I am a mama to a beautiful baby boy born in August. I work full-time while also caring for my son.

My name is Paige and I am a moratulist mama.

Hello, welcome back to the moratulist mama's podcast. I'm your host Elizabeth Joy and we

believe in empowering women through storytelling and education. I feel like we're already learning so

much this year. I had so much fun last week talking with Chelsea. It was really great to be able to

open up to her about my postpartum journey and just to get really raw and share some things that I

haven't shared, things that feel scary to share out loud like, hey, maybe I'm a bad mom for saying this,

but this is how I feel. But she made such a safe environment for me to be able to confide in her

and she is a postpartum coach. So if you are struggling postpartum, definitely getting

contact with her or if you just want to prepare beforehand, get in contact with her. That's something

that we don't really prepare for. You start preparing for baby and you know, for having the baby

and you get the baby clothes and set up the nursery, but you really have to take into consideration

yourself postpartum. It's really important for those first few days to try to do as little as

possible just to nourish your body and take care of your baby and yourself. I know when you have

other kids that might seem impossible to do, but it is really important to care for yourself and then

the mental load comes with it. It's pretty, I mean, I keep saying motherhoods of trip because it's

changed my life drastically, but it's beautiful. I'm having a great time with it. I think also,

I hadn't shared last week, like, wasn't sleeping for weeks. She was waking up six times a night,

but this last week, she's been waking up once or twice a night. I know that some people

are against sleep training and some people are for it, but I've been working with a sleep training

coach because I didn't feel like I could just let her cry it out or do anything like that. I

had a really hard time with some of the methods trying to figure out what to do and what worked for

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