10 Things I Wish Everyone Knew about Visiting a Postpartum Momma
🤱🏽🧺10 things I wish everyone knew about visiting a postpartum momma
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Before you visit a postpartum momma, I highly suggest checking out these tips below
🍂Never arrive empty handed: bring nourishing groceries or a healing meal. When visiting a postpartum momma think about what would make this moment special and honor its sacredness. That can look like beautiful wild fresh flowers or a gorgeous dutch oven filled with the most nourishing ingredients.
🍂Be helpful: Things might be out of sorts and you can help with a simple load of laundry. We overthink the things that can help and often times all that is needed is a load of laundry or a sink full of dishes being done. Things will be out of sorts but your simple kind acts can mean the world.
🍂She hasn’t eaten: Just make her a snack. Momma’s are in the thick of it during the newborn season and hours can just mush into one. Offering to make them a snack can be one of the kindest gesturers.
🍂Listen with an open heart: She might need to talk, cry and laugh. This isn’t the time to visit with all of your own stories and experience. Give yourself a few minutes before visiting your postpartum momma friend or family member and check your own heart. Can you make space to hold and care for them? Keep things about them, their baby and the joy of this season.
🍂You won’t be hosted: Keep your visits short and sweet. It can be easy to stay too long and keep mommas awake. So simply put an alarm on your phone to remind you when it’s time to leave.
🍂Visits look different: Sometimes dropping off meals at the door is all that is needed. It is never personal if a postpartum momma asks for a meal or groceries to be left at the door. Respect the sacredness of postpartum!
🍂Hold the momma first: That might look like warming up a heat pack and refreshing her sheets. This might seem like a concept that you have a hard time connecting with based on your own postpartum journey. But this is absolutely the time to sit in it - what if you were held? What would you need? Simply show the same amount of love to a postpartum momma as you would a newborn - because she is a newborn too.
