Seven Sisters for Seven Days: The Mothers' Manual for Community Based Postpartum Care

by Michelle Peterson

“This is a valuable book for pregnant women, doulas, grandmothers-to-be, and anyone working with mothers and babies and their families. I recommend it be given to any pregnant women you know, early in her pregnancy.”
—Suzanne Arms, Author, Director, Birthing The Future

Many women plan extensively for their birth, and for their baby, but few plan for their self-care in the postpartum period and beyond. Seven Sisters for Seven Days is a comprehensive guide book for mothers that illuminates why it is important to receive postpartum care, and how to set yourself up to receive it. This book is an invaluable resource that walks mothers and families through the steps of customizing their postpartum care and teaches them how to call upon a postpartum community care team.

Genres: Nonfiction

156 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 1, 2016

About the author

Michelle Peterson is the founder of The Seven Sisters Postpartum Care Program. After a challenging first postpartum, she created this incredible system to support her family during her second postpartum and soon began sharing it with mothers in her community and beyond. Michelle focuses on helping mothers get the support they need. She believes that the spiritual, emotional, and physical welfare of families is the backbone of our collective well-being.

Reviews

[Megan Meisberger · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an enjoyable read! I finished it in only a few hours.

Peterson does an excellent job showing how mothers can set up their own circle of support after baby arrives. Her suggestions are very practical.

She also succeeds in showing the importance of postpartum care. Around 20% of women in our society experience postpartum depression (this figure may be low due to underreporting). In third world countries, this condition is unheard of. In these countries, it is expected that a woman does nothing except take care of herself and her baby, and to let every other task be taken care of by friends and family. But our Western culture breeds isolation. There is no reason why every woman shouldn't be able to have a circle of love and support around her after the birth of her child.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was hard to rate because although there were some really important messages about postpartum care that I whole-heartedly agree with, I feel like that author barely touched the surface in regards to explaining her wonderful protocol. At the end I was left wanting to know more about the specifics of postpartum care, rather than just the importance of setting up the support system itself.

[Abigail · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an enjoyable quick read, and I will definitely use some of the wisdom to coach doula clients. 4 stars for it being super cisgender and heteronormativity.