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The top 5 postpartum recovery essentials to help you heal
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posted by Juli Olson
When you’re having your first baby, you have no idea what to expect about delivery and recovery. I mean, you do, but you don’t know what it will be like for you. You may have heard enough times from your medical team that your placenta leaves a dinner-plate sized wound after it exits your body (wish we could not talk about dinner and my placenta in the same sentence.) 🫣
While it sounds intense, it is, but it doesn’t feel like a dinner plate sized wound at least. 😉 All it really means is it’s going to take some time to heal. And just like nearly everything else about pregnancy, the experience will be unique for you, so the amount of time it takes to heal will vary.
All that aside, put your questions and concerns about healing away cause this short list is a compilation of the must-haves that will help you feel your best.
Here are five essential items for your postpartum recovery:
1. Depends Silhouettes
Okayyyy, I did not want to love these. I felt uncomfortable even buying them, I was like, nooo I’m not a grandma yet. Ahem…I need to shout this one from the rooftops y’all.
Everyone talks about Frida mom products, but Depends Silhouettes are way more effective than the Frida disposable underwear. The Silhouettes are comfortable and absorbent, they’re the perfect support after delivery and for the heavy bleeding period. In comparison, the disposable underwear feels more like wearing paper, and requires pads to absorb whatever ya got going on down there. Spare yourself some stains on wherever you’re sitting and go with the Depends. Your non-granny-ass will thank you very much.
2. Ozonated Olive Oil
My son’s pediatrician recommended this for my healing, otherwise I’d never heard anyone talk about it. This stuff is magic! You can apply it externally around your bits, and it helps heal really fast. It’s kinda become like the Frank’s Hot Sauce in our house because I put that shit on everything: diaper rash, acne, bug bites, skin tags--the list of uses is ongoing. Stick it in the fridge to keep it around longer, although with all its healing uses, it may not last as long anyway. This is the brand we use.
3. Peri Bottles
Bottles is plural, ya see? If you’ve got multiple floors in your home or multiple bathrooms you use, you want one of these handy bottles upstairs and one downstairs (or however you go.) This cheap little bottle will make you feel so fresh and so clean, it really is like a bidet for your vajay (Frida Mom box says so). Don’t skip this product thinking you’ll just get by wiping with toilet paper…eek. It’s a must. There are several kinds out there, the Frida Mom bottle is great.
4. Tucks Pads
There are a lot of products with witch hazel to help speed recovery, like the sitz bath spray, healing foam, and peri spray, but if you’re gonna use anything, these pads are kinda multipurpose. You can line your pad with them for some cooling relief, or just wipe around the area with them which is cleansing and cooling. When everything down there is just…uncomfortable, these bring a bit of relief. There’s 100 in a tub, which should take you beyond recovery if you’re not using loads every time you go. Check them out here.
5. Bioactive Silver
If you’re planning on breastfeeding, this is something you should absolutely keep on hand. If you encounter the glorious pain of a cracked nipple this will be your best friend—and you’ll want it immediately. One drop on the nipple provides nearly instant relief…speaking from experience. Mastitis crept up on me when I had a cracked nipple, a couple of drops of this is all I had to use to heal the nipple overnight. This is the brand we use.
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