YES, you may want actual friends who bring your favorite magazines, netflix, movies, bottle of wine, food/snacks, fuzzy socks, two extra hands, conversation, tissues, chapstick and good smelling candles but the below suggestions are more practical for your immediate recovery and are listed in no particular order of importance….
[Read more…] about Your BEST Practical Friends in the Immediate Postpartum Period
In case your baby book has a spot for the APGAR numbers or someone asks what your baby’s APGAR score was, you can tell them.
Congratulations…your baby has been born and you are super excited to bond and learn all about them. If your baby is doing well, this FIRST assessment is done quietly and quickly and most parents don’t even notice. It can be done by your doctor, midwife or nurse. This will be the first of many tests your child will be given and it happens at 1 minute and 5 minutes after delivery. The 1 minute score is to see if there is an immediate need for further medical intervention while the 5 min score is to see how they are progressing to life outside the womb.
“Time spent in self-reflection is never wasted-it is an intimate date with yourself”-Paul TP Wong
Every morning is a chance to start over with a clean slate, it’s a new day! Forget about the troubles of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow. Today is whatever you make of it. Your attitude and choices can make it a great day or a bad day – you are in the driver’s seat.
Gone are the days of reading, watching movies, relaxing, scrolling your social media sites or taking naps as you did with your first baby. The second one is soon to be here and he/she will need to eat 8-12 to 15 times a day and want to be held 24/7, so once everyone goes back to work and the visitors are gone, what can you do to interact with and entertain your older child, especially while feeding the new baby?
So I found myself at a Rebozo workshop this past week. I walked in not knowing what to expect and not sure if or how I could apply what I would be learning to my postpartum work. I love having my mind blown at workshops and love even more when I can put my knowledge to use in a variety of areas, not only for my clients and their families, but for my own family and friends.
[Read more…] about So Much More than a Beautiful Piece of Cloth
Guest Blogger: Rosalind Pranther
They say children don’t come with instruction books.
Whoever “they” are haven’t googled parenting advice.
[Read more…] about Mothering by instinct: “The Art of Shoulding”
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