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Khadijah Adunife: Recognizing and Preventing Stroke in the Postpartum Period
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Mar 23, 2026, 13:48

Khadijah Adunife: Recognizing and Preventing Stroke in the Postpartum Period

Khadijah Adunife, Holistic Health Healer, Founder of The Healthvocate NGO, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“A woman gives birth.

Then suddenly She had stroke.

Yes real stroke.

I know it scary but it does happen.

It simply means blood flow to part of her brain was interrupted.

There are Two main ways this happens:

  • Clot (Ischemic stroke)

A blood clot blocks a vessel in the brain.

  • Bleed (Hemorrhagic stroke)

A blood vessel bursts inside the brain.

Either way:

  • Brain cells start dying within minutes, Oxygen supply is cut off and Damage can become permanent fast
  • Pregnancy and childbirth are not ‘gentle natural events.’
  • They are high risk biological states.
  • They are simply underrated.

Blood becomes thicker (hypercoagulable state).

The body prepares to prevent bleeding during delivery.

Good idea? Yes

Side effect? Higher risk of dangerous clots.

Now add:

  • Dehydration
  • Low movement after delivery
  • Inflammation

You’ve created the perfect environment for a clot to form and travel.

Blood pressure can spike hard because

  • The blood vessels are under attack
  • The brain is under pressure and The system is losing control of regulation

This is how vessels rupture.

This is how strokes happen.

Physical trauma of delivery

Labor is intense:

  • Blood loss
  • Hormonal chaos
  • Pressure changes

The body goes from:

  • sustaining two lives

to:

  • trying to prevent collapse all within hours.

If something is already unstable , everything else crashes.

Undetected underlying issues

Many women walk into pregnancy with:

  • Poor metabolic health
  • Chronic inflammation
  • Nutrient deficiencies
  • Silent hypertension

And nobody slows down enough to correct it.

Pregnancy doesn’t create problems .

It exposes them violently.

It forces the body to reveal:

  • what it has been compensating for.

Stroke didn’t ‘just happen.’

Something was building.

  • The body was already under strain
  • Systems were already imbalanced

The pregnancy just amplified everything

People rarely asks:

‘What state was this body in before pregnancy even started?’

How to prevent a stroke after child birth

Control blood pressure

  • Track it consistently.

Anti inflammatory nutrition

  • Whole foods
  • Mineral rich meals (iron, magnesium, potassium)
  • No ultra processed intake

Because blood vessels respond to what you feed them.

Blood health monitoring

  • Clotting tendencies
  • Iron levels
  • Hemoglobin

Nervous system

Chronic stress is not just emotional.

It is:

  • Hormonal disruption
  • Vascular strain
  • Immune imbalance

High Cortisol over time damage the system .

Postpartum care is dangerously neglected and underrated.

The risk doesn’t end after delivery.

The first 6 weeks postpartum are high risk:

  • Hormones crash
  • Blood pressure fluctuates
  • Clot risk remains elevated

And the woman is expected to:

  • Heal
  • Breastfeed
  • Function
  • Stay mentally stable

With almost no structured support.

So please support your woman. make sure she walk into pregnancy prepared not hopeful.”

Khadijah Adunife: Recognizing and Preventing Stroke in the Postpartum Period

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