When Shari Stamps, the founder and CEO of educational platform Navigating Parenthood, was preparing to deliver her second child, she did her research and thought she knew exactly what to expect out of the birthing process. But she was left unprepared once her labor was over.
“[Giving birth] happened extremely fast, but I ended up in the ER due to ‘normal’ postpartum pain after a fast delivery,” Stamps says. “[It’s why] I later trained as a postpartum doula and created a postpartum prep course to save other mothers from experiencing unknowns.”
