{"id":9608,"date":"2011-10-17T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=9608"},"modified":"2011-11-07T08:42:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:42:07","slug":"whats-your-best-advice-for-a-pregnant-first-time-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/whats-your-best-advice-for-a-pregnant-first-time-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s your best advice for a pregnant, first-time mom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you look like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/whats-your-best-advice-for-a-pregnant-first-time-mom\/pregnant\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9609\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9609\" title=\"pregnant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pregnant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pregnant.jpg 392w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pregnant-154x300.jpg 154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>people have a lot of advice for you.<\/p>\n<p>(And yes, by the way, that is me, very pregnant, as a bridesmaid in a friend&#8217;s wedding a few years ago. My husband suggested we make curtains from the dress because there was so much fabric. Nice.)<\/p>\n<p>This weekend someone asked me what my number one advice for a new mom would be. I decided to share two tips:<\/p>\n<p>1. Breathe and know that the tiredness and confusion and frustration (that I experienced anyway) will pass. Days drag on and can be hard, but the weeks fly by&#8230; and you WILL sleep again. And all your devotion WILL pay off.<\/p>\n<p>2. Find and schedule a babysitter regularly (or trade with a friend) so you and your husband can have time together or, if you are a single mom, you can have a break to relax and not have to be at the ready for a few hours. My husband really pushed on the babysitter issue and I am so thankful he did.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; what about you, experienced moms: What&#8217;s your one (or two) best pieces of advice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you look like this: people have a lot of advice for you. (And yes, by the way, that is me, very pregnant, as a bridesmaid in a friend&#8217;s wedding a few years ago. My husband suggested we make curtains from the dress because there was so much fabric. Nice.) This weekend someone asked me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-9608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting-resources","tag-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9744,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions\/9744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}