The Best of Both Worlds!                                               Postnatal Care from both Mumatopia and Live Organic Health

I’m always a tad nervous calling people out of the blue but it was nice to be the bearer of good news. I was calling a new client to let her know that her work had gifted her a postnatal doula care package. She looked through the options on the Mumatopia website and decided on 3 visits from me to cook meals and do some light housework and 2 visits from my partner Julie Williams, from Live Organic Health to meet her postnatal therapy needs. Julie and I had only just recently started offering a combined postnatal therapy and support package so we were really excited to have our first client together.

A few days later, Julie phones me and tells me she’d visited our client. She’d given both mum and baby a massage and had Amelia fill out a record of her diet from the previous few days. She asked me to adjust the menu to make lunch food instead of focusing on dinners so Amelia had some easy, healthy food to eat during the day. The following day I arrived with an esky full of fresh veges, a whole chicken and a dozen eggs and set about making frittata and a pot of chicken soup. These dishes are packed full of fibre and protein, are gluten free and dairy free, just what a breastfeeding mum needs to quell the chocolate cravings. I also showed Amelia how to use a baby wrap and left one with her to try out for a few days.

On my last visit today I made more frittata and soup and also made Amelia a quinoa and salmon salad for lunch with kidney beans (more protein), avocodo (unsaturated fats necessary for good milk production) and green leafy salad, grated carrot and beetroot. It was a dish that took about 2 minutes to prepare (after soaking and cooking the quinoa–a grain which is full of protein and other nutrients). I had some spare time so set about ironing some clothes (something that happens rarely at my place… my hubby raised his eyebrows when I told him I’d done ironing today) and then we took some snaps of the baby on my new camera. It’s always a bit sad to say goodbye to a family when you’ve just gotten to know them but I’m sure we’ll meet again. Amelia has one more visit with Julie for a massage next week.

The service Julie and I offer  is unique in that we combine both therapy and support to meet our clients’ needs. We are the only ones offering a service like this in the greater Brisbane area. Mums need more support postnatally than what is available through either the public or private system. We are so glad to be filling that need, one mum at a time.

*Thanks to Amelia for permitting us to share her experience with Mumatopia and Live Organic Health readers.