The Type A Postpartum Playbook

From The Postpartum Standard by Toni Toomey

January 30, 2026 · 45 min · Season 1 · Episode 7

About this episode

Faith Morris shares her postpartum journey and insights on navigating motherhood while managing mental health and practical planning.

In this episode, I’m joined by Faith Morris , an operations strategist who helps high-performing founders build businesses that don’t rely entirely on their nervous system. Faith shares her deeply honest postpartum journey, from recovering from a C-section overseas in Australia, to navigating two under two without family nearby, to later experiencing a VBAC and an entirely different kind of recovery. We talk about the quiet grief that can exist even after a “good” birth, the emotional weight of postpartum, and why postpartum doesn’t actually end, it just changes form. We also explore how Faith’s ops brain showed up in motherhood, from preparing freezer meals and systems in advance, to cutting through the overwhelming noise of online advice by following one trusted voice per category. She opens up about postpartum mental health, choosing medication without shame, sleep as a pillar for marriage and sanity, and how learning to advocate for your baby (and yourself) is something that develops over time. This conversation is for moms who are builders, planners, high-capacity humans, and anyone who has felt humbled by postpartum while still wanting a full, ambitious life on the other…

People in this episode

Host: Toni Toomey

Guest: Faith Morris

Topics covered

postpartum recovery
C-section
VBAC
mental health
motherhood
planning
emotional weight

Keywords

postpartum
C-section recovery
VBAC
mental health
motherhood
planning
freezer meals
advocacy

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Australia