05/30/2026
Great advice here….keeping in mind that she has 8 kids so clarity and confidence comes with experience ♥️
Motherhood gets a lot easier when you stop trying to perform newborn life like a Pinterest mom and start building it around what actually works. 🤷🏼♀️
As a mom of 8, I genuinely don’t think the newborn phase is as hard as people make it out to be.
I think trying to force babies into rigid systems while recovering postpartum is what breaks people.
Some moms are:
• timing feeds down to the minute
• fighting a baby over a bassinet all night
• walking laps around the house at 2am instead of safely bedsharing
• trying to maintain a “perfect” diaper station upstairs AND downstairs
• stressing over wake windows
• forcing a schedule onto a 9 day old human
• trying to shower during the day alone with kids lol
Meanwhile over here?
• babywearing fixes half my problems
• nursing on demand is easier than watching a clock
• a fold-up diaper pad on the couch works just fine
• I shower at night in PEACE bc my husband is home
• contact naps are temporary, not a bad habit
• bedsharing saved my sanity postpartum
• simple routines > aesthetic routines
• uncircumcised babies tend to be a whole lot less angry those first few days 😅
The newborn phase got easier when I stopped asking:
“How do I do this perfectly?”
…and started asking:
“How do I make this sustainable?”
Babies don’t actually need as much stuff as the internet tells you they do.
Most of them just want to be close to you. 🫶🏼
