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it’s ok if you don’t love the newborn stage

I can very clearly remember my first week as a mom, about 6 years ago. I was struggling so much with breastfeeding my tongue-tied baby. It was excruciating. I felt like I’d been hit by a bus after a brutal unmedicated labor with 2.5 hours of pushing. I was tearful and exhausted, and felt like my entire life had just been blown up. While I was “happy” to have my baby, it wasn’t the profound bliss I’d been expecting.

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Having Another Baby after Suffering with Postpartum Depression

Just a few days after I gave birth, I started feeling anxious again. How on earth was I going to manage the needs of two young children? We were in the middle of potty-training our son and he was still sleeping in a cot. There seemed to be a lot of hurdles in our way and I was feeling overwhelmed. I also felt guilty for being unable to spend as much time with our son.

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Stop Telling New Parents All They Need is a Shower a Day

A shower in those newborn days was not helpful or relaxing for me. If my child wasn’t screaming because he was legitimately starving, I was taunted by phantom cries. Getting into the shower led my heart rate to increase and it was a mad dash until I was out. No amount of breathing exercises made a shower enjoyable. What was relaxing for me was holding my baby, getting outside, and being in absolute silence.

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Hold Your Baby, Mama

One morning I decided to give an episode of RHOP a try and was instantly hooked. I immediately binged and what I didn’t know was that this show was exactly what I needed to start healing the pieces of myself left wounded by pregnancy loss.

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How to Support New Parents

When a new baby is born, so is a new set of parents. And along with the bliss and excitement of a new baby also comes the exhaustion and huge adjustment period for the parents. Before you run over to meet a newborn baby or bombard the new parents with lots of questions, read this handy guide to discover how you can best support new parents.

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