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How you can help
Having a sense of community is vital to a new mom’s health and well-being. Here are ways you can help a new mom during those first few weeks home but always text or call ahead first.
• Coordinate an online care train (mealtrain.com)
where friends and family can sign up for time slots to deliver meals, take care of siblings, clean house or rock the baby.
• Offer to rock the baby for a couple of hours to give mom a chance to take a shower or a nap.
• Deliver a healthy snack.
• Drop off a fully prepared meal.
• Babysit any older children for an afternoon.
• Offertowalkthedog,cleanhouseorrunanerrand.
• Give her a gift card to her favorite take-out
restaurant.
withdrawal from family and friends and thoughts of suicide. Postpartum depression can also interfere with healthy bonding between a mom and her newborn.
“When a baby is on the inside, a woman takes amazing care of herself. And then the baby is born, and it becomes all about the baby. As soon as that mom starts to
struggle and suffer, she will no longer have what is required to care for her baby the way she wants to. Not because she isn’t a good mom or doesn’t love her child, but simply be- cause she’s human,” Kate explains. “I find that the women who are enjoying motherhood the most and who feel the healthiest are the ones who are receiving help.”
Christa Melnyk Hines and her husband are the parents of two boys. Christa is the author of Happy, Healthy & Hyperconnected: Raise a Thoughtful Communicator in a Digital World.
Pamela Llano is a North State educator and mother who has enjoyed working with fami- lies for over 20 years. Since her own children have flown the coop, she is now also enjoying an expanded nest and free time.
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