SuperFeast Podcast #38 After Birth We Eat Strong Food; Postpartum Care with Jenny Allison
In today's podcast Tahnee speaks with Jenny Allison. Jenny is a seasoned acupuncturist with a special interest in women's health postpartum. With 25 years of experience under her belt, Jenny is a wealth of information and a true master of her craft.
"A woman is never more beautiful than after the birth of her first child"
The ladies explore:
-The four common themes integral to postpartum care across traditional cultures.
-The importance of understanding the physiological processes that take place in the body postpartum.
-Nutrition care postpartum; how to use food to nourish the blood and strengthen the Qi.
-The link between food and postpartum depression.
-The essential role good quality complex carbohydrates play in women's health postpartum.
-Honouring the transition into motherhood.
-The East vs West approach to postpartum care.
-The concept of "the golden opportunity", a healing window available to women in the various seasons of their reproductive cycle.
Who is Jenny Allison?
Jenny Allison is an acupuncturist and graduate of ACA, Sydney (1984). Jenny has trained with teachers in Nanjing, Hangzhou, London and Sydney. Jenny's passion for the last 25 years has been women’s health, with a special interest in women's health postpartum. An the author of Golden Month, Caring for the World’s Mothers after Childbirth (Beatnik Pub. 2016), Jenny has interviewed many mothers, grandmothers and midwives as part of the research for her book.
Jenny has found that Chinese medicine offers a unique perspective in interpreting traditional postpartum practices worldwide. These practices have served women well for many generations, whereas the modern Western lack of good postpartum care, along with social pressures around appearance and workplace productivity, is not serving women or their health. Jenny is committed to preserving the worldwide heritage of women’s postpartum wisdom, and to improving the care of mothers everywhere.
Jenny has two grown-up children, is grandmother of twin girls and practices acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in Auckland, New Zealand.
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