The First Forty Days by Heng Ou

Author:Heng Ou
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2016-02-09T16:00:00+00:00

From an Ayurvedic perspective, drinking hot water throughout the day is essential after birth. It gives you free heat; it is nurturing and soothing, and when sipped between meals, it calms that burning hunger from stomach acid that makes you reach impulsively for a packaged snack instead of preparing a good plate. Hot water also helps you make better decisions, because it soothes your gut. The best decisions are gut decisions—and you need those now more than ever.

—VASU DUDAKIA, AYURVEDIC PRACTITIONER, LOS ANGELES, CA

6. LET YOUR VILLAGE COOK. Good news: The recipes for the Gateway can be made by committee. Delegate the duties according to people’s skill sets. The person who is a seasoned cook can make you a dish from scratch, or pull out a bag of frozen broth, locate the necessary ingredients in your nicely organized postpartum pantry, and get a soup or stew on to simmer; a rookie in the kitchen can wash and prep vegetables for steaming, blitz a smoothie, or just put out a snack. Appeal to the hunter-gatherer sides of some of the men in your village and give them your small but focused shopping list of fresh items that you need. And remember, anyone can do the dishes and mop the floor. You just have to ask.

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