September 1, 2025 • 27 mins
Forget just 'bouncing back', this is about glowing forward. ✨ In today’s episode, I walk you through my intentional postpartum glow up plan, from nutrition and postpartum wardrobes to supplements, meditation, and nervous system regulation. Think of it as a toolkit for feeling nourished, supported, and empowered in the most transformative season of your life. If you’re preparing for postpartum (or wish you had the first time), this episode is packed with the hacks, rituals, and mindset shifts that will change your journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the
land on which this episode is being recorded, the Combomb
Merry people. They've been having conversations and telling stories on
this land for thousands of years, and we show our
gratitude and respect for their contribution to our environment and culture.
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This is Rise and Conquer, the podcast where we strive
to become the highest version of ourselves through curious conversations,
healthy mindsets, laughter, connection, and a deep desire to evolve.
I'm your host, Georgie Stevenson. Join me as we explore parenthood, business, manifestation,
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and so much more. It's positive, it's practical.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And it's about putting you in the driver's seat.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Of your own life.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Hello, my loves, Welcome back to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I am recording.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
This episode before I give birth, but you will hear
about it probably a little bit after. And today I'm
chatting to you about what I'm putting into place literally
now a month out before I give birth, for my
postpartum glow up.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yes, that's what we're calling it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And this really has come about of being very intentional
with my postpartum period because I remember with Ivy's birth, sorry,
with Ivy's pregnancy.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I was so.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Focused on her birth, and you know, I did hypno birthing.
I would do the hypno birthing meditations every day. It's
really kind of all I put my time and energy into.
And then I.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Remember, you know, I went through birth.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It was it was a long labor, it was you know,
seventeen hours. But then she was here and she was earthside,
and I then went into postpartum period, which is the
next let's say three months, at least three to twelve months.
And I really was not prepared at all for postpartum.
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And I guess you don't really know until you go
through it. If you hear things, you listen to podcasts,
but until you go through postpartum, you'll well, no, you
really are not only you birthing this baby, You're birthing
a new version of yourself. And things really do change.
I think, out of all my life transitions, getting married,
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going to you, all the different things, having your baby
is the biggest life transition in regards to what changes physically, internally, mentally, everything.
And I really didn't spend any time preparing for postpartum.
And then once you're in postpartum, there's lack of sleep,
you're healing from birth, You've got this baby, Ivy had colic.
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So it was quite stressful all the time, and it
really was a tough time for me, if I'm being
very very honest. And so I think it's funny because
we do spend a lot of time thinking about the birth.
We put a lot of our attention there, and we
don't really think postpartum. And so I really wanted to
bring you this episode to talk about the postpartum glow up.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And when I say glow up, I'm.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Honestly just using that as a trend word. I really
just meet the postpartum rebirth, this new version of you.
And how because you're going to spend most of your
time and energy nourishing your baby, and so really thinking
about how you're going to nourish yourself and what you're
going to do for yourself before you give birth. So
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when everything is happening and everything's a bit crazy and
chaotic and etc. You're really prepared and you just got
some tools and some things to think about. And so please,
if you are currently pregnant, in your first pregnancy or
even your second, take some time to work on your
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postpartum and really, like I said, putting in some things
now so when it comes, you have some tools, you
have the support, you have the network. So first of all,
I want to talk about in my baby shower. I
wasn't even gonna have a baby shower because for Ivy's
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baby shower, it was a whole big thing. I had
a big wall and balloons and a party planner and
it was beautiful and it was incredible, but it's a
lot to plan and I feel like when you're pregnant
with your second, it's just different.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You're just not as interested.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And also, yeah, so I actually wasn't going to have
a baby shower, but my girlfriend was who just had
her second. She was like, honestly, just do a lunch,
really minimal people with your nearest and dearest. It's really
really special, And so I did that.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I did a lunch. It was super simple.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And something I said to all my friends who came
were don't get me a baby shower gift, because a
couple of them asked, what I would really love instead
is this idea. It's called a food train, where basically
there's a full website you can go on and organize it,
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which I didn't realize, but one of my girlfriends did
it after, but I just said to them, like I honestly,
we have everything from Ivy, and then I'm very privileged
and lucky to get gifted a lot of things from brands.
Don't go out and buy things. I don't need that.
But if it's convenient, if it's works for you when
baby girl is Earth's side, I'd love for you to
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make your favorite meal and drop it over and again.
