The postpartum period is not just a physical recovery, it's a spiritual and energetic rebirth. In the weeks and months after birth, a mother’s body and energy field remain deeply connected to her baby, still intertwined in a rhythm that began in the womb. This bond continues to pulse long after the cord is cut.

In fact, for the first six months postpartum, the mother and baby are still sharing one energy field. They exist in a shared aura, their nervous systems and energetic frequencies constantly co-regulating. You are not just nurturing your baby, you are being your baby’s energy field. Your rest, your nourishment, your emotional state all shapes their sense of safety in the world.

In many ancient traditions, the postpartum time is known as the “sacred window” — a time for deep nourishment, stillness, and healing. Yet in modern culture, there is often pressure to bounce back, to do more, to move quickly. But the body knows better. The womb knows better.

You and Your Baby Share an Energy Field

Even after birth, your baby continues to co-regulate with your nervous system. Their tiny body seeks your heartbeat, your scent, your voice, and your emotional presence. Energetically, the two of you remain one until around six months, when the baby begins to gradually individuate. Until then, your energy is their environment.

When you rest, they settle. When you soften, they feel held. This is why your healing is not a luxury, but a vital part of theirs.

Taking the time to nurture yourself postpartum is not selfish it's sacred.

Our Baby's Emotions Often Mirror Our Own

Many mothers notice that their baby's emotional state can shift suddenly, crying, fussing, or becoming unsettled without a clear reason. Often, we instinctively jump into "fix it" mode, bouncing, rocking, feeding, offering everything we can think of. But sometimes, nothing seems to soothe them.

This can feel frustrating, confusing, even overwhelming. But what if instead of trying to fix them, we paused and turned inward?

Because here’s the truth: our babies feel us. They pick up on our unspoken emotions, our tension, our anxiety, our stress, even when we think we’re hiding it well. Their unsettledness can often be a mirror, a sacred invitation for us to come back to our centre.

Instead of asking "What's wrong with them?" we can gently ask, "What’s happening within me?"

When we tend to our own nervous system first, through breath, stillness, or simply holding ourselves in compassion, we create the energetic safety that our baby is seeking. In calming ourselves, we calm them.

You don’t need to be perfect. You just need to be present.

The Role of the Womb in Postpartum Healing

Your womb, the space that carried life, is now in a phase of return, returning to its original form, rhythm, and energetic state. But it holds the imprint of what it carried: the journey of pregnancy, birth, and all the emotions that came with it.

Unprocessed emotions, grief, fear, exhaustion, even joy can linger in the womb space. That’s why postpartum care must extend beyond physical recovery. The womb is an energetic portal. To heal it is to heal your entire being.

Postpartum womb healing sessions offer a sacred space for the mother to gently return to herself.

Postpartum Womb Healing

In a world that rushes us forward, this is your permission to pause, to be held, nurtured, and supported as your energy field recalibrates after the vast portal of birth. These sessions are not just physical healing, but energetic tending. A chance to go inward, to process what has been, and anchor into the new.

When the mother is held in this way, her nervous system begins to soften. Her energy field begins to rebalance. And because the baby and mother share an energetic field for the first six months (and often far beyond), this healing doesn’t just ripple inward, it ripples outward.

Your baby feels you. When you tend to your own body and energy, you’re also tending to theirs.

This is why postpartum support is never selfish it is deeply relational, ancestral, and transformative. You healing, is your baby healing.

The Power of Womb Compresses

One of the most simple and profound ways to support postpartum healing is through womb compresses-warm, herbal-infused cloths placed over the lower belly. This practice draws on ancient wisdom to bring warmth, circulation, and energetic grounding to the womb space.

Warmth is essential postpartum. In traditional cultures, keeping the womb warm was non-negotiable it was understood to prevent stagnation, support emotional release, and encourage a return to balance.

A womb compress can help to:

Ease uterine cramping and discomfort
Support emotional release and grounding
Encourage the womb's natural healing
Invite moments of stillness and connection with your body

Even a simple ritual warming a compress, placing it over your womb, and resting for 15 minutes becomes an act of remembrance. A way to say: I honour what my body has done. I honour what I am still becoming.

Womb compress herbal packs available soon*

You Are Still Becoming

Postpartum is not a closing. It is a tender unfolding. As you move through the early days, let your healing be slow, soulful, and sacred. Let your baby witness what it means to honour the feminine. Let them feel, through your energy field, what self-love and restoration look like.

You are not alone. You are held by the wisdom of the women who came before you, who knew the power of warmth, rest, and womb care.

Want to support your body’s healing?

🌿 Explore my Postpartum Womb Healing Sessions - created for postpartum integration, energetic nourishment, and deep restoration. These sessions are a space for you to be held, to soften, and to reconnect with your own rhythm for both you and your baby.

📚 Craving more on this sacred postpartum time?
I highly recommend “Wild Mothering” by Tami Lynn Kent a beautiful guide to reconnecting with your womb wisdom and reclaiming your energy after birth.

THE AUTHOR

Kayla Ruston is the founder of Womb Wellness, an Holistic Women’s Health Practitioner working with the energetic and emotional fields of the body to support and educsate women and bring them back to their power within.

Womb to World: Postpartum Healing and the Mother-Baby Field of Energy