Stress Reducing Strategies for Moms Returning to Work

Stress Reducing Strategies for Moms Returning to Work

Once you’ve had a baby, it’s hard enough just to squeeze in a five minute shower, so the idea of pulling it together for a day at the office might make your head spin. If you’re planning to return to work, organization and preparation are your allies. The more time you give yourself to sort out the details, the better you’ll feel.

So, where to begin? Here are some helpful guidelines:

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New Mom's Guide to Making Friends After Baby

New Mom's Guide to Making Friends After Baby

Before becoming a mom, it’s hard to grasp how a tiny human being can stir up so much change. Bringing home a baby is a lot like inviting a little tornado to live with you: no area is left unscathed. You definitely need all the support you can get, and while your partner is your main go-to, having mom friends who get what you’re going through makes a huge difference.

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Oxytocin: Your Baby-Bonding Love Potion

Oxytocin: Your Baby-Bonding Love Potion

As a mom-to-be, you’ve got lots of hormones coursing through your body and some of them can be a real bear to handle. Thank goodness one of them is a love potion: Oxytocin.

In Boot Camp for New Moms, we talk a lot about this known “love hormone,” because it does so much during pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and baby bonding. Oxytocin promotes human connections, relationships, intimacy and trust.

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Dad's Love of Baby is Waiting to be Unleashed

Dad's Love of Baby is Waiting to be Unleashed

You know how all your physical and emotional changes during pregnancy make it impossible to not have baby on the brain 24-7? For guys, connecting with fatherhood happens in a slow but steady build. In fact, the changes he experiences are so subtle (unlike yours – hello morning sickness and belly!) he may not even know it’s happening. 

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What Can You Do to Lower C-Section Risk?

What Can You Do to Lower C-Section Risk?

C-sections come up a lot in Boot Camp for New Moms workshops. Some moms-to-be feel like they’re not a big deal, while others will do anything they can to avoid having one. And we get it, it takes whatever it takes to have the baby, but C-sections are major surgery not to be taken lightly. C-sections happen though, so being knowledgeable and proactive will only empower you, no matter what you’re hoping birth will be like.

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No Time For Your Husband After Baby Arrives?

No Time For Your Husband After Baby Arrives?

Having your first child literally changes your world, your view of the world, and turns your relationship upside down. We hear new parents talk about how incredible it is to have created this precious little human, but they’re blown away by how much their relationship has changed because of it. As expectant parents, we plan ahead for the birth, the nursery and make sure we have all of the gear, but we don’t prepare our relationship for the dramatic change ahead.

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