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I did a video on Mom tips which I will post below but I also wanted to come on here and ramble about the same thing in case you missed the video!
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I want to say, I am not a mom expert by any means. As soon as I figure something out my darling daughter throws a curve ball at me. Its been an interesting adventure.
But I think some of the things I have learned are worth sharing.
So this is going to be broken up into sections. Again if you would just rather watch the video click on the link below and make sure you subscribe for more Random Tips!
*Advice I wish I would have listened to*
Once you are pregnant everyone in the world will have advice to give you. Most of it is very unwanted and rarely asked for. But occasionally, rarely someone will actually give you good advice. Of course some of those things I didn't listen to until after but I am going to share some of the advice I wish I listened to.
1.) Don't worry about the nursery.
This is one I really wish I listened to because I honestly lost sleep over the dumb room and to be honest, I didn't end up using it as much as I thought I would have. You see all these famous people doing nursery room makeovers and you just get inspired and you want it to be as awesome as theirs but... of course you don't have the budget to really achieve what they are doing. And sometimes they actually just have professionals helping them so its unrealistic to expect you are going to achieve the same thing.
Also as much as I love pinterest it led me down a rabbit hole that just ended up making me depressed.
My advice, in addition to the advice I didn't take is, just make the nursery usable. We had it set up one way but once the baby actually got here we found that it wasn't user friendly so we ended up changing most of it anyways. We also had our nursery set up more for the family members who were babysitting. It wasn't exactly baby safe but since our move we have changed it up a lot.
2.) Your baby will reach the Milestones.
This is a hard one to take in. Especially for someone like me who doesn't take criticism well. And this is one of the reason I stopped doing the app or reading the books on what your baby should be doing at a certain age.
Alice was about 4 months old I think and we took her to the doctors, which is incredibly stressful for new mothers anyways. The doctor she had (which she no longer sees) had me in tears. She asked if she was doing all these things which she was doing most of them or trying to do most of them. One of which was "Is your baby rolling over" Well she hadn't actually rolled over yet by herself so I answered her honestly telling her "no not yet" Which she started clicking her tongue and telling me she is behind and we need to work on that.
Do you know what that statement did to me? As a new mom who is already a basket case 99% of the time, now you are telling me my baby is behind? I started crying which the doctor just ignored and started comparing my baby to her new baby. It was terrible. I told my niece who was helping me baby sit her at the time that we needed to work on her rolling over. We had a plan and we were going to do all the things. Literally the next day without any help or even trying to get her to do it, Alice rolled over by herself.
Moral of the story, she will figure it out. I am not saying don't work with your baby and try to reach the milestones, but if your baby is "a little behind" don't stress about it. Because everyone learns at their own pace.3.) Don't Compare your baby to others!
Why? Because again your baby might learn things at a different pace. Doesn't mean its wrong its just fact. People learn at different paces. Babies are people... get what I am saying?
Its going to drive you insane if you try to keep up with your friends baby that might be around the same age. So just don't do it.
I was going to go into the rest of the things I talked about in my video but I will leave it here and do this in multiple blog posts.
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Did you get any advice while you were pregnant that you should have listened to? If so let me know in the comments below!
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