HELD
A Guide to Creating a Supported, Nourished, and Rested Postpartum
Created by Alyssa Mancini, RN, BSN, CLC—mama, nurse, Certified Lactation Counselor, and INNATE Postpartum Practitioner.
You have a plan for baby’s arrival, but do you have a plan for taking care of YOU?
Don't just survive your fourth trimester. Come through it feeling more rested, nourished, and held.
The postpartum period is a sacred time of transition, healing, and transformation. And while there's often so much preparation for baby's arrival, it's easy to leave your own needs until later.
But you deserve to be cared for, too.
HELD is here to help you prepare for the postpartum experience you want. It is a guided postpartum planning workbook to help you organize support, prepare for recovery, plan meals, share household responsibilities, and make room for rest after birth.
“This is exactly what I needed after the experience I had with my first.”
— A.M.
You were never meant to do this alone.
Nuclear family living has become the norm, and our households are often insulated from the rest of the world—our parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins, friends, and community.
The very hands that are needed to come in and support us during the intense time after the arrival of a new baby.
But we can mend this.
It IS possible to have a more positive postpartum experience. To be more supported, to feel nourished and cared for, to have the logistics thought through ahead of time, and to have more hands around to tend to you and your family.
You don't have to hold it all together by yourself.
Together, we'll find the people who can help you during this time, see what you can pause, what you can offload to others, and what you can let go of to ease the transition of those first weeks and months.
And yes, you will have a clean house again.
Are you worried about how you're going to feel postpartum?
Did you have a difficult postpartum season with a previous child and want things to go differently this time?
Do you want to rest after baby comes, but aren't sure how you possibly can with all the logistics and demands of your household?
Do you feel like you're the one keeping the house together, and it will all fall apart if you take time to rest?
Do you feel like you can't actually prepare for postpartum until you're in it?
You can prepare more than you might think.
And now is the time to prepare, before baby arrives.
Have a clearer understanding of what you may need physically and emotionally after birth.
Get clarity on what is true for you and your family, and how you want and need to be supported.
Get on the same page with your partner before you're in the trenches.
Identify helpful items to have on hand with practical checklists.
Make a plan for meals and household responsibilities that doesn't rely on you doing it all.
Explore the boundaries and expectations you want around visitors, and how to communicate and implement them.
Make a plan to create more room for rest, healing, and recovery.
Walk into postpartum feeling more prepared, with a plan you can return to and adjust as your needs change.
This isn't about planning every detail or predicting exactly how things will go. It's about thinking through what matters to you now, so you aren't trying to figure it all out in the middle of postpartum.
By Working Through HELD, You Will:
Prepare to be cared for, too.
Get HELD for $27.
What’s Included:
A 47-page digital workbook filled with practical information, tools, and prompts.
Guided reflection to help you think through where you are now and the postpartum experience you hope to have.
Practical planning to help you identify your needs, your support people, and the things you can put in place before baby arrives.
Check-ins to return to after baby arrives, when you may want to revisit your plans or adjust your support.
The bonus Postpartum Planning Toolkit, including prompts, checklists, sample letters, surveys, and affirmations.
Instant PDF download. Work through it at your own pace, print the pages you'd like to use, and share your plans with the people who will be supporting you.
What Mothers Are Saying:
"It felt like it was preparing me for the emotional / spiritual part of postpartum, not just the ‘cookie cutter’ checklist things that society makes you feel are more important...when in reality those things maybe are LESS important?"
"It really gave me the opportunity to start some valuable conversations with my husband about my thoughts, feelings and plans for our upcoming postpartum period."
"The questions are so thought provoking—lots of topics I hadn't thought to consider."
"Having a paper copy means I can share my wants and needs with trusted people."
“Thanks so much for this! I now have a more concrete plan on vision, food, and visitors.”
"Truly such a blessing. This will bless so many mamas."
Your guide:
I'm Alyssa Mancini. I'm a mama, nurse, Certified Lactation Counselor, and INNATE Postpartum Practitioner.
I believe that the health of mothers is foundational to the health of the planet, and that how we are cared for shapes the families and communities we create.
I'm honored to help mothers feel informed, supported, and connected to their own intuition and authority.