Speaker 1: When I was pregnant, I was like, you know, what
Speaker 1: am I even going to need? What am I going
Speaker 1: to use? I feel like there's so much out there,
Speaker 1: there's so much you know, marketing, and yeah, you just
Speaker 1: you don't really know what you need until you're actually
Speaker 1: using it. So I thought it would be helpful to
Speaker 1: do an episode on that. Welcome back to the Rise
Speaker 1: and Conquer Podcast. I'm your host, Georgie Stevenson, former lawyer
Speaker 1: turned entrepreneur, social media personality and personal development junkie. This
Speaker 1: podcast is for my girl gang who want to feed
Speaker 1: their mind with positive and expansive thoughts to help them
Speaker 1: step into their power and live their most authentic life,
Speaker 1: which had a variety of topics including mindset, business, relationships, health,
Speaker 1: and so much more. Basically, wherever you are on your journey,
Speaker 1: I want to help you feel inspired and empowered to
Speaker 1: rise up and conquer your next bold move. I know
Speaker 1: that's going to look different for everyone, but just no,
Speaker 1: I'm right here by your side and that you have
Speaker 1: the RNC community behind you. Let's do this. Hello and
Speaker 1: welcome back to the Rise and Conquer Podcast. Guys, I
Speaker 1: am back in your ears in a bit of a
Speaker 1: real time that didn't make sense, but you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, I can officially say baby brain. So it
Speaker 1: is twenty twenty two. I'm a new mum. Baby Ivy
Speaker 1: is nearly nine weeks and I'm slowly easing back into
Speaker 1: work with Tim being at home with her full time
Speaker 1: and me just going back to work a couple of
Speaker 1: days a week. And I hope you guys are loving
Speaker 1: the mini episodes where we're just bringing you the really
Speaker 1: golden nuggets from really epic interviews we've had over the
Speaker 1: years on the Rise and Conker podcasts. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: hope you've been enjoying them. But I thought, before we
Speaker 1: get into the new and very exciting season, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to feel some film. I wanted to record some
Speaker 1: real time podcasts for you about motherhood. This is something
Speaker 1: I did not plan even when I was pregnant. I
Speaker 1: you know, never well, I don't plan to be like
Speaker 1: a mummy blogger or you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's going to be motherhood and Ivy in
Speaker 1: my content and life, but that is no, it's not
Speaker 1: like I, yeah, plan to do that. But if I
Speaker 1: have learned anything in this short amount of time of
Speaker 1: being a mum is. It can be super isolating, and
Speaker 1: it can be just really informative when you find out
Speaker 1: what other people are doing and you get little tips
Speaker 1: and tricks from other mothers. And obviously my dms have
Speaker 1: been a little bit full and I haven't had a
Speaker 1: lot of time to get back to everyone. So there's
Speaker 1: just a couple of podcasts that I wanted to record
Speaker 1: for you guys, just to chat about new mum life,
Speaker 1: and you know, a couple of questions that you guys
Speaker 1: are asking me. I do apologize if the audio isn't
Speaker 1: the best. I'm in my office at the n H Warehouse,
Speaker 1: which is not There's no car or anything, so the
Speaker 1: audio is never that good. But definitely struggle to record
Speaker 1: at home with Ivy at home. So look, we're doing
Speaker 1: our best. So I just wanted to give you a
Speaker 1: short and sharp episode with my must haves for pregnancy
Speaker 1: for birth, you know, our hospital stay and the first
Speaker 1: six weeks. If you guys missed it, I have recorded
Speaker 1: Ivy's birth story with Tim in our previous episode, so
Speaker 1: you can go in the show's feed and have a
Speaker 1: listen to that if you're interested. But yeah, I think
Speaker 1: a big question I get is like, well, especially when
Speaker 1: I was pregnant, I was like, you know what am
Speaker 1: I even gonna need? What am I gonna use? I
Speaker 1: feel like there's so much out there, there's so much
Speaker 1: you know, marketing, and yeah, you just you don't really
Speaker 1: know what you need until you're actually using it. So
Speaker 1: I thought it would be helpful to do an episode
Speaker 1: on that. None of this stuff is sponsored or anything
Speaker 1: like that. This is just generally what I've used, what
Speaker 1: I'm using, and my thoughts on it will be super
Speaker 1: quick and this will be really easy for me in
Speaker 1: DMS to direct people to this episode. So let's get
Speaker 1: straight into pregnancy. So, like, probably the two main things
Speaker 1: with pregnancy is I feel like I've raved about this
Speaker 1: a lot, but I didn't get any stretch marks on
Speaker 1: my belly. And I truly obviously, you know, genetics and
Speaker 1: stuff plays into that, and there's nothing wrong with stretch marks.
