The first few weeks of your baby’s life you may not want to rush into bath time. It’s perfectly ok to give him sponge baths. As long as his face, hands and genital area are clean, there really is no rush. Bathing your baby for the first time can be intimidating but doing so in a relaxed and safe environment will make it enjoyable for both of you.
You have a baby and a new diaper bag – now you have to make sure that you have everything else you’ll need for an outing.
1. Cook and freeze her one week’s worth of dinners. Dinner is the toughest meal to prepare, because at the end of the night, parents of newborns are exhausted.
I had expected to be a bit overwhelmed when bringing my newborn home for the first time. I expected that I would be woken up during the night and I had a reasonable idea of how be a new mom: change a diaper, hold him, bath him, and dress him.
What I wasn’t prepared for however, where those first weeks after my newborn arrived. The ME part.
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