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- Hi, welcome to another episode of Ask the Placenta Lady.
My name is Jodi, but when I started
working with new moms back in 2006,
my clients just ended up calling me the Placenta Lady,
so that's what I go by.
Our show is all about getting moms
prepared for that postpartum recovery period,
and I've been asked every question under the sun,
which is why our tagline is
"no question is too strange for the Placenta lady."
Joining me today is Heather Rawlett.
Heather is a PBi Placenta Encapsulation Specialist®,
and she also owns Maryland Placenta Nurse.
Welcome to the show, Heather.
- Yes, I own and operate Maryland Placenta Nurse.
I'm a concierge Placenta Encapsulation Specialist®,
it serves DC and the surrounding area,
and I'm so pleased to be here with you today.
- That's fantastic, Heather.
Thanks for being with us again.
Our question for this episode is,
I have been spending a lot of time on my birth plan,
but I'm not really sure what to do
in the immediate postpartum.
Is there such a thing as a postpartum plan?
And that is just a brilliant, brilliant question.
I love this question.
People don't, a lot of times we get caught up in
planning for the birth, we decorate the nursery,
and we don't put a whole lot of time
into what's going to happen once
we get the baby home and once we're kinda flying solo.
So that's an amazing question,
it's always best to be prepared.
Now, obviously, for the immediate postpartum,
the one that I always recommend
is placenta encapsulation.
Placenta capsules are great
for that initial, first two to three week period of time
where your hormones aren't quite regulated yet,
you're going through a big transition,
and the placenta is actually extremely beneficial
for those first two to three week period of time.
There's a multitude of reasons for this.
I will go ahead and just stick to
the traditional Chinese medicine theories,
and basically, in traditional Chinese medicine,
and I am always a proponent, always have been
and always will be a proponent of
the traditional Chinese medicine method of preparation,
so we are talking about a very distinct product
called Ze He Che, and this is a medicine
in traditional Chinese medicine
that has been used for centuries
for a variety of situations and ailments and issues.
Now, one of the theories for how it works is that
in traditional Chinese medicine,
postpartum women are considered cold.
So, if you know about traditional Chinese medicine
in any regard, it's all about balance, homeostasis,
and creating a balance in the body.
So if a postpartum women is considered cold,
then she would need warming and tonifying things
that would help her into balance.
So Zi He Che which is what we get
when you prepare a placenta according to the way
the placenta lady prepares it, the way PBi,
I teach through PBi and other Placenta
Encapsulation Specialists® through my organization,
we all prepare it the same way
according to traditional Chinese medicine.
When you do that, you get what's called
Zi He Che, and Zi He Che is one of
the most powerful tonifiers in the whole TCM arsenal,
so this works in the immediate postpartum
is because a postpartum woman is considered cold.
We add some heat to the cold, and we bring her
into balance and homeostasis, so she feels better,
and it's also been used to treat insufficient lactation,
so it'll actually help those moms
who are planning to breastfeed their babies,
give her a little boost for her milk supply,
which babies always appreciate,
and it's also been used to treat fatigue,
so obviously if a new mom is,
you're not sleeping, you've been
through a whole birth experience,
and it really helps with that energy,
and it's especially gonna be beneficial
for those moms who have children already,
because, you know, when you're a mom
you don't get those sick days, you don't get naps,
you don't get to rest like maybe if it was your first baby,
so it's really great to just get you
on the path to wellness and make you feel better
and you only need to take it
for those first couple of weeks postpartum.
But obviously, placenta encapsulation
is just one thing that you can do,
and I'm really excited because
Heather has prepared a series and a list for us
for what you can do in the immediate postpartum
to have the best possible recovery.
- Placenta encapsulation has so many benefits.
I too always recommend that first as the first
line of defense for postpartum recovery.
One of the things I've been helping my clients with
is a checklist for them, so if you can,
grab a pen and paper, if you're not driving
and write down these quick little tips
to help you plan for a happy, easy postpartum.
One of my go-to resources is Meal Train.
You don't have to set this up yourself,
have your best friend do it, have another mom friend do it,
your mother, your mother in law, it's a free
online service, you can post it to Facebook,
you can email it, you can write down the link
and give it to the ladies at church,
but Meal Train basically is a calendar
for people to sign up and drop off meals to your home.
We are an allergy family, it allows you to write
your food allergies down so people can avoid those
and your family is fed for as long as you choose
to have those meals dropped off.
For me personally, the meal train is one of
the best resources out there.
Next would be a postpartum doula.
Everyone has heard of the doula for labor and delivery,
the person that goes to the hospital and tends to mom
during labor and delivery.
Well those people also will go to your home
after you have your baby, they'll help you
with your laundry, they'll help you with your breastfeeding,
they'll help you with your toddlers.
Postpartum doulas, in my opinion, are one of
the most underutilized resources out there.
So a postpartum doula, they will also do
gift certificate packages, so make sure to register
for one of those on your baby registry.
Your mother in law can buy you that
instead of a bouncy seat that your toddler
will outgrow in no time.
Lactation consultants, lactation consultants
if you're a nursing mother, they can do consults
over the phone, they can come to your home
if you're really needing support,
they can evaluate for things like tongue ties
and lip ties, there's also a service
called La Leche League which is free
which not a lot of people know about
so definitely Google that in your area ahead of time
so if you find yourself four days postpartum
having trouble nursing, you already know
how to contact your local La Leche League.
A baby nurse, a baby nurse is an actual nurse
that comes to your home, they'll do overnight shifts
while you sleep, they will watch the baby.
