3 Awesome Ways To Survive The First Week Home With Baby

How many of these things did you do in your first week home with baby?

How to Survive the First Week Home with Baby

• Plan Ahead for Sleep. If you have a partner, you need to talk about sharing duties beforehand. Babies eat every 3-hours. Let your partner (or mom or whoever is helping you out) feed the baby at midnight and 6am while you take the 9pm and 3am. Even if you’re breastfeeding, pump some during the day so that you can sleep through at least one of those two feeds, even if it’s every once in a while.

• The Power of the Swaddle. Most babies like to be swaddled and it’ll help them go to sleep and stay that way. Ask the nurses to show you how to do it several times. It’s an art. Learn it. Love it. And buy like 100 receiving blankets (from BabyDepot, if you want a good deal) so you can do it always, especially while baby needs help regulating his temp. Be sure to get soft ones. Baby’s skin is brand new.

• Make Feeding Baby Easy. There’s nothing more annoying than having had an epidural or spinal in your back and it aching for weeks afterward because of your bad posture when you feed baby. Get a Boppy Pillow and use it whether you’re bottle feeding or breastfeeding. Don’t be like me. I thought they were superfluous. I was wrong. They rock.

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