Postpartum care

By Mayo Clinic Staff

After months of anticipation and the rigors of labor and delivery, your attention shifts to caring for your new baby — but you also need to take care of yourself. Postpartum care might involve managing vaginal tears or a C-section wound, sore breasts, leaking milk, urination problems, and hair loss.

And postpartum care isn't limited to your physical health. Postpartum care also includes your mental well-being, such as managing mood swings, irritability, sadness and anxiety.

For the smoothest recovery, share any concerns you might have about postpartum care with your health care provider. Chances are, what you're feeling or wondering about is entirely normal. Count on your health care provider for assurance as you handle postpartum care and adjust to life with a newborn.

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Oct. 12, 2021

See also

  1. Breastfeeding and medications
  2. Breastfeeding nutrition: Tips for moms
  3. Can vaginal tears during childbirth be prevented?
  4. C-section recovery
  5. Eating the placenta
  6. Episiotomy
  7. Exercise after pregnancy
  8. Fetal presentation before birth
  9. High-risk pregnancy
  10. Home birth
  11. Inducing labor
  12. Kegel exercises
  13. Labor pain medications
  14. Labor positions
  15. Placenta
  16. Postpartum care: After a vaginal delivery
  17. Postpartum complications
  18. Postpartum depression
  19. Pregnancy and breastfeeding when you have psoriasis
  20. Repeat C-sections
  21. Sex after pregnancy: Set your own timeline
  22. Signs of labor
  23. Stages of labor and birth
  24. Tailbone pain
  25. Vaginal tears in childbirth
  26. Considering VBAC
  27. The epidural block
  28. Water breaking