Beaches Baby Blog
Life In Lockdown - Are You OK?
What a roller coaster life has been lately! Are you ok? Are you realising how much you love contact with other people or relishing in the down / home time? Maybe it's a combo of both.
It's been really nice spending extra time with my kiddos but I will admit, I personally am not cut out to be a 24/7 stay at home Mum.
How Breastfeeding Mums Are Being Undermined.
A beautiful Mum popped into the shop this week, we got chatting and she also has a 4 month old baby who had just had his vaccinations. I asked her how things we going and she revealed she was upset because she had just spoken to the GP about how she was feeling like maybe she didn’t have as much milk as once before and the baby was waking up a little more than usual.
Self Care and the 4th Trimester
I started thinking about our villages and our self care post birth in the period known as the 4th trimester or the first 3 months post birth.
I am notoriously independent and a Type A organiser. So asking for help isn’t something I am good at and I am just as bad at accepting offers of help.
When my first child was born, I was determined that not much was going to change. That I could still do it all. And to be honest, I still did - to my own detriment.
R U OK? Why we won't stop helping you find your village.
So this week was R U OK day. An important day of checking in with people around us who might be at risk.
I’m a little later talking about this than I would like as I did have a day this week where I wasn’t ok myself.