Book Review- The Mommy Plan: Restoring Your Post-Pregnancy Body, Naturally, using Women’s Traditional Wisdom

Book Review : The Mommy Plan is an important, information-filled book, focused on
helping Western women and their families adapt traditional postpartum
practices into their own postpartum care. It is also an easily-digestible
read.
Valerie Lynn writes from both her own experience, and her own
research. As an American woman married to an Australian, she has spent
the majority of the past twenty-plus years living overseas, mostly in
Malaysia. Lynn writes that she and her husband decided to spend a year
living in Lynn’s home state of New Jersey in 2007, where she gave birth
to a son. Having previously learned about the postpartum practices of
Southeast Asia, Lynn set out to look for postpartum recovery products and
services in New Jersey that she had commonly seen in Malaysia, and
found nothing comparable. Lynn found this surprising, and disappointing
in her own journey into motherhood.