Ep 44: Hola Postpartum with Alexia Pettersen

It's time to think about postpartum healing and nourishment in a whole new way that, perhaps, isn't so new. And it's time to have conversations around healing and recovery and how we can often neglect the fact that there is a healing process after giving birth. "In those first six weeks a mother should be waited on, served and nurtured." Says Debra Pascali-Bonaro. 

In Episode 44: Hola Postpartum, host Sondra Doty welcomes guest Alexia Pettersen. Alexia is a birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator, lactation counselor, and owner of Hola Postpartum, a food delivery service to welcome your recovering body. To nurture it. To honor it. To nourish it with the wisdom of intentional ingredients. 

Also, a trained chef, Alexia decided through some direction of her father to tap into her family Hispanic traditions of what was appropriate for the healing postpartum body. This came after giving birth herself and realizing her Hispanic traditions could be shared and can aid in helping others' recoveries. 

Hola Postpartum is meant to meet you in the shifts of life. It's not just for the immediate postpartum either; but, like Alexia says, "We shouldn't lose the season of postpartum in our lives. If you can tap into what postpartum is, it's ok to stop, pause, rest, recover and find solitude."

Get to Know Guest Alexia Pettersen:

Alexia's mission with Hola Postpartum is to revive + restore the newly recovering postpartum + breastfeeding parent through traditional Mexican recipes from her Motherland known to aid the postpartum body faster as well as to boost the nurser's breastmilk production. Foods and care to nurture, nourish + honor the postpartum body during the sacredness of new parenthood.

Follow:

https://www.instagram.com/holapostpartum/

https://www.instagram.com/alexiathedoula/

Website:

https://holapostpartum.com/order-bringmefood

http://www.alexiathedoula.com/

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