Be a working mom without loosing your sleep and wellbeing in 7 steps
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Lovely mum!
Since having your baby, things are no longer the way they used to be for you and will never go back to the same!
Do you feel tired and sleep-deprived most days? Do you feel you are one step away from quitting sometimes? or other times you feel guilty you didn't have the courage to do what it takes to be there for your child when she needed you… ?
I was once there too. I made many mistakes. I saw a lot of celebrity posts about women having it all! but nothing on what it really takes to have it all. Well, sacrificing sleep, wellness, and getting close to hypertension and health conditions that you will drag on later in life when your child is in his teenage years and truly needs you is not the solution.
I looked for help online for moms, but they were mostly from stay at home moms and didn't integrate the needs of women in a full time job and demanding career.
The tips below are after my many trials and errors in several maternities and I have put them together into a coaching program to help other working moms, so they don't need to repeat my mistakes at the cost of their health, wealth, and family...
Most of the tips below apply especially whether you are still in aternity leave, or have returned to work and your child is still within toddler age.
So, from what I've learned, what should you do?
- Talk to your husband, a close family member, someone you trust about how you feel and enlist their support. Do not hold these feelings for just yourself, at the expense of your mental health. The metabolic, physical, and mental experience that a mum’s body goes through giving birth is huge! This means your body will be in dire need of rest to regenerate. Unfortunately, as a new mum, you also have to deal with the frequent feeding needs of your baby every 2-3-4 hours. And there is also a lot of cleaning of baby’s stuff to do every day. Multiplying a deprived body that needs regeneration and limited chances to rest can lead to chaos. This is why you should not take this journey alone! Beyond how you feel, enlist the support of these people who you can rely on to support you in caring for your baby, starting from your husband or partner, a family member, a nanny to help you with some parts of baby care, so you can truly get the sleep you need.
- Hire and train a good nanny. A great nanny is the person you can rely on to really help you cope and get the rest that you need while your baby is being well taken care of. A great nanny will also help you take your career to the next level! To keep up with your good performance at work, you need to feel reassured that someone is in charge at home and that your baby is well taken care of. This is the only way you can concentrate and be productive at work. If there is one thing you should start acting on right now, it is making sure you hire a very good nanny. My checklist on the 3 steps to hire and train the perfect nanny is where you should start!
- Get baby used to coping in your absence. If you are still on maternity leave, Introduce your baby to the bottle, 1 month prior to your return to work. Even if your baby is on exclusive breastfeeding, pumping milk and having someone else feed him with the bottle will help you prepare your baby to some independence and not rely on your presence to be fed. It is important that someone other than you does the bottle feeding, otherwise, your baby's brain associates you to his feeding.
- Get a good night sleep and limit night duties with baby. Go to bed almost immediately after your baby has gone to sleep, ideally, not in the same room with you, to teach your baby to sleep autonomously. Get daddy, nanny, or a family member to do night duty so you get some well-deserved uninterrupted sleep until morning.
- Talk to your manager and your employer. Discuss with your employer, possible options to make your return to work as manageable and productive as possible for everyone.
- Become more productive at work. Combining yoru full time job with motherhood (another full time job) is overwhelming with emails, meetings, new projects, sick child, etc. unless you become extremely productive with your time at work and at home, your welbeing will keep suffering. We designed a 10-day productivity challenge for women to get back on track with their time and it works magically well for mothers.
- Take a good nap each day. You cannot suddenly let go of everything your body got used to while you were on leave. A good 30-mins nap helps you re-center and refocus your day and make your afternoons super productive.
- Hire and train a good nanny. For all of the above to work excellently, you need to feel reassured that someone is in charge at home and that your baby is well taken care of. This is the only way you can concentrate and be productive at work. If there is one thing you should start acting on right now, it is making sure you hire a very good nanny.
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