Veronica

After just going through the second newborn phase (I have a 2 year old and a 7 month old) I have settled on a couple things, sometimes in the middle of the day when the walls are closing in and you feel restless, spacey, and like your forgetting something if only you could remember what it is you were supposed to even be thinking about you need to doing one of the following things: have a snack, take a shower, open the door or the window and breath the outside air, make a hot drink (tea, coffee, hot chocolate,) or make a really cold drink (juice, fizzy water, pop) or if at all possible take a nap. Sometimes you can’t nap or fall asleep even when you are ‘supposed to,’ it’s ok to just lie there and rest too. It’s ok to want to shower and scroll your phone instead of napping.

As for breastfeeding just in case you are out there and need to hear it, I couldn’t make it work with my first, and with my second I ‘fixed,’ everything I thought I did wrong and it still didn’t work so stop beating yourself up about how if only you had pumped more or latched more or did more skin to skin those first few weeks. Sometimes it’s just not going to happen and it’s ok to let that go when you’re ready. Also combo feeding is great, you can combo feed a little or a lot of stop the formula when and if your supply comes in. If you buy formula and don’t use it there are many places to donate it.