I think, going back to postpartum, in the newborn trensit,
you literally have zero time to.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Do anything because they can feed.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Up for an hour and then you've got to change them,
and then you've got to put them down for a
slow and it's kind of like this three hour cycle
that just goes again and again and again. And it's
also throughout the night, so you don't have much sleep,
and sometimes you don't even get time to brush your
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teeth or do your hair, or do very simple things
or make breakfast. And I remember postpartum kind of being
in these loops of time where I was constantly breastfeeding,
changing Ivy and then trying to settle her, getting her
to sleep, and then trying to make food or do
something and then she'd wake up again and the whole
cycle would start. And so having food in the fridge
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is just honestly life changing postpartum. I see a lot
of food prep on TikTok, so you can do it
a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Of it yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
We usually have a really small freezer, which is a
bit of an issue. But so that's why I asked
my friends, instead of a baby shower gift, could you
guys do a food chain. And so I think I've
got about twelve girlfriends. They've all organized it. They're going
to cook their favorite thing. So that's already something to
tick off the list postpartum. If you can organize a
food train, or you can talk to your nearest sinndarius,
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your mom or your mother in law, or just anyone
who you know and you feel really comfortable with. Otherwise,
there are services you can pay for these sorts of
things too, But that's just like something that I did
that I didn't do last time, that I would recommend
that is going to help, because the first thing nourishment
food and making sure it's wood home cook nourishing food,
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especially when you're a lost part of depleted and breastfeeding
so important. Like, of course uber eats would be great,
but having homemade food gets differently postpartum. So that's the
first thing that I have implemented with the baby's shower situation.
Now let's go to babies born, very very simple. What
I've written down is the foundation to recovery, because again,
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you need to recover. I personally looks like I'm getting
a cesarean, which is major surgery, or if you go
through a long labor or any sort of labor, you
are going to be depleted. So focusing on recovery where
prioritizing sleep, where you can hydration, nutrient dense meals, really
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thinking like brothy soups, protein rich snacks, easy smoothies, et cetera,
so so important. So again I know they're super simple things,
and obviously I have a lot of tools for those things.
When you do have a newborn. Prioritizing sleep, I know,
And it's so funny because you know, it's like sleep
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when the baby sleeps, but you're doing all these things
in the newborn bubble. You really should literally just be feeding, changing,
sorting out the baby. So if you can get help
again from the mother in law or a mom or
a trusted friend or someone like that, or your partner,
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so so so helpful, so you can prioritize sleep. I
remember that was my biggest thing when Ivy was a newborn,
is when you're not running on great sleep, oh my god,
it obviously.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Just affects your recovery, affects everything.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
So really prioritizing that, even if you are getting those
small sleep blocks like the baby, it's just kind of
what you have to do. Something to think about, too,
is your nervous system during this time can be in
fight or flight. And looking back with Ivy, that's how
my nervous system was. And again it's because I had
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kind of no idea about the postpartum period. I had
nothing in place. I didn't have as much support as
I maybe would have wanted to, and not as lack of.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I didn't have people around me.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I didn't really know how to ask, I didn't really
have anything in place, and it was all happening and
it was all a bit crazy. And so I realized
now I was in fight or flight. I was constantly
in survival mode. And when you're in survival, your baby
is really reacting and mirroring your nervous system so I
was constantly anxious. I was in survival mode, and so
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was Ivy. And so I can look back, she was
colic and she was crying all the time, but she
really was mirroring my nervous system. And so for me
this time, really prioritizing my nervous system, of taking myself
out of survival mode and putting myself into rest and
digest where I can is going to be so important.
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And how I'm going to be doing that is really
reducing social media anything too stimulating on TV, like crime
shows or anything. I remember Tim wanted to watch Dexter
when we had Ivy, and I would watch it and
I would have anxious, anxious thoughts for my nervous system
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wasn't good. So I literally said, as him, let's save
some shows that are just funny. You want to you
literally want to put yourself in this beautiful state where
you're feeling joy, where you're releasing that beautiful love hormone.
It's going to help for everything. And so I'm literally
saving shows that are just easy to watch, that are funny,
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that are light. I'm not watching anything dark. I'm not
watching murder shows. I'm not watching anything like that. Because
that's not good for my nervous system. I will one
hundred and ten percent be doing a meditation on the
Rise app every single day.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
We have five bit of meditations, so timing that's that's doable.
And again, honestly, trust me when I say, your baby's
going to mirror your nervous system. So if you have
these beautiful moments where you come back to your breath
and you're able to, yeah, just slow down and come
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back to breath and be like it's okay, I'm safe.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Everything's to be okay.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
And even if that's what I found is towards the
end I finally understood, but if Ivy was crying and
she was collocking, whatnot, If I would put her on
my chest, skin to skin in and just be very
calm and still and breathe, it would help her so
much compared to if I was trying to bounce her
around feeling all anxious and stuff. So really working on
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my nervous system again, obviously I use the Rise app,
saving some meditations, saving those things now and having them
ready so when you are feeling frantic, when you are feeling,
oh my god, I'm so stressed out I'm so anxious.
