How you can support normal breastfeeding, even if you don’t have medical training
This blog explores ways a postpartum professional can provide valuable support to a breastfeeding parent. Focusing on the breastfeeding observation component, this blog outlines who can observe and assess a breastfeeding session, what’s included in a non-clinicial breastfeeding assessment and how to use the results of the breastfeeding assessment to provide good support.
From patchwork career to postpartum care professional
A blog by Antonia Anderson on how her existing skills and training carried over from previous jobs into postpartum care work, why it’s okay not to feel fulfilled by motherhood and how you can funnel your passion for helping mothers into a sustainable career. Reflect on how your unique life and work experience might help you excel at running a postpartum care business.
Supporting plus size pregnancy in a fatphobic world
Julia Jones chats with Stephanie O'Brien from Postpartum with Steph. They explore how postpartum care providers can better support plus-size women. They discuss why BMI shouldn’t be used as a sole indicator of health, what it’s like navigating the hospital system as a plus-size woman, and how Steph’s personal experience led her to become a postpartum doula.
Top 10 careers that make amazing postpartum professionals
This blog explores the top 10 careers that make amazing postpartum professionals - including hairdresser and beauty therapists, teachers, childcare workers, retail and hospitality workers, life coaches, yoga and pilates instructors, midwifes, mothers and friends!
Building a stable doula business
Podcast interview with Sami Stewart on building a stable and secure doula business.
Behind the scenes with Julia Jones
Podcast interview with Julia Jones on her year at Newborn Mothers.
Learning to laugh again through postpartum
Podcast interview with Amy Marshall on how to reclaim nourishment and support postpartum.
Expanding beyond birth work into postpartum care
Dusk’s journey as a birth worker who never thought she could work in postpartum and how she found her way there.
The journey to becoming a postpartum professional
The journey to becoming a postpartum professional.
Kind and respectful approaches to sleep
Podcast interview with Katie Cortés on Finding ways of improving sleep for everybody.
Pricing your postpartum services with confidence and compassion
Pricing your postpartum services with confidence and compassion to make a living from postpartum work.
Strengths-based approach to maternal mental health
Podcast interview with Amanda Stinton on a strengths-based approach to maternal mental health.
