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You've attended all of your appointments, followed your doctor's orders with militant discipline, installed a car seat, and tripe-checked the contents of your hospital bag - you're officially ready for delivery. But how much thought have you put into what comes afterward?

Postpartum care requires a holistic approach that includes nurturing the physical, mental, and emotional health of not only your newborn but of yourself too. Just as taking care of your baby is a necessity, so is self-care. During the postpartum period - generally characterized as the first six weeks after childbirth, your body and mind will require some additional TLC. Here are some of our top tips for your postpartum recovery.

Here's what you need to know about depression after a miscarriage and how to find support when you're grieving.

Welcoming a new baby into the world is an occasion marked with many emotions - from joy, adoration, and attachment, to feelings of worry, isolation, and even depression. As many as 8 out of 10 new parents report feeling overwhelmed and sad within the first few weeks after delivery. But what if these feelings persist? Or become debilitating? Or even revisit us several weeks later? It could mean it's time to seek mental health support for postpartum depression.

These sad feelings are not uncommon and it’s normal to feel this way for a little while. Both the baby blues and postpartum depression can cause feelings of overwhelm and mood swings, except postpartum depression is more severe and needs to be treated. Let’s go over the differences between the two and what you can do to help yourself work through these feelings.

Although the postpartum phase is broken up into three distinct phases (not unlike your pregnancy) the length of each phase isn't quite as concrete. So what can you expect to experience as you enter into this final phase of pregnancy?