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10 Hardest Things About Being a New Mom

By Lissa Harnish Poirot — 2020

Why the first weeks with baby are so tough—and how to get through them.

Read on www.thebump.com

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Brave New Mom: A Survival Guide for Mindfully Navigating Postpartum Motherhood

Moms are amazing! Becoming a mom is a radical, powerful change. It’s also really hard. New moms go through a lot, taking on a task that is lifelong, challenging, and battered by judgments and ideals of perfection. They are are often unacknowledged, untaught, and expected to be selfless.

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Jessie Everts
2021
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Self-Care for New Moms: Thriving Through Your Postpartum Year

Explore postpartum self-care strategies for eating, body image, emotions, nursing and milk production, sex, and so much more! The role of motherhood is one where women are continuously asked to focus on the needs of everyone else but themselves.

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Corinne Crossley
2025
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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

The instant New York Times bestseller that the Christian Science Monitor declared “an important book, much the way The Feminine Mystique was, because it offers parents a common language, an understanding that they're not alone” Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their...

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Jennifer Senior
2025
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The Happiest Mommy You Know: Why Putting Your Kids First Is the Last Thing You Should Do

Award-winning reporter Genevieve Shaw Brown was hell-bent on raising her kids to like vegetables and eat more than chicken nuggets for dinner. She woke up at five a.m.

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Genevieve Shaw Brown
2017
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Finding Work-Life Balance (Day-in-the-Life of a Working Mom)

Is work/life balance a myth? Is it attainable? If we can find balance, then how? I find that one of the most important aspects of creating balance between work and life is simply to create separation: to focus on work for a time, and then set it aside to focus on others and on taking care of...

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2019
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Stretched Too Thin: How Working Moms Can Lose the Guilt, Work Smarter, and Thrive

Working mothers constantly battle the pull to do all the things well. From managing work and home responsibilities to being impacted by a lack of self-care and time for deep friendships, the struggle is real. At the end of each day, many working moms are exhausted and stretched too thin.

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Jessica N. Turner
2019
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Dear Overwhelmed Moms, Self-Care Isn’t Selfish | Liz Carlile | TEDxColoradoSprings

Self-care and self-love is the key to changing everything in your life. When her son was 6 weeks old, Liz found herself crying on the bathroom floor.

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2019
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Sleep Tips for New Parents with Your Baby | Sarah Lavonne

I give you all my tips for how to survive the new sleep transition with your baby!

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2021
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The Self-Care Solution: A Modern Mother’s Must-Have Guide to Health and Well-Being

Combining the thoughtful and expert narrative of a veteran mom of four children with the voices of hundreds of moms she surveyed, The Self-Care Solution offers insightful answers to poignant questions about how mothers take care of themselves, their relationships, and their jobs while raising their...

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Julie Burton
2016
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Postpartum Anxiety | Self Care for Moms

Hey mamas! In this video I'm talking about postpartum anxiety and the major significance of self care for us moms. Our mental health is paramount, and without our wellness we can't show up for our family the way we would like.

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2018
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