{"product_id":"postpartum-recovery-guide","title":"The Postpartum Recovery Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eEveryone watches your belly grow for nine months. Then the baby arrives and every eye in the room moves to them — while your body is left to do the hardest physical work of its life, mostly unwatched and largely unexplained.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the recovery manual for that part. Not how you'll feel about becoming a mum. This one is about function: your perineum, your wound, your bleeding, your pelvic floor, your hormones, and the difference between \"normal and miserable\" and \"call someone now.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eINSIDE\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe first 72 hours — afterpains, your first bleed (lochia), the dreaded first wee, stitches and catheters, what the staff are quietly checking, and the golden rule of resting and letting people help.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVaginal birth recovery — caring for tears and stitches, the peri bottle that becomes your best friend, ice and sitz baths, haemorrhoids, gentle early pelvic-floor activation, and the signs stitches need checking.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCaesarean recovery — treating it like the major surgery it is: wound care, the \"nothing heavier than your baby\" rule, getting out of bed without crying, when you can drive, and the infection signs to watch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBleeding, hormones and the changing body — the four-to-six-week bleeding timeline, drenching night sweats, milk coming in and engorgement, postpartum hair shedding, and an honest word on the \"bounce-back\" myth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYour mind — the difference between the baby blues and perinatal depression or anxiety, and exactly who to ring.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bits you were too polite to ask about, answered plainly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstant PDF. Yours to keep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeneral information only, current for 2026 — not medical advice. If something feels wrong, call your midwife, GP or the free national lines listed inside.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MumVee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50978187542564,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/7410\/6148\/files\/postpartum-recovery-guide.png?v=1782215653","url":"https:\/\/mumvee.com\/products\/postpartum-recovery-guide","provider":"MumVee","version":"1.0","type":"link"}