As Serrallach explains: The placenta passes nearly 7 grams of fat a day to the growing baby at the end of the pregnancy term, while also tapping into the mom’s “iron, zinc, vitamin B12, vitamin B9, iodine, and selenium stores
The placenta develops at the same time as the fetal hypothalamus (a hormone-producing gland in the baby’s brain), and the hormones produced by the placenta look very similar to the hypothalamic hormones—again no accident.
This is also the case for postnatal depletion though many mothers with depletion don’t experience depression and it is possible to have postnatal depression without the depletion.
In the recovery part of the program we look at the same principles of sleep, purpose, activity, and nutrition; but take them to a more in-depth level, especially as mothers are starting to feel better, think more clearly, and take on more in terms of the house, kitchen, and “self time.