press
A traditional hot stone abdominal press technique is used to introduce heat to the body, invite the womb to return to size and expel excess aid and trapped energy from the womb space. The womb space, as believed by many cultures, is to be the "heart of the woman."
Utilizing warm stones and herbs with healing properties, this practice infuses deep heat over the entire body, but focuses on the abdominal and torso area.
* promotes faster shrinking of the womb
* helps to flatten the tummy
* expels trapped air
* helps with digestion and constipation
* helps heat and nourish the womb space and mamma
* breaks up residual blood clots, allowing for lochia to flow more easily and speeding the healing process
Mother Roasting #5
Might Moxa
Moxabustion is an external heat therapy that is applied over acu-points of an affected site. It uses the herb Mugwort, along with other potent healing herbs. It assists postpartum healing by warming the abdomen, stops pain, moves Qi, circulates blood, safeguards health, facilitates speedy recovery and energizes mamma.
Mother Roasting #6
Healing Yoni Steams
V-steams combine herbs and steam for medicinal purposes. For postpartum healing, v-steams bring heat to the womb. The use of specific herbs work in combination with each other to nourish, tone, heal, bring fresh oxygenated blood, promote cleansing, and shrink swollen vaginal and uterine tissues after pregnancy and childbirth. The moist heat opens the pores of the tissues it comes in contact with. The water vapor carries the medicinal benefits of the plants, including volatile oils. This is absorbed into the tissues and enters the bloodstream, having a direct affect on the reproductive system.
A mamma sits over a specially designed sauna and the steam rises to the perineal area.
Benefits of v-steams after childbirth:
* helps soften and melt blood clots in the lochia for easy passing
* reduces uterine swelling
* reduces excessive vaginal discharge
* eliminates foul odor
* enhances the healing of tears and cuts in the vaginal area
* helps tighten the pelvic floor muscles
* reduces the possibility of vaginal infection and itchiness
* helps cleanse and deodorize vaginal area (the vagina is great at self cleaning, when we say that it helps cleanse, we mean that it supports the overall system, giving it strength to do its job well)
* known as a uterine lavage to help cleanse uterine membranes
Mother Roasting #7
Ceremonial Sacred Tuck In
In Latin American countries, this is commonly practiced by midwives as "closing the bones" postpartum. Closing the birth process is critical for so many reasons: energetically to finish the birth process, physically to heal the body, and spiritually to properly step over the threshold from maiden to mother.
Physically it brings her back together, squeezing her joints and hugging all the areas that pregnancy and relaxin hormones have loosened. It stimulates blood flow which in turn can help clean and renew the mother by moving fluid in her body. This can help with finding balance for her hormones, immune system, toning muscles and tissues.
Energetically it will bring her back together by holding her energy close. Its a reminder of the intention of coming home. It's an opportunity to invite all the threads of herself that may have been scattered during the birth process to be pulled back together.
Emotionally it gives her a specific act/time to focus on sealing the birth process. By setting intentions of closing the birthing time and entering fully into motherhood, she is able to emotionally transition herself in a way our culture seldom allows.
This includes a warming rub down, a sealing of points of mothering, a laying on of hands, and a blessing. This can be done with just mom and practitioner or by a group who want to celebrate mom
Mother Roasting Package
* 6 weekly visits, starting the week after birth
*each visit inlcudes information and emotional support, a warming food, soup, or tea
*Breastfeeding support as needed. If need is beyond my scope, I will refer you to a lactation consultant
*Herbal remedies
*One Postpartum Service each visit (see above)
*Body Ready Method for Postpartum Recovery
*Cranial Sacral Therapy for baby if needed
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$750
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