The First Six Weeks

A gentle guide to your body, your feelings, and your fourth trimester

The first six weeks are their own strange season. Your body is healing from something enormous, your feelings are doing things you didn't sign up for, and time has stopped meaning anything at all.

This guide walks you through it plainly. What's normal in your recovery and what deserves a phone call. What the bleeding actually does, week by week. The feelings nobody warns you about, and how to tell the baby blues from something that needs support. How to eat, rest, and let people help without feeling like you're failing at something.

Not a bounce-back plan. A soft place to land, and a hand to hold at 2am.

This book is about you, not the baby. That's the point.

Written to be read in an afternoon, or one page at a time during a 2am feed.

What's inside:

1. The first 48 hours home
2. How your body heals, week by week
3. Bleeding, stitches, and what's normal
4. The feelings nobody warns you about
5. Baby blues, or something more
6. Feeding your body while you feed your baby
7. Letting people help
8. A gentle check-in at six weeks