🌙 The Perinatal Sound & Rest Collection
Sound, Stillness & Science for Pregnancy, Postpartum & Beyond
Because your nervous system deserves rest, too.
A trauma-informed, science-backed digital collection to help you calm your body, soothe your mind, and restore your natural rhythm—whether you’re pregnant, newly postpartum, or mothering years later.
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💤 Why You Can’t Sleep After Birth (Even When Baby Does)
You finally lay your baby down. The house is quiet—yet your heart races, your mind replays the day, and your body refuses to drift off.
You’re exhausted … but not sleepy.
This is postpartum insomnia—a blend of biology, hormones, and emotion.
🧠 It’s Biological
After birth, your nervous system is wired for vigilance.
This is part of the brilliant maternal protection system that ensures you’ll wake at the faintest sound—ready to nurture, feed, or respond to your baby’s needs.
In The Gentle Sleep Book, author and parenting expert Sarah Ockwell-Smith explains that this hyper-alert state is not a flaw but an evolutionary safeguard.
“Your inability to switch off after having a baby is completely normal,” she writes.
“Your brain is designed to stay partially awake to ensure your baby’s survival.”
In ancestral settings, this light-sleep vigilance was balanced by communal caregiving—others keeping watch while mothers rested.
But in modern isolation, that biological safety mechanism often stays on all the time, leaving your nervous system unable to downshift into deep sleep.
🌪 It’s Hormonal
Childbirth is one of the most dramatic hormonal transitions in human physiology.
During labor, your body releases a powerful mix of oxytocin, adrenaline, and endorphins to help you stay alert, connected, and resilient.
Immediately afterward, estrogen and progesterone plummet to their lowest point since before puberty—while prolactin (for milk) and oxytocin (for bonding) surge.
Your thyroid, adrenal glands, and cortisol rhythms must recalibrate rapidly to support milk production, tissue healing, and emotional recovery.
The result? Your body feels wired but tired—stimulated by shifting hormones and stress chemistry even as it longs for rest.
This is why so many new mothers describe feeling “on edge” at night or waking in a panic the moment they start to drift off.
💞 It’s Emotional
Sleep is one of the first things disrupted when your sense of safety changes.
And postpartum is full of emotional transitions—grief for your old life, awe at new beginnings, anxiety about keeping a tiny human alive.
Even joyful experiences can activate stress pathways when layered on top of hormonal fluctuation and sleep deprivation.
Add to that:
overstimulation from lights, phones, and noise
loss of touch or connection
pressure to “bounce back” or do it all alone
…and your system forgets how to feel safe enough to rest.
When the body doesn’t feel safe, it won’t sleep.
When the mind doesn’t rest, the body can’t heal.
🌙 The Good News
Your biology isn’t broken—it’s brilliant.
You can work with it instead of against it.
Through sound, breath, and restorative stillness, you can re-educate your nervous system to feel safe again.
That’s what The Perinatal Sound & Rest Collection was created to do:
help your body remember that rest is not only allowed—it’s essential.
→ Learn How Sound Can Help You Rest
You are not broken. Your body is brilliant—it just needs new cues for safety.
🔬 The Science of Sound & Rest
Modern research confirms what yoga has taught for centuries:
Sound, breath, and stillness can re-educate the stress response.
🎧 Binaural beats lowered a stress enzyme by ~44 % in 15 minutes (Lee et al., 2022).
🪷 Singing-bowl meditation reduced tension and anxiety (Goldsby et al., 2017).
🌿 Vibroacoustic therapy improved heart-rate variability (Braithwaite et al., 2022).
These practices awaken the vagus nerve, your body’s natural pathway to calm.
🪷 What You’ll Receive at Launch
🎧 Six Guided Audio Sessions
(list of tracks as before)
📘 Printable Restorative Pose Guide
🌿 Daily Movement Mini-Practices
🪶 7-Day Journal Prompt Series
🌼 My Experience: Finding Balance After Birth
After my second birth, I experienced what so many new mothers do — exhaustion without rest.
Even when my baby finally slept, I couldn’t. My mind raced, my body buzzed, and my hormones felt like they were still mid-labor.
Working with my care provider and my IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant), we explored gentle ways to help me reset my sleep rhythm while I was breastfeeding. Together, we found that I could safely use a natural supplement called Power to Sleep — available with or without melatonin.
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This supplement helped my body remember how to rest. It didn’t knock me out — it simply supported my system as my hormones recalibrated after birth.
Not ready for a supplement? Perhaps try my second go-to when I can’t sleep. Valerian Root Tea.
🛒 Find Valerian Tea on Amazon
Always check with your healthcare provider before taking any supplement.
If you are breastfeeding, consult your IBCLC about how ingredients may affect your milk supply or your baby’s sensitivity.
Or maybe you need a little support with breathing? Chronic congestion can keep a Mama awake! While I have used a Neti Pot for over a decade, this “nose vacuum” has changed my life. As someone with a deviated septum and Eustacian Tube Dysfunction, the Navage Nasal Irrigation System is the only thing which has ever helped my sinuses feel clear.
🛒 Find Navage Nasal Irrigation System on Amazon
Still, even with these supports, I learned something important: healing postpartum rest isn’t just about sleep; it’s about nervous-system repair.
That realization inspired the digital program I’m now creating:
✨ The Perinatal Sound & Rest Collection — a trauma-informed, evidence-based audio series that helps you calm your body, soothe your mind, and restore your natural rhythm through sound, breath, and restorative movement.
💰 Pricing & Options
🩵 Early-Bird Launch Special — $39 (Reg. $49)
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🌿 Standard Collection — $49
The complete Perinatal Sound & Rest Collection—six recordings, pose guide, movement mini-series, and 7-day journal prompts.
Lifetime digital access included.
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✨ Premium Collection — $79
Everything in the Standard Collection plus two exclusive recordings and extras:
Morning Grounding Ritual (10 min)
Mama & Baby Rest Together (20 min)
📘 Bonus PDF: 7 Ways to Reclaim Rest
🎶 Bonus Ambient Playlist
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🩷 Delivery & Access
All materials are digital downloads with instant access.
Your 7-Day Journal Series begins automatically by email.
🤍 Purchase Policy
Because this is a digital product, all sales are final.
If you experience any technical issues, email Anne@annecatherineyoga.com for support.
Personal use only • Not medical advice • Consult your provider before beginning any new practice
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