Open AccessFeature Article—Continuing Education Module—Reimagining Postpartum Support
Author(s) -
Sally J. Placksin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of perinatal education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1548-8519
pISSN - 1058-1243
DOI - 10.1891/j-pe-d-21-00004
Subject(s) - feeling , compassion , childbirth , medicine , nursing , psychology , obstetrics , pregnancy , social psychology , biology , political science , law , genetics
This article introduces the author's emerging new paradigm ("perinatal participation") that re-imagines postpartum support by helping expectant parents have more peace of mind, confidence, self-compassion, and emotional wellbeing over the course of their perinatal journeys, with special focus on feeling more prepared for all that happens after baby arrives. The author's work rests on the shoulders of her 1992 book, Mothering the New Mother: Women's Feelings and Needs After Childbirth . Perceiving a new urgent need to support expectant parents three decades later (the need to alleviate the high stress levels in expectant parents she was talking to) the author explored filtering the expectant and new parent's experience through what she calls a "peace-of-mind lens."