When I was about 4 months pregnant we chose Mothers Day to let everyone in our family know that we were pregnant. And even though it was a joyous day I still felt a tremendous longing for the day I would be able to officially celebrate Mothers Day as a mom!
It was the next year that I discovered May 4th is officially Expectant Mother's Day and I thought 'how wonderful is that' to honor the pregnant woman that is carrying her child to birth; and especially if it is her first child and one she has been longing for!! (like I was)
So I wanted to dedicate this show to all the Expectant Mothers and Fathers out there by bringing on two experts to provide information they wished they would have received before bringing baby home.
Gregory Keer, my fatherhood expert and publisher of www.familymanonline.com, is also a father of three children. He discusses tapping into paternity leave, prioritizing your new family and not extended family, how not to feel guilty about asking for help, be careful where you spend your money, and accept failure as part of the process.
Then Claudine Wolk, author of the book "It Get's Easier! And other Lies we Tell New Mothers" and mother of three children of her own, dishes on her own pieces of advice. She shares how new moms should become friends with their delivery nurse, how you should watch a woman breastfeed before having to it yourself, make sure you get help when you get home and start building a list of babysitters to tap into, get your baby on a sleep schedule and put the baby down to sleep when he is drowsy, not completely asleep.
If you are expecting your first, second or third tap into these words of wisdom because as my experts shared, they learned these tips on the second or third time around!!
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