Speaker 1: I've got stretch marks on my hips and bum because
Speaker 1: that's where I get it. But I used Eco Tans
Speaker 1: Glory oil religiously on my stomach through my whole pregnancy,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I just can tell like the way my
Speaker 1: skin felt, the way it was able to stretch and
Speaker 1: then also after I had IVY, I've been using glory
Speaker 1: oil and the way that it has like you know,
Speaker 1: gone back into shape and just how it feels and
Speaker 1: looks has been really great. And it just feels really
Speaker 1: good and really nourished. So glory oil is something I
Speaker 1: actually used to use on my skin for acne scars
Speaker 1: and I also have used it on my under boob
Speaker 1: scars and it's just really new. It's really it's all natural.
Speaker 1: So you guys know, I rave about Eco tan Eco
Speaker 1: based on your products because they're all natural, they're organic.
Speaker 1: I was big on using all their products through my
Speaker 1: pregnancy just because your skin, you know, is an organ
Speaker 1: it absorbs everything. But yeah, I cannot recommend glory oil
Speaker 1: enough for belly oil. I know there's lots of like
Speaker 1: specific belly oils, but that's what I use, and yet
Speaker 1: it was amazing. Again, this is not sponsored, but I
Speaker 1: do have a running code with Ecotan that you can
Speaker 1: use if you want. It's for twenty percent off and
Speaker 1: it is Georgie Loves. I will put in the show
Speaker 1: notes if you want to Dissy. Another thing in my
Speaker 1: pregnancy which I found really helpful is because especially towards
Speaker 1: the end, I was still working out, and when you
Speaker 1: are to the point where you are bigger, just getting
Speaker 1: a bigger size of things doesn't really cut it. And
Speaker 1: I was living in my Lorna Jane maternity shorts. So
Speaker 1: obviously you're not going to go and buy like a
Speaker 1: whole new wardrobe of active wear and clothes. But if
Speaker 1: I can recommend anything is to invest in a pair
Speaker 1: of tights or shorts that's maternity so they usually have
Speaker 1: extra material on the stomach, and it's just so comfy,
Speaker 1: and like, towards the end of my pregnancy, I was
Speaker 1: just wearing those shorts with a t shirt, you know,
Speaker 1: and sneakers, even if I wasn't working out, just so
Speaker 1: it was comfortable. And yeah, that was just something that
Speaker 1: I thought every goal needs. This just towards the end
Speaker 1: of the pregnancy is just very uncomfortable. And also, I
Speaker 1: the specific pair of shorts that I'm thinking of, I
Speaker 1: got when I think I was about twenty weeks, so
Speaker 1: you know, you're not really showing that much, and they
Speaker 1: fit then, and then when I was, you know, forty
Speaker 1: forty one weeks, they were still fitting and they were
Speaker 1: my same size, you know, before I was pregnant, so
Speaker 1: they just really lusted me the whole pregnancy. So definitely
Speaker 1: recommend that. And I also do have a code for
Speaker 1: Wuna Jane, which is just GS twenty if you need it.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the only thing I can think of
Speaker 1: with pregnancy. If you are going to buy new bras
Speaker 1: in pregnancy because of your boobs getting bigger, don't bother
Speaker 1: just buying bras. I would definitely invest in maternity nursing
Speaker 1: bras because oh my god, you need so many when
Speaker 1: baby actually comes, so you may as well buy them
Speaker 1: if you plan to breastfeed or pump so hospital after hospital,
Speaker 1: I definitely recommend getting a couple of those, like disposable underwears.
Speaker 1: I think I just used a brand called Bubba Bump,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure you can just get any you know,
Speaker 1: in the chemists and whatnot. That was really helpful because
Speaker 1: you're just like so sore, You're in a lot of pain,
Speaker 1: and just to like put on a nappy. I know
Speaker 1: it sounds odd, but it's just yeah, it's just comfortable.
