Becoming a parent is the biggest life changing event a person can experience. In this episode Mika shares her postpartum experience, what she wishes she could have done differently and what she would like to do if blessed with a 2nd child. She shares postpartum rituals moms can do to realign themselves and give thanks, while also speaking briefly on postpartum traditions shared around the world.

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Links:

PP Around the World

https://www.mothermag.com/postpartum-care-traditions/#:~:text=The%20midwife%20visits%20daily%20to,also%20checking%20in%20on%20baby.

Traditional Postpartum Practices and Rituals: A Qualitative Systematic Review

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/traditional-postpartum-practices-and-rituals-qualitative-systematic-review-2007-cindy-lee

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.2217/17455057.3.4.487

Postnatal care - cultural and historic perspective

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00737-010-0175-1

Canadian PP guidelines Ch 5

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/maternity-newborn-care-guidelines-chapter-5.html

PP Care - Missing the Mark

https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/what-post-childbirth-care-looks-like-around-the-world-and-why-the-u-s-is-missing-the-mark

Learning from India’s traditions

https://www.nutritioncareofrochester.com/article.cfm?ArticleNumber=30

Books:

The Pregnant Goddess by Arin Murphy-Hiscock. (author of The Green Witch)

https://www.simonandschuster.ca/books/The-Pregnant-Goddess/Arin-Murphy-Hiscock/9781507213834

Thanking the Goddess Spell, Long version.

Mother,

Thank you for your guidance, your love, and your wisdom.

I am (say name), and I have triumphed.

I am women,

I am divine feminine,

I am daughter, and queen, and now I am Mother.

Your support and your strength helped bring me to this point.

Thank you for walking with me through this incredible experience.

Be with me as I move forward into this new life.

Help me remain calm and serene,

In harmony with my loved ones,

Patient and accepting of my humanity.

I offer you my deepest thanks for this miracle,

For the sacred opportunity to touch the very essence of life,

To cradle it in my womb,

And to labor to bring it forth into this world.

Blessed Goddess, enfold me in your arms,

And grant me your strength in the coming days and weeks

So mote it be.