You can go to that tool. If you're loving this
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This is something really random, but I've actually curated.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
A postpartum wardrobe.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So why I think this is important is because you
really should.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
We're not really.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Should because I look, I'm not a medical advisor or
anything like that, but I personally reckon there is so
much healing and there's so much transition, and they do
say with a lot of different cultures, the mum usually
stays in bed for the first forty days.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
And I know that's not always.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Practical, especially if you have toddlers and stuff going on,
but if you can kind of just stay within the house,
stay within your environment for the first forty to sixty days,
really will make such a difference because it's such a transition,
there's so much happening. And so I have curated a
bit of a postpartum outfit.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
They've literally got it hanging in my closet. I'll like
take a photo and put it here.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But just outfits that comfy, that feel good, that are
easy to breastfeed in. They kind of giving pajamas, but
it's giving chick, it's giving I feel good in them,
and we are actually doing so. Naked Harvest is doing
a collab with Booty. If you guys don't know who
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Booty is, they are this incredible company who have they're
really consciously crafting from organically grown bamboo visco. I think
I'm saying that right, and basically their products.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Are so soft.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
When I actually put up a poll on social media
saying oh, I want to get baby and me organic bamboo,
really soft postpartum and baby clothes. What do you guys recommend?
And so many of you guys recommended Booty, which I
was like, guys, we're already doing clab with them, so
I'm so so excited. They have a collection called Mineral Blue.
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It is so stunning, it's so beautiful. And we are
actually doing a moon milk that is moon milk and collagen,
so it's called Our Beauty Moon Milk, and it's basically
because I put collagen in my moon milk every single night.
Because collagen, we lose it when we are twenty five
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going onwards. That's when we stop producing it ourselves, so
that's why we start aging. And collagen isn't just for
ring calls. Collagen is your hair, your skin, your nails,
your gut lining. It really affects so much. And I
remember with Ivy's pregnancy, my doctor actually encouraged me. He
was like, oh my god, no, get on collagen because
the baby takes so much of yours and it will
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just make you feel so much better in your joints,
in your body, everything, And so I have always taken collagen.
I'm talking every single day. Obviously, we it's a product
we have at Naked Harvest, so I've got it on
tap and I swear that's why I had no postpart
of hair fall out I had. Have you guys seen
how long Ivy's hair is. Everyone comments on her hair length,
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and I swear it's because I took collagen during her
pregnancy and while I was breastfeeding her, and she just
has such a basic hair growth and I have such
amazing hair growth and yeah, hair, skin and nail it really,
it does so much. So I would put that either
in my morning coffee or at night in my Moon milk.
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So I've actually created a product where it's already in
there so you don't have to add it, and it's
our original Moonmilk flavor, so it's just like chocolate. It's delicious,
it's young, and the packaging is so cute. It's a
mineral blue color, and so Booty and hatre doing this
really cute collab and yeah, so I've got obviously their
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do Mineral Blue collection a part of my postparton collection,
and the moon milk and collagen is obviously going to
be so healing, especially to just get my body to
unwind at night so I can sleep when the baby sleeps,
and getting that collagen in because recovery. That's why I
encourage you at the start bone broths all those sorts
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of things that it has a lot of collagen in it,
and obviously it's just a quick and easy and yummy way.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
To get So that's in my collection.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I've also got some beautiful pants and tops, just very
comfy sets that are going to be very flattering postpartum.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
But again, I felt.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Very uncomfortable in my body postpartum with Ivy, and I
remember I would kind of just be in pajamas all
day and I didn't really feel that good about myself.
And so I've got this cool postpartum curation of clothes.
