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01/09/2026

If you you're a mama who practiced confinement in postpartum, you'll get this one.

You birth your baby, excitedly entering the period of rest & bonding. You were prepared. And you feel like you're recovering quickly.

You spend time in bed. One day, two, three. Endless cuddles, steady flow of oxytocin. Maybe you read a book. Or watch your favourite film.

And then another day comes and you do it all again. And again. And again.

Feeling almost "too" rested. Longing for the outside. Thinking "I feel good, ready to get back to my life". You start feeling bored, restless even.

And you start wondering - maybe I am well enough to get back to my tasks, chores and outings.

But here is the truth about postpartum confinement: its length and timing are not random.

Postpartum confinement covers the time of the strongest hormonal shifts. They don't happen overnight. And they're not linear. Heightened oxytocin & endorphins in the first moments postpartum can easily give an illusion of a speedy recovery. But afterwards, hormones drop and shift for many weeks until they stabilise. And if we don't thread gently, we can experience a significant setback in the recovery. Postpartum confinement is designed to support hormonal rebalancing, physical recovery and breastfeeding until our bodies, minds and babies are ready to move on.

The confinement is not easy. As much as we usually enjoy the idea of rest, in this day and age, the majority of us is out of touch with it.
The world around us demands speed, efficiency, convenience and productivity.
And spending time with your baby in bed, drinking a cup of slow cooked bone broth does not seem productive, nor convenient. At least that's a signal we get from our nervous system, that has long forgotten how to be slow and intentional.

That is why, building a relationship with rest should be a part of effective postpartum preparation.

So when we are met with boredom, we can welcome it and continue recovery rather than jump into chores & tasks.

postpartum • postnatal support • doula • derbyshire doula

28/08/2026

Just some of my favourite spices to use when tending to mamas after childbirth. And also when tending to myself, and my family when one of us needs the support. Those are the ones I always have in my pantry.

What were your favourite spices in postpartum?

Note: herbs and seeds are powerful & need to be used with caution, taking into consideration personal circumstances & possible contraindications. When using medicinal doses, consult your health provider. 🙏🏻

postpartum doula • belper doula • derbyshire doula • postpartum recovery • Postnatal care • Ayurveda • TCM

26/08/2026

Might be late to the trend but hey, a few things to be SUPER PROUD OF.
As a mom, a friend and a postnatal doula, a few topics come up frequently - home/work balance in motherhood, birth choices, baby skin, and co-sleeping. What they all have in common is - they made me feel quite hopeless at times, until I followed my gut, did the right research, found alternative routes or middle-grounds, and took the next step.
I had birth that I was told I couldn't have.
I healed my daughter's eczema using diet & herbal medicine (under the guidance of a medical herbalist).
I've slept with my baby since birth till now, and counting.
I heard a call to work with mothers and answered.
I left a good, stable job that brought security.
And well, I am here.
Kinds chic, innit?

25/08/2026

A full list of my current offerings & availability for this year. If you're looking for a heart led, holistic and mother-centred postpartum care, with nutritious meals, wholesome snacks & herbal support, read more on mothered.co.uk and reach out 🙏🏻
I also have availability for Closing The Bones, and Mothers Blessing ceremonies from mid September, and very limited birth support availability.
I am looking forward to meeting you 🤍

• doula • derbyshire • Belper • postpartum • closing the bones • mothers blessing

07/08/2026

There might be a part 2 of this one... 👀 There is just so many things that as society we keep getting wrong about postpartum.

Postpartum is not a time for bouncing back, chasing the old life, dieting and measuring baby's "goodness" by how well they sleep & how much they cry. It is not a time to discuss contraception, when you're a week after birth, still getting your digestion in order and healing the perineum. Time after birth is not for dry toasts and cereal. It is for hanging laundry and running with a hoover.

It is a time for deep recovery.
Time of re-discovery.
Time where you meet yourself anew.
Where you get to know your baby & learn to recognise their cues.
Time for rest, quiet exploration, time to nurture and be nurtured.
Time to be held. Truly, deeply, with no judgment.

If you are ready for such care, my postnatal doula books are open for September onwards 🙏🏻

03/07/2026

I honour the experience of my grandmother, who didn't meet the depth of rest in her postpartum journey, just as much as I honour the stories from foreign traditions that I am inspired by every day.

This work is humbling. And its centre is not what we've learnt or read but what we've witnessed.

And what we witness is Mothers.

Mothers from many walks of life.
Those who lean into rest with open arms.
Those who take their first steps towards it.
Those who wish to stay in a womb-dark bedroom for weeks.
And those who strive to walk into the world freely.

Mothers who deserved to be nourished, cared for and rested.

But most importantly, Mothers who need to be met where they're at and start walking from there.

🤍

postnatal doula • derbyshire doula • postpartum • motherhood

30/06/2026

Closing The Bones 🌀

spent the peak of the heatwave in London, learning this art from Rubi - a wonderful Mexican birth worker, surrounded by a beautiful bunch of women, carrying all sorts of wisdom.

What a joy & honour to learn from someone's lived experience, someone's ancestral roots & familial pathways.

Learning through sharing, laughing, crying, and being. It just reminded me of the power of gathering in a circle and letting things come up that need to come up.

Thank you thank thank you from the bottom of my heart for those days together, the energy & the wisdom. I had to truly dive to meet the depth of this work.

Hey Derbyshire, I am letting myself integrate the experience, gather thoughts & stock up rebozos, and in the months to come, I will start offering closing ceremonies in the area. 🤍

28/06/2026

After my last Mothers Circle, I had a mama come up to me and say "I didn't know how much I needed this".
And this is something that has been coming up often when it comes to this type of gatherings.

Entwined in motherhood, in tasks and chores, diaries and appointments, meal plans, shopping lists, we make an effort to put everyone else's needs ahead of our own. We struggle to rest until everything is done, we wake up at night suddenly overthinking a tiny detail, we store our emotions deeply in the effort to not snap, not lash out, not lose it.

In such a system, where support is limited and the fast pacing world unforgiving, it is easy to tap into survival. And if we are in it long enough, we start believing we are fine.

That we're coping.

That we actually don't need anything.

When the chaos of the transition into motherhood settles and the new responsibilities become the routine, it is easy to forget what self care looked like before that. Our nervous system adjusts, our minds adjust.

But everything still gets stored in the body. And whispers to us in a form of tight muscles, sleepless nights, brain fog, back pain, indigestion, and so much more.

So when we come to Mothers Circles, when we hear stories and connect with other women, we get an opportunity to be seen and heard too. To speak out all these things that we felt were fine but our body told us otherwise.
We get a chance to be understood.
To be held.
To be witnessed without changing or saving.
We get to experience stillness and rest.
And we get to let it all out.

If you want to experience that, head to mothered.co.uk and grab your space for our Summer Mother's Circle in Belper on Sunday 19th July. 🙏🏻

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