The Naked Truth About Postpartum: Insights and Advice from Erica Chidi

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Former doula and postpartum expert Erica Chidi is back on the podcast to discuss all the highs, lows, and complexities of postpartum. I got a chance to reflect on my personal postpartum experiences and the challenges of advocating for my own health. Erica and I get into it all: hormonal changes, hair loss, mood fluctuations, the importance of self-care, breastfeeding challenges and the concept of being 'touched out'. Erica offers practical advice on physical and emotional recovery, essential products for new moms, and discusses the critical role of partners in supporting postpartum care.

Tune in as we discuss:

The importance of having a clear postpartum plan
How partners and loved ones can provide support during postpartum
How intimacy might change after giving birth
Developing and enforcing boundaries during the postpartum period

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0:00.0	Baby, baby, baby.
0:03.7	Hello, hello, this is Brooke DeVard, and you're listening to the Naked Beauty podcast.
0:07.8	Today, I am joined by my good friend Erica Chitty to talk all things postpartum.
0:13.4	She has deep experience in this work.
0:15.5	If you all listen to Naked Beauty, you've heard her on the show before.
0:18.6	She is just a wealth of knowledge and information. And this
0:21.9	topic is one that, of course, is very close to me, given that I'm, you know, recently postpartum.
0:28.2	Jade is five months old now. We are still breastfeeding. Now she's teething for figuring out
0:33.5	her sleep schedule. I've traveled. I've pumped. I've done a lot in these past five months.
0:40.0	It's been joyous, but it hasn't always been easy. And there's something that I would love to share
0:44.5	with you all about my postpartum period that, you know, I haven't shared it on social media.
0:50.4	I think it's one of those things that I feel very close to you all as listeners, and I can share with you.
0:55.3	But something really scary happened to me when I delivered.
1:00.5	I didn't know it was scary at the time, but I delivered.
1:03.7	My delivery was fairly quick, actually.
1:06.0	I wasn't pushing for a long time.
1:07.9	I think we counted like 10 pushes in 15 minutes. Jade was out. But then getting the
1:13.9	placenta out, my doctor, who I love, I love my doctor. She's such a great doctor, very empathetic,
1:19.6	very caring. She was down there for a long time, a long time. And I was sort of like,
1:23.6	what is going on? And she was saying the placenta, it's a little sticky. It's not,
1:27.8	you know, moving out as easily as, you know, they anticipated. Everything's great. I have my baby.
1:35.8	Now, when you come home from the hospital, you are in diapers. You are using ice pads on your
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