Top 5 Tips to Help You Feel Nurtured Through The Holidays
Let's be real, all the merry-making that happens through the holiday season typically falls on a mom's shoulders. If that's not the case for you, count your lucky stars! However, there's no reason to just live with the stress and burnout all the added stressors the holidays bring. No matter where you are in your baby-making journey (TTC, pregnant, or new mama), you have the ability to breeze through this busy season with ease.
Try one or two of these simple actionable steps today and you'll be feeling relief in no time flat!
- Call in the Cavalry: If you will be around family for the holidays, ask them to watch/hold the baby while you get a nap, shower, or escape the house for a while for your sanity. If you're experiencing the exhaustion of the first trimester, or the emotions of long fertility journey, let your family know you need time to yourself to rest or clear your head, and ask them to run an errand or two for you so you can get in that QT with #1 (that's you!)
- Stay hydrated: Heaters are coming on with the cold weather, adding to our dehydration. Stay hydrated & energized every day to keep that skin glowing and all systems lubricated and running smoothly. Hydration really does make a difference in everything - your digestion, energy, immunity, and so much more! Drink water, add electrolytes, maybe make a nutritious adrenal mocktail.
- Simplify Meal Times: For example, blend up a quick smoothie so you can have a healthy, satisfying breakfast ready to go for yourself in minutes every morning. Grab one of those easy salad kits and pre-cooked protein to throw together a quick lunch. You can keep things EASY and healthy.
- Utilize those services: Get groceries delivered. Abuse online shopping like Etsy, order gift cards to local shops or recreation, or Amazon prime for holiday gifting. Have a few stand by healthy take out menu options for those extra stressful days. If you want to have a get-together with friends, but can't stomach the idea of cooking and cleaning for guests, make it a pot-luck and get a house cleaner! You don't have to do it all the hard way.
- Set boundaries: Not up for hosting that holiday dinner this year, having your house serve as a B&B for out-of-town family, or attending all those holiday parties? Don't stress. Just say no. Stress impacts you, your family, and your milk supply if you're breastfeeding. Don't let these trivial things that come around every year bring you down during this precious time with your new babe. If it's not an ecstatic "YES", it's an emphatic "NO".
Merry, Merry, Happy, Happy, and love that baby! Wishing you all the best!
In good health,
The I Am Nurtured Fam