Again I don't have to think about it. I've obviously
also got period undies, I've got nursing bras, I've got
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everything sorted so I can feel really comfortable when I
am just at home nursing baby with Ivy with the family.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
So again just thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Something that I want to do also is breathing and
pelvic flaw exercises. I am most likely having a cesarean
and so I have or already been practiced seeing a
lot of this breath and pelvic floor exercises, and so
I kind of I already have it sorted. I have
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some things saved on YouTube, so I can link that
if you want. I kind of found a random thing
on TikTok and started following her on YouTube, and it's
just literally I think the breathing is all about just
really it's engaging your core muscles and really just engaging
your core after it going through so much, and also
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your pelvic floor, which again with Ivy, I just didn't
do any of this, I just I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I'm also seeing a physio.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I'm seeing Sarah from the Female Physio co If you're
in the Gold Coast, highly recommend. She also does have
a lot of educational content on Instagram, so highly recommend
you follow her. But I'll be seeing her postpartum again
just pelvic floor making sure. I did have the ab
separation with Ivy, and again I didn't really do too
much about it, and so I just want to be
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on Twitter. I just want to be feeling good, and
so every single day I will be doing those breathing
and those pelvic flaw exercises, which I think they're both
two or three minutes, so super super doable. And then
there's something else that I am going to do that
I have already put into action, is I am going
to get a post partum blood panel done. And I've
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actually spoken to my OB about this. I don't know
if this is normal or not, but again, I just
remember feeling so depleted and just kind of shit postpartum
and really not myself. And now looking back, if our
hormones are out of whack, if we have low iron,
if physically something is.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Off, We're not going to feel good. So something that
I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
For the physical sense is I've already said to my
OB at that six week appointment, I want to get
a blood test for my iron, which I know if
you're getting a C section, it's very important to check
that because you do tend to lose blood, so checking
my ion. I also do have an up and down thyroid,
so checking my thyroid that's very important for every other
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hormone in your body. I want to check my vitamin D,
my B twelve, and FOL eight inflammation markers, and also
do a hormone panel if possible, and he has said
that he is happy to do that, so it's not
like I'll have to go pay for it myself. And
this has actually come about because I read this book
be called Real Food for Pregnancy, and I highly recommend
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you read this book if you're pregnant or even postpartum.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They do have a postpartum section.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And basically she goes through how the postpartum period is
so depleting and how if you're not getting these incredible
nutrients in your food and extra supplements, you really can
be detrimental for you feeling like a so also going
to be very onto my supplements. Obviously, I'm already going
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to be taking, like I said, the new mood milk
and collagen, very simple, very easy. I take creatine greens
if I feel like I need to get fiber in
protein if I want, And also then my actual vitamins.
So I take a lot of vitamins that are helpful
for my thyroid. I don't really have to go into them.
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I also take a liver capsule. A liver and spleen
capsule can be really really helpful when you're pregnant. And
I take a probotic every morning and night, and also
omigas so like fish oils amigas dhas I'm pretty sure
is what I'm taking.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
So in's so.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Important for babies brain health and then us also, so
I'll be really onto my supplements. And again I'm doing
things previous to birth. I have ordered all those supplements
for six months worth, because I don't want to be
in the postpartum trenches being like, oh my god, I've
got to order these tablets and then they're not here
and blah blah blah. So I've ordered all them and
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I've got them ready. Like I said, I have my
beautiful wardrobe of clothes ready. Honestly, guys, you have to
check out Booty's Mineral Blue collection. So soft, so incredible,
the feeling organic bamboo, like it's just ten out of ten.
And I also have their nursing bras and their undies
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and their period undies and stuff, so they really are
like a one stop shop for postpartum. So I have that,
I have everything hanging in my closet. I obviously got
the baby's room set up and whatnot, but I did
that the first time. This time, I'm really putting energy
into me because if my cup isn't filled up, baby's
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going to feel that I've got to fill up my
own cup and I've got to put on my own mask,
and then I can or into everyone else's cup. And
like I said, I really feel like Ivy reflected my mental, physical,
and spiritual state. And I had a really hard postpartum
journey with her. And so I really hope by having
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these little things in place, regulating my nervous system with
the rise app, making sure I'm getting all my supplements
in feeling good about myself, finding those pockets of joy
where I can you get into something comfy where I
can watch your funny movie, when I can have a
bit of time to myself a small amount of time
is going to be so so helpful, and I didn't
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do it with Ivy, and so I'm really really such
an advocate we need to think about postpartum. And I
also do have a book recommendation for you guys, and
it's by so if you guys listened to Australian Birth Stories,
it's a podcast. So the book is the Complete Guide
to Postpartum by Sophie Walker and Jody Wilson. Highly recommend
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They sent it to me because I've been a contact
with Sarah for quite a while since Ivy's birth and
I have been reading it NonStop and again, just so
many moments where I'm like, I wish I had this
for my first pregnancy. So highly recommend order order that book,
and just make sure you're also focusing on yourself postpartum,
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and because I feel like it's just natural to focus
on the baby. I'm sure you've got the nursery sorted.
I'm sure you have everything sorted, but have those things
in place for you, because if you're happy, if you're
feeling good, if you're filling up your cup, you will
have such a different, beautiful, magical experience.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So my loves. That is it from me.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I hope this was helpful and insightful. Again, this is
the podcast I wish I had in my first pregnancy. Sorry,
I hope this is going to change someone's postpartum journey.
