No matter how much advice you seek, how many books you read, or whose example you follow... parenting is STILL going to make you feel like you’re coming up short😅
The oldest is the guinea pig: sorry, Nora! We recently learned kids should stop being swaddled around 8 weeks. Whoops! We definitely swaddled you until you were almost 6 months🤷🏻♀️
The second baby has to share attention: it needs to be split with a toddler. Sorry, Olivia! Your naps & feeding sessions get interrupted for pickups or by loud crashes from said toddler🤷🏻♀️
➕The first has it better because they receive undivided attention.
➕The second has it better because mom has already learned A LOT.
...but at the end of the day, all you can do is love your child with your whole heart, and be C O N F I D E N T in what you think is best for them at the time. It’s going to vary from how your friends & family parent their kids...after all, your kids aren’t the same as theirs and neither are you.
Always remember that YOU (nobody else!) was picked to be the Mama of your sweet babe. Guinea Pigs, Second Kiddos, & Beyond...you’re doing a good job🤗
We ate like Olympic Athletes yesterday!
Both Robert & I graduated from the University of Wisconsin, and yesterday the San Diego Chapter of our Alumni Association had an event at the Olympic Training Center. A fellow Badger Alum is the current Track & Field Director there, so he gave us a behind the scenes peek at the facilities, complete with an all-you-can-eat lunch in the athletes’ cafeteria...Robert was in heaven😆
While on campus, we happened to cross paths with 3 gold medalists from Team USA, too🇺🇸 #teamUSA #summerolympics #tokyoolympics2020 #onwisconsin #badgeralumni #wisconsinalumni
Even though we live a mile and a half from the sea, going to the beach always seems like so. much. work. with these two babes, so we rarely go. It took a nudge from Grandma & Grandpa to get us there this weekend and it turned out to be one of my most favorite days in the longest time. LESSON HERE: take help when it’s offered. Go a step further and ask for it.
I actually wrote out a mini “to-do” list for their visit (Robert was gone the whole time, so it was a little more warranted😉). My mom stayed on top of the kitchen & laundry, my dad worked outside a bit and helped with a few mini projects. Both of them loved on the babies.
We were bummed to see them go today, but so happy that daddy came back from his training trip THREE days early!
Halloween has never been my favorite holiday, but having kids makes the whole season fun🎃🕷👻 Here’s my little Triceratops & Hatching Dino Egg!
Daddy is gone for the week, but when he FaceTimed him later, he was wearing his “Dadasaur” shirt! Well played, Dad. I think Grandma & Grandpa had fun trick-or-treating, too👻
🙋🏻♀️Sometimes you just need someone to go first. .
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I’ve shared bits & pieces of my postpartum physical therapy experience...and because of what they saw on social, 2 local mama’s have shared otherwise unspoken issues and asked me who I’m seeing to help.
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At least 2 dozen other new mamas have left messages in my inbox like, “So what should I be asking my OB at my 6 week postpartum visit?” or “How do I know about that ab separation?” .
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Sometimes you just need someone to go first. I needed it, too. .
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Let me be your go-first-girl🙋🏻♀️
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Whether it’s postpartum care, or breastfeeding chatter, or home workouts, or toddler behaviors, home births, or building a business at home, or positive marriage practices or anything else I chat about so often, I’m more than willing to be your “go-first-girl.”
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I’ve had a “go first girl” in almost every one of those areas, too.
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You don’t even have to reach out to me and the two of us don’t even need to talk about it.
Sometimes all you need is “that one time” you saw “that one mom” do “that one thing” to explore yourself and see if it’s a good option for you, too.
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I can be your go-first-girl🙋🏻♀️ .
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#postpartumcare #sahmlife #diastasisrecti #marriagerocks #normalizebreastfeeding #homebirth #joyfulmamas
