Fueling Your Body After Baby: Postpartum Nutrition & Wellness Tips
Mommy Labor Nurse
Liesel Teen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The postpartum period is a whirlwind – and it's easy to put your own needs on the back burner.
In this episode, we're talking about how to nourish your body and support your healing after birth. From nutrient-rich meal ideas to mindset shifts around self-care, you'll learn simple ways to boost your energy, balance your hormones, and feel your best during those early months.
Whether you're breastfeeding, recovering from a C-section, or just trying to stay afloat, these tips are for you!
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| 0:00.0 | And then babies out and you still have some additional weight on you, right? |
| 0:05.0 | And so the thought is, oh, I'll just go back to eating what I was eating before. |
| 0:10.4 | Or it's okay if I skip meals because I have this weight to lose anyway. |
| 0:13.6 | But the reality is our nutrient needs are actually higher in postpartum, you know, |
| 0:18.4 | in the immediate sense because we're healing. |
| 0:20.5 | We're not sleeping. If you're breastfeeding, you know, in the immediate sense, because we're healing, we're not sleeping. |
| 0:21.6 | If you're breastfeeding, you know, your nutrient needs remain high for a really long time. |
| 0:35.3 | You're listening to the Mommy Labor Nurse podcast, where you'll gain the knowledge and confidence you need to erase the unknowns of pregnancy and birth and rock the newborn days like a boss. |
| 0:46.7 | My name is Liesel Tine. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm a fellow mom, labor and delivery nurse, and your host. |
| 0:51.9 | Each week on this podcast, you'll hear a mix of birth stories, |
| 0:55.3 | expert interviews, and other fun pregnancy and birth-related content. As a reminder, |
| 1:00.6 | anything you hear on this podcast is not medical advice. Please see mommylabranorce.com slash |
| 1:06.1 | disclaimer for more details. And now let's get into this week's episode. |
| 1:10.9 | Hey guys, happy Monday. So today on the podcast, we are talking all about postpartum nutrition |
| 1:17.1 | and specifically functional nutrition. So I admit before I recorded this episode, I really |
| 1:23.5 | didn't quite understand what functional nutrition was. And trust me, we're going to get to it. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, she's going to explain all of it if you're like, what even is that? But it is so interesting |
| 1:33.7 | how our hormones and our body systems are all connected and a lot of what we eat. Today, I had |
| 1:40.0 | Allison from Motherwell Nutrition on the podcast, and we chatted all about hormonal imbalances |
| 1:45.6 | post-birth, how to support our bodies through this period of change, some great ways to move |
| 1:51.4 | your body in addition to focusing on your nutritional needs, and how to find a functional nutritionist |
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