And yeah, thank you so much. I will try and
link everything I've spoken about in the show notes so
you can go.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Check it out.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
But I'm pretty sure when this episode drops, I'll be
in the postpartum journey. So I hope I am practicing
what I'm preaching, and thank.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
You so much for listening. I will chat to in
the next episode. Bye.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
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Merry people. They've been having conversations and telling stories on
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This is Rise and Conquer, the podcast where we strive
to become the highest version of ourselves through curious conversations,
healthy mindsets, laughter, connection, and a deep desire to evolve.
I'm your host, Georgie Stevenson. Join me as we explore parenthood, business, manifestation,
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and so much more. It's positive, it's practical.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And it's about putting you in the driver's seat.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Of your own life.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Hello, my loves, Welcome back to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I am recording.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
This episode before I give birth, but you will hear
about it probably a little bit after. And today I'm
chatting to you about what I'm putting into place literally
now a month out before I give birth, for my
postpartum glow up.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yes, that's what we're calling it.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And this really has come about of being very intentional
with my postpartum period because I remember with Ivy's birth, sorry,
with Ivy's pregnancy.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I was so.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Focused on her birth, and you know, I did hypno birthing.
I would do the hypno birthing meditations every day. It's
really kind of all I put my time and energy into.
And then I.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Remember, you know, I went through birth.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It was it was a long labor, it was you know,
seventeen hours. But then she was here and she was earthside,
and I then went into postpartum period, which is the
next let's say three months, at least three to twelve months.
And I really was not prepared at all for postpartum.
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And I guess you don't really know until you go
through it. If you hear things, you listen to podcasts,
but until you go through postpartum, you'll well, no, you
really are not only you birthing this baby, You're birthing
a new version of yourself. And things really do change.
I think, out of all my life transitions, getting married,
(02:35):
going to you, all the different things, having your baby
is the biggest life transition in regards to what changes physically, internally, mentally, everything.
And I really didn't spend any time preparing for postpartum.
And then once you're in postpartum, there's lack of sleep,
you're healing from birth, You've got this baby, Ivy had colic.
(02:58):
So it was quite stressful all the time, and it
really was a tough time for me, if I'm being
very very honest. And so I think it's funny because
we do spend a lot of time thinking about the birth.
We put a lot of our attention there, and we
don't really think postpartum. And so I really wanted to
bring you this episode to talk about the postpartum glow up.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And when I say glow up, I'm.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Honestly just using that as a trend word. I really
just meet the postpartum rebirth, this new version of you.
And how because you're going to spend most of your
time and energy nourishing your baby, and so really thinking
about how you're going to nourish yourself and what you're
going to do for yourself before you give birth. So
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when everything is happening and everything's a bit crazy and
chaotic and etc. You're really prepared and you just got
some tools and some things to think about. And so please,
if you are currently pregnant, in your first pregnancy or
even your second, take some time to work on your
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postpartum and really, like I said, putting in some things
now so when it comes, you have some tools, you
have the support, you have the network. So first of all,
I want to talk about in my baby shower. I
wasn't even gonna have a baby shower because for Ivy's
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baby shower, it was a whole big thing. I had
a big wall and balloons and a party planner and
it was beautiful and it was incredible, but it's a
lot to plan and I feel like when you're pregnant
with your second, it's just different.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You're just not as interested.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And also, yeah, so I actually wasn't going to have
a baby shower, but my girlfriend was who just had
her second. She was like, honestly, just do a lunch,
really minimal people with your nearest and dearest. It's really
really special, And so I did that.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I did a lunch. It was super simple.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And something I said to all my friends who came
were don't get me a baby shower gift, because a
couple of them asked, what I would really love instead
is this idea. It's called a food train, where basically
there's a full website you can go on and organize it,
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which I didn't realize, but one of my girlfriends did
it after, but I just said to them, like I honestly,
we have everything from Ivy, and then I'm very privileged
and lucky to get gifted a lot of things from brands.
Don't go out and buy things. I don't need that.
But if it's convenient, if it's works for you when
baby girl is Earth's side, I'd love for you to
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make your favorite meal and drop it over and again.
