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.
Hand expressing of breast milk is a low-tech, no fuss technique that was incredibly useful to my babies and I during our feeding journey. It helped me...
Getting an epidural is a common and important topic to address in preparation for delivery and birth. Listed below are five facts that you may not know unless you've spoken with someone that has received an epidural during labour. This isn't meant to focus on technical aspects and definitely meant to say do it/don't do it. But we hope that by sharing a personal experience, this provides some insight into what you can expect.
Postpartum perineal care is extremely important but is often a subject that can be scary to talk about prior to delivery. Listed below are my top five recommendations for perineal care. But most importantly of all, remember to be kind to yourself.
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...
Here are some quick tips to help you upgrade your babymoon by being intentional with how you choose to spend your money so that you prioritize the things you and your partner want to get out of this holiday - whether you have a few hundred dollars to spend, or you’ve been saving for a luxury babymoon.
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?...
Malou Motherhood was started to meet a need we saw in our community: a lack of ethically-made capsule wardrobe pieces that work for the changing female form during and after pregnancy...
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.
