Hi everyone, this is Kendra Adachi and I'm so glad you're listening to the

Lazy Genius podcast. Here I'm gonna help you be a genius about the things that

matter and lazy about the things that don't. Today's episode, the lazy genius

deals with a new baby. Now I know not all of us have babies or will have babies,

but we all know someone who does or is about to. And so if this is not

necessarily relevant to you, I would so encourage you to give it a listen

or to send it along to a new mom in your life because these are the things that I

wish I knew before I had babies. So the pitch today is taking care of babies,

sometimes feels impossible, but you can do it. You will make it. And the playbook

today is very, very simple. I am sharing the 12 things that I wish I knew

before I had babies. So let's get right to it. Number one, don't read so

much stuff. Like there are so many baby books, there are so many blogs and

websites and all the things. There's like a saturation of information. And when

you are a woman who is sitting there super hormonal and you especially have

never had a baby before and you just end up reading all the things, you go

insane. You don't realize that you're contributing to your insanity. You don't

really know it in the moment. You think you're being super prepared and that

you're going to be such a better mom because you know all the different ways to

swaddle a baby. You know all of the different signs of thrush. Like you know all

you don't you even know what thrush is. Like you know all these things. But then

when the actual baby comes, it's like a human person. It's not a chapter in a

book and every kid is different. And so when your answers don't work, you feel

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