I think, going back to postpartum, in the newborn trensit,
you literally have zero time to.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Do anything because they can feed.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Up for an hour and then you've got to change them,
and then you've got to put them down for a
slow and it's kind of like this three hour cycle
that just goes again and again and again. And it's
also throughout the night, so you don't have much sleep,
and sometimes you don't even get time to brush your
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teeth or do your hair, or do very simple things
or make breakfast. And I remember postpartum kind of being
in these loops of time where I was constantly breastfeeding,
changing Ivy and then trying to settle her, getting her
to sleep, and then trying to make food or do
something and then she'd wake up again and the whole
cycle would start. And so having food in the fridge
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is just honestly life changing postpartum. I see a lot
of food prep on TikTok, so you can do it
a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Of it yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
We usually have a really small freezer, which is a
bit of an issue. But so that's why I asked
my friends, instead of a baby shower gift, could you
guys do a food chain. And so I think I've
got about twelve girlfriends. They've all organized it. They're going
to cook their favorite thing. So that's already something to
tick off the list postpartum. If you can organize a
food train, or you can talk to your nearest sinndarius,
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your mom or your mother in law, or just anyone
who you know and you feel really comfortable with. Otherwise,
there are services you can pay for these sorts of
things too, But that's just like something that I did
that I didn't do last time, that I would recommend
that is going to help, because the first thing nourishment
food and making sure it's wood home cook nourishing food,
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especially when you're a lost part of depleted and breastfeeding
so important. Like, of course uber eats would be great,
but having homemade food gets differently postpartum. So that's the
first thing that I have implemented with the baby's shower situation.
Now let's go to babies born, very very simple. What
I've written down is the foundation to recovery, because again,
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you need to recover. I personally looks like I'm getting
a cesarean, which is major surgery, or if you go
through a long labor or any sort of labor, you
are going to be depleted. So focusing on recovery where
prioritizing sleep, where you can hydration, nutrient dense meals, really
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thinking like brothy soups, protein rich snacks, easy smoothies, et cetera,
so so important. So again I know they're super simple things,
and obviously I have a lot of tools for those things.
When you do have a newborn. Prioritizing sleep, I know,
And it's so funny because you know, it's like sleep
(08:38):
when the baby sleeps, but you're doing all these things
in the newborn bubble. You really should literally just be feeding, changing,
sorting out the baby. So if you can get help
again from the mother in law or a mom or
a trusted friend or someone like that, or your partner,
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so so so helpful, so you can prioritize sleep. I
remember that was my biggest thing when Ivy was a newborn,
is when you're not running on great sleep, oh my god,
it obviously.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Just affects your recovery, affects everything.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
So really prioritizing that, even if you are getting those
small sleep blocks like the baby, it's just kind of
what you have to do. Something to think about, too,
is your nervous system during this time can be in
fight or flight. And looking back with Ivy, that's how
my nervous system was. And again it's because I had
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kind of no idea about the postpartum period. I had
nothing in place. I didn't have as much support as
I maybe would have wanted to, and not as lack of.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I didn't have people around me.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I didn't really know how to ask, I didn't really
have anything in place, and it was all happening and
it was all a bit crazy. And so I realized
now I was in fight or flight. I was constantly
in survival mode. And when you're in survival, your baby
is really reacting and mirroring your nervous system so I
was constantly anxious. I was in survival mode, and so
(10:11):
was Ivy. And so I can look back, she was
colic and she was crying all the time, but she
really was mirroring my nervous system. And so for me
this time, really prioritizing my nervous system, of taking myself
out of survival mode and putting myself into rest and
digest where I can is going to be so important.
(10:31):
And how I'm going to be doing that is really
reducing social media anything too stimulating on TV, like crime
shows or anything. I remember Tim wanted to watch Dexter
when we had Ivy, and I would watch it and
I would have anxious, anxious thoughts for my nervous system
(10:52):
wasn't good. So I literally said, as him, let's save
some shows that are just funny. You want to you
literally want to put yourself in this beautiful state where
you're feeling joy, where you're releasing that beautiful love hormone.
It's going to help for everything. And so I'm literally
saving shows that are just easy to watch, that are funny,
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that are light. I'm not watching anything dark. I'm not
watching murder shows. I'm not watching anything like that. Because
that's not good for my nervous system. I will one
hundred and ten percent be doing a meditation on the
Rise app every single day.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
We have five bit of meditations, so timing that's that's doable.
And again, honestly, trust me when I say, your baby's
going to mirror your nervous system. So if you have
these beautiful moments where you come back to your breath
and you're able to, yeah, just slow down and come
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back to breath and be like it's okay, I'm safe.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Everything's to be okay.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
And even if that's what I found is towards the
end I finally understood, but if Ivy was crying and
she was collocking, whatnot, If I would put her on
my chest, skin to skin in and just be very
calm and still and breathe, it would help her so
much compared to if I was trying to bounce her
around feeling all anxious and stuff. So really working on
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my nervous system again, obviously I use the Rise app,
saving some meditations, saving those things now and having them
ready so when you are feeling frantic, when you are feeling,
oh my god, I'm so stressed out I'm so anxious.
