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Expert Advice on Postpartum Hair Loss
While normal, losing your locks after giving birth is a major nuisance for women. Here’s what you can do about your hairy (and often scary) situation.
Your Curated Postpartum Wardrobe
Motherhood duds to get you through figuring out life with a baby.
Postpartum Bleeding FAQs: What New Moms Should Know
It's the one flow we all want to avoid, but this normal aspect of postpartum recovery plays an important role in your overall healing. Here's what's normal, what's not and how to cope.
Recognizing Postpartum Anxiety: Red Flags and Ways to Cope
Postpartum anxiety disorder affects nearly as many moms as the widely discussed postpartum depression. Understand the symptoms, so you can get the help you need.
The short list
The time has arrived—you’re finally holding your new baby! Between learning how to keep her alive and navigating postpregnancy aches and pains, you may [...]
How to recover from a C-section
Walk on by Within 24 hours of surgery, you’ll want to get up and walk around a bit. Having a C-section increases your risk [...]
Lend a hand
A healing balm: We can guarantee you will feel the effects of your exhausted lady bits and be too tired yourself to want to tend [...]
Take care down there
Once labor and delivery is a distant—err, maybe not—memory and you’re finally cradling your newborn, tending to your mental health, an unrecognizable body and [...]
It’s in the bag
1| Tucks Cooling Pads. It only makes sense after having a baby you may need some relief down below. These medicated miracle pads are [...]
Keep the change
I thought I had prepared myself well for what to expect after the birth of my baby, but it turned out that even my [...]
How to make the postpartum period easier
Lower your expectations. Maybe you typically sweep the floors once a day or cook up a homemade meal Monday through Friday. Put those rules [...]
Running late
I ran from the depression. Literally, I ran from it. Every morning I fastened my daughter into the jogging stroller, laced up my sneakers [...]
Surviving the first six weeks
Remember when you were 38 weeks pregnant and so ready to be done that you were actually anxious to push a 7-pound person out [...]
5 tips for sex after birth
Postbaby sex can be scary. (The last ordeal down there might have brought you a beautiful babe, but it hurt like heck, too!) Alison [...]
Taking care of you
My OB warned me that the first six weeks after the birth of my son would be the hardest. And she was right. Surprisingly, [...]
Stir crazy
Your first few weeks at home with a new baby pass by in a flash, and there’s undoubtedly no place else you’d rather be. After [...]
Book Club: The Fourth Trimester: Understanding, Protecting and Nurturing an Infant Through the First Three Months
This month, the P&N Book Club delves into the science behind an infant's first few months of life. In The Fourth Trimester: Understanding, Protecting, and [...]
Bye-bye, baby weight
You did it! You brought a beautiful soul into this world and that is a feat to be commended. But after the celebration winds [...]
Expert Advice on Postpartum Hair Loss
While normal, losing your locks after giving birth is a major nuisance for women. Here’s what you can do about your hairy (and often scary) situation.
Your Curated Postpartum Wardrobe
Motherhood duds to get you through figuring out life with a baby.
Postpartum Bleeding FAQs: What New Moms Should Know
It's the one flow we all want to avoid, but this normal aspect of postpartum recovery plays an important role in your overall healing. Here's what's normal, what's not and how to cope.
Recognizing Postpartum Anxiety: Red Flags and Ways to Cope
Postpartum anxiety disorder affects nearly as many moms as the widely discussed postpartum depression. Understand the symptoms, so you can get the help you need.
The short list
The time has arrived—you’re finally holding your new baby! Between learning how to keep her alive and navigating postpregnancy aches and pains, you may [...]
How to recover from a C-section
Walk on by Within 24 hours of surgery, you’ll want to get up and walk around a bit. Having a C-section increases your risk [...]
Lend a hand
A healing balm: We can guarantee you will feel the effects of your exhausted lady bits and be too tired yourself to want to tend [...]
Take care down there
Once labor and delivery is a distant—err, maybe not—memory and you’re finally cradling your newborn, tending to your mental health, an unrecognizable body and [...]
It’s in the bag
1| Tucks Cooling Pads. It only makes sense after having a baby you may need some relief down below. These medicated miracle pads are [...]
Keep the change
I thought I had prepared myself well for what to expect after the birth of my baby, but it turned out that even my [...]
How to make the postpartum period easier
Lower your expectations. Maybe you typically sweep the floors once a day or cook up a homemade meal Monday through Friday. Put those rules [...]
Running late
I ran from the depression. Literally, I ran from it. Every morning I fastened my daughter into the jogging stroller, laced up my sneakers [...]
Surviving the first six weeks
Remember when you were 38 weeks pregnant and so ready to be done that you were actually anxious to push a 7-pound person out [...]
5 tips for sex after birth
Postbaby sex can be scary. (The last ordeal down there might have brought you a beautiful babe, but it hurt like heck, too!) Alison [...]
Taking care of you
My OB warned me that the first six weeks after the birth of my son would be the hardest. And she was right. Surprisingly, [...]
Stir crazy
Your first few weeks at home with a new baby pass by in a flash, and there’s undoubtedly no place else you’d rather be. After [...]
Book Club: The Fourth Trimester: Understanding, Protecting and Nurturing an Infant Through the First Three Months
This month, the P&N Book Club delves into the science behind an infant's first few months of life. In The Fourth Trimester: Understanding, Protecting, and [...]
Bye-bye, baby weight
You did it! You brought a beautiful soul into this world and that is a feat to be commended. But after the celebration winds [...]
