ignoring your needs postpartum

ignoring your needs postpartum

We’re all guilty of it.
Skipping breakfast because you’re to busy tending to your newborn.
Before you know it, it’s dinner time and you’ve only had 5 coffees and some biscuits.
You’re starving, tired, cranky and you just need some time to yourself but when that time finally comes you’re to tired and you end up falling asleep.
But only for an hour because the baby is awake for another feed.
You’re then 4 months in and realise you haven’t had any time to do anything for you.
You haven’t had your hair done, a meal alone, a decent workout or whatever it is that you normally like to do for yourself.
We so get so wrapped up in looking after our babies that we forgo our own needs.
But have you noticed that once you get a minute to do one little thing for yourself you feel so much better!
You’re happier, you have more patience, you feel rejuvenated.
Taking a small amount of time for yourself can turn a bad day into a good one.
It can bring you back when you feel like you’re about to lose it.
If you’re around a new mother, offer to give her a break for an hour or two.
Let her do something for herself.
Watch the baby while she takes a bath, or reads a book.
Let her have a mental break. She needs it. She’s human.