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This is something really random, but I've actually curated.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
A postpartum wardrobe.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So why I think this is important is because you
really should.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
We're not really.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Should because I look, I'm not a medical advisor or
anything like that, but I personally reckon there is so
much healing and there's so much transition, and they do
say with a lot of different cultures, the mum usually
stays in bed for the first forty days.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
And I know that's not always.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Practical, especially if you have toddlers and stuff going on,
but if you can kind of just stay within the house,
stay within your environment for the first forty to sixty days,
really will make such a difference because it's such a transition,
there's so much happening. And so I have curated a
bit of a postpartum outfit.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
They've literally got it hanging in my closet. I'll like
take a photo and put it here.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But just outfits that comfy, that feel good, that are
easy to breastfeed in. They kind of giving pajamas, but
it's giving chick, it's giving I feel good in them,
and we are actually doing so. Naked Harvest is doing
a collab with Booty. If you guys don't know who
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Booty is, they are this incredible company who have they're
really consciously crafting from organically grown bamboo visco. I think
I'm saying that right, and basically their products.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Are so soft.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
When I actually put up a poll on social media
saying oh, I want to get baby and me organic bamboo,
really soft postpartum and baby clothes. What do you guys recommend?
And so many of you guys recommended Booty, which I
was like, guys, we're already doing clab with them, so
I'm so so excited. They have a collection called Mineral Blue.
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It is so stunning, it's so beautiful. And we are
actually doing a moon milk that is moon milk and collagen,
so it's called Our Beauty Moon Milk, and it's basically
because I put collagen in my moon milk every single night.
Because collagen, we lose it when we are twenty five
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going onwards. That's when we stop producing it ourselves, so
that's why we start aging. And collagen isn't just for
ring calls. Collagen is your hair, your skin, your nails,
your gut lining. It really affects so much. And I
remember with Ivy's pregnancy, my doctor actually encouraged me. He
was like, oh my god, no, get on collagen because
the baby takes so much of yours and it will
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just make you feel so much better in your joints,
in your body, everything, And so I have always taken collagen.
I'm talking every single day. Obviously, we it's a product
we have at Naked Harvest, so I've got it on
tap and I swear that's why I had no postpart
of hair fall out I had. Have you guys seen
how long Ivy's hair is. Everyone comments on her hair length,
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and I swear it's because I took collagen during her
pregnancy and while I was breastfeeding her, and she just
has such a basic hair growth and I have such
amazing hair growth and yeah, hair, skin and nail it really,
it does so much. So I would put that either
in my morning coffee or at night in my Moon milk.
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So I've actually created a product where it's already in
there so you don't have to add it, and it's
our original Moonmilk flavor, so it's just like chocolate. It's delicious,
it's young, and the packaging is so cute. It's a
mineral blue color, and so Booty and hatre doing this
really cute collab and yeah, so I've got obviously their
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do Mineral Blue collection a part of my postparton collection,
and the moon milk and collagen is obviously going to
be so healing, especially to just get my body to
unwind at night so I can sleep when the baby sleeps,
and getting that collagen in because recovery. That's why I
encourage you at the start bone broths all those sorts
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of things that it has a lot of collagen in it,
and obviously it's just a quick and easy and yummy way.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
To get So that's in my collection.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I've also got some beautiful pants and tops, just very
comfy sets that are going to be very flattering postpartum.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
But again, I felt.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Very uncomfortable in my body postpartum with Ivy, and I
remember I would kind of just be in pajamas all
day and I didn't really feel that good about myself.
And so I've got this cool postpartum curation of clothes.
