There is an easy answer to this common problem, and that’s simply asking your husband to help you out with the baby. On the other hand, those of us who have already gone through the stage of having a newborn baby and being confused out of our minds do know that when it comes to being a [...]
Tags: help, How to, new mom, new parents, newborns, relationship, rest
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New parents, if there is one thing I can tell you that I wish I would have known when I had a newborn in my arms it is this: People want to help you. Anyone who has ever had a baby knows how incredibly confusing, exhausting, and stressful it can be. Nobody expects [...]
Tags: assistance, exhausted, family, friends, help, newborn, overwhelmed, tired
Posted in: Baby
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When I was pregnant the first time I noticed something rather pleasant the bigger I got: the men around me got more chivalrous. Not just my husband – although he did step up the “taking care of my Little Lady” routine a little – but my male coworkers and even men who I didn’t [...]
Tags: big belly, chivalrous, chivalry, help, men, Pregnancy, strangers
Posted in: Pregnancy
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When our daughter was born, my wife and I cooked every single weekend in the weeks leading up to her due date. We made casseroles and huge batches of soup and stocked our deep freezer almost to capacity with ready-made meals. We did this ourselves because we didn’t expect anyone to do it [...]
Tags: Baby, family, Food, help
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I’ve used some professional cleaning services in the past. When I was pregnant with my second baby my husband injured his leg, so the two of us combined couldn’t keep up with the household chores very well…at least not as well as we should have to satisfy my pregnant-out-to-here panic of wanting a clean [...]
Tags: cleaning, help, household chores, indulgence, paying for cleaning, picking up after kids
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