5 things every Mum should do on maternity leave before the baby arrives

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There are countless articles on the internet listing alllll the essential things you need to organise and prepare before your baby arrives. This is not one of them.
While packing your hospital bag, washing all the baby clothes and catching up on sleep are important, I want to suggest 5 extra things you should consider doing just for the sake of making yourself feel good things.
These are technically non-essentials. I mean, you’re still going to have a baby, everyone will survive and you’ll get by if these things don’t happen.
BUT. (and I want you to read that as the biggest loudest ‘BUT’ you’ve ever read.
BUT, I think new Mums deserve better than just ‘getting by’.
So these five things are about making you feel really good going into having a new baby. It’s about reconnecting with your partner and getting certain things organised so that you can spend those first few weeks or so sniffing your newborns head, rather than stressing about things that you need to do.
This is definitely how I’m preparing for our third baby and these aren’t things I really even really thought of when I was pregnant with my two boys.
1st time round it was all about getting things ready for the baby. I spent those last few weeks before he arrived admiring all the tiny clothes and willing him to come out because I was so impatient to meet him.
2nd time round I was so fixated on how the hell I was going to manage having two children. I remember saying to other Mums ‘no… like seriously, HOW do you do it.”
This time, I’m so much more relaxed about the actual prospect of adding an extra person to our family. Perhaps it’s because our lives and family is already chaos so I feel like ‘what’s one more?!’ Or perhaps it’s because I know from past experience that yes it might be hard for a while, but eventually it all works out.
Either way, my focus is less on preparing things for this baby (sorry baby, hand-me-downs are just going to be your life as the third child) or stressing about how to manage with an extra baby, and more about getting things set up to make sure I get to actually enjoy having a newborn.
Oh how times have changed hey? From not even giving myself a second thought for almost a full year and a half after having my first to actually planning to put myself first going into being a Mum of three.
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@BettinaRae 6 жыл бұрын

What else do I need to add to my list of things to do on maternity leave before my baby arrives?

@PrincessIrie 4 жыл бұрын

Bettina Rae honestly a few things I didn’t do that I wish I did before having my baby . Is having freezer meals ready . I ended up having an emergency c section and I feel like I was up and moving a lot kuz I was hungry . Also pampering myself before the baby because when he was a newborn I hardly had time for myself . And not having my crib ready the day I brought my baby home . We had to hurry and go buy one that night 😂. But my baby is three months and I feel since we were first time parents we made a few mistakes lol but it’s an amazing journey ❤️❤️