You’ve brought your new baby home, you’re settling into motherhood and you’re tending to your child’s every need. Big tick! But have you forgotten something? What about YOU. Here are some tips on how to nurture your own body during the early days of motherhood.
Common post-pregnancy side effects: Heartburn, Constipation, Stretch-Marks
• Constipation: Slippery Elm is a great way to keep you regular, can have in tea form, powder or tablets. It tastes pretty feral so I’d go tablets.
• Oats also keep you regular
• Lots of water keeps things moving along also!
• Indigestion: slippery elm.
• Stretch Marks: Use sesame oil, rubbing the oil onto your skin let's skin stretch at it's own pace and will help prevent stretch marks.
Foods to tackle the baby blues: It's very natural to have mood swings with your hormones going all over the joint... (depression, then anxiety)
• Support your nervous system.
• Magnesium: reduces stress and anxiety
• Good fats: avocado, olive oil, coconut oil
• Foods high in serotonin: bananas and turkey naturally lift our moods.
Tips for sleep: If you're sleeping whenever your bub does, for the most part you'll have no problems, but if you do...
• Up the magnesium: green leaffies, whole grains, raw nuts and seeds.
• Bananas
• Turkey
• White cheese
• All meats feed our brain with amino acids.
Nipple soreness, milk production
• Mastitis: super painful they say you can put cabbage leaves on topically to soothe nipples
• Mastitis: dandelion tea
Getting back to shape
• There’s an Asian tradition, where you eat seaweed twice a day to help the uterus get back to shape.
• Avoid eating late at night
• Have carbohydrates in the morning, lunch and arvo, but pull them out at dinner.
