Hannshipp

1) The birth of a new baby is simply joy for everyone around (father, grandparents, family friends), but it is not always joy for the mother, and that’s okay! For me it was hold up, wtf just happened to me physically and emotionally, and who is this baby I now have to feed every 2 hours?! It takes a few days or weeks even for things to settle and for you to really find the joy in your new baby, and that’s okay to feel that way while you’re purely in survival mode. 2) You are quite literally and figuratively always going to be in the shit. Something that feels urgent is always going to be happening (baby isn’t latching right, baby has constant diaper rash you can’t get under control, etc). You will be going down one google rabbit hole to another. And then a week will go by and you’ll have totally forgotten whatever last week’s crisis was and moved on to the next. All of that to say, remember that things won’t always feel like an emergency and to just try to ride the waves!