10/08/2026
Day 6: Postpartum tips that actually help! 👌
During pregnancy, bloods are on the agenda constantly. The second the baby’s out, that priority disappears — even though your body’s just been through as much, if not more.
My tip: at your six week check, or whenever you next see your GP, request full bloods. Specifically ask for iron, ferritin, B12, and a full thyroid panel.
You might get a look like you don’t know what you’re talking about when you ask for ferritin specifically. Ask anyway. Ferritin is your iron stores — and even if your iron itself comes back normal, your ferritin can be low, and that alone can cause real symptoms. Tiredness, brain fog, mood, anxiety — it’s not always just “new mam, not sleeping.” Sometimes it’s low iron stores that nobody checked.
For postpartum women, I recommend a good quality women’s health multivitamin. If you’re breastfeeding, staying on your pregnancy multivitamin and pregnancy fish oil is worth continuing too.
Postpartum can feel like nobody’s asking how you are anymore. But you are so important. Without you feeling well, your whole family feels it. You are allowed to take up this much space.
If any of this series has resonated and you’d like support with your own postpartum recovery, I’d love to help. I genuinely love supporting postpartum women to feel nourished, energised and able to show up as the mother they want to be — because this is hard, and you shouldn’t have to figure it out alone.
Day 6, the final day of what’s actually helped me postpartum, second time round, as a mam and a Nutritional Therapist. Thank you for following along with this series. 😘
