Personal Information
Name
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Email
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Due Date
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Month
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Year
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Partner's Name
Doctor/Midwife Name
My Support Team
Who will be available while you bond and heal?
Helper #1
Name
Phone
Email
How will they help?
Provide meals
Do laundry
Go shopping
General household help
Adore and occupy the other kiddos
Car seat carrier/ appointment assistant
Notes for Helper #1
Helper #2
Name
Phone
Email
How will they help?
Provide meals
Do laundry
Go shopping
General household help
Adore and occupy the other kiddos
Car seat carrier/ appointment assistant
Notes for Helper #2
Helper #3
Name
Phone
Email
How will they help?
Provide meals
Do laundry
Go shopping
General household help
Adore and occupy the other kiddos
Car seat carrier/appointment assistant
Notes for Helper #3
A List of Favorite Things
List your favorites in these categories to help your Support Team best care for you and your little one.
Meals
Snacks
Music
Other
Postpartum Shopping List
List your favorite brands and personal item preferences to best assist your Support Team when picking up items at the store for you and baby.
Postpartum Personal Care
Tea for Postpartum Recovery
Breastfeeding Cream
Diapers
Diaper Cream
Wipes
Baby Wash
Favorite Baby Product Brand
Things to Prepare for Your Lying-in
The more you prepare before baby arrives, the less you’ll feel you need to do once baby is here. Then you can focus only on creating a bond with your baby while you heal your body!
Someone to be on kid duty to make sure your other children feel adored and occupied while you rest, heal and bond.
Towels and pads for under your healing bottom and milk-filled breasts.
Comfortable, washable blankets and bedding.
Baby and breastfeeding supplies near your bed for easy access.
A good, supportive nursing bra and safe, comforting nipple cream (like non-sticky, lanolin-free Organic Nipple Butter).
A peri or spray bottle with a comforting blend of steeped herbs for postpartum bathroom trips (blend your own or use Herbal Perineal Spray).
"Padsicles” or frozen herbal pads to comfort your healing postpartum parts (blend your own or use Organic Herbal Sitz Bath).
Postpartum pads then large to regular menstrual pads as bleeding subsides.
Easy, accessible clothing. Consider not wearing pants or a shirt – that can help keep you in bed, less tempted to do chores, and in the mindset of rest, recuperation, and secluded serenity. No shirt makes skin-to-skin contact easy.
Simple, nourishing, healing, easily accessible foods for you to eat all during the day and night. Some suggestions include: bone broth, oatmeal, traditionally healing, balancing, milk producing herbs and foods, and lots of healthful fluids: water, herbal teas and kombucha.
Meals in the freezer- enough for you and the people coming to help you. This is just what crockpots were made for! If you feel like you need to provide, remember you are healing, bonding and providing for your baby. Have someone else prepare frozen meals or order take out.
Put a spare lasagna in the freezer in the event of a planned or unplanned C-section, and factor in extra healing, exhaustion and required tender loving care.
Write a loving but clear message to friends, family, neighbors that you need some time to yourself to heal and bond. Remind them that everyone will have time to meet the baby, but you’ll never have this moment with this baby again.
Choose a mantra or saying: something that helps you to remember this is your time to heal, bond with your baby, get to know each other and prepare for a lifetime of love. Anything else is a distraction
Suggested Goals for Lying-in
I will stay in bed and remember my #1 job is to rest, heal and bond.
I will limit visitors- everyone will have time to meet the baby, but I’ll never have this moment with this baby again.
I will ask for what I need, and have people one text away to bring me food, drinks, and anything else I need.
I will only leave the house if I am going to a doctor appointment.
I will lift nothing heavier than the baby – and by that I mean I will only lift the baby. Someone else carries the car seat.
No pants. And maybe no shirt too. (See "Easy, accessible clothing." above).
Additional Goals
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