Brianna’s first baby had jaundice, and she describes her challenges feeding in the hospital while having to keep him under the lights. She and her husband were living with her parents after her first birth, and she describes her postpartum experience as blissful.
Her second postpartum experience started similarly with jaundice, but she was prepared for that. However, her son failed the 24 hour cardiac test and needed to come home with an oxygen tank. Going home with a baby on oxygen, taking care of a four year old, no longer living with her parents, and her husband returning to work at 2 weeks postpartum made this postpartum period very different. She shares her experience, including taking, and then weaning, from Zoloft.
Resources she mentioned:
Instagram accounts she follows:
https://www.instagram.com/Homesweethomebirth
https://www.instagram.com/Thelittlemilkbar
https://www.instagram.com/biliblanketbaby
https://www.instagram.com/Takingcarababies
https://www.instagram.com/ebbirth
Here is Evidence Based Birth's view on the ARRIVE study: https://evidencebasedbirth.com/arrive/
Brianna’s Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/Brianna_volkinit
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