boy mom

I felt so baffled by all the focus on the baby and lack of support for us mom. I was shuffling the baby to the doctor weekly and there was noone even checking my blood pressure or mental health! I had the one 6 week visit where my doctor just asked me about birth control. I reached out to a doula and she came to my home for massage, checked my blood pressure and spent the entire hour just asking about ME. Even though friends and family were saying the right things, I needed support from someone that felt trained. There is such a lack of medical postpartum support in the US it’s shocking. I would recommend just googling postpartum doulas in your area and calling references. I am still a reference for mine to this day and my ‘baby’ is 2.5.