When it's time for the baby to eat, they will either
bottle feed the baby for you or they will pick up
the baby, walk the baby to you, let you nurse the baby,
they will then take the baby, change the baby,
new clothes, burp the baby, get the baby
back to sleep all while you've long fallen asleep.
A baby nurse.
Visiting hours, letting your friends and family know
what the visiting hours in your home are
so that it's seven A.M. as your best friend is headed
off to work, she doesn't pop over to see the baby
before she heads off to her workday while you're
still getting those early morning hours of sleep.
Visiting hours are a really nice thing to have.
It's okay to have boundaries.
A dog walker: set up the teenage kid down the street
to come walk your dog for you.
You're not gonna wanna take your puppy out for a walk
four days postpartum.
That is a great thing to have the neighbor kids do for you.
Toddler entertainment, have the neighbor kids
come play in the backyard.
If you have small children, enlist the neighbor kids
to come play, enlist one of your mom friends
to maybe take your kid for a play date.
Postpartum doulas will sometimes do toddler entertainment.
And then of course, laundry assistance.
One of the things I do whenever I go visit a friend
that just had a baby is fold a basket of laundry.
I don't think those baby snuggles should be
given out freely.
If you want to snuggle that baby, it should come
with a folding of a basket of laundry.
Every new mother has a basket of laundry
waiting somewhere to be folded.
Ask her to get the laundry, fold the laundry
and then snuggle the baby.
So those are my short list that you can do
just like you would your birth plan,
that can be your postpartum plan.
Work with your partner to say how can we get
these things arranged so that after the baby's here,
we can have these needs of mine met
so that I'm not stressing out.
In America, we don't have a lot of paid time off
after the baby comes, so it's important
to set up your support before the baby gets here.
Like Jodi said, put as much effort into planning
the nursery decor, put as much effort into that
as you're gonna put into that, make sure you're planning
for your postpartum support so that you're not
blindsided by how difficult it is
when you get that baby home.
That way you're supported.
- Those were all great suggestions, Heather.
Thank you so much for that.
As you were talking, I just wanted to just
kind of extrapolate on what you mentioned
with the chores and then also I loved the visiting hours.
That's just brilliant.
Make sure that that is definitely communicated
to your friends and family and the other thing
that I love to suggest to my clients
is to create that chore list, print it out.
So sometimes, we all have things that we don't
want other people doing for us, but yeah,
a load of laundry, dishes in the sink,
unloading or loading the dishwasher,
any of those tasks that can just keep
kinda your sanity intact and make you just feel
a little bit better about being in your home
so much exclusively after you have the baby,
other people can do those things for you.
So print out a list, add in fold a load of laundry.
Put on there empty the dishwasher,
clear out the sinks, you know, things like that
and tape it to your fridge and if people come
and they're like hey, what can I do to help?
You can be like oh great, I have a list on the fridge
and then that way you don't have to sit there
and feel like you're telling people what to do
which can feel a little bit awkward
but you're also getting your needs met.
So definitely have a chore list there
and then also I love the suggestion about the dog walker
and just to kind of add onto that too,
your partner is, you're going to need your partner
to be spending a little bit of extra time on you,
little bit of extra time on the house,
maybe some things that your partner is not
typically used to doing.
So if they're doing chores that are typically like
well it's his job or her job to mow the lawn,
then maybe you hire that out for a few months
so that takes that off of your partner's plate
and they don't feel like that task is kind of getting away
while they're focusing on you and the baby.
Outsource other things, like maybe just
for those first few months, it doesn't have to be forever
but maybe those first few months you hire a housekeeper
to come in every couple weeks, just to keep
the bathrooms clean and the floors decent
and things like that.
And just until you're back on your feet
and you and your partner kind of feel like
you have the hang of things and are keeping up
with things again.
So those are a couple of other suggestions
that I just wanted to add onto what others
already stated, which was so helpful.
Another thing is there is absolutely nothing wrong
with designating someone to be your postpartum planner.
I know some of us feel a little bit awkward
dictating what maybe friends and family should be doing
when they come to visit, or scheduling those visiting hours.
Scheduling the visiting hours can be easy
but enforcing them can be a little bit more difficult
so if you have somebody that is your postpartum planner
having maybe a close friend or a sister
or a close family member running interference for you
would be fantastic, so instead of getting all these calls,
oh I heard you had the baby, I heard you had the baby,
maybe just put a recording on your voicemail
that says hi, baby has arrived,
this is the height and the weight,
if you want to see the baby, please go ahead
and just leave a message for so-and-so,
postpartum planner, at, and you give them
their number and they can schedule a time
to come see you and they know what your time preferences are
and that can kinda keep you from feeling like
you're managing your friends and family.
And if they're upset, then they can tell her about it
and she can be like too bad.
Did you have anything else to add to that, Heather?
- I love the idea of a postpartum planner,
somebody to run interference for you
and having that phone number of your postpartum interference
on your voicemail, that is a tip that I'm gonna
carry onto my clients and my patients at the hospital.
That is a great tip, thank you for sharing.
- That's awesome, Heather.
Well thank you so much for being with us today again.
I really appreciate you taking the time,
you had some great suggestions.
- Well thank you for having me,
I enjoy speaking with you.
- Where can people reach you if they would like
to hire you for, as the Maryland Placenta Nurse?
- I'm on Instagram and Facebook as Maryland Placenta Nurse
and my website is marylandplacentanurse.com,
all of those ways you can get right to me.
- That's fantastic Heather, thank you so much.
And thank you for watching another episode
of Ask the Placenta Lady.
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Remember, no question is too strange
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