Speaker 1: It's better because there's just a lot happening down there.
Speaker 1: And I personally found that like pads weren't cutting it
Speaker 1: so just using a disposable you know, postpartum underwear or
Speaker 1: nappy is necessary. You only need a couple for like,
Speaker 1: you know, the first three days and then you can
Speaker 1: go to period undies or pads. But yeah, those first
Speaker 1: few days you definitely need a bit more. And then
Speaker 1: obviously when you go to hospital you need nappies, onesies,
Speaker 1: wraps for bubb A mistake that we made is I
Speaker 1: only had enough nappies for a couple of days and
Speaker 1: we were actually in the hospital for two nights, and
Speaker 1: so by the last day we needed more nappies f ivy,
Speaker 1: and we had to go down and buy some just
Speaker 1: at the chemists in the hospital. But definitely recommend And
Speaker 1: that's also another thing is like makes you bring stuff
Speaker 1: and clothes just in case you are there a couple
Speaker 1: more nights. Something in hospital that was very handy. Two
Speaker 1: is using the Hauker hand Express breast pump And it's
Speaker 1: just like this silicon thing that you put on your boob.
Speaker 1: It can express, but also it just catches the let down,
Speaker 1: which is very helpful, especially if you're trying to express
Speaker 1: colosserum or if baby bump doesn't latch it first. You know,
Speaker 1: just to make sure they've got something that was super
Speaker 1: helpful for us. And then obviously you need stuff like
Speaker 1: a car seat, very obvious. That's kind of all I
Speaker 1: can think about. And then yeah, for me, it was
Speaker 1: just comfy clothes, slippers, you know, hair ties, water bottle,
Speaker 1: that sort of just general stuff. In the first six weeks,
Speaker 1: so some think Ivy lived in was a Docker Talk,
Speaker 1: so one of those like baby bed things, I think
Speaker 1: they're called like sleeping lounges, and so we just had
Speaker 1: the brand Docker Talk and Ivy slept in between me
Speaker 1: and Tim in our bed in the Docker Talk for
Speaker 1: probably the first week, and then we took the Docker
Speaker 1: Talk out into her cot next to us and she
Speaker 1: slept in that, and then to transition her into her
Speaker 1: cot in her own room, we also used the Docker Talk. Now,
Speaker 1: I do want to say, makes you do your own research.
Speaker 1: I know they are sleeping guidelines and they do not
Speaker 1: recommend baby to sleep in the Docker Talk. Obviously there's
Speaker 1: the SID guidelines where it's you know, baby on the
Speaker 1: flat surface, nothing around them. Just personally, we found Ivy
Speaker 1: really needed the you know, if you think about it,
Speaker 1: they've been in this like womb for nine months and
Speaker 1: then they're like out on their own. And she really
Speaker 1: was comforted in the docker talk. So when she was
Speaker 1: very new, for the first couple of weeks, we did
Speaker 1: use it. But otherwise, like you know, if she's now
Speaker 1: just sleeps in her cot without it, but we do
Speaker 1: use it, you know, downstairs or whatnot when they're just
Speaker 1: with you, but they need to be laying somewhere, So
Speaker 1: that was really handy. Then oh my god, guys, a
Speaker 1: must is the Hacker Lady Bug milk collectors. So when
Speaker 1: you're breastfeeding, what I didn't realize, so Ivy will be
Speaker 1: on one side and the other side has a letdown,
Speaker 1: And my letdown was hectic, Like I'm talking about seventy mills.
Speaker 1: So if I didn't have a Lady Bug collector on there,
Speaker 1: it would just be all over me. So every breastfeed,
Speaker 1: before I put her on one side, I would have
Speaker 1: the collector on and then put her on and I
Speaker 1: would yeah, let down about like sixty mills. And then
Speaker 1: I would also keep that for the bottle that she
Speaker 1: had that she took with Tim. And with that though
Speaker 1: just an FYI don't just feed them that sixty mills.
