13. The importance of GOOD postnatal care

I am so delighted to have a really brilliant guest for you in this episode. Debs Neiger is a very experienced independent midwife, an author, and also a creative maker of birth art and unique hand screenprinted clothing and merch for birth workers too.

She offers individualised, independent and bespoke midwifery care to women, birthing people and families that is family-centred and always unique bespoke to you and your needs. We chat about lots of things, with a lot of focus on postnatal care and how it could and should be so much better than women and birthing people currently get within the system and why that is so important and also about:

~ what is an independent midwife?

~ how you support team is really important

~ authoring a book "AIMS Guide to Giving Birth to Your Baby"

~ Matrescence

~ Postnatal depletion, postnatal expectations vs reality

~ Postnatal care within the NHS and how this differs considerably in it's scope and support with a private midwife

Having been a midwife for over 20 years Debs says she is "now even more convinced that a person’s pregnancy, birth and postnatal experience has the potential to be highly transformative, joyful and empowering. However I am also deeply conscious of the fact that sometimes pregnancy or birthing a baby can be the catalyst for physical, emotional or spiritual difficulties, and I am committed to walk alongside you through the sometimes hard to navigate muddle that early parenthood can bring."

We had a really good chat, that possibly went into a bit of a rant about postnatal care (necessary in both of our opinions) - but we both managed not to swear which I feel is a huge win!!

Enjoy the episode, and we'd love to hear your own thoughts and feedback too of course

Susan x

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Susan x

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Featured in this episode and show links:

Do check out her on social media, she shares SO much great information, wisdom and inspiration. Her Instagram feed is a real breath of fresh air. Find out more about Debs and all of her brilliant work and services below:

https://www.debsneigerindependentmidwife.co.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debsagos/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deborah.neiger/


And you can buy the book she recently wrote here too:

The AIMS Guide to Giving Birth to Your Baby https://shop.aims.org.uk/products/aims-guide-to-giving-birth-to-your-baby



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