Belly bands and compression shorts shouldn’t be the only tools in your postpartum recovery toolkit.⁠
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What matters is how effectively your womb, nervous system and pelvic ligaments and tissues recover, not how quickly you fit into your pre-pregnancy jeans.⁠
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Before the industrialised western mode of postpartum care prevailed our current paradigm, cultures all over the world included three tenets of care to the new mother: feeding her nourishing foods, administering warming practices (such as peristeaming) and abdominal binding or wrapping. Not to mention bodywork, massage and taking over managing the entire household so that the new mother had nothing more to do than feed her baby, feed herself and rest.⁠
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What matters is how you were mothered as you embarked motherhood.⁠
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Though there aren’t any rigorous scientific evidence (yet) to prove the effectiveness of these age-old practices on the long-term health of the mother, we can for the time being give reverence to the wisdom of women before us.⁠
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Lived-in and anecdotal evidence have a rightful place, especially in the field of women’s health where western medicine has much to catch up to.⁠

Tell me, were you one of the lucky ones to be mothered when you became a mum? If so, was it worth it?⁠