
Ten Ways to Help a New Mother
I loved these ideas, spelled out in The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding...
1. Stock the freezer with meals that can be eaten with one hand
2. Find a good number for consulting and call it as needed
3. Buy grocery basics and keep easy, healthy snacks on hand
4. Get dinner
5. Cover some night shifts
6. Do more than your share
7. Discuss what’s most important for sanity – clean kitchen?
8. Get home on time
9. Words of affirmation
10. Remind her that this part is all temporary
11. Pay the bills