Free toolkit with every pre-order of Everything You Know About Postpartum Is Wrong
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Your Postpartum Map, From the First Weeks to Years Later
Everything You Know About Postpartum Is Wrong shows you why postpartum care has been failing mothers. The toolkit shows you what to do about it. Inside: 34 pages of recipes, remedies, labs to ask for, and a symptom decoder for every woman who was told “that’s just motherhood.”
Any retailer counts. Instant access after you submit your receipt.
This book is a vital contribution to the conversation around postpartum health. Maranda has created something compassionate and profoundly cathartic — a work that validates the often-unspoken realities of recovery while offering knowledge, hope, and healing. Her honesty and expertise makes this an essential resource for every new parent and anyone committed to improving postpartum care.
The medical system was built to manage birth, not to care for what comes after.
Only recently has science started to study postpartum at all. We now have research on anxiety, depression, inflammation, thyroid disease, digestive problems, pelvic floor dysfunction and dozens of other postpartum symptoms, but each one is still treated as a separate problem.
What if we've been starting in the wrong place? What if we've been asking the wrong questions?
What if postpartum isn't a collection of disconnected symptoms to explain...
but one extraordinary physiological transformation we've forgotten how to see?
That's the question this book sets out to answer.
Postpartum doesn't end at six weeks.
Six weeks is a billing code. It was never a biological timeline.
The book maps postpartum as four phases. Each one asks for something different from your body and from the people caring for you.
Containment
Weeks 0–3
Repair & Repletion
Week 3 to month 6
Recalibration
Month 6 to year 2
Integration
Year 2 and beyond
The ranges are orientation, not prescription. You move through them by what your body is doing, not by your baby's age.
What's Inside the Book
The science, the sacred, and the future of maternal care
The five wounds
of modern postpartum care, from the erasure of the mother to the normalization of her suffering.
The myths keeping mothers sick,
taken apart chapter by chapter with the research behind each one.
The four phases of postpartum
and what each one needs, from the first weeks to years later.
The Postpartum Restoration Method Assessment Tool,
a way to see the whole postpartum body at once.
Testing, functional ranges, repletion, herbs, & recipes,
so you know what to ask for and what to do next.
How to start a postpartum circle,
because no mother was meant to do this alone.
Preorder & Get The Postpartum Restoration Toolkit, Free
- Where are you in your healing? The four phases, with what your body is doing and what to focus on right now
- Common ≠ Normal, the symptom decoder: what's expected, what isn't, and what to ask for
- Labs worth asking about, plus a card to bring to your appointment
- Nourishment, minerals, and the Supplement Bridge: what to eat, what drains you, and when a supplement earns its place
- Gut repair after antibiotics during birth, for you and your baby
- Seven freezer recipes and four herbal remedies, including my Recovery Tea
- What Every Provider Should Know: ten shifts in postpartum care on one page
Plus, a Live Q&A with author Maranda Bower for everyone who preorders.
Join us Tuesday, December 8th at 12pm CST. When the book comes out, this offer closes.
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Get instant access to the toolkit once you submit your order details. The book releases November 24th.
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Meet the Author
I didn't set out to challenge the way we think about postpartum.
I set out to understand what had happened to me.
After the birth of my first child, I experienced postpartum depression. With each new postpartum season that followed came new diagnoses, new symptoms, and new questions. Anxiety. Autoimmune disease. Postpartum bipolar disorder. Like so many mothers, I found myself moving from specialist to specialist, collecting explanations that never seemed to fit together.
Each provider saw one piece. No one seemed to see me as a whole woman.
What began as a search for my own healing became a fifteen-year pursuit to understand postpartum itself. I immersed myself in the research (physiology, nutrition, neuroscience, endocrinology, anthropology, psychology, history), looking for the connections that were hiding in plain sight.
That work eventually became the Postpartum Restoration Method™, the foundation of Postpartum University®, where I've had the privilege of training healthcare providers and supporting mothers in more than 55 countries.
But research alone could never tell this story.
I wrote this book in rage and reverence: grounded in science, shaped by history, and written for every mother and provider who has known, somewhere deep down, that postpartum could be different.
Today, I live with my husband and our four children on our homestead in Alaska, where this work continues to be shaped not only by research, but by the everyday realities of family, community, and the mothers I have the privilege of serving.
"I had known everything about the science of birthing life. But I had forgotten the sacredness of postpartum. I had never seen it. So I walked through it alone."
Join the mothers and providers already changing postpartum care
As a registered dietitian and IBCLC, I've seen firsthand how often postpartum mothers fall through the cracks. In Everything You Know About Postpartum Is Wrong, Maranda Bower compassionately challenges the belief that exhaustion, depletion, and suffering are simply part of motherhood, while calling for a more comprehensive, mother-centered approach to postpartum care. This is an important read for both mothers and the professionals who support them.
This book gave words to what so many mothers, including myself, have felt but struggled to name: the longing for a postpartum experience rooted in care, nourishment, and community, for moms and not just for their babies. Maranda Bower reminds us that the system is broken, not the mother. She offers a roadmap for transforming how we care for mothers in ways that will strengthen not just mothers, but their families and future generations. This change is both desperately needed and entirely possible.
Powerful, beautifully written, and profoundly well researched. This book dismantles today's incomplete and fragmented approach to maternal health and redefines the gold standard for postpartum care. By masterfully integrating clinical science, practice-based evidence, and intergenerational wisdom, Maranda Bower gives us a model of care that will heal generations to come. Essential reading for every provider, policymaker, and parent-to-be.
This Book Is Only the Beginning.
The future of postpartum care won't be changed by one author.
It will be changed by thousands of mothers, providers, families, researchers, and communities who choose to #HoldTheMother.
To see her.
To nourish her.
To support her.
To refuse to accept that surviving postpartum is the best we can offer women.
Pre-order Now & Get the Free Toolkit
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this book/toolkit for — providers or mothers?
Both. It's written to give providers the clinical depth to change how they practice, and mothers the language and permission to trust what they already know.
Can I bring Maranda to speak to my organization or event?
Yes. Maranda speaks to provider organizations, conferences and community groups about the book and the future of postpartum care. Email admin @ postpartumU.com to start the conversation.
Does it matter where I preorder?
No. Every retailer counts, including your local bookstore and Amazon outside the US, and every preorder gets the toolkit.
I already preordered. Do I still get it?
Yes! Fill out the form with proof of purchase and it's yours.
When do I get the toolkit?
Right away. Submit your receipt and check your email for access. You don’t have to wait for the book to arrive.
Is this medical advice?
No. The book and toolkit are educational. They’re designed to help you understand what’s happening in your body and ask better questions, not to diagnose or replace care from a provider who knows your history.
Can I order copies for my clients, students or team?
Yes. Orders of 5-10 through any retailer works. If you would like more than 10 books, please email us at admin@postpartumU.com
Is there a deadline for the toolkit?
The toolkit is free with every preorder through November 24, and potentially longer. We want as many women as possible to be able to take advantage of this!
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