If you’ve ever heard someone mention the “5–5–5 postpartum rule” and wondered, okay…but what does that actually look like in real life? This episode is your new best friend.

We’re breaking down the 5–5–5 rule the way we explain it to our own clients:
five days in your bed,
five days on your bed,
five days around your bed…
and zero days trying to pretend you didn’t just grow and birth a whole human.

We talk about what’s really happening in your body after birth (yes, including the dinner-plate-sized internal wound nobody warns you about), why your hormones and adrenaline trick you into thinking you’re fine, and how that “quick trip to Target” on day three is usually the moment everything hits the fan.

We also get into the messy, practical stuff — what this looks like when you have a toddler, when your partner can’t take time off, when family wants to come hold the baby but not the laundry, and how to ask for actual help instead of the kind where someone brings a onesie and leaves.

This isn’t about doing nothing. It’s about doing less, on purpose, so your body can do the healing it’s already trying so hard to do.

If you’re pregnant, planning postpartum, or supporting someone who is, this episode gives you the honest, real-world version of the 5–5–5 rule — the one that leaves space for grace, rest, and everything you’re carrying (physically and emotionally) in those first weeks home.

Want to learn more? Check out our full blog on the topic as well! https://www.how2mom.com/what-is-the-555-postpartum-rule/

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