A Letter from Your Newborn
Discover the heartfelt wisdom of a newborn in this touching letter. It's a gentle reminder to embrace patience, love, and understanding as you navigate the early days of parenthood. From feeding on demand to cherishing cuddles and prioritizing self-care, these words offer reassurance and perspective during this precious, yet fleeting, time.
4th Trimester Realities: How to Manage the Rollercoaster
The 4th trimester, the first 3-8 weeks of your baby’s life, can be a challenging and emotional time for new mums. With hormones fluctuating, sleep deprivation, and the pressures of caring for a newborn, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. In this guide, we’ll help you navigate this transitional period with tips on managing postpartum recovery, understanding your baby’s needs, and seeking the support you need. Discover practical advice on what to expect during the 4th trimester, how to ask for help from partners and family, and how online support groups like Mum Huddle NZ can provide the community and reassurance you need to thrive.
Conversations to have before your baby arrives!
In between getting your baby's nursery ready, purchasing all the items you feel you might need and all of the other to-dos that come with having a baby, one of the most important things that often gets pushed to the side is sitting down and talking with your partner about the life change that is about to unfold and prepping for the impact it’ll have on your relationship.
There’s so much focus in our culture on dreaming about pregnancy and dreaming about baby, but not any dreaming about what a family of three (or more) will be like. Find out here.
Embracing the Chaos: A Guide to the Ups and Downs of Early Parenthood.
It’s 3 am and you’ve already been up five times tonight. You feel like you're the only one in the whole world that is up at this hour (you're not)! Up to your elbows in dirty nappies and baby vomit. And as you sit in the dark you ask yourself - again - how a tiny person can make so much noise!
Sound familiar?
Choosing the perfect name!
So, you're sitting at the traffic lights waiting for the lights to turn green when a great song comes on the radio. It mentions a name and you start thinking it could be the perfect name for your baby! Choosing the perfect baby name can feel all at once thrilling and intimidating. After all, the name you give your little one will be an everlasting part of your child’s identity that they’ll carry with them from their hospital I.D. bracelet to their days on the playground and beyond. Continue here…..
