All mothers, regardless of age, education and income level, have the same resource - time. After all, there are only 24 hours in a day. At the same time, some manage to do everything, while others always lack time. How to redo all things and still make time for yourself when you are on maternity leave? We have collected for you 6 life hacks from modern mothers - take them into service.
1. Cross out the excess from the list of daily activities
The main mistake most young mothers make is the desire to create sterile conditions for the crumbs, which is why they have to work as a cook and housekeeper 24/7. The most annoying thing is that the baby does not need these victims at all. Moreover, all this harms both him and the whole family.
Make a list of household chores. If there are items about daily cleaning and ironing baby clothesCross them out without hesitation. Ironing all the baby’s things is necessary only until the navel heals, and it is enough to carry out cleaning with mopping once every 3 days or even once a week.
2. Use feeding time wisely
Newborns are applied to the breast every 4 or even every 3 hours. The feeding itself lasts 10 minutes, and 20, and 30 ... At this time, try to read books. Only in the first month you can read everything that the last few years could not find time for. For a year in this mode, you will completely become an expert and will be able to write reviews on literary novelties.
3. Use the benefits of civilization more actively
Now there are so many useful kitchen appliances, household appliances, and hygiene products that you can save a lot of time. Use a slow cooker, microwave, washing machine, steam generators, robotic vacuum cleaners, as well as diapers and pads - all this greatly simplifies life. You can take diapers intended for the smallest ones with you to the maternity hospital and wear them crumbs from the first days of life.
4. Eat to live, not live to eat
Pay attention to how you eat. Most delicious and complex dishes do not benefit health and shape. It turns out that you spend a lot of time and effort on what brings a negative result. Refuse complex dishes in favor of fresh and tasty, but at the same time easy to prepare food. If there is no time to make cabbage rolls, bake the meat in the oven. It is much faster and healthier. Sweet homemade pastries are also not at all what every day should be on the table, but only a huge amount of carbohydrates that settle on the waist and sides. Remind yourself that we eat to live, not the other way around.
5. Devote time to yourself while your baby is sleeping.
During the first month of life, the baby sleeps almost around the clock.Use this time to recover from childbirth and rebuild to a new rhythm of life. Then the baby will sleep less during the day, but even 2-3 hours - this is enough to relax, do your favorite hobby, sports, self-development, study, or even to work.
6. Keep calm
Most of the time not even social networks steal, but unrest, for which sometimes there is not even any reason. Sometimes a young mom begins to worry so muchthat disturbing thoughts literally suck out all the energy from it, it becomes unhappy and helpless. Keep calm and solve real problems as they arise, and most importantly - do not wind yourself up over trifles, and in no case come up with new ones. Try to meditate - it helps to get rid of negative emotions and groundless fears.
Try using the life hacks that we told you about. Soon you will realize that you can do more, get tired - less, and in the days it seems like there are more hours.
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At first, when the baby was very young, day dreams were very helpful. And when they grew up they began to do everything together. Now he is already 1.5 months old. and he loves to load the washing machine with his mother and press the start button, he feels so important :) And thanks for the tips, I’ll review something.
Suppose we carved out free time for ourselves, took advantage of the benefits of civilization, and we had free time. Now the question is: why do we need to cut this time? To sleep, or to sit at a computer? I am also a mother and raised three sons to my feet, but it never crossed my mind to find free time. If you are a normal mother, free time is formed without life hacks. Maybe I don’t understand something, but the instinct of motherhood tells me differently.