Guide Two: Your Baby & Your Body

PDF Download. Everyone prepares for labor. Almost nobody prepares for what comes right after, and that's exactly where this guide comes in.

Your Baby & Your Body covers the hours and days following birth from two angles at once: what's happening with your newborn, and what's happening with you. Because both are happening at the same time, and you deserve to understand both.

Inside this guide:

• The golden hour: skin-to-skin, delayed cord clamping, delayed bathing, and why they matter

• Every routine newborn procedure explained: vitamin K, erythromycin eye ointment, hepatitis B vaccine, heel stick, and hearing screen — the what, the why, and the questions you can ask

• Feeding your newborn: colostrum, breastfeeding initiation, formula without judgment

• Normal newborn behavior that nobody warns you about

• Physical recovery after vaginal birth and cesarean: what's normal, what's not, when to call

• Pelvic floor recovery, postpartum bleeding, and getting back to movement safely

• Baby blues vs. postpartum depression and anxiety: how to tell the difference and where to get help