The first few days of breastfeeding your baby are a haze of oxytocin, sleep deprivation, recovery from a major life event and a crazy cocktail of hormones that can leave you feeling like you’re both on cloud nine and terrified at the same time. It’s exhilarating, exhausting and oh so beautiful. Whether it’s baby number…
From the moment you find out you’re pregnant (and probably even before then) you have people offering all kinds of advice, regardless of whether you ask for it or not. But where do you turn when you actually do have questions you want the real, no fluff answers to? And what do you ask? Many…
Imagine you are sound asleep, relaxed, comfortable, quiet mind and body – then all of a sudden you are startled awake by one of those awful vivid ‘falling dreams’. You can feel it in your body. Every cell is vibrating, every hair standing up. In a matter of seconds, your physical and emotional state has…
The holiday season is full on year after year (despite how much we tell ourselves that ‘next year will be different’) but when you add a new baby into the mix it can be completely overwhelming. The idea of a beautiful fourth trimester can be shaken up with Christmas chaos, and while it would be…
In the days and weeks after your baby is born, you’re supposed to be spending your time blissfully in the fourth trimester, getting to know your new little babe, and recovering from one of the biggest physical and psychological events you’ll ever experience. You’re not supposed to be worrying about how you’re going to be…
The thought of self care for a new mom kind of sounds like a bit of a joke doesn’t it? Like a one-liner meant for comedy night… but before you quickly brush off the possibility, take a moment to think about just how important self care is, especially for new moms. And I assure it, it’s possible,…
There’s this amazing thing that happens when you become a new parent. No, I’m not talking about the overwhelming love you now have for your little family. And I’m not talking about the exhaustion you’ll face. I’m talking about how there seems to be this big neon sign that flashes above you saying ‘give me…
I want to talk about physical healing after birth. In fact, I have to talk about it. And so do you. My journey through recovery after birth wasn’t so smooth and I had no idea why. I couldn’t understand why there was so much pain for so long, worse than birth it seemed. I eventually…
Being a new mom is rough, there’s no doubt about that. But sometimes it feels like we can’t vent just how rough it is. We don’t want to seem like we’re ungrateful for being mothers, or we don’t want to come across like we are complaining, or we feel like we are just supposed to…
There’s nothing quite like the exhaustion you feel when recovering from birth and finding your way as a new Mama. While some days it feels like you could bathe in coffee and it still wouldn’t be enough, there are some ways you can get your energy fix without resorting to copious amounts of caffeine. In…