Again I don't have to think about it. I've obviously
also got period undies, I've got nursing bras, I've got
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everything sorted so I can feel really comfortable when I
am just at home nursing baby with Ivy with the family.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
So again just thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Something that I want to do also is breathing and
pelvic flaw exercises. I am most likely having a cesarean
and so I have or already been practiced seeing a
lot of this breath and pelvic floor exercises, and so
I kind of I already have it sorted. I have
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some things saved on YouTube, so I can link that
if you want. I kind of found a random thing
on TikTok and started following her on YouTube, and it's
just literally I think the breathing is all about just
really it's engaging your core muscles and really just engaging
your core after it going through so much, and also
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your pelvic floor, which again with Ivy, I just didn't
do any of this, I just I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I'm also seeing a physio.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I'm seeing Sarah from the Female Physio co If you're
in the Gold Coast, highly recommend. She also does have
a lot of educational content on Instagram, so highly recommend
you follow her. But I'll be seeing her postpartum again
just pelvic floor making sure. I did have the ab
separation with Ivy, and again I didn't really do too
much about it, and so I just want to be
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on Twitter. I just want to be feeling good, and
so every single day I will be doing those breathing
and those pelvic flaw exercises, which I think they're both
two or three minutes, so super super doable. And then
there's something else that I am going to do that
I have already put into action, is I am going
to get a post partum blood panel done. And I've
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actually spoken to my OB about this. I don't know
if this is normal or not, but again, I just
remember feeling so depleted and just kind of shit postpartum
and really not myself. And now looking back, if our
hormones are out of whack, if we have low iron,
if physically something is.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Off, We're not going to feel good. So something that
I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
For the physical sense is I've already said to my
OB at that six week appointment, I want to get
a blood test for my iron, which I know if
you're getting a C section, it's very important to check
that because you do tend to lose blood, so checking
my ion. I also do have an up and down thyroid,
so checking my thyroid that's very important for every other
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hormone in your body. I want to check my vitamin D,
my B twelve, and FOL eight inflammation markers, and also
do a hormone panel if possible, and he has said
that he is happy to do that, so it's not
like I'll have to go pay for it myself. And
this has actually come about because I read this book
be called Real Food for Pregnancy, and I highly recommend
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you read this book if you're pregnant or even postpartum.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They do have a postpartum section.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And basically she goes through how the postpartum period is
so depleting and how if you're not getting these incredible
nutrients in your food and extra supplements, you really can
be detrimental for you feeling like a so also going
to be very onto my supplements. Obviously, I'm already going
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to be taking, like I said, the new mood milk
and collagen, very simple, very easy. I take creatine greens
if I feel like I need to get fiber in
protein if I want, And also then my actual vitamins.
So I take a lot of vitamins that are helpful
for my thyroid. I don't really have to go into them.
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I also take a liver capsule. A liver and spleen
capsule can be really really helpful when you're pregnant. And
I take a probotic every morning and night, and also
omigas so like fish oils amigas dhas I'm pretty sure
is what I'm taking.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
So in's so.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Important for babies brain health and then us also, so
I'll be really onto my supplements. And again I'm doing
things previous to birth. I have ordered all those supplements
for six months worth, because I don't want to be
in the postpartum trenches being like, oh my god, I've
got to order these tablets and then they're not here
and blah blah blah. So I've ordered all them and
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I've got them ready. Like I said, I have my
beautiful wardrobe of clothes ready. Honestly, guys, you have to
check out Booty's Mineral Blue collection. So soft, so incredible,
the feeling organic bamboo, like it's just ten out of ten.
And I also have their nursing bras and their undies
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and their period undies and stuff, so they really are
like a one stop shop for postpartum. So I have that,
I have everything hanging in my closet. I obviously got
the baby's room set up and whatnot, but I did
that the first time. This time, I'm really putting energy
into me because if my cup isn't filled up, baby's
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going to feel that I've got to fill up my
own cup and I've got to put on my own mask,
and then I can or into everyone else's cup. And
like I said, I really feel like Ivy reflected my mental, physical,
and spiritual state. And I had a really hard postpartum
journey with her. And so I really hope by having
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these little things in place, regulating my nervous system with
the rise app, making sure I'm getting all my supplements
in feeling good about myself, finding those pockets of joy
where I can you get into something comfy where I
can watch your funny movie, when I can have a
bit of time to myself a small amount of time
is going to be so so helpful, and I didn't
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do it with Ivy, and so I'm really really such
an advocate we need to think about postpartum. And I
also do have a book recommendation for you guys, and
it's by so if you guys listened to Australian Birth Stories,
it's a podcast. So the book is the Complete Guide
to Postpartum by Sophie Walker and Jody Wilson. Highly recommend
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They sent it to me because I've been a contact
with Sarah for quite a while since Ivy's birth and
I have been reading it NonStop and again, just so
many moments where I'm like, I wish I had this
for my first pregnancy. So highly recommend order order that book,
and just make sure you're also focusing on yourself postpartum,
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and because I feel like it's just natural to focus
on the baby. I'm sure you've got the nursery sorted.
I'm sure you have everything sorted, but have those things
in place for you, because if you're happy, if you're
feeling good, if you're filling up your cup, you will
have such a different, beautiful, magical experience.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So my loves. That is it from me.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I hope this was helpful and insightful. Again, this is
the podcast I wish I had in my first pregnancy. Sorry,
I hope this is going to change someone's postpartum journey.
And yeah, thank you so much. I will try and
link everything I've spoken about in the show notes so
you can go.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Check it out.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
But I'm pretty sure when this episode drops, I'll be
in the postpartum journey. So I hope I am practicing
what I'm preaching, and thank.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
You so much for listening. I will chat to in
the next episode. Bye.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Thank you so much for listening to this episode of
the Rise and Conquer podcast. If you enjoyed it and
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