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After the birth: recovery, feeding, and your own health

What the first six weeks actually involve, where feeding help comes from, how to tell low days from something more, and what the postnatal check is for.

What you will be able to do afterwards

  • Describe what the first six weeks involve physically, and what is not ordinary
  • Know what feeding support exists and how to ask for it before you are desperate
  • Tell apart the low days almost everyone has from something that needs treatment
  • Use the postnatal check for your own health rather than only the baby's
  • Recognise the signs that need same-day help

Completing this course means you have worked through the material. It is not a clinical qualification, it does not make you able to advise anyone else, and it carries no professional standing.

Lessons

5 lessons, about 0.8 hours in total. 5 lessons are free to read before you enrol.

  1. 1. The first six weeks: what your body is doing 11 min
    Free sample
  2. 2. Feeding: what help exists, and what nobody tells you 11 min
    Free sample
  3. 3. Your mind after birth, and telling low days from something more 11 min
    Free sample
  4. 4. The postnatal check, and using it for yourself 9 min
    Free sample
  5. 5. When to get help quickly 8 min
    Free sample

Every lesson has a knowledge check with an explanation of why an answer is right, private notes you can keep, and a downloadable preparation sheet.

Who wrote this, and who checked it

Author
AskHer Editorial
Review status
Editorially reviewed
Last updated
26 Sept 2026

Substantive changes are recorded in the course's update history, with the reason. If you think something here is wrong, report it — corrections are published, not quietly made.

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