Speaker 1: It has to be mixed with other expressed milk that
Speaker 1: is just not the fore milk, because the foreur milk
Speaker 1: is very sugary and has a lot of lactose. And
Speaker 1: then the hind milk, which is milk that comes after
Speaker 1: like ten minutes, has a lot more nutrients and is
Speaker 1: a lot more dense and heavier for their stomach. So
Speaker 1: we found if we fed Ivy that for milk with
Speaker 1: that sixty milk from the Lady Blood Lady Bug Collector,
Speaker 1: she would be super gassy. So we would have to
Speaker 1: mix that with other express milk that has been expressed
Speaker 1: the whole time, not just the fore milk. I hope
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Okay, rn C fam. We're taking a
Speaker 1: quick break and I want to ask you, guys, are
Speaker 1: you getting your daily recommended intake of three fruits and
Speaker 1: five veggies? No? Sometimes maybe I feel you on this. Wow. So,
Speaker 1: in a perfect world, we are getting all our vitamin
Speaker 1: minerals and needs from our food directly. But because we
Speaker 1: live such hectic lives and our soil is often lacking
Speaker 1: from so much farming done, that doesn't always happen that
Speaker 1: and that's why supplements are so popular, and that's why
Speaker 1: naked Harvest was born just to be very transparent with you.
Speaker 1: So what we really wanted to do was make sure
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Speaker 1: you're not getting your daily recommended intake of veggies. In
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Speaker 1: me relating this for quite a while because honestly, it
Speaker 1: was so hard to have a greens powder that has
Speaker 1: all the good stuff and that tastes delicious, Like I
Speaker 1: honestly get why so many other greens powders just taste
Speaker 1: so foul. And honestly, any other greens powder I bought it,
Speaker 1: I've just never finished and I just throw it away.
Speaker 1: So there are two flavors that is very vanilla and
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Speaker 1: you're a smoothie lover like me, And it just makes
Speaker 1: it easier to get all the veggies in and to
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Speaker 1: the Gorgeous Greens is under the wellness tab. Okay, enough
Speaker 1: about Gorgeous Greens. Let's get back into the show. Oh
Speaker 1: big thing we used is a nursing pillow. So we
Speaker 1: just got one from Adairs and it's just super handy,
Speaker 1: especially when they're so tiny and you're so tired. Just
Speaker 1: having a pillow that they can lay on as you're breastfeeding,
Speaker 1: super helpful nursing bras, you need a lot of them,
Speaker 1: like I reckon at least four because you kind of
Speaker 1: go through them and you leak a lot. So I
Speaker 1: personally got mine from bras and things from Moody Body.
Speaker 1: Definitely recommend the Moody Body. It's like leakproof, it's really good.
Speaker 1: And then also the Lorna Jane maternity sport bras were
Speaker 1: really good. When I started to go on my walks
Speaker 1: and then breastpeed her straight after, I was super handy
Speaker 1: not have to change bras. Period undies you do bleed
Speaker 1: for the first six months, well not six months, six weeks,
Speaker 1: so I already was using Moody Bodies period undies when
Speaker 1: I got my period before getting pregnant, so I had
Speaker 1: a few of them and I just bought a couple more.
Speaker 1: But they're super handy. I personally am just not about
Speaker 1: the pad life and prefer period undies, but otherwise you
Speaker 1: would just use pads, so no pads and these I
Speaker 1: personally did the reusable ones, so they're kind of like
Speaker 1: a pad that you put in your bra that helps
Speaker 1: when you leak, and you leak so much at the start,
Speaker 1: oh my god. And then you wash them so instead
Speaker 1: of using disposable ones, which you just throw out obviously
Speaker 1: not that great for environment, I just had probably about
Speaker 1: twenty reusable ones. Like, oh my god, you go through
Speaker 1: them and yeah, I would just like swap them in
Speaker 1: and out and then do a big wash on them.
Speaker 1: That was really good. Oh, absolute life saver. I am
Speaker 1: a routine person. I love you know, this sort of thing.
