How to Prepare Your Home for Life With A New Baby Making Simple Smart Changes

By Elmer George, Contributor For expecting parents, especially first-time families and those balancing older kids, work, or limited help, home preparation for a baby can feel like one more item on an already packed list. The hard part is that postpartum home challenges rarely announce themselves: moving through dark rooms while half-awake, newborn care clutter…

A Partner’s Postpartum

I can only speak for my wife and what I was able to observe after the birth of our beautiful daughter (the second of two).  She was less confident, more prone to negative thoughts and borderline depression as well as the occasional short term.  I realize that postpartum hormones are a big factor and in…