Trips to the bathroom, checking over and over. A cramp in the stomach, is something going wrong? Maybe I shouldn’t run or do yoga? Should I not drink coffee or tea? Laser focus on basal cell temperature, fertile windows, and hormone injections. What happens if I go through this again…can I handle it? […]
Postpartum Care
Yoni Steaming–By Meghan Coleman
While some are pretty familiar with this topic, yoni steaming is still pretty niche. It even gets a sideways eye and sometimes a hard no from the medical community. But for anyone curious to dive a little deeper I want to share what exactly it is, a little history behind it, and the many […]
Closing the Bones-A Postpartum Ritual
The Closing of the Bones ceremony acknowledges the immense changes a woman has undergone in pregnancy and childbirth and assists in bringing her spirit back into her own body. Physically, it guides her bones back into place, helps her pelvic organs shift and her uterus to shrink back down, and stimulates blood flow. Women who are honored in this way experience a sense of calm and grounding, re-establishing her sense of self.
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy—What is it and why do I need it? Pelvic Floor PT is the use of hands-on PT to stretch, strengthen and relax muscles in the pelvic bowl (your pelvic floor). It is a specialized type of PT that treats bowel, bladder and sexual dysfunction through the musculoskeletal and neuromuscular system. […]
Postpartum Rest – The 40 Days of Lying-In
The natural rhythm of the Earth and Life—is that there is a period of growth and a period of rest. This is how balance is created. Pregnancy represents the time of growth, and therefore the postpartum period represents the time of rest. In the modern world, there is no value given for rest—modern culture is […]
