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Eco-Postnatal Care

Belly wrapping

"Valarie is the belly whisper. My belly significantly shrunk after 5 treatments. after 10, I felt my body put back together and restored"

Natural products and equipment used

We import and provide only the best products for our clients for over a decade. We know our products, their effects on the body and therefore trust them. Herbs have long been used in feminine healthcare with anti-inflammatory, circulatory, and stimulatory properties, to contract tissue, prevent infection, and reduce inflammation. Please refer to the product page.

Abdominal Wrapping

The abdomen benefits from a combination of gentle manipulation and application of stimulatory herbs.

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Sacred Closing Bath

The mother is given a floral bath with varieties of scented flowers, seven citrus limes, and rose water.

Meal Preparation

Postpartum meals following ancestral culinary guidelines and principles from Southeast Asia, Ayurveda and Chinese medicine. Warming, nourishing meals.

"The heated belly treatments and firming paste, make the wrapping so effective"

Restoring Your Abdomen

Abdominal Wrapping Services

Why Do Women Get an After Pregnancy Abdominal Pooch?

When the baby and placenta are birthed this leaves an empty cavity in the lower abdomen that is temporarily filled by the internal organs when they drop down. As the organs shrink and reposition back they are supported by, and put weight on, the already-stretched abdominal muscles that are also relaxed due to the relaxin hormone, which is in the body for three months. The organs push out on the stomach muscles which can stretch them permanently. The abdomen benefits from a combination of gentle manipulation and the application of stimulatory herbs.

Benefits

Holds together the muscles of the abdominal walls allowing for ease of muscle retraction.
Provides support to the torso while vital organs return to their pre-pregnancy size and position.
Improves posture leading to better breastmilk supply and expelling breastmilk.
Material on the hips encourages the cervix to close faster and supports the weakened perineum.
Relieves back pain.
Stabilizes loosened ligaments.
Support of the spine improves energy levels.
Encourages repair and closing of the abdominal muscles – diastasis recti.

Abdominal preparation includes

Using a heated herbal poultice to gently, infuse deep heat into the abdomen stimulates the body to release retained water, fat, air, and lochia at a faster rate.
Warming herbal oils to stimulate the loss of fluids, and stimulate digestion.
Herbal firming blend paste mask.
Postnatal abdominal wrap.
Calming herbal blend paste mask – a traditional recipe for postnatal blues and hormonal headaches.
Postnatal herbal tea.

Sacred Closing Bath

Why Do Women Get an After Pregnancy Abdominal Pooch?

The childbearing cycle begins with fertility, then blossoms into pregnancy climax with birth, and culminates with recovery. In cultures that view pregnancy ending with birth leaves a woman’s experience of pregnancy “open-ended” as there is no mental, emotional, or spiritual closure of her experience. Many cultures around the world do have sacred traditions and ceremonies surrounding the postpartum period. Women are honored in ways that recognize their rite of passage into motherhood, whether it is for the first time or for successive children. In cultures that have designated recovery periods, a special ceremony marks the end of her recovery and her re-entrance into society.

The most common closing ritual is a ceremonial bath, which honors and recognizes a Mother’s strength and the selfless sacrifice she went through to birth her child into the world. In Malaysia, there is an ancient ceremonial practice to end the postpartum recovery period.

The mother is given a floral bath with varieties of scented flowers, seven citrus limes, and rose water.

This final treatment is to welcome the mother to a new healthy harmonious life.  Birth is a celebration and the primary person involved in the process, the Mother, is honored for her achievement. Doesn’t that sound like a lovely ceremony to honor a mother and seal her body and birth experience?

Flowers

The fragrant flowers such as rose, sunflower, and white daisies symbolically wash away the scent of the blood, or lochia, which has been dispelled from the Mother’s body during the previous weeks, restoring her feminine aroma.

Citrus Limes

Citrus limes are traditionally used for cleansing the body and spirit.

Rose Water

The rose water is added as the rose is attributed to femininity; and is a symbol of achievement, completion, and perfection. Each woman is considered “perfect” just as she is, even after birth when women do not feel particularly beautiful.

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READ CAREFULLY

Students are required to bring the following supplies.

CHANGE: Ground herbal compresses will be used instead of an assembly of a fresh herbal compress due to time constraints.

Community Class rules
In order to keep the class price affordable for all, students must pitch in together to keep the teaching space clean and orderly. Each student is responsible to clean up after themselves (food, drinks, teaching items and products used) and keep their area/seat is clean. At the end of each day it will be a community effort to ensure room and teaching products and items are cleaned, packed and put away.

