Nick and Jane talk about the importance of postpartum care. Speaking with Chloe Lorback about helping mums thrive during pregnancy and beyond.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Postpartum care according to other cultures
• Chinese medicine views on how to care for the mother
• Confinement/‘doing the month’/the golden month
• Postpartum care options with Chinese herbs and acupuncture
• Food trains
• Baby blues
• Allowing time to heal
• How to avoid or manage partial or complete rectus abdominis separation
• Chloe recommends getting as much knowledge as possible during pregnancy.

Additional Resources Mentioned:

• Golden Month: Caring for the world’s mothers after childbirth by Allison Jenny
• PANDA Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia
• Chloe recommends:
  • Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
  • Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
  • The Resilience Project by Hugh van Cuylenburg
  • The Queen’s Gambit

You can find Chloe Lorback @ Fit to Deliver

You can find Nick Conquest @ Gardenvale Chinese Medicine

You can find Jane Ferguson @ Acupuncture Fitzroy

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