Professional doula, Gwendolyn Mccomsey shares her secrets for infant sleep on today’s guest blog. Psst…..I have a secret to tell you. Did you know that you don’t have to suffer with never ending sleepless nights as a parent of a newborn? It’s true. You can set yourself up to have long stretches of sleep pretty[…]
Let’s talk about sleep, baby Let’s talk about you and me Let’s talk about all the good things And the bad things sweet, baby Let’s talk about sleep Let’s talk about sleep Let’s talk about sleep for now To the parents at home or on the town It keeps evading anyhow Don’t delay, dispute, or[…]
You wake up and the day starts. Feed the baby. Feed yourself, hopefully. Work. Clean. Feed the baby. Comfort. Clean. Feed family. Bathe family. Feed the baby. Shower, hopefully. Tuck in family. Comfort some more… Sleep? For parents in today’s world, a full night’s sleep is almost unheard of. We are busy, we are loving,[…]
Bringing a new baby into the world, whether it’s your 1st, or your 7th, comes with a wide range of emotions that can rush in like a Spring blizzard or waft slowly in and out like Fall flurries. Caused by hormone fluctuations and lack of sleep most of these emotions are considered to be normal,[…]
Just about any conversations you have with a new parent will, at some point, involve the words. “I haven’t had a shower in __ days!” Before you have children, simple things like when to shower, seem trivial and automatic. Really, other than planning to take stuff with you for after a workout at the gym,[…]