Speaker 1: It may not be up your alley, but the Huckleberry
Speaker 1: app is so helpful, especially at the tie at the start, sorry,
Speaker 1: when you are so tired and so sleep deprived, Like
Speaker 1: for example, if Ivy was unsettled, I would just look
Speaker 1: at the app and it tells you the last time,
Speaker 1: like you obviously need to log it, but you just
Speaker 1: log anytime they sleep feed or you know, we or pooh,
Speaker 1: And it's really helpful because if she's you know, crying
Speaker 1: and unsettled, I would look at the app and it
Speaker 1: tells me, oh, she probably needs to feed, or I
Speaker 1: haven't changed an app in a couple of hours. I'll
Speaker 1: do that, and it's just really helpful because the first
Speaker 1: couple of weeks is wild, so wild, and you're you're
Speaker 1: very sleep deprived, and you often there's a lot of
Speaker 1: brain fog, and it's really hard to you know, stay
Speaker 1: on top of it. And then I remember, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: why is she so upset? And then I look at
Speaker 1: my app and be like, oh my god, she needs
Speaker 1: to feed or she needs to be changed, and I
Speaker 1: do that and then she'd be okay, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my And even what's really helpful is when you're breastfeeding,
Speaker 1: you click what side you last did and then you
Speaker 1: start with the other side. So that was really helpful too.
Speaker 1: Ivy is a super gassy and burpie babe. She's a
Speaker 1: bit collar ky, so she's got tummy issues. The pork
Speaker 1: owl and we found very helpful is the cloth nappies
Speaker 1: from Kmart. So it's it's like the cloth nappis that
Speaker 1: back in the day they used to use as nappies,
Speaker 1: but it's just a cloth. But we just found they
Speaker 1: were really good, a really good size, and when we're
Speaker 1: burping her or even just holding her, we just have
Speaker 1: that on us because she often vomits. So that was just,
Speaker 1: you know, random but helpful baby carriers. I really like
Speaker 1: the baby Dink, which is like kind of you know,
Speaker 1: the wrap situation, but it's already done. It's like you
Speaker 1: put it on like a T shirt and you just
Speaker 1: pop them in the wrap and they're really close to
Speaker 1: you when they're a newborn. That is really great because
Speaker 1: they're so small they don't really fit in like the
Speaker 1: proper walking carriers. But if you want like a proper
Speaker 1: walking carrier, I just got the baby born and a
Speaker 1: little cheetah one you've probably seen me in and that's
Speaker 1: really good. And that's a newborn size which they're in
Speaker 1: until they're I think it's up to twelve months. Any
Speaker 1: baby carriers that are like the walking ones but just
Speaker 1: normal size, you generally will find newborns are too small
Speaker 1: for them. So I wouldn't even bother getting one until
Speaker 1: you know Babi's here. But if you are wanting a
Speaker 1: carrier for when they're a newborn, definitely invest in like
Speaker 1: a rap sort of situation. And for me it was
Speaker 1: having the baby dan Que it's already done, was just
Speaker 1: so much more helpful. And then obviously you just need
Speaker 1: like a prem We have an Edwardson Co pram, which
Speaker 1: is our New Zealand brand, was really good, and we
Speaker 1: also have a I think it's called a Stokey pram
Speaker 1: and that was gifted to us. That looks really good.
Speaker 1: We actually haven't used it yet just because we're using
Speaker 1: the Edwards one, but we plan to have one in
Speaker 1: my car and one in Tim's car, and that looks
Speaker 1: like a really good pram too. The baby born bouncer
Speaker 1: is really good to have Ivy in, just like to
Speaker 1: put her in if you know Tim's not home and
Speaker 1: or if I, you know, want to shower or go
Speaker 1: and do something to put her in that upright again,
Speaker 1: because she's a vomity baby, and if you put her down,
Speaker 1: like laying down, she often just vomits over herself, so
Speaker 1: I have to have her raised up and so putting
Speaker 1: in that while I have a shower or do some cleaning,
Speaker 1: she's pretty happy in that. And then my best friend
Speaker 1: who has a baby girl who's about eighteen months, says
Speaker 1: they're really good when they can get a bit older
Speaker 1: because they literally just bounce themselves and they love it.
Speaker 1: And then obviously, just like nappies and Whites, I personally
Speaker 1: have chose like an eco conscious brand. So the brand
Speaker 1: is just called love Me. I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: this other brand. There's a couple of eco brands which
Speaker 1: are quite good we've just been using them, and then
Speaker 1: obviously you just need like onesies. A big thing I'll
Speaker 1: say with clothes is do not buy too many. First
Speaker 1: of all, you'll probably get quite a few, like newborn
Speaker 1: sizes from like your baby shower or gifts, and then like,
Speaker 1: do not buy because you just you don't know if
Speaker 1: you'll have a big baby. And I had so many
Speaker 1: newborn clothes and Ivy literally grew out of them in
Speaker 1: the first four weeks. I swear to didim get to
Speaker 1: wear half of them? And it's just so sad, and
Speaker 1: I wish that I had waited, not had many clothes,
Speaker 1: and then had her, you know, realize that she's a
Speaker 1: bigger baby, and I would have gone straight to the
Speaker 1: zero to three or even the three to six months.
