African Postpartum Belly Binding

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Belly binding is a postpartum tradition that has been practiced in African cultures for centuries to help mothers recuperate after birth. Practicing this tradition has many benefits physically, psychologically, and physiologically. Wearing a belly-bind postpartum helps you feel more comfortable in many ways as you are adjusting to your body and taking care of your baby. 

Some benefits of postpartum belly-binding are:

• Encourages the uterus to return to it’s normal size
• Compacts organs, muscles, and bones, including pelvic bones, back into place faster and easier
• Helps with backaches and posture
• Reduces postpartum bleeding
• Supports the closing of the abdomen muscles(diastasic recti)
• Allow you to feel secure as you rest and move around
• Aids with body positivity after birth

Placing a tight bind around your body, from your sternum to hips, will allow you to feel more secure as you rest and move around. Your body has miraculously created tons of space for your baby to live and grow! Everything from your organs, to your muscles, and even your bones had to shift in order to make a home for your baby in those months of pregnancy, and even more to make a passageway for your baby to enter their new home outside your womb. 

The belly bind makes recovery faster and more comfortable. The low-to-mid-section wrapping technique encourages the uterus to return to it’s normal size, and everything else to return to its normal place including your hips and pelvic bones. After your baby is born, your body is loose and mendable, and is left with space where your baby once was. Because your organs, muscles, and bones are being compacted by the belly-bind, you will feel more secure and your insides will shift back into place faster and with ease.

The belly bind will help with backaches and posture. It may help with postpartum bleeding. It supports the closing of the abdomen muscles(diastasic recti). And it’s something beautiful for you to adorn your belly with. When you purchase your belly bind wrap from Natural Rhythms Doula Care, you will receive a beautiful cloth that has been blessed with good energy for healing and positivity.

 All of this will help you to feel good after birth and aid in your recovery.

The postpartum period is a beautiful time for your new family to begin your lives together, but it also has plenty of challenges. You are now adjusting to your body as it is recovering, perhaps learning to breastfeed, managing your household, and stepping into your new role as a mother to this beautiful baby you've brought into the world. It can be a lot all at once. But you will learn to adapt so that your healing can progress. 

Healing after birth takes place on all levels, mind, body, and spirit.  Your body is intelligent. It knows how to grow and birth a baby, and how to heal as well. But just like pregnancy and birth, recovery can be uncomfortable. There are some truly amazing tools, like Postpartum Belly Binding and hiring a Postpartum Doula, you can use to make recovery much easier. 

Natural Rhythms Doula Care not only provides beautiful postpartum belly wraps, but offers private home wrapping sessions to teach you, and a family member who will support you, how to wrap yourself properly, securing everything in place with care.