Becoming You
(After Baby)
A Postpartum and Matrescence workbook for women who don’t want to lose themselves in motherhood
Motherhood changes everything. It’s beautiful, but it can also feel overwhelming, exhausting, and at times like you’ve lost pieces of yourself. Becoming You (After Baby) is designed to guide you through the fourth trimester and beyond — helping you prepare for postpartum before birth or gently reconnect with yourself once baby has arrived.
This is not a baby checklist.
This is for you — the woman becoming a mother.
Because you’re not just giving birth to a baby… you’re being transformed too.
This is a gentle, grounding workbook to help you:
Understand what’s actually happening to your identity in early motherhood
Learn simple tools to stay connected to your body, emotions, and needs
Build a postpartum plan that includes your mental and emotional wellbeing
Prepare for the realities no one talks about (like feeling lost, alone, or not like yourself)
This is your guide to feeling whole, seen, and rooted — through the wild transformation of matrescence.
No fluff. No pressure to “bounce back.”
Just real, thoughtful preparation for you — the woman inside the mum.
Who This Is For
This workbook & course is for you if:
You’re pregnant and want to feel prepared for postpartum — not just for birth.
You’ve already had your baby and feel tired, lost, or craving support.
You want practical tools, emotional guidance, and rituals to feel more like you again.
✨ Inside you’ll find:
🌀 Grounded wisdom + real talk on what your body, mind, and spirit may go through in the early weeks and beyond, and how to navigate the shifting relationships with yourself, your baby, your partner and your village.
🤱 Support system tools including text/email templates, visitor boundaries, and a postpartum plan to share with your village.
📝 Journal prompts that invite reflection, softness, and preparation for the identity shift of Matrescence as a Mother and a Woman.
🌿 Body care guidance from herbal healing to belly wrapping to cocooning in your own rhythm.
Gentle Yoga & Body Practices to ground and restore you back into your body.
💌 Love letters, affirmations, and rituals to honor your sacred transformation.
📋 Checklists + planning pages for meals, recovery items, emotional wellbeing, and practical prep.
Why Postpartum Preparation Matters
So often, we pour all our energy into planning for birth — and forget that the weeks and months after are just as important. Postpartum preparation helps you:
Feel less overwhelmed and more supported
Heal and recover with care
Avoid burnout and depletion
Create a support network you can lean on
Honour your transformation into motherhood
About Me
I’m Rach, a postpartum doula, yoga teacher, circle holder and enthusiast of women’s health and empowerment. I created Becoming You (After Baby) because I know how important it is for mothers to feel nourished, held, and connected to themselves — not just their role as “mum.” It’s the workbook I yearned for during my own pregnancy and postpartum experiences. The Postpartum Doula in your pocket or on your coffee table.
Because postpartum is not an afterthought. It’s the becoming.
You prepare for the birth.
You pack the hospital bag.
You read about labour positions and newborn sleep.
But what about you — the mother?
What about the emotional unraveling, the cracked-open identity, the healing body, and the deep spiritual transformation that comes when a baby is born... and you are reborn?
This workbook is your loving, no-BS guide to prepare for the rite of passage that is postpartum.
It's not just about padsicles and freezer meals (though we’ve got you covered there too). It’s about building a soft place to land — with care, community, and deep self-honoring.
What Becoming You (after baby) can do for you…
Instead of feeling blindsided, stretched thin, or alone — you’ll enter postpartum with a deeper sense of grounding, clarity, and readiness.
You’ll know how to ask for help.
You’ll know what kind of support you need.
You’ll have tools to navigate the emotional waves — with your feet in the earth and your heart held close.
Because postpartum is not just about surviving.
It’s about being held, seen, and honored in your becoming.
How to Begin you Postpartum Prep
✨ Becoming You (After Baby) is available for pre-sale now as a downloadable workbook, released August 28th 2025
with the option to join the upcoming online course in October 2025.
Created by a postpartum doula & perinatal Yoga Teacher in Latrobe, North West Tasmania, and available online for mothers everywhere.
When a mother is supported in her becoming, her whole family thrives.