Today is National Comfy Day! What a day to celebrate. Find your comfiest sweats and blankets, and cuddle up on this comfy day. Learn more fun facts about Comfy Day here.

Today’s Quote:

“Motherhood is hard, but loving my children and being their mom is the easiest thing I’ve ever done.”

A Word From Our Partner

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How Your Partner Can Help You Heal Postpartum

It takes two to make a baby. While you as the pregnant mom are the one doing the majority of the work to bring this baby earthside, it doesn’t have to be all up to you to recover fully postpartum. Your partner can help you postpartum as well.

7 Ways Your Partner Can Help:

• Let You Rest: The best thing you can do at any point in your postpartum journey is to rest. This includes the immediate postpartum phase as well as months later when your body is still depleted of nutrients following pregnancy. The best way to recover is to give your body a chance to rest and relax.

• Cook Meals: Your partner doesn’t have to be Gordan Ramsey, but he can definitely chip in with cooking meals for you and your immediate family while you rest and recover. You as the mother will need to ensure your nutrition is a priority. Your partner can help you postpartum by ensuring there is plenty of food for you to have during the day.

• Take Turns with Diapers: Splitting duties is a great way to heal postpartum. However, many moms report that they feel they do the majority of the diaper changes. Consider asking your partner to help out in the diapering area.

• Listen to You: Postpartum is a journey; it’s not something that is over within a few days or weeks. You will go through a tremendous identity transformation each time you become a mom. It’s not easy to let go of the person you were and allow the new person to take over. Therefore, you will need to talk about your thoughts, feelings, and emotions about this process.

• Encourage You to Talk to a Professional: In addition to being an ear for you, your partner can help you postpartum by encouraging you to speak with a mental health professional. There may be topics that your spouse doesn’t want to talk about or can’t understand. Therefore, you need to talk with someone who can help you dive into those topics.

• Provide Comfort: Your partner wants what is best for you. You have grown, birthed, and are now nurturing his child. Let him be the person you lean on when you need comfort. Being a mother is hard; you don’t have to be alone in this.

• Care for Older Children: As I have mentioned before, I have three kiddos. Each time we added another baby to the mix, it was time to divide and conquer. He would care for the older kid(s) while I tended to the baby. It worked for us and it is a great strategy to use for recovery.

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Postpartum Fact:

Grief and loss are common experiences mothers encounter postpartum. The grief of losing your identity and coping with the loss of the way life used to be. You are not alone!

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