While your hormones stabilize for the healing, breastfeeding, mothering journey ahead, your body requires time to acclimatize to the new status quo. The misconception that your belly will be gone once Baby is born can be disconcerting, but it takes time for your organs to return to their pre-pregnancy positioning, even your bones need to...
It is miraculous that after the hormonal turmoil of pregnancy that we mums can function at all when a new human is placed in our arms and our entire life changes instantaneously. Like PMS, depression is in my opinion correlated to hormonal dips and dives within our complex endocrine system. For years, struggling with depression...
There are many ways for the stork to deliver Baby. Adoption is a particularly heroic means to become a mother, as you have jumped through bureaucratic hoops to prove that you are worthy of becoming a mother – unlike pregnancy which doesn’t always require such a steadfast demonstration. Some adoptions are a wager in the...
Baby Daddy (or female partner) can seem somewhat superfluous in the first few weeks after birth. Afterall his/her nipples don’t produce milk, which is rather frustrating at times. Like 3am for example. Baby seems to want to be exclusively with mummy at first so that all her needs can be met. And daddy may start...
I was a single Mama, and though I missed the exquisite connection between Baby Daddy and Baby, I relished the autonomy this afforded me! Reframing your predicament can be the difference between victimhood and triumph. Not one for the conventional route at that time in my life, I surrounded myself with support. Not necessarily from...
Baby is here and Grandparents are chomping at the bit to get their crinkly hands on her. This is a special time for all involved, the branching of the family tree is a time for celebration and yet old family patterns may well resurface when you are exhausted and vulnerable with newborn Baby. Watching your...
The most wonderful sentence for peacemaking… “What do you need?” These simple few words are effective even when the conversation is with a very young child. The more you know your baby, the more conversation you can engage in, with very few, if any, exchanged words. A young child, not even a year old, can...
At some point the all-encompassing baby bubble at home is burst with the desire and or need to make a living. Unless you are part of the slight percentage of stay-at-home- mums in this day and age, you will need to find care-giving for your baby that you trust so you might alleviate some of...