Speaker 1: So she's in the zero to three now, but she'll
Speaker 1: easily be out of these in a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: when she's three months. But she's definitely not a small baby.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so that's just something I want to say,
Speaker 1: is like, don't go overboard with the whole clothes thing,
Speaker 1: because I kind of did, and it was a bit
Speaker 1: of waste of money. And I will know this for
Speaker 1: next time. I feel like everyone says that, but you know,
Speaker 1: you get so excited when you're pregnant. And then lastly,
Speaker 1: we are using the Doctor Brown's bottles, which are good
Speaker 1: for colic and burpiness. But I have recently been recommended
Speaker 1: by my lactation consultant to try the Pigeon bottles, which
Speaker 1: are recommended by like nurses and doctors. So yeah, look,
Speaker 1: I'm probably going to change to them, so maybe go
Speaker 1: straight to them. But the Doctor Brown's bottles have been good.
Speaker 1: We got told to stay away from the usual body
Speaker 1: bottles like Medella or you know Timmy, Timmy Triumpet or
Speaker 1: that brand, the Timmy brand, just because they're not really good.
Speaker 1: They give baby quite a bit of air. If you
Speaker 1: have a baby who's not unsettled like Ivy, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: matter too much. But you know, all newborns can be
Speaker 1: a little bit unsettled. So yeah, that's kind of just
Speaker 1: like a bit of a breakdown. I thought it might
Speaker 1: be helpful because again, I remember when I was pregnant
Speaker 1: and wanting to buy things or even us you know
Speaker 1: a bit of a list for my baby shower. I
Speaker 1: just really didn't know, So I hope that's helpful. Obviously
Speaker 1: very personal to me and Ivy in our situation, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope that's helpful. Oh. Another thing is we got
Speaker 1: a little bath seat thing. I can't remember the brand. Hey,
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but it's just like this pink bath
Speaker 1: seat and it is your seat in my stories. It
Speaker 1: is so helpful to bath her and she loves it
Speaker 1: and it's like really soft and yeah. Oh and also
Speaker 1: when bathing her, we also bought this bath set from
Speaker 1: Kama which comes with like a padding that you put
Speaker 1: over the side of the bath and then also on
Speaker 1: the floor for your knees, and that is really helpful
Speaker 1: because you know, you sit down and you baff them
Speaker 1: in the bath and otherwise you get really sore hands
Speaker 1: and knees and it's very uncomfortable. So that has been
Speaker 1: really good too. Bit I hope that's helpful. I realised
Speaker 1: this episode is not going to be for everyone, but
Speaker 1: I thought it would just be, you know, good to
Speaker 1: sum it up and chat about it in an episode
Speaker 1: and anyone who's listening, who's pregnant, who's having a bubba soon,
Speaker 1: good luck. It is such a special It's yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just such a special life advent life event. Wow, it
Speaker 1: is so challenging, but it is so beautiful and yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got this. Wait one more recommendation. So a big
Speaker 1: thing that I did when I was pregnant is I
Speaker 1: did a lot of prep for the birth, which is good.
Speaker 1: Definitely prep for the birth. But something I didn't prep
Speaker 1: for was just the newborn stage and having you know,
Speaker 1: a new baby. Cannot recommend to start researching and reading
Speaker 1: up on feeding and sleeping and newborns because that's something
Speaker 1: I didn't do and I really regret because then I
Speaker 1: had to do it in a rush when Ivy arrived
Speaker 1: because I just realized that I had no idea and
Speaker 1: knowledge is power. So definitely recommend get some baby books.
Speaker 1: Ask your friends and family what they recommend. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope this episode is helpful to any new mammas
Speaker 1: or soon to be mammas. Sending you so much love
Speaker 1: and I will see I will chat to you in
Speaker 1: my next episode. Bye for now. Thank you for listening
Speaker 1: for another RNC episode. I really appreciate taking the time
Speaker 1: to be here with me, and also for taking the
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