ideas for daytime postpartum support visits

Here are a bunch of ideas and possibilities!

• Helping you process your birth experience
• Supporting your physical recovery after childbirth
• Hands-on infant care guidance & education
  
• Support for physical recovery from birth
  
• Support for the emotional adjustment to parenthood
• Being alert to postpartum mood disorders
  
• Helping you understand your baby’s feeding and sleep cues
  
• Soothing your baby and sharing baby soothing techniques
  
• Demonstrating newborn care, including diapering, swaddling & bathing
  
• Support and assistance with breastfeeding — positioning & latch for optimal breastfeeding; instruction and guidance with pumping, milk storage & feeding of expressed milk
  
• Support and assistance with formula feeding, including bottle-feeding guidance & safe formula prep/handling
  
• Cleaning and assembling pump supplies and/or bottles
  
• Caring for your baby when you or your partner want to nap, shower or spend time with your other children or each other
  
• Baby wearing instruction & modeling
• Assisting with home and nursery organization
• Assisting with the care of older siblings and helping them adjust to the new family member
• Light housekeeping such as dishes and laundry
• Light meal prep
• Running errands and/or grocery shopping
• Assisting with pet adjustment & care
• Offering nonjudgmental support for the entire family
• Providing resources and referrals within your community as needed