Alena

This was so helpful for our kid! “Hands off” if they’re touching something they’re not supposed to, “feet go on the floor”, etc. We also did “remember, open hands” when petting an animal instead of “gentle” which was abstract and hard to understand

What a great supportive friend! I also had delayed bonding after a traumatic C-section and was afraid it would be like that forever! This is a powerful question

“This is just hard and it’s not your fault that it’s so hard. I’m sorry this happened to you.” After a traumatic c section and an awful hospital experience, delayed bonding, trouble breastfeeding initially, a colicky and gassy baby, crippling PPD/PPA, it felt like myself and my body were just failures at parenting and that no one gave a #@$& that I was in agony, mentally and physically. All the advice was about putting myself last, or how much I’d miss this hellish monument later when I just needed someone to tell me that my experience mattered and that I wasn’t a total failure