This week, we look at a baby checklist for preparing for newborn life. Whether this is your first child or another little addition to your family, adjusting to life with a newborn requires a lot of support. This is especially true during the pandemic when parents are facing an unprecedented amount of uncertainty and fear for the safety of their families.
While living in "the new normal" or whatever that is, a pregnancy should still feel and be celebrated as a special time in your life. Although there may not be a large baby shower or tropical babymoon, that doesn't mean you can't complete a nice little bucket list before baby comes.
Listed below are our five recommendations to treat yourself before you embark on the greatest journey you'll ever take. Motherhood.
There's no way else to describe it. Teething sucks. Big time.
It's definitely not the most fun part of baby's early years but an important milestone in their development. From real seasoned mamas, here are five favourite tips to provide some much needed pain relief to baby and help you survive this parental rite of passage.
When you become a mother, you hear the phrase "It takes a village" frequently to describe raising children. Whether it's communicated as advice or perhaps to provide comfort, it neatly captures the impact created by a strong support system. Similarly to parenting and having children - running a business is the hard part of actually having a business.
There's a joke that owning a pet "fur baby" is the first step to couples becoming parents. Although it is definitely not the same thing as being a parent to a child, it really does teach you valuable lessons. A pet becomes part of your family and soon their little paws become a big part of your life...
Before baby arrives - and this applies to whether or not it's your first or second+ child, have some fun with these unique date ideas. These are the kind of dates that will be tougher to do while baby is small and most likely - completely dependent on mom. There's so much focus on planning a babymoon - why not treat yourselves to some romance that's right in front of you?...
Over the next few months, we will be tackling some big questions about adjusting finances, financial decisions and budget planning to account for the needs of a growing family...
The sleepless nights... The sheer exhaustion... The love you feel the first time they wrap their little fingers around yours...
You'll go from wondering how you'll get through the day to wondering how you could ever love someone so much. And as they grow up and you go from mama to mommy to mom - you'll wonder how time went by so fast.
