New Mom Life

Hello, 2025! I guess we’re past the “Happy New Year” sentiment at this point considering we are now at January’s end. I’ve been on a bit of a writing hiatus and am just now getting back to it. I contributed my “break” to being busy with the holidays, among other things, but in all honesty, I think I’ve really just been “in the trenches” of living my New Mom Life. Yes, in the trenches – if the trenches were filled with stacks of laundry, endless dirty diapers, and an everflowing tumbler of coffee. Seven months in and still considering each day as “New Mom Life” – does it actually ever stop feeling new? For the most part, our daily routine could be the definition of repetition (or insanity, either or), yet every day I can find myself Googling something new… or something I’ve looked up 20 times prior just to make absolute sure that I understood what I read the first 20 times (can you say sleep deprivation?). Every day feels like you have no time at all, yet somehow feels like you have all the time in the world. How is that possible? You feel like you are being lazy or that you could do more, but you don’t actually have the time nor the energy (did I mention the everflowing coffee?) to do anything more than what you’re doing. And let’s get this straight: You ARE doing more than enough. (I AM doing more than enough.)

A Day in the (New Mom) Life: Feeding your baby. Changing your baby – then having to change them again five minutes later. Playing with your baby. Putting baby down for a nap and having baby wake up because you had the AUDACITY to remove them from your arms. Preparing and feeding baby solid food. Cleaning food off baby’s face-clothes-your clothes-etc. Bathing baby. Massaging baby with lotion (how I would kill for a massage). Singing and reading to baby. Attempting that nap again and napping when baby naps (HAHAHAHA). Googling “is this normal?” and then Googling some more. Finding time in between to eat, do laundry, wash bottles, shower, make dinner, etc., etc. All of this, and in most cases, on only a few hours of sleep from the night before. (I believe I mentioned the coffee?) Yet, when you are just sitting on your couch, holding a napping/playing/eating baby with music or TV on in the background, you think: jeeze, I really should be doing something. Plants face in palm

Needless to say, although I’ve wanted to sit down on several occasions to start writing again, I haven’t had a plethora of opportunities to do so. However, I am making it one of my goals this new year to pickup my writing again. I plan to continue my research in women’s health, to share more opinion pieces, and to launch something that I’ve had in the works for a while now. I look forward to continuing on with learning, sharing, and of course, living my best New Mom Life.