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Is a Postpartum Detox Safe? | Exclusive In-Depth Training

Is a Postpartum Detox Safe? | Exclusive In-Depth Training

by Maranda Bower | Apr 26, 2022 | Nutrition, Well-Being

To be completely honest, I once believed that a postpartum detox was not a necessary step in the path towards whole body healing. Today, I want to share with you the important research that has completely shifted my view, and how you or your clients can start working...
Must Haves for my Holistic Family Health Protocol (Preventative & Illness Care)

Must Haves for my Holistic Family Health Protocol (Preventative & Illness Care)

by Maranda Bower | Apr 20, 2022 | Mental Health, Well-Being

 Preventing illness and kicking it when it happens are both HUGE priorities in my busy family of four. Over the years, I have established tried and true remedies and protocols. These are all backed by science, as well as my personal experience with the healing...
Journaling for Mental and Physical Health in Postpartum

Journaling for Mental and Physical Health in Postpartum

by Maranda Bower | Apr 6, 2022 | Mental Health, Well-Being

As the world shifts and changes in uncertain (and even scary) ways, it becomes even more critical to stay on top of your mental health and healing. One of the best ways to do this is through the act of journaling. Journaling has powerful benefits, many of which have...
Why I Don’t Ever Recommend a Vegan or Vegetarian Diet in Postpartum

Why I Don’t Ever Recommend a Vegan or Vegetarian Diet in Postpartum

by Maranda Bower | Apr 21, 2021 | Nutrition

Living a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle has amazing environmental benefits, offers a way to help “clean” the gut, and provides a powerful means to spirituality. But when it comes to nutrition in postpartum, it isn’t something you can just forgo, even if you supplement...
The Real Postpartum Recovery Time is SIX YEARS. What you need to know…

The Real Postpartum Recovery Time is SIX YEARS. What you need to know…

by Maranda Bower | Apr 6, 2021 | Well-Being

Postpartum is not the first 6 weeks after baby. It’s the first 6 years. And how you experience this monumental life change will shape your life forever. Literally, your healing (or lack thereof) will affect your menopause.(Sit with that for a minute.) It also shapes...
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That fat isn’t sitting there by accident. Research That fat isn’t sitting there by accident. Research shows it’s stored specifically in the hips and thighs, protected from use even when food intake drops, until late pregnancy and lactation.
That’s not a coincidence. That’s the exact window when your baby’s brain is growing the fastest, and that fat is one of its primary fuel sources.
So before we talk about “fixing” the postpartum body, we should be honest about what it’s actually doing.
Now add a GLP-1 medication into that picture. These drugs don’t just reduce appetite. They slow gastric emptying. They slow gut motility. They suppress bile flow. Every one of those systems is already busy in a postpartum body that is rebuilding tissue, restoring nutrient stores, and making milk.
There has never been a dedicated clinical trial of GLP-1 medications in postpartum women. Not one. Everything providers are working from right now is borrowed from studies on completely different bodies.
This isn’t an argument against these medications. Women with diabetes, PCOS, severe obesity, and other real medical conditions may absolutely decide the benefits outweigh the risks. That decision belongs to her and her provider.
It’s an argument that postpartum physiology deserves to be part of that conversation. Right now, for most women, it isn’t.
💫 Want the full research article and full references? Read it using the word RESEARCH below and find the article titled “GLP-1 Medications in the Postpartum Period.”
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There is a dangerous temptation when something hor There is a dangerous temptation when something horrific happens to look backward and convince ourselves we can identify the exact moment someone should have done something differently.
We can’t.
We were not in the room. We did not assess her. We do not know what her providers knew at each point in time. And I will not use Lindsay Clancy’s story to pretend otherwise.
But we also cannot let that uncertainty become an excuse to ask nothing of the system.
Lindsay is not the first postpartum mother whose mental health became profoundly, dangerously unwell. And she will not be the last.
So the question I care about isn’t: “Who do we blame?”
It’s: “What does comprehensive postpartum mental healthcare actually look like BEFORE we reach a crisis?”
That conversation has to include psychiatric symptoms and safety. But it also has to include sleep. Nutrition. Thyroid function. Iron status. Medication response. Physical symptoms. Support. Family education. Follow-up. Changes in behavior. Changes in thinking. And the physiology of the postpartum body those symptoms are occurring inside of.
But because 🎯🎯 a postpartum woman’s brain does not exist separately from her body. 🎯🎯
And yet, our care systems so often treat it as though it does.
We cannot wait until another mother becomes a headline to start asking what comprehensive postpartum care should have looked like.
We need to know what it looks like before she ever walks through the door. 
WE MUST DO BETTER.
➡️➡️ What are you going to be doing differently? (Mine in the comments) 
#postpartumpsychosis #postpartummentalhealth #postpartumdepression #perinatalmentalhealth
GLP-1 prescriptions in postpartum women are rising GLP-1 prescriptions in postpartum women are rising fast. The conversations are happening in provider offices and mom groups and DMs, and most of them are missing the same piece.
Not whether the drug works. Whether the postpartum body was ever in the room when the evidence was built. It wasn’t.
The postpartum body is not a post-surgical body (at least, not “just” one) or a general adult body that happens to have recently given birth. 
It is a body in active biological transition: rebuilding, recalibrating, often breastfeeding, with documented depletion patterns, a gut that is not functioning at baseline capacity, and fat stores that may still be completing a job. 
That context doesn’t make GLP-1 medications categorically wrong. It makes it a more complex decision than the current conversation allows for.
** Want the full research article and full references? Read it using the word RESEARCH below and find the article titled “GLP-1 Medications in the Postpartum Period”.
💫 Comment WAITLIST to join the Postpartum Nutrition Certification. The only accredited program built around what standard training never covered. Early bird access opening soon! 
#glp1 #postpartumweightloss #postpartumnutrition #breastfeedingsupport #weightlossafterbaby
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