Recommended
To fully participate and experience the traditional after birth recovery practices taught in class bring an old change of clothes you don’t mind getting herbal product or oil on. Students pair off and will be practicing the Bengkung wrapping standing-up and the massage lying down on the floor on your own matt. Also bring items that will make you comfortable such as slippers, comfy clothes, back pillow, etc.

Pre-reading material

Links to pre-reading material emailed to participants. It is important that material is read prior to attending the training.

At the end of this workshop participants will:

1. Discover why Malaysia has the lowest rates of Postpartum Mood & Anxiety Disorders (PMAD) in the world.
2. Distinguish and compare Eastern and Western postnatal recovery philosophies, and practices, by having a clear understanding of exactly what traditional postpartum recovery practices are, and what they are not.
3. Recognize the void of the lack of postnatal knowledge in the United States and fill it with the world’s most holistic and comprehensive practices, based on evidenced-based proof, and adapt it locally.
4. Explain the benefits of an actively, managed after birth recovery compared to an unmanaged, random recovery.
5. Convey confidently to clients the importance and benefits of actively managing the immediate healing from Day 1 during the first six weeks after pregnancy and childbirth, and then beyond with an initial beginning and an end in mind during Phase I of a new Mother’s healing.
6. Summarize post-pregnancy wellness and well-being and the combination is required for a holistic healing to take place.
7. Illustrate the natural process that takes places during the Puerperium period; why it is important and how Asian women successful harness and navigate the body’s transition back to a non-pregnant state.
8. Explain the effectiveness of how a yoni sauna, via steam therapy used for thousands of years, tones, heats, disinfects, heals and assists hormonal re-balancing.
9. Confidently discuss the importance of providing stability to a new Mother’s weakened core, by demonstrating the Malaysian-method of the traditional and modern Bengkung-style of wrapping the core.
10. Explain and demonstrate the importance in preparing a new Mother’s abdomen and core before wrapping so it is more comfortable there by maximizing the effectiveness of a postpartum garment.
11. List the benefits of how supporting a new Mother’s weakened core and self-infused heat encourages a post-baby body to release retained water, fat and air faster and more efficiently.
12. Identify the most effective and popular types of herbs used in Malaysian in a postpartum fresh herbal compress and how to assemble it.
13. Breakdown the specific Malaysian postnatal nutritional and diet guidelines and apply them to postpartum-ize recipes and meals.
14. Develop and personalized structured daily, recovery plans for clients to create an atmosphere that focuses on breastfeeding, healing and recovery and coach them through it.
15. Prepare Dads and primary helpers who will be a new Mother’s support system during the first six-weeks postpartum by specifying how, and what, their role will be according to the Healing and Recuperation Plan that is developed in supporting a new Moms breastfeeding, healing and recovery.
16. List the most popular and effective natural products Malaysian mother’s use after childbirth and why.
17. Identify and offer additional individual and bundled services: fresh herbal compress, abdominal preparation and wrapping, yoni sauna consultation and postnatal meal preparation.
18. Recognize how traditional feminine care can be incorporated into Doula self-care.
19. Create more detailed a personalized Client In-take form.
20. Business module: Clearly identify an ideal client by defining the perfect client avatar.

*Any material that cannot be covered in class due to time constraints will be contained in the student manual.

Costs includes

Cost includes the 2-Day workshop, The Mommy Plan (210 pages), student manual (150 pages), Malaysian postnatal product usage experience, postnatal recipes, morning snacks and tea.

Class flow

The class will run approximately from 9:00am – 6:00m. Two 15-minute breaks and one-hour lunch break anywhere between 12pm – 2pm. It is recommended that you bring a simple cold lunch, such as a sandwich, for ease of eating in case we are running behind schedule.

Students go home with:

Student manual (150-pages), The Mommy Plan, Restoring Your Post-Pregnancy Body Naturally, Using Women’s Traditional Wisdom, (210-page book) and one assembled fresh herbal compress.

Available for purchase:

Authentic Malaysian postnatal recovery herbal products will be available for purchase.

Students earn

Certificate of Attendance: At the end of this course each student receives Doulas of North America (DONA) certificate of attendance.

Students can earn

Certificate of Comprehension: After completing a test and scoring at least 70%.

Certificate of Eco-Postnatal Care Specialist
Within six (6) months after passing the test each Practitioner-in-Training must submit the following report:

1. A report on the eco and traditional postpartum practices learned in the workshop provided to three (3) clients or five (5) non-clients including specific services – picture proof, personal observations and feedback signed by the person.
2. Three (3), 30-day recovery care plan including nutrition, meals, personal care, womb care and available mental health resources based on information learn in the training including Postnatal Diet Do’s and Don’ts.

Pricing

For pricing and registration, please select your city and click on register.