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  • Published: 10 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781785045363
  • Imprint: Vermilion
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $40.00

Your Postpartum Body

The Complete Guide to Healing After Pregnancy




An physiotherapist's guide to full healing in body and mind after birth

'This book is such a comprehensive guide to support women at a time when they need it most, written in a compassionate and approachable way.' – Clare Bourne, Pelvic Health Physiotherapist and author of Strong Foundations

'Your Postpartum Body warmly educates us on how we can best work with our body to strengthen and support it, both for postpartum, and importantly, for the rest of our lives.' – Anna Mathur, Psychotherapist and author of Raising a Happier Mother

Your Postpartum Body is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind, evidence-based handbook to support post-birth healing and recovery.

What should you expect when you’re done expecting? Too many of us think that there’s no way to fix everyday concerns after a pregnancy, such as pelvic floor issues, exhaustion and burnout, and getting back into a fitness routine.

But this is simply not true. In this revolutionary resource, you’ll learn what happens to the body during pregnancy and childbirth, common changes in function and feeling, and solutions for healing, written with expertise from a pelvic floor physical therapist who wants you to know that you can feel like yourself again — physically and mentally.

Your Postpartum Body is a complete reference guide for every eventuality, from making sure you're getting enough fluid, to troubleshooting breastfeeding to pelvic floor recovery, with helpful illustrations and photos throughout.

While your body is undoubtedly different (after all, you just grew a new human!), you do not have to live with pain, incontinence, weakness or nursing/feeding stress. You now hold all the tools and techniques you need to heal and nourish your body and mind.

  • Published: 10 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781785045363
  • Imprint: Vermilion
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $40.00

Praise for Your Postpartum Body

Macy and Naliboff take what most pregnancy books consider an epilogue and birth a smart, compassionate companion for parents. A must read for anyone who finds themselves staring at a new baby and feeling like a stranger in their own body and mind.

Abby Norman, author of Ask Me About My Uterus

Whether you are in the newborn stage or years out, Your Postpartum Body is a thorough guide for any person who has given birth. Pelvic floor issues during pregnancy and postpartum are common but not normal, and many people are left wondering what happened to their body and how they go about healing. This comprehensive guide covers changes that occur from the feet, through the pelvic floor, and into the trunk, and provides actionable guidance to resolve common issues. Uniquely, it also covers return to sport with progressive phases of movement for pilates, crossfit, and running. It is a solid resource and entry point for pelvic rehabilitation.

Amanda Olson, PT, DPT, PRPC

Postpartum persons need this guide for their fourth trimester. This is an excellent resource for many of the common conditions after birth not commonly discussed either by providers or amongst friends and family. Ruth and Courtney bring these issues to light, making the reader not feel alone or humiliated by these private and new concerns and give easy to follow strategies to allow healing to occur.

Melissa Collard, MD FACOG

In Your Postpartum Body, Ruth and Courtney have birthed a comprehensive and accessible roadmap to understanding and recovering your postpartum self. I couldn’t recommend this book more highly!

Catherine Hill-Verrochi, DO, FACOG

Even as a trained yogini I was not prepared for healing and balancing my body after a traumatic birth experience. I wish this remarkable book had been available to me during that time. The guidance in its pages is unmatched.

Brianna Bedigian, Yoga Instructor, author of Healing Footstep to Footstep

An empowering and loving guide for restoring and healing your body. This book is what the 6-week checkup should be – intimate, accessible, informative and full of techniques to heal and restore the postpartum body.

Mara Altman, author of Gross Anatomy

Your Postpartum Body fills major gaps in our cultural understanding of the postpartum experience. Macy and Naliboff thoughtfully and honestly describe the physical realities of the body after birth that so often go ignored, misunderstood or dismissed. With full recognition of the fact that what should be basic postpartum care is out of reach for so many, they give detailed practical guidance for recovering and building strength. This is a postpartum must-have.

Chelsea Conaboy, author of Mother Brain

A truly must-have guide for healing post-birth.

Rosey Davidson - Sleep Consultant and author of The Just Chill Baby Sleep Book

Warm, helpful, hopeful and oh, so important. We profess to know our bodies, but how well do we truly know how they work so hard to serve us in our lives? Your Postpartum Body warmly educates us on how we can best work with our body to strengthen and support it, both for postpartum, and importantly, for the rest of our lives.

Anna Mathur, Psychotherapist and bestselling author of Raising a Happier Mother