The Liberated Birth

I had mastered the art of looking okay while falling apart internally. And postpartum exposed every survival mechanism I had mistaken for “being okay.”

I knew how to keep moving no matter how exhausted I was. I knew how to care for everyone else before I ever stopped to check in with myself. I knew how to smile through overwhelm, suppress frustration, and make pain look manageable.

I had spent years believing strength meant endurance. That if I could still show up, still function, still laugh, still take care of things, then I must have been fine.

But postpartum has a way of pulling everything to the surface. There is no room to hide inside of it. No room to outrun yourself.

The exhaustion, the identity shift, the isolation, the hormonal changes, the pressure to keep everything afloat while pretending you’re grateful and glowing through it all… it forced me to confront how disconnected I had become from my own needs.

I wasn’t resting. I was collapsing in private and performing in public.

And because I had been praised my whole life for being “strong,” nobody recognized the warning signs. Truthfully, neither did I… not until it was almost too late.

A postpartum spin on Tricia Hersey’s Rest is Resistance and framework, because the pressure to rush back, bounce back, host, clean, work, and care for everyone else does not disappear after birth.

New mothers deserve to lie down. To be cared for. To be fed. To be held. To be mothered. To let their bodies recover without guilt.

Postpartum rest is an act of resistance.

We’ve been lied to!

SnapBack culture has hijacked our minds and convinced us that a body that returns to its pre-pregnancy outer aesthetic is only granted to the chosen ones, those at the top of the hierarchy, the Grand Poobah’s of birth.

WRONG!

Every body is changed by and . Every body needs care after pregnancy and birth.

And our idea of a “good” postpartum body or SnapBack culture, is rooted in white supremacist beauty standards.

Because once “recovery” starts looking like thinness, flatness, and how quickly a body can erase evidence that it created life, we’ve lost entirely.

Another great review from someone who purchased The Liberated Birth Book… A.K.A. The HUGE LibBi book 😍

Do you all wanna know what section of my book is my ABSOLUTE favorite????

The breastfeeding section!!! I mean honestly, the book is 400 pages worth of awesomeness! I have many favorite sections 😍

Take a look! It’s inna book 🤣

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Chillllllld! We’ve been pointing out fat hate and bias in birth spaces for AGES!!!! Anywho… for those who haven’t caught up yet… 📢 liberated birth requires liberated care.

OMG!!!!! The Liberated Birth book made its way to L&D at George Washington University Hospital !!!! 😭💛
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The doula brought LibBi with her, and LibBi showed up like a mentor in a book, helping her in real time while she focused on supporting the family through birth. No need to Google!! the answers were right there at the .

https://www.theliberatedbirth.com/the-unboxing-video