Proper support for Newborns and Newborn Mothers - Julia Jones

12/18/2020

Proper Support for Newborns and Newborn Mothers
Julia Jones

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Today we talk with Julia Jones, postnatal doula and author of Nourishing Newborn Mothers - Ayurvedic Recipes to Heal your Mind, and Body and Soul after Childbirth and Newborn Mothers - When a Baby is Born So is a Mother (www.newbornmothers.com/books/). She is also the creator of the worldwide leading education resource for postpartum professionals: Newborn Mothers Collective (www.newbornmothers.com/training).

We talk about how Julia became interested in postpartum care. We discuss the traditional practices for postpartum care that many of the world’s cultures had in common before Colonization and the Industrial Revolution. We discuss how losing touch with these practices has made our modern practices “abnormal” or unnatural in the context of human history.

We then define and discuss the “village” model of parenting and childcare, and talk about its many advantages and how we can learn from and incorporate its principles in our own situations. We then talk about the history of the role of doula and its ties to breastfeeding.

We then talk about the qualifications and role of doulas throughout the world. We discuss the need for a cultural shift toward valuing and investing in birth and postpartum worker’s care, and increasing our cultural awareness of how important the postpartum period is. Julia gives more traditional ways the world’s cultures care for newborn mothers, such as warm comfort foods, massage and body work, and belly binding. We talk about the cultures that still practice the “village” model of childcare.

Julia then talks about the physical changes produced in your brain by caring for a child. We then discuss proper support for parents and others caring for children. We talk more about the science and nuances of bonding. We talk about the scientific side of intuition. We then talk about learning from other cultures without cultural appropriation.

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• 1:46 Julia’s Story
• 3:28 How Newborn Mothers Are Meant to Be Cared For
• 13:29 Becoming a Trained Postpartum Doula
• 19:48 Caring for Newborns and Newborn Mothers
• 30:56 Bonding, Oxytocin, and Intuition
• 44:17 Learning From Other Cultures Without Cultural Appropriation

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The advancement of the modern age has brought us all sorts of important innovations and in a lot of ways has made life better and safer for the human race, but in that advancement there are also many things we have lost. In times past, a new mother would be supported by her village and family, with the older women in her family stepping in to help her adapt to her new role, and others in the village helping with childcare and postpartum support. In our newer, more disconnected age, we have lost most aspects of that village in terms of postpartum support. Postpartum doulas step in to help fill the deficit in support that we as humans are evolved to rely on after giving birth in order to help new mothers transition more gently and feel the love and support of her birth community.

Sarah and Julia discuss the loss of the 'village' as society advanced through the industrial age, and the sort of postpartum support that new mothers have lost as a result. They also get into the ways that we can embrace the birth traditions of other cultures and integrate them without being appropriative.

Julia Jones is a postnatal doula leading a worldwide renaissance in the way we care for Newborn Mothers. She has created a new paradigm for postpartum care by merging traditional medicine and culture with cutting-edge research on hormones and neurology. Julia is the author of both Nourishing Newborn Mothers - Ayurvedic Recipes to Heal your Mind, Body and Soul after Childbirth and Newborn Mothers - When a Baby is Born So is a Mother. Julia is also the creator of the worldwide leading education resource for postpartum professionals: Newborn Mothers Collective.

This episode was sponsored by:

Please donate HERE

We are a 501 3c Non-Profit. Our aim is to prevent and heal birth trauma through education. Women need to understand their options and rights in childbirth so that they can have a safe and healthy birth.