Dad Staying Home is Not a Postpartum Plan
Why new moms AND their partners both need support for a thriving family
When asked about their postpartum plan, so many women say "Well, my husband is taking 3 weeks off work...". While thats great (although we'd be more into all fathers being given paid paternity leave for at least a month), that alone should not be your postpartum support in an ideal situation.
We talk about:
How we envision the ideal postpartum time to look and feel
How sinking into this design can allow the blessing of a different time perception and brain wave state to come aboard. A delicious, relaxed, healing, state.
Postpartum is designed to be slow - we need to have enough support to hold the energy of slow
Partner needs slow as well! Mother can't fully relax if everyone around her is running around and feeling hectic.
Fathers need also need time to integrate as well! This is a huge transition for the whole family.
Father's can’t be doing constantly and expect to also have space to feel
The theory of everyone in the postpartum time needing two layers of support
Creating healthy fatherhood begins with the birth of the father!
It's often more difficult, but extremely important for men to practice dropping from a space of doing to a space of being
Sometimes new fathers experience a crash as way of slowing down. We need postpartum support to allow them to stay present.
Your next tangible steps spelled out to creating sacred space for both parents postpartum
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Mentioned in the show:
Rachelle Garcia Seliga of Innate Traditions
A few of our relevant previous episodes:
Manifesting Your Ideal Postpartum Time
Your Motherhood is For You - with Nicole
The Vital Energies of Receiving in the Postpartum Time
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