The Sabi

Make the 6-week check work for you by:
🤍 Writing your questions down before you go. You will forget half of them with a baby on your lap and seven minutes on the clock.
🤍 Asking for the pelvic floor referral (fyiso) while you are there. No one offers it. Leaking and heaviness are not “just normal now,” they are a referral you have to request.
🤍 Asking for the bloodwork by name: ferritin, thyroid, vitamin D. Exhaustion gets called normal when it is often measurable.
🤍 Telling them how you actually feel, not how a good patient feels. And asking what to do if your mood drops later, because the month after this appointment is often when it hits hardest. The adrenaline of the birth has worn off, the help has gone home, the hormones that held you up have dropped away, and everyone has decided you are fine. None of that shows up at six weeks. All of it shows up after.
Done right, this turns a seven-minute sign-off into the one appointment that sets up your recovery.
Comment CHECK and I’ll send you the early access guide for The First 100 Days Postpartum, what Anna and I are writing on getting your hormones, mind and energy back in the months after birth.

What I wish more women were told about cluster feeding:

It can start early. Not always at 6 weeks. Sometimes day 3, 4 or 5.

It can come in phases. It may settle, then return during growth spurts or developmental leaps.

It does not automatically mean your supply is low. Often, your baby is asking your body to make more. Think of it as your baby “putting in the order”: more milk, please.

Give your body time to respond. If baby is gaining weight, producing wet nappies and otherwise well, try to give your body 24–48 hours before spiralling.

Protect your nervous system: water, snacks, charger, pillows, headphones, ni**le balm. Build the feeding nest.

And as someone who makes breastfeeding herbs, I want to say this clearly: cluster feeding does not automatically mean your supply is low.

With one of my babies, my supply genuinely did need support, and herbs (the Breastfeeding Blend) were a huge part of what saved my breastfeeding journey. But often, this phase is your baby asking your body to make more. Let it.

Give it the first week postpartum before adding any lactation teas or lactogenic herbs.

Hydrate. Eat. Rest where you can. Get support if you’re worried.

And know this: it can feel like you are going slightly mad. You are not.

You are in the thick of it.

I had regular periods for years and assumed that meant my fertility was fine.

After a hormone imbalance and a miscarriage, I started actually tracking ovulation, and that’s when I realised I’d
been reading the wrong signal the whole time.

A bleed proves your body shed a lining.

It doesn’t prove you ovulated.

The two are related but not the same.

If you’re trying to understand your fertility, the bleed isn’t enough.

Track the egg.

Your nervous system doesn’t care about your to-do list.

It cares whether you’re warm, fed, hydrated, and safe.

That’s the language it speaks.

You can push past it for a while, most of us do, but the body keeps the receipt.

The Calm Blend is part of how I bring myself down at the end of a day.

Warm water, a few minutes of stillness, a small ritual that tells my system the day is allowed to soften.

It’s not a productivity hack.

It’s the opposite.

That’s the point.

Anna xx