Postpartum Recovery
The single most important opportunity to boost your health.
Ancient Chinese society, like other traditional societies, developed practices for the month after childbirth to strengthen and balance a woman’s body. They observed how a pregnant woman’s body will give the best of her to ensuring a healthy child. If there are nutritional deficiencies the mother will suffer first. Thus, carrying and birthing a child represents the single greatest depletion in a woman’s life.
Daoist philosophy teaches that times of challenge can be transformed into great opportunities. Proper care can not only restore health, but reset a woman’s constitution (and hormones), so that she is healthier after bearing children than before pregnancy. The ancient practices centered on rest, nutrition, and restoring the abdomen and pelvic floor. My program is a modern adaptation of these practices.
The Postpartum Recovery Program alleviates common symptoms such as:
- postpartum depression
- scanty breast milk
- baby weight
- urinary incontinence
- baby pooch
- premature aging
Renew Yourself and Your Baby
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Balance hormones
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Increase energy
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Promote healthy weight
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Enhance fertility
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Strengthen vitality
Getting Started
The basics of postpartum care.
The Basics of Postpartum Recovery
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The ‘Three Golden Opportunities’: Key Times Women Can Improve or Damage their Health GalleryThe ‘Three Golden Opportunities’: Key Times Women Can Improve or Damage their Health
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The Postpartum Recovery Program™
The care a woman receives after childbirth can make a huge difference in her health and appearance. Dr. Lia Andrews, DAOM, L.Ac. presents her Postpartum Recovery Program(TM), a reference book of dietary and lifestyle practices, adapted from traditional Chinese postpartum care, that she has used to transform the health of countless patients. This book presents her entire Postpartum Recovery Program(TM) in an easy to follow format.
Get the manual on women’s self-care.
Get certified. On demand webinars on optimizing women’s health. Postpartum Recovery is 4 CEUs. Earn 22 CEUs total.