Postpartum
Choosing the Right NFP Method During Postpartum
By Elizabeth Timpe, Fertility Coach and CCL teacher. Congratulations you are a new mom! Sore, tired, and overjoyed you wonder if you are really allowed to leave the hospital with this new little human being. At delivery, you undergo the biggest drop of progesterone and estrogen your body has ever experienced. This drop stimulates the…
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Personalized Coaching for Couples in Postpartum
By Anne Marie Stroud, originally published in Family Foundations Magazine With all of the changes surrounding new life, a woman’s postpartum cycle can often be overlooked and misunderstood, leading to confusion and frustration. Rose MacKenzie shares with us why she’s passionate about helping postpartum couples regain confidence on their Natural Family Planning journey. Anne Marie:…
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Nourishing Your Postpartum Body
By Amanda Rohwedder. Original version published in Family Foundations. Edith Stein said that a woman “naturally seeks…to cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth…” and referred to this as a maternal yearning within every woman. The postpartum woman has a particular instinct to cherish, guard, protect, and nourish her child, but she would do well…
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What’s a Guy to Do? Postpartum
I tell all new fathers to take credit for the first nine months of being a dad, because, after birth, things get a lot harder. The actual birth was a great dad-highlight. I got to help our midwife catch our firstborn. We had taken Bradley Childbirth classes. We had read books. We were informed. We…
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