Six weeks after you give birth is time to have an appointment with your gynecologist or mid-wife to ensure you are healing properly. It’s also important for you to check in with yourself and take stock of how you feel.
Take a look at the Long List of Discomforts (where we deal with everything from abdominal amnesia to weight gain) and think about any lingering problems there may be. 
How much do you have to do to address them and which do you think will take care of themselves?
And remember, even though your baby is still very new, you still have to take steps to …read more

New mothers are made every day (Hi Kris! Hi new baby Bodhi!). So, once a month or so I like to give the women who are just discovering Babylune an overview of what’s here.
If you’re in the middle of one of the many fantastic post partum mysteries of the human body, click on The Long List of Discomforts. Within the posts are links to posts that deal with common problems in the first days after giving birth.
You can also go to The First Six Weeks Category Archive to get an overview of what to expect in the first phase of …read more

How do you handle five kids and take care of yourself?
Helen, mother of five, is truly an expert mother. In yesterday’s post, we discussed how she managed to take care of herself after giving birth to number 5 with 4 other kids in the house. Today in part 2 we talk about how women can prepare themselves for any kind of birth and the recovery afterward.
Babylune: What kind of birth experiences have you had? Were all five born the same way?   
Helen: With the first baby, I was only 19 years old. Did not have a clue  about childbirth or what was …read more

One amazing question has run through my mind since my second child was born:
How on earth did my grandparents handle 10 kids?
 
The truth is, I know there are people who are better parents than I am. There are people who apply themselves with more discipline to the task, who approach parenting the way physicists split atoms. And then, there are the people who sacrifice everything for the kids, even their health.
I’ve been looking for a happy parenting medium. I would like to maintain both the kids’ well-being and my own. I thought I should talk to a power mom for advice. Someone who keeps things in …read more

Today the baby and I had one of those nap things.
 Does everyone know how good these things are?