![[Birth Stories] How Letting Go of Expectations Was Key To Her Bonding With Her Baby](https://birthful.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Guest-Nana-e1644022623880-1079x675.png)
Birth Stories, Perinatal mental health, Podcast, Postpartum Stories, Pregnancy, pregnancy humor, Stories
Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo, co-founder of the socially impactful Fourth Phase aftercare boxes, shares how her expectations of when and how she should bond with her baby tarnished her otherwise wonderfully supported and respected birth experience. She tells Adriana how this...
![[Postpartum Stories] Lessons from a Life Coach Who Faced Postpartum Depression Three Times](https://birthful.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Rosie-Mercado-portrait-scaled-e1607479157100-1080x675.jpg)
Perinatal mental health, Podcast, Postpartum, Postpartum Stories
Author, life coach, and plus-size model Rosie Mercado experienced postpartum depression with three of her four children, in addition to other personal and physical challenges. She tells Adriana Lozada how she learned to listen to her body, to ask for help, and to...
Podcast, Postpartum Stories, TBPodcast
After giving birth twice before, Victoria thought she had life with a newborn pretty much figured out. But when her third daughter was born fussy crying and frustrated, the thought running through Victoria’s mind was that something was off with this baby. What...
Birth Stories, Podcast, Postpartum Stories, TBPodcast
What can you do after a truly exhausting birth leaves you in a daze, you’ve got intersecting breastfeeding issues and postpartum anxiety, you feel you are bonding more with your breast pump than your baby, have to return to work, and you don’t know how to ask for...
Birth Stories, Podcast, Postpartum Stories, TBPodcast
Chelsy Arnett describes her birth as wonderful, flowing, full of essential oils and love. As she looks back on her physiological experience, Chelsy shares what worked, what she’d do differently, as well as what helped her get through the violent identity shift and...
Birth Stories, Podcast, Postpartum Stories, TBPodcast
Ivy Tumlinson shares the challenges of her postpartum experience after a fast and furious, unmedicated, low-intervention hospital birth, which included breastfeeding issues that lead to exclusively pumping and difficulties in healing her pelvic floor. Check out what...
