The post-birth period can be challenging physically, and emotionally. There are simply not enough conversations about what happens after birth - the changes the body goes through, the messy hair and messy mind, postpartum bleeding, the painful process of figuring out breastfeeding…... It is so common for women to experience physical pain and fatigue in the postpartum period. However, because of the magnitude of the task of being a mother, a lot of women put their own health

Bleeding after delivering a baby is absolutely normal for every woman no matter what kind of birth you have had. The technical word for post-partum bleeding is called 'lochia'. Lochia is different than bleeding as part of your menses cycle. It is the uterus shedding the inner lining, mucus, blood, and all of the tissues that are no longer needed to support your baby because they are no longer in the womb! Immediately after birth, women will typically still feel painful contra