5 Pro Tips for Postpartum Preparedness

From a Postpartum Mama of 4

I jumped into the shower today, right after 1 1/2-year-old pulled off a poop diaper and stepped in it. I helped him get all clean and tidy while the newborn was still snoozing. After getting us all washed up, we got out and my 3-year-old decided to grace me with his presence and infinite wisdom. He caught me while I was in the midst of putting on a giant-after-baby-postpartum pad and said, “dat mom’s diaper?” Why yes, child, it is and thank you so much for making me laugh. It was definitely needed in between floor and foot poop smears and a newborn about to rustle awake.

Parenting is tough. Not only is it tough to be a parent to multiple children, it’s next level shit to parent 4 kids with 3 of them being in diapers. It’s a literal shit show (or storm? I don’t know.) That combined with the sleep one does NOT get, it can make for a pretty grumpy mutha.

That was at 3-ish-weeks postpartum, at the time of the first round of writing I was rounding out at about 7-weeks postpartum. Those last 7-weeks included a lot of milk leaking (if you breastfeed,) a heightened sense of germ phobias, and a lot of sheets and shirt changes from various forms of bodily fluids. And baby smiles, lots and lots of baby smiles, which makes it oh so much better.