Will You Shower During Postpartum?
Birthful
Adriana Lozada
4.7 • 706 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today we’ll be approaching the 4th trimester from a more culturally traditional point of view. Lisa Chin is here to tell us about her experience of following the Chinese tradition of sitting the month, which involves eating body warming foods, staying inside, and not showering for weeks. How did this impact her recovery?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Birthful Podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada, and today we'll be approaching the fourth |
| 0:17.5 | trimester from a more culturally traditional point of view. |
| 0:25.9 | Lisa Chin is here to tell us about her experience of following the Chinese tradition of sitting the month, which involves eating bodywarming foods, staying inside, and not |
| 0:31.1 | showering for weeks. |
| 0:32.4 | How did this impact her recovery? |
| 0:34.8 | Stay tuned to find out more. |
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| 1:41.1 | All right, moving on to the show. |
| 1:43.6 | My guest today is Lisa Chin, who is a holistic mama to a |
| 1:47.0 | happy two-year-old girl. Motherhood has profoundly changed who she is and how she sees the |
| 1:52.5 | world and the mark she wants to leave in it. So she seeks to live an inspired life of mothering, |
| 1:57.7 | writing, and pursuing what calls to be created. When she's not wrangling spreadsheets |
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