Recovery & Becoming a Mother
Support after childbirth
This course focuses on the period after childbirth. Because that's when it really begins: motherhood. And that's something we hardly prepare for. Hopefully, you will start strong and enjoy it fully. But there is also a good chance that you will encounter other themes. And how you deal with that lays the foundation. You only get one chance to make a strong start.
What do you get exactly?
Preferably a course that prepares you for the childbirth?
This course helps expectant mothers with knowledge and practical tools to prepare mentally and physically for childbirth, so that they with confidence enter this important period.
Go to the pregnancy course
Live session every month as soon as you are in the TNMC community
After purchasing one of these valuable courses you will also have the chance to connect with other mothers and ask me questions as a midwife. Share experiences, ask questions, and find support in a community where you feel free. Together we are stronger.
Recovery & becoming a mother: The period after your delivery
✅ Short, clear videos
✅ Exercises, tools, and meditations
✅ Honest, relatable, and non-judgmental
✔️ Practically applicable in your daily life
✔️ To follow at your own pace, in your own way
You will learn:
• what is normal (so you stop doubting yourself)
• how to protect your energy
• how to deal with everything you feel
• how to not lose yourself and your relationship
So that you not only recover but come out of this period stronger.
The first 40 days
A phase that is often underestimated but is crucial for how you feel afterwards.
• Why this period is protected in many cultures
• Recovery as energy management (instead of "just recovering")
• What is normal in your body in the first weeks?
• The mental impact of this phase
Your inner world as a mother
Things that are rarely talked about, but that almost every woman recognizes.
• Guilt: where does it come from?
• Loneliness while not being alone
• Anger, irritability, and shame
• Always being 'on' and mental burden
• Fear, restlessness, and need for control
• Grieving for your old life
• Identity: who am I now?
Body, relationship, and intimacy
What changes: and where almost no one really prepares you for it.
• Your body after childbirth: what remains, what changes
• Pelvic floor, urinary incontinence, and shame
• Sexuality after childbirth: desire, pain, and distance
• Relationship changes and inequality in burden
• Connection, oxytocin, and the feeling of being 'touched out'
• The 5 languages of love
• Explanation of arousal in women
Functioning in the outside world
The moment when "normal life" begins again.
• Returning to work: what does it really cost?
• Combining breastfeeding with work: reality vs ideal
• How to live sustainably with young children?
Hormones after childbirth
What happens biologically has a huge impact on how you feel.
• The biggest hormonal change of your life: explained
Visiting after childbirth and your boundaries
A small but often underestimated source of stress.
• Expectations around visits
• How do you maintain your boundaries during this vulnerable period?
• Insights from maternity care
