Real Talk About the Transition into Motherhood
20 Moms on Postpartum Support and Self-Care
Today, we’re sharing their answers to the last 3 questions. They shared encouragement, ideas for getting social support, and ideas for self-care. In responding to these questions, a handful of them reminded us that it’s hard to give advice because what works for one family or mother may not work for another. We’re all so different. And we agree. We hope that their ideas and thoughts serve as a starting point for you if you’re needing to build your postpartum support network or find a better way to take care of yourself.
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Welcome Royal Baby Charlotte, and Her Heiness Doesn’t Invalidate My Postpartum Experience
As most of you know the British royal baby Charlotte was born a couple of weeks ago. There was tons of media coverage, most of which I was blissfully oblivious to, but I did see one article by Amber Robinson over at Essential Baby. It is all about how Kate Middleton’s natural birth allowed her to leave the hospital 10 hours after her baby was born looking fabulous and pain free. By all accounts it was a pretty innocuous article, but it did leave me with a little bit of uneasiness.
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Truth Heals: Our New Mama Manifesto
When we asked mothers to share their truths about their postpartum experience for yesterday’s post, we were overwhelmed by the positive response. So many moms echoed our sentiment that it’s crucial to speak openly and honestly about the challenges of the postpartum transition.
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20 Moms Get Real About Their Postpartum Experience
Most of us struggle to some degree during our postpartum days. From questioning why we have gotten ourselves into this to yearning for just 10 minutes of uninterrupted shower time, new mamas feel overwhelmed, anxious, and tired. Both of us at New Mama Project felt alone at times, wondering why we’d never heard of anybody else feeling this way. We searched the internet for stories of other moms who were going through or had gone through what we were, but couldn’t find much.
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Alyssa’s Postpartum Story: Blindsided
My first pregnancy was not planned. I was in denial for most of the 9 months and hoped that by some miracle the whole situation would disappear and I would not have to deal with labor and then subsequently having and taking care of a baby.
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One Secret You Can Use to Unlock Postpartum Wellness
Are you anxious or worried about the future? Are you unsure of what to do today? Does every decision about your baby seem to carry more significance than the last? If you are like me you quickly answered yes to all these questions. Let me tell you about my early days of motherhood to help you understand my relationship with anxiety and worry, and why this secret was so powerful for me.
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5 Types of Postpartum Visitors and How to Make the Most of Their Visits
You’ve just had a baby and everybody wants to visit! Who you choose to invite into your home, and how soon you do this after your baby is born, is a very personal decision.
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Adjusting to Your Postpartum Body
One thing many women worry about is what will happen to their body during pregnancy, birth, and after baby. It would be easy for me to say, “don’t worry about this, focus on the new baby and don’t make your body image such a priority,” but actually following my own advice would be hard. The reality of our society is that women are constantly judged for their appearance.
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Baby Not Sleeping? Tips to Get sleep When You Have a Newborn.
For the first few months of my oldest child’s life, I was sure he barely slept at all. I spent countless hours hunched over books and websites, tears in my eyes, trying to figure out how to get him to sleep. My desperation for him to sleep more and better led to anxiety and worry about his perceived sleep problem, thus making it even harder for me to sleep when I had a chance.
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What Do We Mean by Postpartum Anyway?
When I say postpartum what comes to mind? Is it depression? I thought so. I think it says a lot about our society that the word postpartum has come to mean postpartum depression. Here are three bits of evidence to prove my point. Yes, this is very empirically based research.
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