5 WAYS TO MAKE LIFE WITH A NEWBORN EASIERšš½
1ļøā£ FOOD. PREP. a few weeks before your due date, take a saturday afternoon to meal prep! breakfast + dinner meal preps were suchhh a life saver. when youāre exhausted + in love with your new babe, the last thing you wanna do is spend time in the kitchen.
2ļøā£ SNACK CADDY. youāll thank me for this one! when I started breastfeeding, I was ravenous! so I prepped a caddy of snacks to sit on my nightstand for those late night feedings. pretzels, granola bars, nut packs, dried fruit, etc. itās light, but youāre also getting a boost of nutrition. grab snack size ziploc bags + fill them with your faves!
3ļøā£ DIAPER CADDY. these are such an underrated investment. itās so helpful to have everything you need in one place + to bring the diaper change to the baby. it bounced all over our house, from the denā”ļøoutsideā”ļø our room for night changes. itās super convenient. in our caddy we kept- diapers, wipes, peepee teepee, butt cream, + hand sani.
4ļøā£ SOUND MACHINE. we ordered ours at 3am on the second night of being homeš¤£. aspen loved to have some sort of sound while he slept! we useĀ @hatchforsleepĀ + we love it! it connects to an app on your phone + has lots of sound + nightlight options.
5ļøā£BABY LOUNGER. we haveĀ @snuggle_me_organicĀ + we ADORE it. just like the diaper caddy, we took it all over. it was so convenient to have a safe + comfy place for him to lay instead of directly on the sofa. heād sleep next to us while we ate or played a game + it was sooooo helpful when alex went back to work. heād snuggle right in + fall asleep!
those newborn days are such a blur of love + sleepiness. donāt make those days harder than they need to be. prep + prepare as much as you can to make life easier because babies donāt keep + that time goes by wayyy too fast.
and remember, these are a few things we did + they worked for us! but Iām so interested to hear about what others have done, too! do you have any advice for new mamas? what are some helpful things you did to make those newborn days easier? š¤±š¼āØā
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